i had an adventure today. the least interesting part was where my car was hit by a stop sign. i did not drive into the stop sign! the stop sign was dropped by a construction zone flag person and it just landed on my car (everyone's fine, but honestly the least bizarre thing to happen so far today)

been thinking about this post all day, and for some reason my brain is stuck in weird miami. i would love to write for the glades, or the finder, or burn notice. there's probably more weird miami shows that could go on the list, and this will change by tomorrow, but right this second: weird miami

It'd be cool on this 4/20 to have stoner screenplays to be among the 59 needed to hit 26,000 total screenplays and related production materials... but alas they aren't in the zero dollar wilds of the internets.

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18. (it's unfair to make me pick only one ffs)

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

the fact we've had more 80+ degree days than ever before at this point in the year, combined with the fact that deodorant apparently costs nine dollars now has me very concerned for the upcoming summer months

me, leaving downtown: good, i just need to pick up a prescription and get some groceries on the way home me, twenty minutes later, turning into my neighborhood and slamming on the brakes: well shit

congrats to everyone watching the dingdong explain religion to the pope. you now have an objective understanding of mansplaining. seriously, do not be that guy

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) SPN Script Hunt (2019-2024)

7/7. It's worth dwelling on this point. It’s hard for Americans to process that their hard right politics is in large measure a Russian and Hungarian import — intellectually and also financially. We should take advantage of the defeat of Orbán to let this basic fact sink in. bsky.app/profile/empt...

only 400 words today, but at least i got more than five words before my brain was like BUT THE TREES THAT FELL DOWN YOU NEED TO CHOP THEM UP STILL i have informed my brain that the trees will be chopped up when it's not 90 dang degrees outside, and to hold its horses. it at least worked temporarily

me, out there armed with hand pruners nipping tiny twigs of gigantic logs: yeah this is definitely accomplishing things

brain will apparently not let me write today. it's insisting i start handling the mess of trees that fell down in last night's storm here. i (an aging arthritic doofus) am not exactly equipped to handle this (three giant trees, one of them bigger around than i am) and yet, brain says GO DO IT NOW

oh today's morning writing (until i was interrupted by reality punching me in the nose) finally pushed me over the 1k mark for a day. i guess this story is rolling now :'D and even better, i know exactly what it's rolling toward, and not just vaguely charging into a wild pathless word wilderness!

Happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day!

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heck over 600 words today? which still sounds paltry but this is first chapter establishing scenes so i'm being extra careful with it for now. it's still better than 112 yesterday, and zero for the previous two weeks so i will absolutely take it!

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

current status: sprinkling catnip around while dancing like a deranged tinkerbell shedding pixie dust and singing DRUGS FOR KITTIES! DRUGS FOR KITTIES! the kitties are too stoned to raise questions

i managed to write 112 words it was like pulling teeth but i pulled 112 teeth i guess building quite the teeth collection now! wow why is this horrible metaphor the most inspiring thing i've told myself about my writing in weeks?

happy national pet day (and caturday) from virgil and spork

you know, i've been debating letting my hair just go its natural color again (which is actually mostly white now but whatever), but because of this imma keep my hair weird (currently about nine shades of teal)

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

today i freed a mouse the cats had cornered in my bathroom. thank heck the mouse seemed to understand i was trying to help and eagerly jumped in the big plastic cup i used to carry him out

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

Reveille or taps?

We invite you to treat yourself to the healing power of watching a rescued baby goat boinging around.

current status: typing one handed because if i move my other arm a currently inverted cat will fall two feet head first to the wood floor

Pause from scrolling for 5 mins and self reflect on what the rainbow connection means to you

i'm having a wonderful evening (i had a lovely adult beverage and my cats love me)

and i, personally, detest waking up every day with a sinking feeling of dread wondering what new insane bs unfolded while i was asleep. we shouldn't have to live like this

my new metric for determining whether i think a tv show is truly excellent: do i feel compelled to put on my glasses to watch it (i can see the tv okay without them but JUST okay, with them i see ALL like the brown bear)

it's one thing to live in an authoritarian state, but it's another thing entirely to live in this humiliating, clownshoes country run by people who demean themselves constantly to bolster that specific guy like how have none of y'all just passed away from the overwhelming shame of it?

i got the amazon "we're not supporting your kindle anymore" email and my first thought was "wait, you were still supporting it up to now?" i have a first gen paperwhite that's refused to connect to wifi for the last ~2 years but luckily has at least 10 years worth of reading material on it lol

in a fit of "can't beat 'em, join 'em" i went out to collect fallen branches and tidy up. five minutes after i started, the Yard Crew packed up their mecha-hornets and vamoosed. really wish i'd tried "going outside" sooner. i am apparently yard work repellent

i forgot how much i detest Very Loud Yard Work Season. it's like living next door to a hive of irate giant mecha-hornets practicing for whatever the giant mecha-hornet version of eurovision is (i hope they lose omfg they are so bad)

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

This could be easily summed up as: Thanks to Donald Trump, you, the American consumer, will be paying a tax to Iran on every gallon of gas and every pound of fertilizer.

I genuinely do not understand management's refusal to agree to basic protections, like that they won't replace us with AI. It's baffling. Makes no sense. We're on strike to show management how serious we are about this, and how eager we are to get a contract done!

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

Just because he backed off shouldn’t stop efforts to remove him. He is dangerous and cannot be left in power.

GenZ, if you ever wondered what it was like growing up in the 80s with the constant threat of annihilation because governments were being run by psychopaths, well, welcome to the club, I guess.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

I simply can’t believe Congress and the cabinet are sitting around, totally fine with what is absolutely demented behavior from the president.

I don't think Trump will actually nuke Iran tonight, but he absolutely must be removed from office for the threat. We can't go on like this.

Donald Trump is an unhinged warmonger and war criminal using violence for personal gain and profit, while innocent people pay the price.   Congress must reconvene to pass the War Powers Resolution. The 25th Amendment must also be invoked. Congress has to do our damn job. War powers and Impeachment.