So I had to go downtown to the last remaining GameStop in Brooklyn (because my account was transferred, and my CODE VEIN 2 and RE9 is paid in full). Had to talk with the manager. He gave me his card. Don't want to lose my money with the sudden closures. I go back to him in three weeks. #Gamestop

As promised, the latest #Matchbox Collectors acquisition. The 1988 MAZDA RX-7. No. 8 of 20. A slick navy blue, glowy, convertible (obvious), rubber tires. Also the hood opens on this one, stays up. Suave ride. #Diecast #DiecastPhotography #Toys #ToyPhotography #CarPhotography #Cars #HotWheels #Mazda

As promised today, from the #HotWheels 8-Pack: This is actually a mainline from 2025. But it's a nice sparkly green-gold/nice cast. The 2018 BENTLEY. It's not uncommon for mainlines from the year before to be tossed into these packs. #Diecast #DiecastPhotography #Tits #ToyPhotography #CarPhotography

In today's English classes, kids often read just snippets of novels — and that's a shame - Chicago Sun-Times by @neilsteinberg.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

Newest edition is out!

No new Hot Wheels. Will try again this morning. I did get a Matchbox Collectors the other day. A Mazda RX-7 (since I collect Mazda RXs and Miatas). Try and show it off later. #Matchbox #HotWheels

How about them tariffs? How's that working? Almost ALL GameStop stores are closing worldwide. Kohl's Department Store is shutting down. And now Walmart will be closing locations. #TheDeathOfRetail

No Twitch stream this week. Try for late Friday. Have to write five short stories this week. Yes, one story per day for FIVE days. But if they get accepted, the pay is decent. So, you know, money and all that good stuff. Also, have a vampire novelette coming out soon. Keep ya updated. #amwriting

Yet another Corvette from that 8-pack. And a classy red cast. This time, the 1964 CORVETTE STINGRAY. Number "64" on the hood and door. I'm going to have to expand my Corvette Stingray storage now. Sweet ride. #HotWheels #Diecast #DiecastPhotography #Cars #CarPhotography #CorvetteStingray #Matchbox

Next up, the 2014 CORVETTE STINGRAY. Roof down. A nice, tranquil color. With a stripe down the middle and number "29" emblazoned on the door. I might start collecting 2014's from here on out. Usually I'm a 1972 guy myself. #HotWheels #Diecast #DiecastPhotography #ToyPhotography #cars #CarPhotography

HOT WHEELS 8-PACK: Let's take a look at a few of these CHASES. Some decent casts here. First, the 2026 "Bone Shaker." Nice, heavy, durable piece of #diecast. Much weightier compared to other years; color & design pops too. #DiecastPhotography #Toys #ToyPhotography #Cars #CarPhotography #Matchbox

UPDATE: They're closing 80% of GameStops in New York. Not just my branch. Maybe two stores will remain in each boro, and who knows how long that will be. I also found out my branch didn't sell a single console this past Black Friday/Christmas. Not one. So much for the Switch 2. #Gaming #Gamestop

I used to have this playset when I was a kid. I had all the figures too (Braveheart, Warduke, etc). Circa 1982. Dungeons & Dragons Fortress of Fangs. #playset #LJN #Toys #actionfigures #DungeonsAndDragons #ToyPhotography

Nothing. Pegs are dry in New York. CASE A and B, which I already have. No CASE C. The new Ferraris are gonna give me trouble. However, I did find the 2026 #HotWheels 8-Pack. Includes the latest "Bone Shaker" chase. I needed four #cars in this pack. #Diecast #DiecastPhotography #ToyPhotography #Toys

So Maduro is in detention in New York (supposedly), Trump invades Venezuela, will put somebody else in power, takes the oil: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPox... Meanwhile, no mention of democracy or Machado. And people like Ghislaine Maxwell will go free.

Got my first rejection and first acceptance of the new year. Horror: rejection. Science Fiction Novella: acceptance. Details to come on the novella. #WritingCommunity #Writing #WriterSky #novellas #fiction #publishing #authors #authorsky #sciencefiction #scifi #speculativefiction

They're closing my GameStop after 25 years. And it's not the only branch shuttering in New York. Sign of the times, sign of the times.

