Another day, another internet infrastructure outage.

I’m supposed to submit some pages to my critique group today for our next session. Had nothing. Thought I‘d try a 10-minute timed writing with the prompt, “I remember…” 25 minutes and 800 words later, I might have something.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Because she's always known me as an atheist, a friend was surprised to hear that I once attended a Pentecostal church and spoke in tongues. I wrote a little piece about it. It's my first attempt at memoir essay. I hope you enjoy it! stfalco.medium.com/false-tongue...

you guys have GOT to watch the whole thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...

Post a bird announcing that Dick Cheney is dead.

Make a movie food: Butch Casserole and the Sundance Kid

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Gulfport, Florida” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

In high school, I wrote a seven-pager on The Scarlet Letter the day before it was due, having read only the Mad Magazine version of the book + listened to class discussion. Got an A-.

Me: Hey, here’s a video about a woodworking technique I need to learn! YouTube: OK, but first you gotta watch an ad. Me: Grumbles, but fine. YouTube: OK, here’s your video. …30 seconds later… YouTube: Time to watch another ad! I hope there‘s a woodworking book with that tip in it.

So I'm not writing novels anymore. medium.com/@stfalco/qui...

Brutal and epic, simultaneously theonion.com/trump-spends...

Kittens are so adorable and cuddly.

Bought a book yesterday. Tidy, three library books I requested came in. Now I'm paralyzed trying to decide which to read. Oh, and I also have the latest issue of Rock and a Hard Place. Who needs sleep?

I was thinking along these lines while tidying my garage tonight. Came inside to find that @slacktivistfred.bsky.social has the topic covered. www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...

Age verification: LOAD “file_name”, 8

Medium: Come join us to connect with other people over great writing! Every other article recommended to me: How to use AI to write Medium articles. FFS.

Is there any stupider marketing campaign than, "Try our ultimate answer machine! Ask it anything, and it will give you an answer! Don't trust the answers!"

Ayn Rice’s The Vampire John Galt.

Desecrating one by driving around with it dirty and torn, mounted to the tailgate of your oversized pickup track, that's OK.

Good. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This morning I had a moment of being completely at peace with myself. Then I reached over my head for something and pulled a muscle in my shoulder. Now I hate everything.

Feel like you have more to do than can ever be done? You're not alone.

Of the 21 calls I have received this month, 19 were spam. The other two were from the veterinarian’s office. I’m paying a monthly fee for scammers to distract me daily.

Among the many things I do not understand: area code pride. How did that become a thing?

Slightly diminish a band: Lack Sabbath

Headline is just nightmare fuel. apnews.com/article/radi...

Astonished at the number of people responding “lol, that won’t work.” Probably the same people can be found whining that the Democrats aren’t even trying. Not everything will work but you don’t know what will. Waiting for the one weird trick to come along gets you nowhere.

Help I am being pinned down by 2 lbs of cuteness.

Would not surprise me in the least. theonion.com/self-learnin...

“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.

samfalco.com/2025/05/30/w... I’ve never had writer’s block like this before.

I saw my father's picture at the barbershop yesterday. samfalco.com/2025/05/31/b...

samfalco.com/2025/05/30/w... I’ve never had writer’s block like this before.

So happy to see that “The Nonadventures of Wonderella” is being produced again. First new one since 2019 was posted in January! nonadventures.com/2025/01/02/u...

Last week, I heard a kitten crying in the rain. I rescued him and his siblings. samfalco.com/2025/05/19/i...

Looking forward to Sleuthfest tomorrow… except that I’ll have to be away from these little goobers, rescued after nearly being drowned by a storm on Monday. Eris, Kokopelli, and Loki.

In college, I knew a guy who went on a cruise, got drunk one night, and threw a bunch of deck chairs off the ship. I lost touch with him but now I wondered if he joined the Navy, is serving on the Harry S Truman, and has seriously upped his game.

Conservatives in the 90’s: “Democrats are trying to destroy our high standard of living!” Conservatives now: “You don’t deserve a high standard of living.”

But you tell me Over and over and over again, my friend How you don't believe We're on the eve of destruction

Plane of the Apes

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Pope

Pope to Dope: Nope!

That idiot in your feed suggesting political violence is cool? Might be a cop, but might also not be a human.

“Ohhh I love this episode of Suits - it’s the one where Harvey is a total dick and gets away with it!”

Republicans when I was young: "Reining in the excesses of capitalism will destroy our standard of living!" Republicans now: "You don't deserve our standard of living!" "Our standard of living" always meant *their* standard of living--something we should aspire to but never achieve.

All these soft, little men who’ve never once had a callous on their hands telling the rest of us that we’re soft and need to get real jobs in a factory or farm. SMH.