Back to Nope. I love this freakin movie. The western vistas and the cinematography are worth the price of admission. Great characters and acting all around. Also love the way the saucer morphs into a living organism. And Keith David who makes any film better even if he’s only in it for 15 minutes.

1st lousy hummingbird photo of the season. I can’t ever get a good shot of them. There’s at least two so far this season.

Came across this old pic today. Me, my dad, and my son, Jack at Long Beach Island, NJ, circa 1990's. Loved all those summer days at the shore.

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Jeffrey Ford (along with Brian Evenson) is the GOAT.

A comic series based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Monster Men.

Hot bird on bird action.

In the mail today, How I Make Comics by the great Kim Deitch. Can’t wait to get into it.

Powder Pink Twilight

Found on a bookshelf in my office. They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. I didn’t but I did buy it and read it because of the cover. And amazingly enough the story exceeded the cover. A genuinely idiosyncratic, weird af novel. Both the story and the cover are never too far from my memory.

My good glasses busted a while ago and so I’m using my cheap second pair. Laird Barron told me I look like Joe Pesci in The Irishman. You know, what are friends for?

Lynn on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska for Mothers Day♥️

"Surreal. Irreal. Too real. Consistently surprising. Ford sticks the landing on the most outlandish stories so perfectly, I want to scream." Zig Zag Claybourne, author of Breath Warmth & Dream and The Brothers Jet Strem: Leviathan.

Dreamy night.

Evening’s Empire

One of my Conan collages

Save a life, you're a hero, save a hundred, you're a nurse. Happy Nurses Day and week to all the remarkable people in this profession.

When James Sallis passed away, I posted that he had a new novel that he'd been working on, Backwater. It will appear September 1st, Soho Crime. It contains a paragraph from one of my short stories. If you want to see what Backwater is about, follow the link www.penguinrandomhouse.com/.../backwate...

Scout 4 years ago.

Coode Street 722: Jeffrey Ford's Pandemonium Waltz Jonathan & Gary sit down with Jeffrey Ford to discuss his new collection, writing short fiction, and more! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-6m53s...

Ganesha Sweet Potato

Mac and I visit with Polytreemus, Cyclops of the Woods, whenever we walk the trail along Little Darby Creek.

On the way home from work.

Spring Night

One of my crazy drawings

Lynn dreaming...

You’re invited to the dance. Pandemonium Waltz. 17 stories. In addition to the fiction, an interview conducted with the author by Kelly Link and art by Derek Ford. “Jeffrey Ford is a beautifully disorienting writer. A poet in an unclassifiable genre — his own" — Joyce Carol Oates

Me and Lynn hanging with these two mugs on the porch at coffee time.

Our friend Bindu and her daughter, Adeline, crocheted me this bookmark with a beautiful rose.

"Jeffrey Ford is a legendary figure; easily one of the greatest living American writers. If you'd like evidence of that, read Pandemonium Waltz." Laird Barron, author of Not a Speck of Light (Stories) and the Isaiah Coleridge series.

Naga and Mac Photo by Jack

The FB Dredge had this photo Lynn took of Finn. Still miss him.

Those who voted for Trump should have to pay for this catastrophe he’s unleashing on the world. How stupid would you have to be to have his entire shit history to look at and still vote for him? Jesus, who’s next? American exceptionalism at its most exceptional.

On the trail with Mac today.

Dreaming wide awake in Slohio

The Monster Tree says, “Pandemonium Waltz has the best monsters.” www.lethepressbooks.com

Review of Pandemonium Waltz from Locus Magazine's Gary K. Wolfe. locusmag.com/review/pande...

Pam Bondi obviously sorely missed at DOJ.

Temp almost hit 60 today, so me and Mac drove over to this park about 15 minutes from the house. They have a heard of Bison there. We checked them out and went for a walk. Every time I go there the herd is bigger.

Golden Hour, Spring 2026

Lynn: What ya doin? Me: Trying to get a good shot of that giant turkey vulture. Lynn: Want me to go lay in the field and make believe I'm a dead animal? Me: OK.

Sitting here doing the Spelling Bee from The NYT while outside the wind is crazy as can be. We’re under a tornado watch until 11 pm.

Purple sky this morning.

Michael Cisco has a new story up at Reactor -- "Tatterdemalion." Check it out. reactormag.com/fictions/ori...

I have E-Arcs for reviewers interested in reviewing this upcoming book from Heresy Press.

Coming this November, No Laughing Matter, edited by Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn, including my story "The Cartoonist." www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-Lau...