Another quick doodle while having lunch with my son, in the "Bic 4-color pen plus a yellow highlighter" style that I perfected in seventh grade (I *always* have a Bic 4-color on me—check my PFP—and sometimes have a yellow highlighter handy). Came out nice! #Wolverine #XMen #X-Men #art #illustration

Well, false alarm! 😁 That was goddamn fun. Even filled in on a few things I hadn't expected to sing. And got to blow some minds on a couple songs I've never done before. Cool. Damn, I'm glad Bazooka Girl talked me into it. Gotta start doing more live singing now whenever we get the chance…

Gearing up for the #Holidays? 🎄🕎 #LovelyAssistant🎩 and #JackrabbitMessiah🐰 will both be 50% off for the Smashwords End of Year Sale 2025—starting December 8️⃣! Just follow the link below to find both ebooks, 50% off! #EoYSale25 #Smashwords For more about the books, visit SilhouetteUniverse.com 👤

#WIPsnips "number" In Chapter 5 of "My Electromagnetic Romance," Lu Volasko gets the lowdown on the Berenbaum-Bean Field from a pair of genius physicists: Judah Berenbaum and Greer Bean themselves. #MyElectromagneticRomance🧲💕 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

#WIPsnips "number" In Chapter 3 of "Grand Theft Galaxy," Billy Fish discovers that his old local high school classmate isn't, as it turns out, his old local high school classmate. Nor even particularly local. #GrandTheftGalaxy🕳️🌌 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

#WIPsnips "number" In Chapter 6 of "The Demon's Pawn," psycho killer Andy Trout considers the unusual job being offered to him by Anytime—the demonic personification of New York City itself. #TheDemonsPawn🔪🩸 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

#WIPsnips "number" Maybe it's just a routine Imperial inspection in Chapter 3 of "David Earth," but David and Uncle Blux are in for an unsettling surprise when they discover what the inspection's *for*. #DavidEarth🌎🚀 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

#WIPsnips "number" In Chapter 3 of "Confessions from the Scene of the Crime," an odd and important realization hits Charlie Gelman as he questions the objects in his murder victim's room. #ConfessionsFromTheSceneOfTheCrime🎳💀 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

Funniest thing about all these Big Franchise Universes and their Content Units (including TV/streaming) is that they've had opposite the (I assume) intended effect: requiring me to watch four other things just to watch the next season of one thing I enjoyed has inspired me to just…not watch it.

Seeing *only* this post, completely devoid of context, was the kind of mental thrill ride experience that was only beat by finding out the actual context.

Gearing up for the #Holidays? 🎄🕎 #LovelyAssistant🎩 and #JackrabbitMessiah🐰 will both be 50% off for the Smashwords End of Year Sale 2025—starting December 8️⃣! Just follow the link below to find both ebooks, 50% off! #EoYSale25 #Smashwords For more about the books, visit SilhouetteUniverse.com 👤

Another quick doodle while having lunch with my son, in the "Bic 4-color pen plus a yellow highlighter" style that I perfected in seventh grade (I *always* have a Bic 4-color on me—check my PFP—and sometimes have a yellow highlighter handy). Came out nice! #Wolverine #XMen #X-Men #art #illustration

#WIPsnips "dedicate" After the bomb drops (figuratively, at least) in Chapter 3 of "My Electromagnetic Romance," P.I. Lu Volasko has some appropriately heavy questions about the job her new clients want her to take on. #MyElectromagneticRomance🧲💕 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

I haven't sung a live performance in…almost 11 years. I did record for a cast album a little after that, and recorded a "radio-show-style" musical a few years back, but I'm so out-of-vocal-shape. Definitely don't have the four octaves I used to have and I'm singing some serious shit tomorrow. So… 🤞

Prompt: "What would you do with UBI?" Some replies: "Basically same as now but I could afford health care and less stress and a family and more time to do better work on my stuff and…" Nothing says "We've all been fucking exhausted by Capitalism" better than all that ☝️ being "basically same BUT…"

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

Five animals I've seen in the wild? Squirrels, like, ALL the time. Ants too. Insects are animals, you speciesists! Pigeons. Geese. Those round little brown birds, I don't even know what they're called but they're everywhere. There. Five. And I'm not even showing off like the rest of you posers. 😁

Label on my orange juice: "No sugar added." Me: "Don't worry, I got this."

All accurate. 🧵…:

Hm. So, I guess if you like homemade, hand-crafted stories that are actually *filling* instead of "filling," you might be like me. In which case, fuck it. You got this far: you might like my books. 👇 And it *is* just about time for the gift-giving season. 😉 Happy Thanksgiving, to those observe! 🦃

So I finally finished watching Latest Installments of Hugely Popular Once-Niche Geek Franchise—just popped episodes on when I didn't have much else to do—and I have…thoughts. Not about its way more progressive approach to sociocultural stuff (nice, if sometimes heavy-handed and stereotyped). 1/24

So I finally finished watching Latest Installments of Hugely Popular Once-Niche Geek Franchise—just popped episodes on when I didn't have much else to do—and I have…thoughts. Not about its way more progressive approach to sociocultural stuff (nice, if sometimes heavy-handed and stereotyped). 1/24

Exactly right. I know I've failed helping family/friends with a tech/IT problem if I give in to the old "you're not doing it right" or "look, lemme just do it for you." In this case, I can't think of the parallel for the second, but if it involves less death and more people talking, that's a win.

