Pub named after my daughter.

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

By the by: the @newberrylibrary.bsky.social deserves more followers on Bluesky!

You can be willing to do horrible things to change society, but if you don't have the intellect, connections, and ability to terrorize others into ensuring your changes stick...you're just an cheap, unsuccessful criminal.

Louise by Eugene Robert Richee. Paramount was experimenting with new hairstyles for her role as a Parisian escort in Evening Clothes (1927).

Those of you in a volunteer sort of mood, transcription projects are an excellent way to begin — and much-needed! I have taken part in several over the years during my spare time. As a researcher, I've relied on projects which have used community transcription. As a writer, a machine searchable 1/2

Specific thanks to writer @britt-kathryn.bsky.social for further exploring something I would've pursued in the piece, if not for word count: the removal of cursive from the common core. I'm glad my kids received enough cursive lessons (before the pandemic ended the class) to have actual signatures.

I'm honestly surprised some far-eastern billionaire didn't buy it as a lark/party space. Also, when they say "residential neighborhood," they mean widely spaced McMansions. It's wise to protect the Heller Nature Center, however. Beautiful area. www.therecordnorthshore.org/2026/03/31/h...

When I was in the Congress there were members too old to go home every week, so they lived in the District. They got driven to the Monocle at two o'clock, where they drank soda with bitters. They were told it was something else. They expounded on world events, so to speak. His speech was like that.

Well…

well, that was weird

Read cursive? The Newberry Library in Chicago is looking for “living Rosetta stones” to decipher its handwritten collection. buff.ly/sBOHDKL

Lit Editor Business for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. April's Chicago Is Lit column is up. Attn: @fulmerford.com, @raforall.bsky.social, @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social, @me3dia.bsky.social, @20x2chi.bsky.social, @americanwritersmuseum.org, thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2026/04/...

Ever see a headline so infuriating your mind actually sputters? Wall Street Journal: "What happened to the fun parts of work?"

Lit Editor Business for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. April's Chicago Is Lit column is up. Attn: @fulmerford.com, @raforall.bsky.social, @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social, @me3dia.bsky.social, @20x2chi.bsky.social, @americanwritersmuseum.org, thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2026/04/...

I am dead. Ha ha! April Fool's! I am NOT dead, dumbass. Don't YOU feel foolish, you dumbass? Ha ha!

There've always been writers who take short cuts to success. Plagiarists. Fabulists. Forgers. Frauds (I refuse to use the word "hoaxers"). Occasionally, they do quite well...for a short time. Then they deservedly fall into history's garbage pit.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

Many thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for the neatly summarized post about my @newberrylibrary.bsky.social Transcribe project article for @chicagomag.com ! lithub.com/if-you-read-...

It must be difficult coming up with new ways to say, "I really, really, REALLY hate nonwhite people and foreigners" in a way that ALMOST doesn't make you sound like the slack-jawed bigots who put you in power.

My quote makes it sound like I found the Necronomicon. Well...I kinda did. My new article for @chicagomag.com about the @newberrylibrary.bsky.social's digital transcription project. Spell books! Nelson Algren! Chicago history galore!

They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.

To fully digitize its archives, the Newberry Library is tapping people who can decipher a foreign language: cursive.

Leap! leap up, and lick the sky!

Loved helping out with this story! 🖊️

My new article for @chicagomag.com about the @newberrylibrary.bsky.social Transcribe project!

Having been born into the religion, I will never understand why any "intellectual" chooses to become a Catholic. Not enough ornate hooey and whim-wham in their life, I guess.

One thing I absolutely cannot stand in the AI debate is that if you're against it, you're immediately portrayed as hating technology, close-minded, and opposed to recognizing its benefits. I'd almost prefer if the corporations just went full Thanos.

You have to wonder what Kagan and Sotomayor are expecting to get from sacrificing kids to the "First Amendment" Moloch. Even a working clock breaks down once in a while, I guess. I hope Colorado figures out how to stop these SOBs from torturing children. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I liked the Sesame Street when Cookie finally yells at Gordon, Susan, and Bob, "Who am the REAL monsters here, humans!?! Huh?"

Flashback to March 31, 2020. "Goals"

Ha ha! My recent article, "Found in Translation," about the @newberrylibrary.bsky.social's Newberry Transcribe project, for @chicagomag.com, is now online. Enjoy! Share! Consider transcribing a few letters and diaries! www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

One of the fun things about being a writer who covers odd little stories is how appreciative and excited the subjects are about coverage.

Ha ha! My recent article, "Found in Translation," about the @newberrylibrary.bsky.social's Newberry Transcribe project, for @chicagomag.com, is now online. Enjoy! Share! Consider transcribing a few letters and diaries! www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

I have varied musical tastes. Like, I listen to just about EVERYTHING. My dad played opera and classical music all the time, though he tended to stick to the French, Germans, and Italians. In the 80s and 90s I'd ransack the NIU and Harold Washington libraries, looking for new classical sounds.

Wow

With every other Republican president, I figured they were up to some evil crap, but nothing was done without thinking, “Okay, does this actually benefit America AND is this the smartest way to DO IT?” first.

If books warped minds I’d be doing triple life in prison right now. Absolute cowards.

MADRID (AP) - Spain says it has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran war. @apnews.com

Why? Because fuck you, that’s why. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

John Waters at No Kings in Provincetown.

Most middlebrow media was founded by the rich to support the aims of the rich, but this is a thing created and curated largely by the internet. karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-t...

Writing a chapter in my WIP novel where God shows up as a character, and fighting an inner battle with every bit of religion and guilt and God-fear instilled in me by the Church, my family, and my fucked-up brain. Is it a sin to be a writer? Mayhap.

Lindsey Stirling shares everything AI says she's been up to: www.instagram.com/reel/DWgvkUe...

Dracula is a controversial figure, but he did politics the right way. Also, anyone who ridicules the Prince of Darkness and his most current staking at the hands of the Van Helsing family deserves to be fired. Time to ditch Dracula derangement syndrome once and for all.

This is my Liberty Leading the People