I'm on a podcast! My good friend David has a podcast with his friend Matt. We talked about The Fifth Element. hostsintheshell.buzzsprout.com/1930485/epis...

Tolerance is not a moral virtue, it's a social contract. You should not feel obliged to tolerate the intolerant.

This one's about how 1984 was the best year for music, ever. I don't know about that, but I do know this is a good book. Reads kind of like a rock critic wrote - one did - but it's still good. www.amazon.com/Cant-Slow-Do...

Sort of apropos for today - and for a few more years - it's The Big Book of Conspiracies. Great illustrations, and solid explanations on what the conspiracies are, without buying into them. www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Con...

Re: the Los Angeles fires. I used to live in Pasadena, and much of Altadena (just north) is gone. Places I used to go are not there any more. It's bad. Really, really bad. A lot of the news is focused on the Palisades fire, which is also bad, but don't forget about Altadena. Much love, my friends.

How about this one? It's the Annotated Alice, with notes by Martin Gardner. If you don't know who he was, shame on you, look him up. If you're confused by Alice in Wonderland, you need this book. www.amazon.com/Annotated-Al...

Here's an extra for today, but I don't know how you're going to find this one. It's all Windsor McKay's 'Little Nemo' comics, presented as an early-20th Century broadsheet newspaper page, as it was intended. www.amazon.com/Little-Nemo-...

Here's another one, about Tesla. Nikola Tesla, the man, not the car company, or - God forbid - Apartheid Clyde. Tesla was a man far, far, far ahead of his time, and this is a good read. www.amazon.com/Tesla-Man-Ti...

How about a cookbook? Snoop Dogg has one. Really. It's pretty good, except for the editors trying very hard to write like Snoop talks. Snoop's good friends with Martha Stewart, and this book definitely has her touch. The recipes are solid. www.amazon.com/Crook-Cook-P...

Here's another one: Cosmos by Carl Sagan. I watched the PBS series back in the day, and this is the book for that series. Dr. Sagan changed the way I thought about stuff, for the better. Him and Ann Druyan, don't forget her, she was half of Cosmos. www.amazon.com/Cosmos-1st-S...

Another comic book favorite, this time Legion Five Years Later. I was still collecting when these hit the comic shops, and I loved the new tone and different take. This is an omnibus (collected) edition. www.amazon.com/Legion-Super...

I'm reading this right now. Yes, Harry Truman. It's about the first four months of his presidency. You know, when WWII ended and we dropped the Bomb and the Cold War started. Fascinating. www.amazon.com/Accidental-P...

Just for Give-thanksing, here's another favorite book, this time fiction. The Golem and the Jinni. Evidently there's a second book? From two years ago? I'll have to check it out. Literally. From the libary. www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q3NYVT...

Another favorite, non-fiction, about Ibn Battuta, a Muslim explorer more than a century before Columbus. www.amazon.com/Adventures-I...

What's my favorite comic, you ask? That would be Promethea by Alan Moore and JH Williams. Stunning. Just incredible. www.amazon.com/Promethea-20...

On the fantasy side, there's The Lies of Locke Lamora. If you like your hero kind of anti- then this is the book for you. www.amazon.com/Lies-Locke-L...

Here's another favorite, Chapterhouse Dune. This is the sixth and final Dune novel from Frank Herbert. He planned a seventh but died before he could start writing. As the sixth book, this is far down the rabbit hole of fandom, but it's great. www.amazon.com/Chapterhouse...

Another favorite book, this time non-fiction: Detroit An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff. This is kind of a memoir, kind of an embedded reporting, about this man and his home town and some crazy stuff he discovered about himself. www.amazon.com/Detroit-Amer...

I know what I'm talking about because when I was in college I worked in the libary. No, I didn't spell it wrong. Libary. Libarians love it when you call it a libary. They loved me.

I'm an author, so I thought I'd share some of my favorite books. First up, A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood. This is the first time I read a novel and thought 'I don't know if I could do this.' www.amazon.com/Single-Man-P...