Is this an article killed by The Onion?

🤣 or 😭: An American Poll

Pete Hegseth looks like Jethro Bodean’s evil twin cousin.

I ran into writer friend Tony Bukoski yesterday at the grocery store. We gabbed writing for 15 minutes or more in aisle number I forget, shifting our carts to let other shoppers do their thing. It was the best shopping experience ever. Oh. If you haven’t read THE BLONDES OF WISCONSIN, do it asap.

“Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, acknowledged Monday that Hegseth had authorized Bradley to conduct the strikes on Sept. 2.”

The anchor’s example is that Tonka trucks are going from $30 to $40, and Hassett responds that gasoline is $2 a gallon …. So for Christmas, give your little nephew 15 gallons of gas?

Lulu contemplates a walk in the fresh snow.

The next day always loomed and stained the present with premonitions of what would happen tomorrow. —Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All

“Someone told me that you’ve yet to read ‘Our Team.’ An Argentine pope might’ve let that slide, but things are different now.”

If the news is true, I’m deeply saddened by the passing of Daniel Woodrell, whose work has always been a huge inspiration. RIP to one of the very best on the scene. “You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.”

Still full from a very good Thanksgiving with my parents and sister and brother-in-law. The last two photos, a then and now of my parents (Christmas 1969 and 🦃Day 2025.)

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

I heard the door close with a little tick of finality, like the last shovel-pat over a filled-in grave. —Donald E. Westlake, Somebody Owes Me Money

My weekend read. And, with Pynchon, it’s like catching up with an old friend.

🦃Day Greetings (Photo via #wisconsinhistoricalsociety)

Seven years later I can finally write about it. I’m sure many can relate. 🐾

COVER REVEAL for my 2nd. Yikes. The ARCs for BODIES IN BAGS have arrived. Illustrated by the great @egallagher.bsky.social. Designed by Cornerstone Press. Blurbed by @jesterholm.bsky.social, @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social , with more to come (I hope!). Very excited.

Couldn't be happier to be on NPR's Best Books of 2025, especially with pals and heroes like @wmboyle4.bsky.social @alafairburke.bsky.social @blacktopkid.bsky.social Susan Barker, Sara Sliger apps.npr.org/best-books/?...

Oh, man. My favorite movie of 2025. Beautifully shot, and the acting, whew.

Immigration lawyers say those deported to Ukraine could be conscripted to fight in the war, contrary to international laws that prohibit deportations to places where people could face violence.

Saturday is winding down.

This excellent WSJ annotation of the Molotov/Ribbentrop … sorry, Witkoff/Dmitriev … “peace deal” for Ukraine shows how ridiculously vague and utterly unworkable this thing is Free link www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Every photo of ICE detaining someone is a bunch of dudes dressed for war violently taking down someone’s grandma or a restaurant worker. They cover their faces because they know how cowardly and disgusting they look.

New Blondes album just dropped! Pick it up from us at CanCan Wonderland on Saturday!

Grocery store is decorated, some houses in the neighborhood too. Start shopping today for that crime fiction reader you know and love. 😉

‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Enjoying The American Revolution on PBS, but I thought there’d be videos, or at least flip books.

If you're cold... #Cryptids #Cryptozoology

Sheesh 😒

A federal court has blocked Texas from using the new gerrymandered congressional maps for the 2026 election.

Monday’s read. #thomasmcguane 🔥

On Dec 4, I'll be part of this reading at Fadensonnen in Baltimore. I hope people will come. No word on whether the pink bunny will show yet.

Research accomplished this afternoon at the local historical society.

This isn’t just burying the lede. This is injecting the lede with arsenic, garroting the lede with a rope, setting the lede on fire, thwacking the lede with the back of a hoe, and distributing the remains of the lede over the Pacific Ocean, 250 miles from the nearest coastline

80 candles for Neil Young. 🎂 (CSNY concert, 1974; Photo taken by me with a crappy Kodak Instamatic camera.)

“The eight senators who would likely be eligible to file claims are Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) & Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).” www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...

Unusual and cruel, a felonious president and his sycophants galumph through our days. This nation is paying for its sins.

Can’t make it up. The name of the Indianapolis suburb where a homeowner killed Maria Florinda Rios Perez on his front steps, as she stood next to her husband, ready for another day of cleaning other people’s houses? Whitestown.

Holiday M&Ms that may not last the night. 😱

Tom Tiffany’s Terrible Health Insurance Plan Tiffany has a lot of terrible ideas, but higher costs and less coverage for critical health care services are a couple of his worst abetterwisconsin.org... #wipolitics

Fox: Prices are up in the United States. For coffee, it's up almost 20%. Utility, up 11.7%. Electricity is up 5.1%. Vehicle repair, up 11.5%