Mmmkay, I'm digging what MTshuffleV play is serving up this morning, frfrfr. How so? Welp. When was the last time YOU busted a move, hmmm? Me neither: Tonight on the Shuffle Up: Bust A Move by Young MC youtu.be/xy4FXhkm6Nw?...

Mmkay, didn't get to shuffle up before I shuffled off to slumberland, because OOWEEE! When your day bounces from awesome business meeting to funeral for the father of a dear friend...yeah. I Want My 80s is on, sooo: Today on the Shuffle Up: I'll Tumble 4 Ya by Culture Club youtu.be/kwb9-OlQimc?...

Choose one film each from 50 great directors. Name the film and director, with a still. 56/50 Film: The Princess Bride (1987) Director: Rob Reiner #filmsky #filmchallenge #films #classicfilms #movies #moviesky

20 albums that have stayed with me or influenced me. One album per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music Truly # whatever/of however many, this may go on awhile (and step lively off my page if you don't like how I music 🤨)

I'm playing "Choose However-Many-Books-I-Feel-Like-Y'all-Know-I-Don't-Color-Within-The-Lines that have stayed with you or influenced you." Just a book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [#books] [#booksky] [#amreading] [#booklover] [💙📚] Day 139:

Okay, cats and kittens! I’m planning an offsite event at #AWP in Baltimore. Where are my #flashfiction authors I don’t yet know will be there, who might be willing to throw down at my event? 🤔 Please, make yourself known. TIA—Miz Golightly🙏

Today is a mixed bag of feelings. The key takeaway: Be present 😌

Okay, y'all... Are we up to speed now? *My* #SubmissionSunday means: Set aside however much time on Sundays—5, 15...120 mins—to submit your #shortstories, #flashfiction, #CNF, and #poetry to your favorite lit mags/zines. We've got this! Let's skip to the queue!!!

Thank you, Ethan. I, too, am in *open rebellion* regarding AI. As someone who earns a living from words—written by humans—feel free to unfollow me if you disagree. Now, let's find someone talking about the incredible harm to the ecology, and the ROI on hastening our extinction...because, let's not.

From ye olde interweb: There’s “a psychological phenomenon that feels highly relevant to the current political zeitgeist: the Dunning-Kruger effect. That’s where people of low ability—let’s say, those who fail to answer logic puzzles correctly—tend to unduly overestimate their abilities.” Hmmmm 🤔…🤨

Welp, Blewskies. Crawling into the Airstream and snuggling under my down comforter, frfr. Downsizing efforts meant ridonculous levels of physical exertion, mmkay? Hope y'all had a beautiful day. See ya on the flippest side... [Eine kleine Airstream music by Outkast: Roses] youtu.be/gWju37TZfo0?...

Bwahaha. Okay, time to choose a birthday tiara! What? You didn't really think this birthday would pass by without me wearing a crown, did you? So. A little help. I have thoughts, but which one do you like for me on my Big Fat Solstice Birthday? TIA 🙏

Welp. Shuffle play is sending me into my feels, frfr. How so? This song reminds me of a very dear friend. Always has, since it became a hit. But the way it has such meaning now—decades later—is all the things: Tonight on the Shuffle Up: All Around the World by Lisa Stansfield youtu.be/pRi26q_IgCo

I'm playing "Choose However-Many-Books-I-Feel-Like-Y'all-Know-I-Don't-Color-Within-The-Lines that have stayed with you or influenced you." Just a book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [#books] [#booksky] [#amreading] [#booklover] [💙📚] Day 138:

20 albums that have stayed with me or influenced me. One album per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music Truly # whatever/of however many, this may go on awhile (and step lively off my page if you don't like how I music 🤨)

Choose one film each from 50 great directors. Name the film and director, with a still. 55/50 Film: Bugsy Malone (1976) Director: Alan Parker #filmsky #filmchallenge #films #classicfilms #movies #moviesky

I'm playing "Choose However-Many-Books-I-Feel-Like-Y'all-Know-I-Don't-Color-Within-The-Lines that have stayed with you or influenced you." Just a book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [#books] [#booksky] [#amreading] [#booklover] [💙📚] Day 137:

20 albums that have stayed with me or influenced me. One album per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music Truly # whatever/of however many, this may go on awhile (and step lively off my page if you don't like how I music 🤨)

Choose one film each from 50 great directors. Name the film and director, with a still. 54/50 Film: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Director: Mel Stuart #filmsky #filmchallenge #films #classicfilms #movies #moviesky

Mmmkay, I'm digging what shuffle play is serving it up, frfrfr. For instance, a little talk to chat up your evening: Tonight on the Shuffle Up: Mother's Talk by Tears For Fears youtu.be/5dCD1p0zPbs?...

Alrighty, then. Tried to start my weekend #boulesheet early, as I thought it was Thursday allllll day...it's not, FYI. That's okay. Shuffle play is serving it up, frfr. What do I mean? Thanks for asking: Tonight on the Shuffle Up: Tighten Up by The Black Keys youtu.be/DNXwicxlsvI?...

