the real Gulf of America was the friends we lost along the way

things sure aren't what they used to be... (except the fact that every generation thinks it's the last generation that lived in a decent time, that's the same)

change one letter, ruin a candy every bite you take from a Zeno bar must be smaller than the one before

movie quotes [amended for 2025] "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become cringe."

the lifeblood of SFF is the printed word

"I want for you what you want for everyone else" is a nice modern spin on the Golden Rule

2025 newspeak refresher: "woke" = "I don't like it" "antifa" = "I don't like you"

I really miss having a functional governing body that did not feel the need to endlessly weigh in on ... *checks notes* ... pop culture issues completely unrelated to governing

I keep meaning to go down to the courthouse and change my middle name to "Procrastination" but then

people are taking GWAR at face value, I'm just waiting for Rod Serling to step out and submit something for my approval

remember back when people used to believe the P&G logo was a secret sigil implying corporate devil worship? such fun, innocent times. such good ol days.

how my boy Igor plays hide-&-seek

see also: Curtis Yarvin's biodiesel "modest proposal"

so Benicio Del Toro has been, thus far, in every Thomas Pynchon movie

Slater in particular fascinates me as one of those figures who it seems should know better (much like John W Campbell) but naw

slightly diminish a book Shadow Tick

Must-read update from @cornellwriter.bsky.social about contract difficulties with Must Read Magazines and Analog. Spoiler: It shouldn't be this complicated to get a good contract!

once upon a time, I really loved em dash construction -- but times change; these days I'm more of a semicolon kind of guy

well well well if it isn't the Deconstruction Era, whence the South has risen again

I don't use chatGPT but if I did I'd ask it to find correlations between itself and the petsdotcom sock puppet

there's a fart joke in here somewhere, but I don't want to find it

if states getting into retail is such a terrible idea, why does Alabama have an absolute mafia-lock on liquor sales?

nobody: me: "hot blooded" by foreigner but it's a tender piano ballad

I for one welcome our new AI overlords being replaced by AI

and when the truth comes out, finally ... well, by then no one will care which was the whole point of 'Fahrenheit 451'

don't wake me until morgan wallen and orlando bloom finally hook up

the Atlantic can go ahead & consider me "poorly sourced," but during my time as a 90s/00s bookseller, my customers absolutely took a 80f/20m split #TwasEverThus

"describe a favorite movie in the most misleading way possible" high schoolers get wasted, find a rickety tower, climb it to the moon

nobody: me: Henry Winkler is a national treasure and I won't hear otherwise

so Palantir is the new Deep State; you don't have to take my word for it, just ask Pippin

what part of the corn do they make the flake from

would greatly prefer a two-headed president who simply steals a spaceship and disappears

quoting from story: "We are looking into how this made it into print as we speak," said a statement given to NPR [by a man in a hot dog suit].

who do I call to get a book reshelved at the library? because if I walk in there and see Hillbilly Elegy shelved anywhere other than Gen Fic/Urban Fantasy I'm getting my pitchfork

gotta admit, did not have an American president warning Bruce Springsteen not to reenter the country on my 2025 bingo card

when you have your entire arm tattooed, that's called a sleeve; but what is it called if you have your entire leg tattooed? is that a ... pant?

would love to see a venn diagram of people who a) want to rename the Gulf of Mexico b) routinely refer to the Gulf as "the ocean"

just hoping they can top the December 82 show in Biloxi MS where a guy in a Santa suit patrolled the floor, kicking people in the ass

but wait, what if zuck is right, because if we're shot into space by mad scientists we're going to need robot pals to help us watch the bad movies

like Old Man's War but without the war

AMERICA: wake up, sheeple!! ALSO AMERICA: enough with the wokeness already

don't know who needs to hear this but: it's hard to win at poker when you're playing with a deck of Old Maid cards

I credit my dishwasher-loading skills to years of puzzling out how to most-economically pack boxes of odd-size books for return #AdventuresInBookselling

not a cruel & unusual punishment, but our billionaire brethren would certainly benefit from having to make their own grocery runs. Get elbowed out of the way for bread. Ignored by the deli crew. Stand in line behind a stinky dude to be ignored again by the cashier. Everyday American stuff, y'know?

drain imaginary swamp, fill with actual sewage #MissionAccomplished

Mission Impossible: To Kill a Mockingbird

how did we get to this point where AM radio hosts are running things

no notes seriously there go all the bank notes

"Temptation to Exist" by the New York Dolls is a song in search of a Tarantino movie if I've ever heard/seen one

"Get me to God's country," I post as my private plane crashes #vss #BasedOnATrueStory