Wikipedia's great

By starting a Tolkien book club at my local library.

Almost finished this year's reading of #LOTR (Just have the appendices to read) and I always forget how fast The Grey Havens moves. What an incredible final chapter.

I had a lovely time appearing as a guest (rather than the host) of "Reading Reading" to feature these lovely actors reading my little play about witchcraft in the 1600s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHpw...

On 2 September 1973 J.R.R. #Tolkien died aged 81. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is the best-selling book of the 20th Century, and is joined by seminal works The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. He may have died 52 years ago but his influence and legacy lives on in us all. Namárië. #BookSky

Today, on the anniversary of his passing, we remember Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Thank you for the light in dark places, and for reminding us there's some good in this world worth fighting for ❤️

NYT also reports these ghouls are killing research for pediatric brain cancer. I will never forgive my country for voting for these monsters.

Promise?

Up with lefties! Down with spiral notebooks!

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

The way I say it does, but that's because I pronounce pony 'Ponya."

The way I say bologna does not rhyme with pony

That's because it is — wait for it — a good movie with three-dimensional characters and a compelling plot.

"Out of the quarrel with customer service reps we make plays."

as a writer it’s so essential to complain about being edited and later grudgingly admit they were right

Though it ALSO lets websites see how visitors are coming to their sites, without identifying the users.UTM codes are not aimed at tracking users, but how they got there.

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Under the Closet Door.

"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. — James Joyce in a letter to his brother, (cited in Peter Hartshorn, James Joyce and Trieste, Greenwood Press, 1997, p.43.)

In 2023 I wrote a short play in the Japanese Noh style for a writing challenge. After many revisions, I'm pleased to announce: In 2026 "Banshee," now a five-act play (you read that right) will be the first full-length play of mine to get a production.

Thanks to the @readingeagle.com for featuring today's In Nature's Studio by Reading Theater Project. Come to the Reading Public Museum today for some FREE outdoor theater and performance! www.readingeagle.com/2025/07/20/r...

I second that! Ooh!

If it's a ballpoint pen, I would lend it to you and never want it back.

My Fantastic Four.

I did not know this was an option when I visited Ireland.

I assume Gandalf?

Sinéad O’Connor’s father: ‘I visit her grave every week. We have a conversation or I bring her up to date’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I must admit, as an American I never understood this holiday, nor the violence so often attendant with it.

And don't call me Shirley. #lotr

Most voters picked this, which says a lot about the intelligence of most voters.

Happy birthday to Ray Adverb, the writer who made me realize from an early age that I want to be funny. Still working on it. #IYKYK

Excellent essay by @brianklaas.bsky.social on how #AI causes brain rot. I think the same principles apply in #journalism, where a host of seemingly mundane tasks (covering meetings, e.g.) are in fact important training for reporters and should not be left to AI. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-...

Happy Canada Day! Thank you to our northern neighbors for gifting us The Paperboys. (And for being smart enough not to vote for fascism.) youtu.be/buwe8rLksL8?...

Great to see this excellent project in Ireland get a bit more media coverage: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel.

On 22 June, 1342 (by Shire-reckoning), Bilbo Baggins returns to Bag End to discover he's been "Presumed Dead". All his personal effects were in the process of being auctioned off by Messrs Grubb, Grubb and Burrowes, with Bilbo having to buy many of them back. #Tolkien #BookSky

Look, my first thought on seeing S1E1 of "The Bear" was, "when are we getting the Gene Wilder biopic?"

Happy Bloomsday. May your day be long and incomprehensible.

When my kid was in preschool we would watch this Schoolhouse Rock video all the time. Posting it here again, for no reason. youtu.be/3R1tZ6l876Q?...

"A terrible beauty is born." "What an awful thing to say about your new son, Mr. Yeats."

I love Mel Brooks so goddamn much.

I must say I enjoyed watching the #TonyAwards, but a lowlight was when Cynthia Erivo said this was Broadway's most lucrative year ever. At a time when ticket prices are obscenely out of reach for most people, this isn't the flex that Broadway thinks it is. Or maybe it is. What do I know.

So was the 2024 election.

Yeah, this is terrifying and unnecessary. Much like every other application of generative AI.

BREAKING: Sauron and Saruman's former alliance in ruins following Saruman's attempts to find the Ring for himself. The two are currently engaged in a Palantír feud.

JFC, we have no serious people in Washington.

Sometimes I think I am not obsessed with #LordOfTheRings, and sometimes I do this: #Tolkien #LOTR #Simpsons

Grateful for all the feedback from last night's play reading of "Hero Work." The performers did a terrific job and the comments during the talkback were helpful. I look forward to sticking this play in a drawer for a few weeks while I ponder the next revisions. #Playwriting #theater #amwriting

In one day my full-length play "Hero Work" gets its first reading in front of an audience, and I am both nervous and excited.