Humans should hibernate. Sign my petition to make humans hibernate 11 months of the year. Possibly 12.

Fun fact your local library might have criterion collection DVDs and blu rays you can rent which include wonderful special features and you can immerse yourself in the joy of film for zero dollars and zero cents

It’s very important to not only watch absurd action movies but to also watch the documentary on the blu ray about how they made the movie

When will they right this wrong and put John Wick in the criterion collection

I hate my favorite football team the Detroit lions

Fell asleep watching planes, trains & automobiles and woke up to see a different film playing on the tv which appeared to be a sequel to planes, trains & automobiles in which John Candy and a woman in a hat talk on the phone a lot

To soothe myself during this time of year, I am listening to an audiobook about various horrible things which occurred during history

"Real fans of poetry deserve such monuments – in this case, the work of a lengthy lifetime: decades of wondering and pondering, deadpan ironizing and making meaning in America, just the kind of work that must never have felt like work at all." ocreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/25/r...

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

perhaps everything could work out

hello and I hope you are all doing well

I meant 2026 lol

How do you guys afford Patagonia jackets. Do you have to take out a loan

early list of writers/books I want to read in 2025: -Don Quixote -Orhan Pamuk -Lydia Davis -Leslie Marmon Silko -Brian Evenson -Stephen Graham Jones -Middlemarch -Maybe some Faulkner -Denis Johnson -Bud Smith -more books from Autofocus -at least one fantasy novel -more graphic novels

rewriting my novel and just asking myself if I actually want to read each scene before I rewrite it has been very helpful

muppet starship troopers could fix us

I like reading anecdotes about Donald Barthelme who seems to have been a kind and deeply strange man

That feeling when you finished a great book and you pick up another book you want to read but you feel bad starting it because you know you’re gonna cheat on it with yet another book which is arriving from thrift books this evening….

Canada Dry is my sober person weird drink, if you’re sober make sure you get one of your own

It’s nice when a writer I’m a fan of announces they have a book coming out in 2 years. I’m like nice, if the world hasn’t been destroyed by then I can read that

When I can’t sleep and wake up at 4 am it’s never been a waste of time to throw in the towel, get up, make coffee and work on my novel

The are posters up at the sonic drive through reminding customers they have free will

Goodnight corner of the internet that isn’t completely insane

One Battle After Another truly is one battle after another. They even say it in the film. They say "it'll be one battle after another". And you know what? They're right!

Watching ufc for Zhang Weili and Zhang Weili alone

Might need to get YouTube premium back only to stop seeing these depressing AI ads for scam products

you should call out of work to read the vibrant short fiction of john cheever

I wrote a book review in 2021 where I was like “especially now you should read this.” Man, why ‘especially’ now? Wtf was I saying

wrote about some books I loved this year for a sweet little magazine

Thank god Ethan Hunt put ChatGPT in his flash drive and saved humanity from it. Things were looking bad there for a second. Thank you sir… wherever you are…

Tío Bernie

Democrats actually fight for something challenge: impossible

people need to start viewing politicians the way they currently view retail and food service workers

Love this NYT piece about Helen DeWitt and what she’s been through trying to publish Your Name Here with Ilya Gridneff. God bless @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social for existing and supporting great works of literature and writers like DeWitt www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...

Going to purchase an alarm clock tomorrow so that the little computer I use to watch basketball highlights and keep myself awake isn’t my alarm clock anymore

Every time someone I respect sends me an AI-generated meme, I die inside a little more

I remember I thought it was so sick when a few years ago that dude said there was a comet that might be an alien spacecraft. But now every time there’s a new thing in the sky like a comet I seem to read a headline of that same fuckin guy being like “there’s a good chance it’s aliens”

A beautiful thing you can do in your life is read books with friends and discuss them together

Watching him speak, that’s one of the only times in my life where the thought “I’m witnessing history” came to me, and was welcome

This is a generationally great speech. A new dawn indeed

He’s so fucking handsome we are so fucking back

They should have an nba game that happens at like 11 am every day so it can be viewed by those who are home sick from work

Got my first cold of the season so I’m watching the Allen Iverson documentary because my hope is that learning more about Allen Iverson will restore my health

The time change doesn’t bother me. I always keep some daylight saved in a jar on my kitchen counter

good breakfast tip: if you go to breakfast early on Sunday you’ll get a good seat cuz everybody is too fucking sleepy to get their asses out of bed for bacon and eggs

Was reading an introduction to a penguin classics book and realized the guy who wrote it is not terribly different from me. He’s just read more, learned more. I could know as much as him eventually. He is just someone with thoughts about the books, working to know them better, like me.

one of the best parts of writing fiction is sitting down at a desk & making things up for a while & becoming deeply invested in what will happen to these people that didn’t exist a few hours earlier

Reading can be such a wonderful generative thing when you let go of any ideas about what you should read or what you should want to read, and go instead to what draws your interest and maybe even more so, your joy

Gonna start reading some of Tolstoy’s short stories this week

The last dahlias of the year from Columbia Road Market this morning