In honor of the season, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. "Reporters attending board meeting."

"Let's do the fucking news"

I have zero faith (no pun intended) that our reactionary legislature or doddering governor will move on this, but I signed anyway, and you can too.

Needed to burn off pancake calories from breakfast, so biked into the office for the afternoon shift. (I do not work at iHeart; they're just the anchor tenant.)

To Sunday Knitting Brunch

Where do I report an attempted murder? Exhibit A: this text from my baby sister.

Got carded at the liquor store yesterday. While pulling out my ID, I mused, "You know, I'm almost old enough to drink x 3."

I'm sure that there are people who voted for him for president more than once who are now deeply regretful about the situation they helped create, and I can only say that I have not the slightest iota of a smidge of a skosh of compassion for them.

When this showed up near my neighborhood this year, I first thought, "You're not fooling me, fairies." Pretty soon, I began walking through it deliberately.

Day 16: Favorite Queer Mystery/Thriller 🌈📚 The Henry Rios Mysteries by Michael Nava. Brilliant series of modern noir detective novels addressing gay and Latino identity amid the AIDS crisis. Audible released terrific recordings performed by Thom Rivera. #30DaysOfQueerBooks #booksky #books #gay

#ShowMeYourKnits scarf week. Finished just last week: Pierre Skinny Scarf by Stephen West. The annual shawl mystery knitalong isn't for me, but I dig when he designs simple pieces showcasing texture. #menwhoknit #queerknitters

Day 15: Queer Book I Want to Read Next 🌈📚 I've already preordered the audio of @kjcharleswriter.com's Copper Script. It drops tomorrow. Cornell Collins narrates, and I can't wait. #30DaysOfQueerBooks #booksky #books #gay

Day 13: Queer YA Recommendation 🌈📚 This is more middle grade than YA, but I think that's a higher degree of difficulty. Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle Nate Foster is my hero. And the scene where he stands outside the gay club is breathtakingly well-written. #30DaysOfQueerBooks #YA #LGBTQ

Day 12: Favorite Queer Poetry 🌈📚 Prelude to a Bruise by @theferocity.bsky.social. I don't think I've read it since it won the Barbara Gittings Literature Award. I should rectify that. And I didn't learn that Saeed lived in my city until just before he moved away. 😔 #30DaysOfQueerBooks #booksky

Day 11: Hidden Gem 🌈📚 At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill First chapter? Tough to get into. The comparisons to Joyce are apt. But once this gets going, it's entrancing. What’s your hidden gem queer book? #30DaysOfQueerBooks #booksky #books #gay

Day 9: Queer Sci-Fi Pick 🌈📚 The Mnevermind Trilogy by Jordan Castillo Price Daniel used to sell mnemes, temporary recreational memories, but one of these false memories went permanent for his father. Then one day, a stranger shows up in the mneme Daniel is running. #30DaysOfQueerBooks

Day 8: Favorite Queer Fantasy 🌈📚 The Door Into Fire by @diane.dianeduane.com I first fell in love with Diane Duane when I spotted the gay mentors in the background of the Young Wizards books. It's only recently I learned that their origin is here. #30DaysOfQueerBooks #booksky #books #gay

Day 6: Queer Memoir (Nonfiction) 🌈📚 WHEN WE WERE OUTLAWS by Jeanne Córdova. Amazing story of the years between Stonewall and AIDS, when liberation meant different things to men and women. What queer memoir sticks with you? #30DaysOfQueerBooks #booksky #books #gay

Day 5: Queer Horror 🌈📚🩸 I had to consult lists for this one, and some of the books on the lists I know I read but didn't remember queer content. THE DEAD TAKE THE A TRAIN by Cassandra Khaw & @richardkadrey.bsky.social This is a book not on those lists, but I liked it. #30DaysOfQueerBooks

Day 4: Queer Romance You Loved 🌈📚 Not previously much of a queer romance reader, but this is the year I've binged all of @kjcharleswriter.com. It's hard to pick just one, but JACKDAW stands out. I legitimately couldn't see a way for that story to end happily. #30DaysOfQueerBooks #booksky #gay

Day 3: A Book That Made Me Feel Seen 🌈📚 DADDY'S ROOMMATE by Michael Willhoite In particular this illustration of Daddy and Roommate snuggling on the couch sharing a bowl of popcorn. (Story in alt text). Which book made you feel seen? #30DaysOfQueerBooks #booksky #books #gay

I finished The Pale House Devil just yesterday, and it's my favorite of all the Kadrey I've read. I'm so excited for the sequel. If you like lighthearted, suspenseful, poetically gruesome horror with engaging characters, check him out.

