All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 19: My Teacher Fried my Brains, by Bruce Coville. Illustrated by John Pierard

Release an EP.

And I want to know the same thing We all want to know How's it going to end?

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 18: Still More Tales for the Midnight Hour, by J.B. Stamper

Tis the season... to season!

A poem for my birthday and the end of 2023.

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 17: Audubon Society Pocket Guides: Familiar Dinosaurs

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 16: Ripley's Believe It or Not! Weird Inventions and Discoveries

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 15: Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitch, by Donald J. Sobol; illustrated by Leanoard Shortall.

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 14: The Witching Hour, by Stephen Krensky

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 13: The Secret of the Indian, by Lynne Reid Banks, illustrated by Ted Lewin

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 12: A Pack of Lies, by Geraldine McCaughrean

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 12: Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, by Bruce Coville

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 11: Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes

My mom got a new car, and it's more like a smart phone on wheels. It's so stupid how they are fazing out so many buttons for touchscreens. When you are driving buttons are much safer than a touch screen. It took 5 minutes to figure out how to turn on the radio in her car. What are they doing?

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 10: Rumble Fish, by S.E. Hinton

Rocky Raccoon checked into his room only to find Julian Schnabel

I really thought I'd have another chance to see Screaming Females again. Glad I got to catch them as many times as I did.

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 9: Something Upstairs, by Avi

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 8: The Ghosts of Cougar Island, by Peggy Parish.

I was at my mom's house for the holidays and put the Walkmen's 1st album on the living room stereo. After about 10 minutes she said, "Efrem.... *what* is this?"

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 7: Wayside School is Falling Down, by Louis Sachar

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 6: Ralph S. Mouse, by Beverly Cleary. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky.

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 5: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete. Novels and Stories Volume I, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Bantam Classic edition)

White House statement on the death of Rosalynn Carter: 220 words Statement on the death of Henry Kissinger: 94 words

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 4: The Chocolate Touch, by Patrick Skene Catling

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 3: My Teacher Flunked the Planet, by Bruce Coville

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 2: Dare to Go A-Hunting, by Andre Norton

All the Books I'd Left in My Mom's Basement (Even the Embarrassing Ones), Book 1: The Dragon Circle, by Stephen Krensky

I try not to get too attached to these things, but it's bullshit that War Pigs didn't crack the Top 20 in 104.3's Thanksgiving list.

Where's Karate Kat at? That old cat or rat carried at least a 10-karat gold ring with a 10-carat rock sat on top it from Boca Raton to Robert Carradine in CA. Wrecked a car, ate a carrot shaped like a caret. But do I care at all? Nah, Rabbit.

A reminder that @EvanDorkin will be joining me LIVE IN STUDIO tonight (at 3AM EST) on WFMU for three hours of creepy classic radio drama and sleep deprived banter! Listen locally at 91.1FM (or 90.1FM or 91.1FM) or online at WFMU.org!

Moderna hitting me less like a ton of bricks this time around, and more like one really well-aimed brick.

RIP to the great Keith Giffen, creator of Ambush Bug. Here's a sketch he drew of Olive Oyl that I'll always cherish.