So this arrived this morning. Sacred 2. Physical remaster. #PS5. Took forever. I actually have this on PC from the 2000s. 17 years ago, this was a pretty popular, sandbox ARPG. Lot of side quests, lot of loot. Has a story. #THQNordic owns the license now. #Sacred2. #Sacred2Remaster #RolePlayingGames

Think I know where to find Luminous Silver Dust now to continue the STORY of #TaintedGrail for #PS5. A bandit camp far out. Also, if you're a magic user/summoner, the UPGRADED Spell-slinger Armor is BEST armor in game, better than Arcanist. Be on 11:30PM EST: www.twitch.tv/lawrencedags... #Twitch.

Going LIVE. Link in box. Happy New Year. TAINTED GRAIL. Happy 2026.

Happy New Year to my fellow Writers, Gamers, and Hot Wheels collectors. Checking Manhattan on no sleep. Coming up dry on diecast; no CASE C. No Hot Ones. Not even Matchbox or Real Riders. I have ONE MORE Target to check. Will let you know come 2026 if I get lucky.

LIVE. TAINTED GRAIL. Link in Quote Box.

I'll try and stream tonight. Emphasis on TRY. I have auto-immune illness tearing up my stomach, in pain, so TRY. If so, would be at 11:30PM. It would be TAINTED GRAIL: FALL OF AVALON. And it would be a "side quest" kind of night: www.twitch.tv/lawrencedags... #Twitch #TaintedGrail #TwitchStreamer

New Kicks. #NewBalance #sneakers #shoes

All-nighter. Finished another short story. Holiday-themed. I suspect this is the last one of 2025. #amwriting #WritingCommunity

I'm invited to 15 -- count, 15 -- New Years events in NYC come Wednesday. Half are VIP (which means I get in first or at no cost). Honestly, unlike last year, I'm not interested in a single one of them. I'd rather stay home, play video games, and relax this year. #NewYearsEve #NewYears

Can't get a human operator anymore. Everything in retail is becoming AI. When you have an ordering issue at Walmart, Target, or Ebay, and you call these places up, it's AI. And even though it insists it can help you, it can't. Maybe there's ONE outsourced human rep on call for 4 bucks an hour.

For example, this Microsoft Word document will be for January & February 2026 submission calls, with the story reserved ahead of time. This is what works for me. You could probably use Excel too. Example: SCIENCE FICTION JOURNAL - [INSERT LAWRENCE STORY HERE] - Jan 1st 2026 (usually when it opens)

So some people have been asking me off Bluesky what my current submission method is. What I do is have big folders of stories (both new AND reprint) intended for certain (hopeful) markets, usually 50 or more tales, AHEAD of time. Then I list markets here, story names, w dates to remember to submit.

2026 #HotWheels - #diecast: Just one to display for today, and that's this year's "2018 Honda Civic Type-R." A decent cast. White. With a C on the #cars door. Slightly weighty. Sometimes simple in color & concept works. #DiecastPhotography #ToyPhotography #CarPhotography #Toys #HondaCivic #Matchbox

A day in the #life… ✍️ ✨ #Keep@It Edition ♾️✨ #Bluesky🦋 #writing 💻 #editing 📑 #BookSky📚 #bookchallenge 🔎📙 #writingcommunity🏘️ #writers✍️ #indiewriters👩🏻‍💻 #readers👀 #WeeknightWriters 🌘🖥️ #booklovers💕📙 #readingcommunity 👀 #writingcommunity 🏘️📝 #writersky 📝 #5amwritersclub 🌄🖊️ #Peanuts🥜 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️

Going LIVE in an hour on #Twitch. At 11:30PM EST. Stream 3, Part 3 of TAINTED GRAIL: THE FALL OF AVALON (although there were so many game-breaking bugs yesterday it's more like Game Eight): www.twitch.tv/lawrencedags... Tune in. Now, currently a Spellslinging-Summoner. Better build. #TaintedGrail

2026 #HotWheels - #diecast: The next car I'm not familiar with, but it's been released in previous years. A sports car/cruiser/racer. Fair cast. It's called 24-SEVEN. If any future variants look like this, I may start collecting them. #DiecastPhotography #ToyPhotography #CarPhotography #Cars #Toys

2026 #HotWheels - #diecast: I don't always buy Ford Mustang GTDs (I skipped last year's). But when I do, they look like this: SUAVE in the design/color department. This one is an "iris" color with a giant black stripe on hood & dash. #DiecastPhotography #ToyPhotography #Toys #CarPhotography #Cars