Choose one film each from 50 great directors. Name the film and director, with a still. 53/50 Film: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Director: Jonathan Demme #filmsky #filmchallenge #films #classicfilms #movies #moviesky

20 albums that have stayed with me or influenced me. One album per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music Truly # whatever/of however many, this may go on awhile (and step lively off my page if you don't like how I music 🤨)

I'm playing "Choose However-Many-Books-I-Feel-Like-Y'all-Know-I-Don't-Color-Within-The-Lines that have stayed with you or influenced you." Just a book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [#books] [#booksky] [#amreading] [#booklover] [💙📚] Day 136:

Happy #DeweyDecimalSystemDay to all who celebrate order...and systems...and #books 🫠

Ooowee! I’m really enjoying a super snowy early December. But! Here’s something to look forward to this summer. Believe me, the entire weekend will be worth the cost to see The Black Keys alone! Got my presale fingers ready for tomorrow morning! 🎆

Rollin into the week—and it’s already Tuesday, because:

Is it time to see what shuffle play is about? Yes indeed! Rotating my 22 hour, 49 minute playlist, "Belle du Jour" for our listening pleasure. And, my polyjamorousness is evident in full effect, mmkay: Tonight on the Shuffle Up: Take It To The Street by Rebirth Brass Band youtu.be/Pw__2gLu1-M?...

Ooowee. The way I have not done what I am supposed to be doing today is ridonculous. Case in point, what is on the telly atm 🤣:

I'm playing "Choose However-Many-Books-I-Feel-Like-Y'all-Know-I-Don't-Color-Within-The-Lines that have stayed with you or influenced you." Just a book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [#books] [#booksky] [#amreading] [#booklover] [💙📚] Day 135:

20 albums that have stayed with me or influenced me. One album per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music Truly # whatever/of however many, this may go on awhile (and step lively off my page if you don't like how I music 🤨)

Choose one film each from 50 great directors. Name the film and director, with a still. 52/50 Film: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Director: George Roy Hill #filmsky #filmchallenge #films #classicfilms #movies #moviesky

Welp. Ran across a reel of a billboard in 1950s Manhattan on Fazebük, and now I have to watch Martin & Lewis (and Shirley MacLaine) in ARTISTS AND MODELS. It's been eons!

My new mantra? Walk away, let it lay...

Welp. Clearly shuffle play CAME to play! Whaddya say, Sir Elton? I should turn on my electric boobs? Put on my mohair suit? Then what? Oh, okay, we're gonna go see The Jets. Got it: Today on the Shuffle Up: Bennie And The Jets by Elton John youtu.be/wo1OwRTRKRk?...

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

Alrighty, now. My weekend #boulesheet is shaping up nicely thanks to shuffle play, if I do say so myself. Which I did. Again. Just now. Without further ado, let's let 'em eat CAKE, mmkay? 🤨: Today on the Shuffle Up: The Distance by CAKE youtu.be/F_HoMkkRHv8?...

Howdy. Firing up my weekend #boulesheet. And, I'm feeling dandy, if I do say so myself. Which I did. Just now. AnyWHO, @aim2gtc.bsky.social, you around? Shall we get our verve on? Hit it, Ray & Christian: Today on the Shuffle Up: Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? by Verve youtu.be/nQ2LoVrTLh0?...

Choose one film each from 50 great directors. Name the film and director, with a still. 51/50 Film: Lone Star (1996) Director: John Sayles #filmsky #filmchallenge #films #moviesky [So, yes. This is 51, and the first of what are my official filmnanigans! This is also quite fun.]

20 albums that have stayed with me or influenced me. One album per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music Truly # whatever/of however many, this may go on awhile (and step lively off my page if you don't like how I music 🤨)

I'm playing "Choose However-Many-Books-I-Feel-Like-Y'all-Know-I-Don't-Color-Within-The-Lines that have stayed with you or influenced you." Just a book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [#books] [#booksky] [#amreading] [#booklover] [💙📚] Day 134:

As Miz Minaj so eloquently put it: “I win.” www.facebook.com/share/r/1Cvo...

Rollin into the weekend like:

Ohhhh, yikes. Faded on Cold Case. No idea what shuffled up. What I was thinking about before snoooozeville was how I once worried about not having ms enough ideas to make a career. Y'all. I have five in the cannon—and the sense that I was silly to fret. This is good: I've turned a *grief corner*! 🫠

I'm playing "Choose However-Many-Books-I-Feel-Like-Y'all-Know-I-Don't-Color-Within-The-Lines that have stayed with you or influenced you." Just a book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [#books] [#booksky] [#amreading] [#booklover] [💙📚] Day 133:

20 albums that have stayed with me or influenced me. One album per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music Truly # whatever/of however many, this may go on awhile (and step lively off my page if you don't like how I music 🤨)

Okay, y'all. Am I the only one who, at a very tender age, believed Sweet Mama and Big Daddy in Sigmund and the Sea Monsters were based on the characters in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? And, more importantly, at that very tender age, how did I know who Sweet Mama and Big Daddy were? 🤔 [Stan Sid & Marty C!]

Okay, I will return to shuffle up some muzak and post the posts. But first! Heading to see this, based on Max Porter's amazing book:

Welp, Blewskies. I'm crawling into the Airstream and snuggling under my down comforter for the evening. Hope y'all had a great day. See you on the flip side... [Eine kleine Airstream music by Zero 7 / In The Waiting Line: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1zr...

Welp. T'was barely here before I decided to shuffle off. So, let's shuffle play for the first and last time tonight, mmkay? Since this was also my album pick, let's go with my fave song from it. Hit it...Ed...nah: Tonight on the Shuffle Up: Clown Show by Ednaswap www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT9p...