Looks like I picked the right month to drop that Paramount+ subscription.

For those outside Virginia, this is like a North Carolina candidate saying, "We're talking about Duke, by the way; saw the game this past Friday. Go Heels!"

My dad's a retired Marine with a longstanding belief in equal rights and a commitment to gun safety and I honestly hope he hasn't been watching as right-wing former Leathernecks have been shooting up NC restaurants and Michigan churches.

Giving the year's first test today. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Possibly from me.

Ruin a band with law: Rage v. Machine

Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theater as a kid.

I'm listening to my "21st Century" playlist--all stuff from the last 25 years--and it's honestly a little sad that I don't know most of these tracks as well as I know stuff from the previous 25 years.

LeBron's about to start his 23rd season, and he'll break Vince Carter's record (22) in the process. On the other hand, Vince has his B.A. (UNC 2000).

I have a big head with roomy sinuses and ear canals, so my URIs have no choice but to attack me with postnasal drip and coughing, and by gum that's just what they do.

Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play.

Oh, I don't think anyone is a Nazi just because he disagrees with me. I mean, there are plenty of Duke fans who aren't Nazis. And then there's Stephen Miller.

Yesterday I finished @tkingfisher.com 's THORNHEDGE after wrapping up Naomi Novik's UPROOTED and I'm thinking my next read will involve something intensely non-botanical.

Do you want to tell him or should I?

L'Shana Tova to all my MOTs!

Anyone spelling it "organisation" is in no position to complain.

Technologically advance a band: The Surrogate Mothers of Invention

Drew is not wrong.

Hey, it's 2025. Isn't it time for the Knitters to release their third record?

Minimum wage! HYAAAAAAH! #TMBGHorrorStories

I've spent the last few months (since I got my new P-225) playing keyboard and the other night when I pulled out my guitar and started playing I discovered that my calluses were gone.

I'm a fright with my tombstone smile All the children run away from me Gotta find new friends to hang with 'Cause you're all afraid of me #TMBGHorrorStories

Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding #TMBGHorrorStories

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

In the spaceship, the silver spaceship The lion takes control #TMBGHorrorStories

I'm your only friend I'm not your only friend But I'm a little glowing friend But really I'm not actually your friend #TMBGHorrorStories

When you need to know what's going on, ask Coates: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

And when I lean my head against the frosted shower stall I see stuff through the glass that I don't recognize at all And I'm not done And I won't be 'till my head falls off #TMBGHorrorStories

I don't think she knows I know I'm worried that something might happen to me If anyone ever finds out #TMBGHorrorStories

See the medical chart With the random zig-zag Now I'll help it decide #TMBGHorrorStories

The wife and I were awakened 90 minutes ago by noises outside (source still undetermined). Guess which one of us is reliably able to get back to sleep after a midnight awakening.

The statue made me die It took my hand, it killed me, and it turned me to the sky #TMBGHorrorStories

Where your eyes don't go, a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do When you turn around to look, it's gone behind you On its face, it's wearing your confused expression where your eyes don't go #TMBGHorrorStories

Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: key lime Best ice cream: mint chocolate chip Best donut: cinnamon sugar Best bar: Ardent Craft Ales Best cake: pound Best other: "One All the Way," formerly at the Carolina Coffee Shop: toasted pound cake, vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce. Sic transit gloria mundi

It’s time for the white community to stop playing the victim & have an uncomfortable conversation about violence, parental responsibility & the families raising the thugs causing all the white-on-white violence in Republican-controlled cities. Maybe it’s their culture Did I do it right?

Just outside the gate I look into the courtyard Underneath the gathering thunderstorm Through the iron bars, I see the Black Maria Revolving slowly on its platform In the topmost tower, a light burns dim #TMBGHorrorStories

As I went through the windshield, I noticed something #TMBGHorrorStories

Now I laugh and make a fortune off the same ones that I tortured And a world screams "Kiss me, Son of God" #TMBGHorrorStories

Hopeless bleak despair Hopeless bleak despair Hopeless bleak despair For years and years I wandered the earth Until I died and went to hell #TMBGHorrorStories

I already know the ending It's the part that makes your face implode I don't know what makes your face implode #TMBGHorrorStories

I know how, I know why I can picture every part of your comeuppance, except For the one remaining piece of the puzzle Which is when you'll die #TMBGHorrorStories

You cover your windows with lead Even keeping the pets outside Then you hear, a moment too late This sound coming over the phone #TMBGHorrorStories

I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore And there's a restaurant we should check out Where the other nightmare people like to go #TMBGHorrorStories

Hey, how's it going Is that your car they're towing? I'm pretty sure that's your car No, you can't park there Whoa, your head's on fire #TMBGHorrorStories

Unfortunately, the six people in charge of the law have given him good reason to believe that.

Just (re)watched Captain Quint telling Brody and Hooper about the sinking of the Indianapolis, which took place a full 30 years beforehand... ...in a movie that is now 50 years old.

Did a large procession wave their torches as my head fell in the basket? And was everybody dancing on the casket? Now it's over, I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want #TMBGHorrorStories

And now hear the roar That none can ignore The thunderous clatter of splintering wood And lives that are claimed #TMBGHorrorStories

Put out your hands and you fall through the window And clawing at nothing you drop through the void Your terrified screams are inaudible drowned In the spiral ahead and consumed in the shape The spiraling shape will make you go insane #TMBGHorrorStories