REPORTER: You claim your son was floating in a saucer-shaped balloon but in fact he was not. Do you have anything to say for yourself? RICHARD HEENE: Yes I do. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the NASDAQ is smashing records, and that’s what we should be talkin' about!"

My new novel is too violent and action-charged for you.

When Presidents Slowly Fall: What Fiction Gets Right About the 25th Amendment lithub.com/when-preside... by Aron Solomon via @literaryhub.bsky.social

What is Your Favorite Disney Movie?

You get a clearer understanding of the American psyche when you realize that universities in California and Texas play football in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

If you've registered with the Golden Crown Literary Society, don't forget to vote in the Tee Corinne Cover Awards! goldencrown.secure-platform.com/a/page/tee_c... If you aren't registered or haven't voted, please do so! You can rank 5 covers, including THIS beauty 😁 #BookSky #CoverLove

I should be putting more work into my WIP, then I reconsider when I realize the Dow is over 50,000 right now, the S&P at almost 7,000 and the Nasdaq is smashing records. #Writing #WritingLife

I'm still waiting for somebody to use air quotes when discussing "immigration agents."

Quote this post with a gif of one of your fave movies.

Sorry you can't give a different "happy" ending to a Nicholas Sparks story sometimes folks gotta die

Kristi Noem. Pam Bondi. Melania Trump. Worst game of Marry-Fuck-Kill ever.

RIP El Paso party balloon. To honor your memory: youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY?...

Doom and gloom all you want, O's fans, but let's be real -- Dave McNally's corpse would have been an upgrade over Dean Kremer.

How on earth did she pass the bar?

So the coffee machine downstairs -- a repository of free cappuccinos and lattes and chai teas and etc. -- is out of order. This afternoon is gonna test my resolve.

"Denial is why we are doing it again. We have a president who is killing people now. There is blood all over his hands." James Lee Burke on Chaucer, Violence, and the State of America crimereads.com/james-lee-bu... #AuthorInterview by David Masciotra via @crimereads.bsky.social

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H.L. Mencken

@baseballprospectus.com released their 2026 PECOTA guesstimations today and the big takeaway was that they thumbed their noses at team owner John Fisher and referred to the Athletics as Sacramento.

Good commute this morning. Cut off only three times.

me: huh it’s the 10th and Kdp and d2d is all zeroes also me: forgot to market my books So uh hi! Buy my books!! b2r: books2read.com/ap/8pprVp/Be... itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io

My telecommuting support staff had better things to do today.

In years past I remember watching the Super Bowl with folks who were incomprehensibly hyped to see the commercials. What made this exercise especially amusing was knowing these people would be fast-forwarding through those same commercials within the week.

Yosha Gunasekera discusses how a cab-ride home from night court helped inspire her debut mystery novel, The Midnight Taxi. www.writersdigest.com/yosha-gunase... #AuthorInterview by @robertleebrewer.bsky.social via @writersdigest.bsky.social

When I noticed the bushes had feet, I hoped they would dance as well. Yet even though they didn't, those same bushes have stories to pass down to future generations. www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/... via @nbcnews.com

On this day in 1967: The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, establishing presidential succession and the process of a temporary transfer of power if a president becomes “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” via @azcentral.com

Just watched The Sting for the first time in too many years. Simply a wonderful bit of filmmaking and storytelling.

In case you need another Bad Bunny fix: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuP... via @npr.org

In other news, Epstein was murdered.

Looks like folks were staying away in droves.

I gotta not watch the Super Bowl every year because when I don't, the team I want to win does, indeed, win.

Bad Bunny stuck the landing.

"If the Super Bowl is really the ultimate game, why do they play it again next year?" Dallas Cowboys RB Duane Thomas (RIP)

NBC edited out JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. CBS and ABC paid millions in bogus settlements to fund Trump. CNN made Scott Jennings a rightwing star. The Washington Post laid off 300 journalists. Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Honestly, I don't have a dog in the hunt. That being said, I hope Seattle wins by a ridiculous margin so I'll feel better about not watching (like last year).

A little liquid pre-dinner dessert in a glass. Karl Strauss Peanut Butter Porter. #BeerSky

Why do we constantly have to opt out of this AI garbage? Why doesn't Big Tech instead give us an opt-in option? (Because they're dicks.) www.huffpost.com/entry/if-you... via @huffpost.com

Leftover Chinese dumplings = a delightful and delicious breakfast. I will die on this hill.

Tonight's dinner consisted of orange beef, dumplings, rice, and won ton soup. In other words, I got to scratch my food-you-eat-with-chopsticks itch.

It's so weird that I can't stop thinking about the 1987 movie "Matewan" with James Earl Jones and David Strathairn about working-class people standing up against private corporations who employ death squads to rob them of their rights and dignity. It's a mystery. Why this movie? Why now? I dunno

Three things I love, in order of greeting when I get home from work: 1. Lola Dawg 2. Better Half 3. Guinness

Joseph Lyle Menendez and Erik Galen Menendez, commonly referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers convicted of killing their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home in 1989.

I should post more stuff about #writing and less political stuff. Problem is, I'd feel like a hypocrite because my writing has run aground and the hull is in desperate need of repairs.

Your novel is likely different from how you perceive it. Many writers discover that their readers experience their novels in completely unexpected ways. This can surprise and even offend the writer. The writer may ask, "What's going on?" You are not alone. #writingcommunity #booksky #novelwriting

ICYMI The Lincoln Lawyer is back, baby!

You had me at the comparisons to Graham Greene. Tom Lutz’s new novel ‘Chagos Archipelago’ finds unexpected heart in the adventures of geopolitical operatives and globe-trotting fuckups. lareviewofbooks.org/article/tom-... #Books #Booksky via @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Attention please, @actualnames.bsky.social: www.sfgate.com/sports/artic... via @sfgate.com

I'm seriously considering pulling my books from Amoebazon. Still, it's a difficult decision given that my sales on other platforms combined are a tiny fraction of those on A-zon. Which of course speaks to the bigger picture of the state of the (self-publishing) industry. #Booksky #Amazon

Yes, it was me -- I'm the one who made Leo Sayer feel like dancing.

Hmm, I'm beginning to sense a trend... Former Nye County Republican chairman arrested on child pornography, weapons charges www.reviewjournal.com/crime/sex-cr... via @reviewjournal.com

The dude who rented out the city of Venice for his wedding just fired a third of WAPO staff to save money. If you use or consume Amazon products you are helping an inglorious asshole become richer.