Going LIVE on Twitch. Game Two, Level 8 Druidic Summoner. Playing TAINTED GRAIL: THE FALL OF AVALON. Link in Quote Box. #TaintedGrail #TaintedGrailTheFallOfAvalon #PS5 #PS5share #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #LiveStream #TwitchTV #Streamers

And, in terms of previous years' #HotWheels - #diecast, my MAZDA MIATAs. Many models, many makes, many variations. 2023 to 2026. #DiecastPhotography #MazdaMiata #Toys #Cars

Just as a final reminder (since I also talk video games here). My THREE favorite games of 2025 were as follows: 1) XENOBLADE CHRONICLES X: THE DEFINITIVE EDITION (a 10 outta 10). 2) ALIEN ISOLATION (Switch Complete Edition, a 10 outta 10). 3) BORDERLANDS 4 (PS5, a 10 outta 10). #gaming #gamesky

Hot Wheels CASE E 2026 box opening (won't arrive here till February at the least). There's not one bad car here, and I collect 98% of these makes/models. I may end up just getting the whole case: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThrM...

Just got home from my mother's. Should be online tonight, on #Twitch. Not till 11:00 to 11:30PM EST. I'll be playing TAINTED GRAIL THE FALL OF AVALON again. Which was a Xmas gift. Join me then. Dark Fantasy RPG. Druidic Summoner build so far: www.twitch.tv/lawrencedags... #TaintedGrail #Streamers

Next #HotWheels - #diecast for 2026 is the white MAZDA MX-5 MIATA. In terms of #cars, I own close to a dozen Miatas. There are many MXs, many variations. Here's what I own in MX-5. Miatas are sweet little cars. #DiecastPhotography #Toys #ToyPhotography #CarPhotography #Cars #MazdaMiara #Matchbox

Happy Holidays! Today's 2026 #HotWheels - #diecast is the Knight Rider KITT Concept car. In a sleek midnight black tone. I have last year's KITT. Basically, this year's version is a "What If" car. What if this had been the car featured in Knight Rider? #DiecastPhotography #ToyPhotography #Cars #Toys

Just got to my mother's house for Christmas. She has Grimace. Where did she get Grimace? #Grimace #Christmas #Christmas2026 #McDonalds

Sorry, get older.

So for Christmas Eve/Christmas Day, and the 35th Anniversary of Megaman 3, I spent it #Retrogaming. And I will say this: Holy Crap, do retro games get harder as we get harder! Is it age or our eyesight? How were we able to pass these difficult #NES games so easily as children? #Megaman3 #Nintendo

Going LIVE 11:15PM. Gotta wait for the Update File/Patch to finish. Trying out this dark fantasy game on Twitch. TAINTED GRAIL: THE FALL OF AVALON. Just four hours. Character creation, etc. Link in QUOTE BOX. #TWITCH

Might stream tonight. Not sure. Finished Borderlands 4 a few days ago, so maybe one of my gift-games. Maybe TAINTED GRAIL: FALL OF AVALON. A dark fantasy/Arthurian game but in the vein of Skyrim. Just in case: www.twitch.tv/lawrencedags... #TaintedGrail #MaybeLater #PS5 #Twitch #TwitchStreamer

This arrived just in time for Christmas. Now if you played PC RPGs in the late 90s to early 2000s, you probably remember games like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale, Titan Quest. And if you're as old as me, you played Gothic 1 and 2. Here are both on #NintendoSwitch. #RPGs #THQNordic

Other toys: Gamestop. Sidon Amiibo. $6.00 in PRO Reward Money/Points for $6.00 Amiibo = FREE. Not one dime. I'll get around to using this with my Hyrule Warriors game. #Nintendo #Amiibo

The next #HotWheels - #diecast falls in with the TOONED series of "cartoony looking - shrunken down" autos. These #cars are always fun. This year: The Pagani Zonda Cinque. And as you can see in pics, I have the REGULAR Pagani Zonda. #DiecastPhotography #ToyPgotography #CarPhotography #Toys #Matchbox

The next #HotWheels - #Diecast you can never have enough of either. Porsches! Here we have the Porsche Taycan Turbo in white (I believe they also make this in black). Just a nice looking (dapper) luxury vehicle. #DiecastPhotography #ToyPhotography #Toys #ToyPhotography #Cars #Matchbox