Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the bird that landed, just as I was about to write this description, on the Lesser Demon of Minor and Misleading Portents.

* Joe Strummer voice * 🎶 the sandwich fought the law and / the sandwich won 🎶

"Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace for Asshats?"

I'm loving the Netflix Juan Gabriel documentary and realizing how this formidable, ubiquitous Mexican singer may be practically unknown outside of Latine circles in the US--lots of us grew up w/ his songs on the radio, on parental tape decks, basically just part of our aural wallpaper

fun #nabokovilia on the first page of Martin Amis’s final novel, which I’ve been saving for the break.

Today’s #postitdoodle is the tiny elder god in charge of making sure that drivers fully stop at the elementary school crossing & let the kids walk safely home.

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is Sven, here once more to complain about his assigned bird.

All she wants is revenge.

“What do you mean, you want me to throw out the quarter of the dessicated crab leg I found by the lake?”

A child’s room is a Wonder Cabinet (derogatory)

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Yes, Mamdami’s victory is huge for everyone & a big sign that America is ready for a bold progressive vision, as well as a sign that we might be ready, maybe, for politicians to wear tailored clothing w soft natural shoulders

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is your immediate supervisor explaining why it’s totally normal and ok for us to have ended up here.

Today’s #lunchbagdooodle is the bird newly in charge of the expedition after last night’s regrettable developments.

Trump lies all the time. The part in the 60 Minutes interview where he says he doesn’t think ICE agents haven’t gone far enough? I believe him.

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the strange bird that Charles Dickens introduced in the first draft of GREAT EXPECTATIONS to help Pip declare his love for Estella, RATATOUILLE- and CYRANO-style.

I love my people’s food but it is so beige—this is ajiaco, a sublime potato soup that calls for all green things to be removed halfway through, to preserve the beigeness.

I came out as a poet to my novelist husband and he looked at me tenderly and said it’s okay, I’ll love you no matter what.

I had so much fun designing my website and writing the copy that I'm now fighting the delusion that I can make money doing this as my fifth side-hustle. www.sarahkokernot.com

hey dads pls be on the lookout for this viral tik tok stunt where daughters ask for a rose plucked from overgrown gardens in (seemingly) abandoned mansions

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An important heads up (please help spread the word)! Tomorrow’s noon event is at Toadstool Books *PETERBOROUGH* and then I’ll be at Stephen’s Memorial Library at 3:30.

So proud of my partner doing this interview on why he’s a horror writer 💀🥀

Today’s #bestpigeons

super proud to be part of this @wbez.org story alongside two amazing writers, love that I was photoshopped so that it looks like I’m lurking & about to jumpscare the both of them www.wbez.org/books/2025/1...

have we considered that, possibly, some of the people running the current US government might be a little racist

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the Lesser Demon of Advisory Committees.

they began capering about most obstreperously

fun revision note for the new long thing

10yo is going as a Minecraft villager this Halloween! Here’s the mask in progress

Peter Straub is getting the Library of America treatment!!!! ❤️

4yo: “I saw a chickapede” 10yo: “you mean a chickadee, there’s no such thing as a chickapede.” me: “there is now.”

Please read our statement to support immigrants and immigrant communities. buff.ly/Ej5lgtQ

Just total joy and charming humor here. Plus actual unabashed democratic socialist values to help all New Yorkers. Viva @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !

Today’s #postitdoodle is a chickapede.

if you see this, post 4 female characters you love

A reminder that I'm currently jobless so if you'd like to interview me about this book I literally have all the time in the world. You will never receive an email reply so fast.

🚨 📙 My forthcoming book has a cover! I hear dynamite gets lit once you start reading. 🧨 The one-and-only @taylorbyas.bsky.social was my editor and @simonemuenchie.bsky.social brought me into the @jacklegpress.bsky.social fold. ✨ Goes boom on 3.16.2026. More info coming soon!

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the Lesser Demon of Freelance Invoices.

I've talked before about power struggles within hardening authoritarianism. Usually, regime supporters fight over using rule-of-law in crackdowns (with massive abuses, of course) vs. completely embracing extrajudicial methods. Here, we see the latter dominating. Which is very bad news going forward.

any cake is a tres leches cake if you put tres leches on top of it

Spread this far and wide. This first crack in the armor is important because it gives others permission to speak up. The more this story spreads, the stronger the motivation will be.

fun Aragon ballroom shout-out in Thomas Pynchon's SHADOW TICKET!

I loved being the moderator for this convo! thank you to Holly Smith for the wonderful write-up!

you all should take this!

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the Lesser Demon of Periodic Glam-Rock Revivals.

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast yes YES the plums are gone