OK, I'm in. Day 1: Favorite Queer Classic 🌈 📚 THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker The night before a satellite author chat with Walker I thought I'd read a bit of TCP at bedtime. I was transfixed, and stayed up half the night to finish it. #30DaysOfQueerBooks #booksky #books #gay

Let the joyous news be spread...

#showmeyourknits stripes 🧶 I love simple, twisted rib gloves made from self-striping sock yarn. #menwhoknit

You can write to DeWine at governor.ohio.gov/contact. I pointed out that there are higher rates of violent crime in Canton, and that Yellow Springs has a hire murder rate, than D.C.

What was your first X-Men issue? Picked up at Brinings News in Mount Vernon on my way to after-school guitar lessons.

My favorite doctor and companion.

The local performing arts associations programs a summer classic movie series in a restored movie palace. In a showing of SUNSET BOULEVARD, the audience erupted in pleasure when Norma declares, "I /am/ big. It's the pictures that got small."

Stabbed in the heart by @danielomalley.bsky.social "What were you going to do with a degree in Folklore?" "Oh, probably die in the streets of exposure and malnutrition." 💀 #RoyalGambit

Age verification? I watched ST:TOS in its first run, not syndicated.

What perfect album came out when you were 16?

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Post a song from the year you turned 12. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrG...

Pointless Complaint: The built-in weather app on my Pixel phone is now so bad that I barely trust it to tell me the correct temperature. It has a radar map that I swear is GenAI, because it very clearly doesn't match radar from NWS. And precipitation predictions? Fuhgedaboudit.

Tucked into the corner of bad news from SCOTUS today is a 6–3 ruling that the way E-Rate is managed isn't illegal. So a third of my agency budget hasn't suddenly evaporated, and I don't have to jump off a cliff today.

Our goosestepping supreme court will certainly reverse the decision, but it's nice to have a bit of temporary good news.

(FADE IN) (INTERIOR store checkout counter) CLERK: Did you find everything you need? DON: Yep. Bourbon and Reddi-wip. CLERK: All the makings of a classic Manhattan. (FADE OUT)

I wanted to try Jeny's Square Peg Heel, so made a quick pair of shorty socks out of a gradient set to emphasize the sections. #menwhoknit curiousknitter.blogspot.com/2022/04/jeny...

Ernest Borgnine backed his scooter into the elevator my husband and I were in, beamed up at us, and crowed, "Hiya, fellas!"

"Wonderfalls." I want Sharon's Immaculate Conception Pregnancy. I want Jaye encountering Peter Johnson in the psych hospital. All the things that Todd Holland and Bryan Fuller promised in the Season One audio commentaries.

The crows near* my neighborhood know that I'm the guy who gives them cat food when they fly up to perch where I can see them. * "near" because I'm not so careless as to let them learn exactly where I live 😬

Cowls week at #ShowMeYourKnits, one of the cowls based on @woollywormhead.bsky.social's hats. #menwhoknit ravel.me/yarmando/ec

Dear Audiobook Narrator: "banal" does not rhyme with "anal."

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

What the Brave search engine thinks of me.

And this is why I'm considering changing party affiliation to Republican in Ohio. I don't see us getting a Democratic governor. Better to switch parties so I can vote against Ramaswamy in the primary.

My purple entry for #showmeyourknits: Round One of #sockmadness. The busy mods overlooked my mistake on sole, and once it was discovered, they didn't make me correct it. #menwhoknit

Checked Ravelry in the middle of the night, and a member of my team finished her #sockmadness Round 6 socks. I'm thrilled for her and glad for me: I can stop working on these socks that don't fit. #guyswhoknit