#WIPsnips "impede" What do you do when a bunch of black-cloaked strangers steal your magic show props? If you're the (apparently) indestructible Jenny Ng, you opt for a face-off—in Chapter 23 of "Lovely Assistant"! (See reply…) 👇 #LovelyAssistant🎩 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky

New Ontario law saying prospective employers MUST inform you if they're not hiring you… Huh. Okay. I'm guessing more folks out there prefer it that way. But totally honestly, it bugs the crap out of me to get boilerplate "we've gone in another direction" responses weeks after. Like: no shit, dudes.

For me: ham's gross, green beans revolting, I've never had mac & cheese in my life and I'm not planning to start now, I'm really not into most pies, rolls are just filler, mashed potatoes are my least favorite way to potato, and turkey's no big thrill. I like stuffing and gravy well enough, though.

Ah, annual "Cohen's Hallelujah" discourse. Snark response: Yeah, it's the world's longest mondegreen, innit? Kind response: There are absolutely songs where I dig the music and have zero attachment to the lyrics, so… 🤷 Grouchy response: Meh, typical Western culture entirely missing a point. And…?

This is Bodhi erasure, that's clearly Solarbabies-inspired.

"I was into Nirvana before they were cool." "Yeah, well *I* was into Nirvana before they existed! I win!"

Doodling while having breakfast with my son, and just really liked how this #Spider-Man came out (with my trusty Bic 4-color pen, of course!). You can ignore the bat-mustachioed guy; that was just to prove a point to my son that you *could* use a bat for a mustache. #SpiderMan #comicbook #art

What lemon-flavored Pez lacks in nutritional value it makes up for by tasting pretty much like very sweet dish soap and I'm not on trial here shut up.

"Fear and Joe-ing in Las Vegas" (Okay, yeah, that sounds more like the name of a Shipwreck-heavy episode from the 80s, but it's the first thing I thought on seeing this.)

See, first the spam lists (maintained by Google and Microsoft in the first place!) erroneously marked my ENTIRE HOST SERVER as a spam machine, and they made it nearly impossible to get off the lists, so I was forced to use Gmail to communicate with most people for work, and then…

No, no, a narcissist is *smugly self-assured* that everything is about them. I'm *paranoiacally terrified* that everything is about me. There's a difference.

#WIPsnips "special" And here we have it—in Chapter 2 of "Sidewalk Games"—as our young narrator explains just what the heck Sidewalk Games are in the first place. #SidewalkGames👣🪶 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

#WIPsnips "special" As Chapter 3 opens in "Tale of the Zombie Detective," P.I. Henry Ingersoll waxes both nostalgic and cynical as he heads to an old favorite he and his ex-wife used to frequent. #TaleOfTheZombieDetective💀🔍 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

#WIPsnips "special" In Chapter 3 of "Storm of the Century of the Week," we get a little history on Eat Here Please, the most popular diner in Silhouette, Illinois, as Sharon drops Tim O'Boyle off there for dinner. #StormOfTheCenturyOfTheWeek⛈️ #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

#WIPsnips "special" In Chapter 3 of "Confessions from the Scene of the Crime," Charlie tries piecing together some puzzling information he's getting from his murder victim's menagerie of possessions. #ConfessionsFromTheSceneOfTheCrime🎳💀 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

The enemy of my enemy is…um…hold on. Let me get back to you on that, 'cause I'm not stupid enough to throw around dipshit aphorisms and pretend they make sense completely devoid of context, like when the enemy of my enemy is still an objectively awful fuckstick who is NOT going to help anything.

Very successful author, snarking: "Spammers pushing author services by negging don't work when your latest is a NYT bestseller!" Ha ha ha. Hm. No disrespect, guvnor, but they also don't work when you're neither incredibly naïve nor stupidly desperate.

#WIPsnips "spend" It's been a while since homicide detective Charlie Gelman worked with a partner, so he enjoys getting into it with Detective Tran in Chapter 5 of "Confessions from the Scene of the Crime." #ConfessionsFromTheSceneOfTheCrime🎳💀 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

#WIPsnips "spend" In Chapter 4 of "David Earth," David and Uncle Blux pay a visit to the notorious Hatt Larbie, a shady businessman with his many hands in many different pots. #DavidEarth🌎🚀 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

For fuck's sake, another headline that says "unusual legal theory" instead of "completely obvious bullshit they made up and they're gonna see if they can get people to buy so they can continue to act with impunity while we in the media give them a smokescreen by not just fucking calling it out."

I told myself this today, "You don't have to talk about writing on your socials to prove that you're a writer the same way you don't have to talk about your music practice to prove that you're a musician/person who composes. You don't owe anyone anything/any justification."

Speaking from experience, even at my absolute most confident, I assumed many, MANY more false negatives than false positives when it came to women being into me, and I highly recommend it. Not only are you less likely to be a gross asshole, it's also a lovely surprise to find out who's into you.

I've always just stared at those blob-like humans (or human-like blobs) and pointed out, very directly: "Oh. So you agree there IS a line that can be crossed, you just don't think they crossed it. So you're doubly fucking revolting."

This is what they've done.

This is what they've done.