There's an article I'm supposed to write as my time permits. That's been in the back of my mind, since, (checks notes and messages) 2021. I need to get going on that.

Interesting look back at a special Bradbury issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Sheep Detectives is really good. Clever mystery! Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Chris O'Dowd really shine. And I scored a poster to go in my book nook off my office. Under another great detective.

Moments of serotonin amidst an ocean of bullshit @justinjpearson

The good thing about a rainy morning is that you can grab a shower on the way back to the car from the gym.

Well, in a bit of good news…coffee actively reshapes the mind!

A Trump supporter told me today that he has a strong BS detector.

The film article I shared brings up a category I've been failing to mention about my novel A Disturbance of Shadows. It's a haunting/slasher/HOME INVASION/cosmic horror thriller.

Well this looks a bit of all right. I really liked "The Night House."

On a happy note, I’m watching the surprise The Bear drop, Gary.

Can I get a hallelujah? Can I get an amen? Voters file recall petition against Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry…

Got a text from my old buddy’s son. His dad/my friend passed a while ago. Going through his father’s things he found a copy of one of my books I’d signed and sent him. I don’t remember when, but I think it was a while after publication after we talked on the phone. 1/2

Closing out the day with…

Reminder that May the 4th is the day to keep your nerd card current.

If you’re like me, sometimes Facebook suggests you ought to be in Meta’s KPop Demon Hunters universe.

Every day there’s a new poll. Record low approval. No surprise. But STILL 30 odd percent approve. I know all the things we say, cult thinking, delusional. But still, $50 for half a tank and someone thinks: Hoo, boy, love his handling of the economy?!

In realm of cool things, you never know where your kids are going to turn up. This copy of Azarius was spotted yesterday at Bucket o Blood Books and Records in Chicago by author @sonorataylor.bsky.social, whose latest is the novella Passing Glance in Split Scream Volume Eight: Cursed Places.

If you’re like me, you’re asking yourself, what did I just say in conversation with my wife that my upstairs Alexa interpreted as “Play Low Rider?”

Deets on a story acceptance incoming soon!

Deets on a story acceptance incoming soon!

Deets on a story acceptance incoming soon!

Crispin Glover stars in a remake of a lost Lon Chaney film. My review.

If I see a book by someone I know displayed at our local library, I tend to snap a photo and send it along to them. Today, I was browsing and spotted one of own! Here’s to a Si Reardon novel helping to shore up the W’s!

The message exchange I had with my old acquaintance from Louisiana wound down to him saying: “I’m a lawyer. 1/2

You really can’t go home again. You won’t like what the people there now have done with the place.

Messaged a guy I used to know to call out his celebration of the Supreme Court’s decision. “What part of it do you disagree with?” he asked, and I told him I wasn’t going to play that game. I will say what I agree with…

Working on a review this morning of a weird little film for which I received a screener.

The takeaway from the poverty simulation I took part in on Monday was quickly hammered home. 1/5

In which a writer takes a look at Bari Weiss and her efforts at CBS News and how that’s going…

Participating this morning in a program called “A Day in Their Shoes,” a “a poverty simulation that puts participants in the role of families as they navigate obstacles lower-income earners can face.” Should be eye-opening.

If you’re like me, you’re cleaning out old .pdfs on your tablet and asking: “Why did I ever save a New York Times Review of ‘The Fig Leaves Are Falling’ at the Broadhurst?”

I’d been meaning to get around to particularly To Say Nothing of the Dog for ages, but the world intervened until recently I read the Connie Willis novelette Jack. I read Fire Watch after that and continued the Oxford Time Travel series with the incredible Doomsday Book. 1/2

Sometimes the world creates its own EC Comics karmic destiny stories.

I think I’m going to write a poetry cycle called “My Life in Samuel Adams Seasonal Beer Sets.”

Hey, S. A. Cosby just got a mention on #BeyondtheGates! Vernon Dupree (Clifton Davis) is reading the latest S.A. Cosby novel!

My wife caught this story about Bigfoot having a moment when she was listening to the radio in her car earlier. I’d seen a trailer for the musical and heard about the new documentary, but how can no one in Virginia have mentioned The Woodbooger to me!? www.npr.org/2026/04/...

Morning friends. There are still those amongst us that need to wake up.

I can exhale now. Virginia’s a Yes.

As you know, I’d rather post goofy stuff, but these are not normal times. Philip Marlowe once observed: “It’s not a game of knights.” David Gerrold writes from time to time: “It’s not about the pony you didn’t get.” It’s not about your one issue. 1/2

I usually just say I voted. I early voted in Virginia. It’s a situation we were forced into. I voted Yes. Tomorrow is Election Day. Vote Yes, Virginia!

So I was on a film panel at a con a while back, and I cited the merits of The Exorcist. Dude next to me does an: Oh, puh-leeze look. Seriously? Are you so devoid of imagination you can’t see the merits and the scares?

Just typed a phrase for which delineation with em spaces was the perfect choice. Oh my god, am I becoming AI?

If you’re like me, you have cool friends who send you their experiments produced when learning to use their new 3D printer.

Bryn Hudson’s in for a deadly storm, a dark old mansion and secrets tied to dangerous rituals. Can she survive a night at Lovegrove Farm? www.amazon.com/Distu...

Passing this along for an author and very nice person faced with high medical expenses. gofund.me/3ebbd59ce

My new column on vintage horror paperbacks is live today over at Wicked Horror.

I’ll never get tired of watching people in Budapest celebrating getting rid of Viktor Orbán. I’m dancing along with the people of Hungary! 💃

Artemis II splashed down safely and Orban’s out. Nice weekend.

If you’re like me, random lyrics from The Rocky Horror Picture Show opening song pop into your head with no warning.