I wrote two books this year. Well really the first half of a really long book that I split into two books. And I’m 1/3rd of the way through a third book. I wonder if I can finish the draft before I turn 50 next month. Hit me up if you want to beta read any of it.

When did slot machines in casinos become so boring?

So the stated goal of the Trump administration is to convert us from the Awesome Bad Bunny halftime show to TP USA mediocrity? Kid Rock lip syncing and poorly designed pyrotechnics? Get some DEI in here to work on the rhythm, TPUSA.

The Dilbert dude is dead. He made the hospital where he was seeking treatment jump him in line by appealing to the president. Then he converted to Christianity. Some could claim his brush with mortality had him rethink his life. A Cynic take: jump the line again, just in case there is an afterlife.

If it’s acceptable for foreign countries to invade and kidnap Presidents for supposed crimes, you know what to do France. Now is the time to shine.

Impeach Trump Now!

A super fitting end to 2025. Thought I was taking a sip of the sparkling plum juice but it was prosecco. Did I ruin my sober streak?

If Trump just pockets the $400 million to rebuild the East Wing and leaves office with no rebuilding. How do we get that money back?

WE HAVE BEEN BETRAYED!!!!

A single addition to the white house will cost $300 million? That’s insane. We build entire new buildings for 10s of millions. What the hell would cost $300 million?

I am so pissed off. Trump didn’t win the Nobel prize for making pieces. He’s broken more stuff than almost anybody in history! *whispering in earpiece* Oh. Peace not Piece.

I quit drinking completely during the Bret Kavanaugh hearings after passing out several days in a row in the couch at 7pm. I realized that if alcohol was going to be my relief for the coming shitstorm, I’d be dead in a year. So I know exactly how long I’ve been sober.

I really really want a video game where I set up a shop near a dungeon entrance and sell potions to adventures. That’s it. I don’t want to “run the dungeon”. I want adventurers to come back or not based on how much I might have watered down the potions to maximize my profits.

I’m your only friend, I’m not your only friend, I’m your little glowing friend, but I’m not actually your friend, but I am. The best song about a nightlight.

I apparently need more friends. I keep casting these bluesky things into the void. Either that, or I’m just not that interesting. But I choose to believe it’s just cuz I need more friends.

This is why I started writing my novel obsessively:

Everyone is the villain in at least one other person’s personal story. But everyone is also probably the hero in someone else’s. The trick, I think, is to live life so the balance tips toward the heroic side.

Threads has become quite toxic. It’s probably because it feeds people straight from facebook which has also tumbled down the toxic rabbit-hole. right and left. Bluesky is so pleasant as a result. Here it’s all just gray depression documenting the end of the Great Experiment.

I’ve been writing and putting it up for people to read. And every single time a voice in my head says, “How dare you, sir. How dare you!” But it’s okay, because no one’s reading it anyhow.

The fact that Dagger Heart asks the GM to consider player experience before applying mechanics makes it a Win for me. If a player debuffs a monster, let it take a tick of the bebuff at least before ending the effect. Let the player actions mean something before you boot the player into the next life

Some days it just feels lost. Everything is bad and nothing good is happening. The bad guys have completed their victory and there is no second act where the heroes rise, because most of the heroes were always the bad guys actually.

I’m so sorry, Gen Alpha, that mainstream marketing has found your lingo “ironic” and are now making ads in it. Additionally, I’m sorry that they are mostly attributing it to Gen Z.

Know how I know D&D is now super mainstream? I’m getting ads for bespoke dice in my feeds. $85 for a cool set of dice seems excessive. Dispeldice.com. Don’t get me wrong, if I had disposable income, I’d be up to my eyeballs in bespoke damage randomizers.

Our kids will never know what unfettered access to HBO after the parents went to bed. I’m sure I saw it when I was Robin’s age. He’d have to leave the room. I made the mistake thinking Vox Machina would be a fun romp and I think I made a new parenting low and some core memories for the kids.

Into the void I shout: my novel based on Anna Karenina set in a small town in 2009 is being serialized at reamstories.com/burn. Take a look. Give it a read.

I’m headed to Gen Con on Thursday. Anybody else?

Nothing says “nothing to see here” like canceling all activity in the house so that there won’t be a vote to release the files. My guess is that all the repubs that have been whining behind closed doors about being extorted by the White House see some sky.

Know when you look up reviews for a show or book and they are spilt between 1s and 10s. And reading into it some, you realize that the review totally depends on if the reader is in on the joke or not.

When I was in high school we played a Robotech campaign where we made mechs and fought lots of other robots, but also played the pilots using shadowrun rules. Does this game exist?

Damn @jamesgunn.bsky.social makes emotionally satisfying movies. #superman

If you’re against the message of Superman, you might be on the wrong side of history.

Giving blood today. It’s what I can do today to help in this messed up timeline.

I saw a video today that the incarceration rate is falling fast. All those for profit prisons need a new revenue source. They found ICE.

In the airport and paid $6 for crappy black coffee. I feel like this is what all the rich want for America, stuck in line to pay inflated prices.

On vacation: kiddo: I’m home sick. I miss the dog. me: Same kiddo, I miss my bidet.

My wife’s relatives were excited to talk to me about the book I’m writing. I didn’t suggest them reading it because I realized it’s pretty critical of born again cults and they kinda are in one.

I hope this heat wave doesn’t kill a lot of people. Early summer heat waves tend to kill more people than late summer ones. It’s probably mindset. We still wanna get stuff done during the early summer.

So this new VA mandate means that doctors at the VA can refuse to treat Republicans or white straight males?

Yacht Rock Radio is back on Sirius XM, or as we call it at our house Guardians of Galaxy Radio. @jamesgunn.bsky.social

@99pi.org @romanmars.bsky.social My 12 year old always wants me to put 99pi on when I drive carpool and always makes me swear not to finish it without him. Just thought you should know.

Writing my novel?? What do you do when the character you introduce, purely as a love interest to make the real love interest jealous enough to realize their feelings, is kinda bad ass and now you’re not sure you want choice A to win?

Me looking at the 116 pages of the script I’m channeling and we’re barely into the 2nd act. Guess I’m writing a mini series now.

I was at a used bookstore over the weekend and the sheer amount of YA literature was amazing. When I was a kid, there was very little YA so we read adult fantasy. I read Dune in 6th grade. I read Slaughterhouse 5 in 7th grade for fun.

The hardest part of adulting has to be figuring out what to eat every single day. Then add parenting where you get to do that for multiple people who don’t like “sauce”.

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On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

Who knew that being middle aged would require so many naps?

Shower thought: just realised how much His Dark Materials has the same structure as a classic JRPG. First level: you and your cute animal companion sneak into a study! A childhood friend joins your party. Final level: you, your love interest and a motley crew kill God.