Nice

I'll be at the Texas Book Festival in Austin this weekend doing a panel with @scalzi.com!

Before I was a novelist I was a newspaper columnist and while I loved that gig, I have this fear that over the course of time my whole shtick would have become a series of unpleasant "just asking questions" columns that would make people want to avoid me socially, I mention this for no reason

we have an album coming out tomorrow and there's a song called "Fishing Boat" and we made a fishing boat shirt and I love it www.hellomerch.com/products/sea...

I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

I gave it a blurb because it's pretty damn good

Yuuuuuuuuup.

Am I flying tomorrow? Yes I am. Through Chicago? Indeed. Will I make it to where I supposed to be going? We shall see!

The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn

I would move to NYC if they would appoint me Commissioner of Snark, I'm just saying, but something tells me that the city might have enough homegrown talent for that

Just had a dream where I was given control of a commuter bus and I promptly crashed it into a McDonald's, and honestly that's probably pretty accurate to what would happen in real life in the same circumstance

What the hell

At this point they all go into the trash. I have a publicist and a speaker's bureau, any legit inquiry for my professional time can go through one or both of them. Sucks that it's come to that, but here we are. Of course, it's not really me these scams are truly targeting.

As promised, a better picture of tonight's moon.

BUT IT WANT IT NOOOOOOOOOWWWWW variety.com/2025/film/ne...

A momentous day for Saja, to be sure

I also assume it was a reference to me, that said, there is an actual actress named Gina Scalzi, and when she heard about it her reaction was "wait what now" tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Gina_Sc...

If you want to find out what other people named John Scalzi are up to

Saw it. (Super crappy zoomed-in phone picture, I'll go out later tonight with a better camera for a really cool shot, promise)

Tonight's sunset.

So how's the socialist hellscape going so far? Can you still get good pizza?

A whole bunch of people younger than me got elected last night and I am totally good with that

I don't drink coffee so not crossing this picket line won't be difficult for me, but the rest of you should probably be prepared to caffeinate in an alternate fashion

FYI: Bram Stoker Award-winning author Cynthia Pelayo's upcoming horror novel IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND is described as Stephen King's IT meets PETER PAN - check out an exclusive cover reveal within.

It always amuses me to hear UChicago typified as "conservative," given how generally liberal/lefty nearly everyone I knew there at the time was (and is). That said, my experience of it was as an undergrad, I didn't hang around the economics department a lot or anything.

I have been fortunate to know, or at least to have gone to school with, some very impressive people.

My classmate at the University of Chicago, don't you know

It's at 9x11 printer paper that really brings the whole look together

Good morning, Bluesky. Over on Whatever I have a wrap-up of my thoughts on last night's election results, mostly focused on Mamdani's win and Proposition 50 out in California, but touching on other stuff as well. It was a good night! We need more of them! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/05/t...

Prop 50 already called as passing by @apnews.com, so there's the cherry on top.

The day started off great and just kept getting better

Bad night for sexual assaulters all around

posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch

It's been a half hour since the AP called it for Mamdani and already I see some people wringing their hands about how the cards are stacked against him, and to them I say, my friends, learn to enjoy a fucking moment, they didn't come around near enough, the man of the hour is partying, take the hint

Sympathy to whoever has to hose down Stephen Miller tonight

Heck yeah

Who is going to remind Alan Dershowitz of his promise

NYT just called it for Mamdani

Looks like that Trump endorsement of Cuomo was just what both of them needed!

To be fair, I do get enough John Scalzi (Alt for original image: A notification from Audible that says "Can't get enough John Scalzi?" with a recommendation for The Time Traveler's Passport)

THE PATH TO VICTORY IS CLEAR

Well, fucking good

News organizations are starting to call the New Jersey governor's race for Mikie Sherrill, and she recently called out one of my books as a recommendation, I'm not saying that recommending my books will nab you a governorship, but I am saying that the batting record so far is 1.000

For the life of me I will never understand, from a historical perspective, how Republicans took the color red for their visual brand, that said, the fact they did certainly gave new life to the phrase "better dead than red"

Polls don't close until 9 p.m., but here's a gift link to the results page for the NYC mayoral election to bookmark to watch once they do. (No needle for this one.)

The more I see people using "casted" instead of "cast" the more I realize that I am a grumpy old fart who only wants to see the language evolve in my preferred directions, nevertheless I will happily judge you for it if I catch you doing it, look, my dude, the accepted past tense is shorter okay

This is, literally, what Substack was born for

Contractors accidentally cut the line bringing Internet into the house, so I'm working from the church today. It's okay, I guess.

IN FACT I wrote one up a couple months ago: www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/scienc...

I have done my voting today! And you?