Admittedly, I find it very amusing when Irish-Americans talk about "their castle" in Ireland, but now that I'm getting older, I'd love to go to Scotland and visit the ancestral campsite.

If you were wishing to read an interview with me about my forthcoming TACOMA, I’ve got just the gift for you!

Neighbor gave us a box of pastries with free Baby Jesuses inside.

Saw the trailer for The Odyssey, and the inaccuracies were a bit much. For starters, cyclopes didn't dress like that during the Bronze Age.

Saw someone having a conversation with some sort of AI on their phone, in public, and man was that bleak.

Last day to buy 120 MURDERS: DARK FICTION INSPIRED BY THE ALTERNATIVE ERA, with fiction by Paul Tremblay, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Josh Malerman and many more, direct from @ruadanbooks.bsky.social with a portion of the proceeds going to support Boston-area foodbanks!

Two years from now, you'll turn on the radio. The DJ will play "Dust in the Wind" by Missouri, and you'll realize how ugly this fight over the Chiefs really was.

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Two more days to buy a copy of 120 MURDERS directly from @ruadanbooks.bsky.social with 50% of the publisher's profits (not mine!) going to food banks in the greater Boston area. A good way to fill your mind with filth and someone else's belly with Christmas dinner!

Maybe a rash decision, but hear me out

As a fairly "slow" writer, I should definitely say this to my interior monologue more.

This reminds me of that time in AP English when this kid named Evan gave a presentation on Fathers and Sons without having read it, so he shouted his way through the importance of reading great literature of the world.

The President right now

This one's been on my mind lately.

New Substack. Horses, Stanbridge, mud in your eye.

ALIENS ATTACK! is available for pre-order! This is the story of an alien invasion fr the perspective of a bunch of failing humans and also some sad aliens. Spaceships shooting lasers plus quiet desperation! Pre-orders are important for books like this, so I hope you'll consider ordering it up!

Older dude or not, I've watched Phillip Rivers carve up the Seahawks secondary enough to know this was a narrow escape.

Ugh... It's hard to not like Phillip Rivers.

reminder that crow helped me add a HAD-like "randomizer" to SSL too! havehashad.com/randomassl

this bumped @jeffchon.bsky.social's story up into the "most popular" rankings. good job everyone.

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Just realized it was around a year ago when I sat down and started this thing. Hell of a way to break "writer's block" (whatever that even is).

Anyone notice....

Now what am I gonna get all wistful about when I pass it on the way to the airport? share.google/jKAnJjMMpFGk...

Here's my new fave @keersteemack.bsky.social.

Just replace all the players with Monsters Inc. characters.

I wrote this about Zach Cregger's "Weapons" and a bunch of my feelings about school shootings. Will there be more movie essays from Derek? Only time will tell www.wigwagmag.com/vol-40-weapons

That commercial where Teddy Bridgewater is the backup listener: it really feels like he's listening to her.

We joked at work that this was a trap game for Leeds, but Jesus Christ.

For better or worse, Rocky statue and Pike Place fishmongers are the Brady and Manning of NFL b-roll. I can't even remember what other teams have.

And I messed up the URL in the original skeet so here it is: ruadanbooks.com/product/120-...

Guess my dad got bored, so he started watching Chelsea Arsenal from 2011 (as far as I can tell).

🚨 🚨 NEW @anniejowrites.bsky.social ON SHORT STORY, LONG DAY! 🚨 🚨

Arne Slot leaves the police station. His limp straightens out, and he walks in long strides, unzipping his jacket to reveal Phil Foden jersey. Chazz Palmentieri drops coffee mug, realizes Slot was Keyser Soze all along.

"Mr. Chon, you're a Ramones fan? You're cooler than I thought," says 13-year-old kid. Ohhhh...so that's what that feels like.

Who's this AJ Brown person the Eagles are throwing to today? Has he been there the whole time?

This might feel like a small point, but I really dislike matte finish book covers. They feel weird.

Hey guys. I think things have gone from bad to Wirtz. Am I right?

I did not clear it with the publicist. guillermostitch.substack.com/p/a-sadness-...

Sad when a generational talent loses his mojo.

The ambivalent return of Sunday Funnies

Yesterday's question on the cards asked who was the best celebrity from your state. Turns out a lot of TikTok cretins are from here. But a kid said it was Rick Steves, and I can't stop thinking about it because...goddamn, she's right.

My flash fiction piece, MFA Ave, appeared in Meetinghouse, Dartmouth College's literary magazine. It's available only in print, but I've added it to my website: jmthornberry.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/m...

cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!! "Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?" autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma

My book came out a year ago today. I tried as best as I could to create a level of depth in the reader’s access to each character’s interior world. If you like that kind of narrative intimacy, give my book a try! @malarkeybooks.bsky.social malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid

Missing by Everything But the Girl was everywhere the summer after I tried to kill myself. Always associated it w/getting better. As I'm leaving the store where it was just playing, gotta say things aren't so bad. It doesn't suck to be here.

Cyborg James Bond, James Bond Boy, Eradicator James Bond, and James Bond but he's Shaq show up in London. Then James Bond's dad goes into a coma, where he meets James Bond in a dream. He tries to convince James Bond to come back. Then Lois Lane-I mean Moneypenny goes to James Bond's grave, but the

"People are always coming up with new ways for whales to die. Been at it long enough, starting with sharpened sticks and then boats were invented which was some bad luck for whales, and then the boats got harpoons..." New story from @jessdawn.bsky.social on Short Story, Long today!!

You should performatively read this one