The full trailer is here, and I can't wait to see this. It comes to Atlanta on October 24th, at the Plaza Theatre (in 35mm!) and at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema. Just in time for Halloween! youtu.be/8aulMPhE12g?...

I saw this meme about a cat with his own prayer mat, and it reminded me of how my late cat Leonidas the Fluffmonster (RIP) would sometimes use my meditation cushion.

Vincent Price and Barbara Steele in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

Taylor Swift and the Grateful Dead’s Bobby Weir at the 2025 Grammy Awards

Just sent 3 short stories off to anthologies. Fingers crossed!

A 1913 French postcard featuring a black cat in a bed, with the caption “Porte Veine,” which means “lucky charm” in French

Absolutely. Autumn is my favorite time of year.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a word meaning “fear of long words” (also known as sesquipedalophobia).

Dang it, I missed the Rapture in 1988 and again in 2012 and apparently again today.

Adding this to my ever-lengthening TBR list. Just downloaded the ebook from Kobo! From coffeehouse writing friend and fellow DragonCon nerd @billbridges.bsky.social

Find someone who will hug you the way Guillermo del Toro hugs Godzilla.

Happy Birthday, Bagginses.

I'm especially looking forward to "Solomon Kane: The Lair of Mari Lwyd" by Shaun Hamill (Dec. 23, 2025) and "Conan: Marked for Death" by Tim Waggoner (Jan. 27, 2026). @shaunhamill.bsky.social @timwaggoner.bsky.social www.superherohype.com/comics/62877...

Guys in glasses: Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson); Joey Caverly (Theo Dimas, Only Murders in the Building); David Corenswet (Clark Kent)

One thing about unexpectedly falling in love all over again in my old age: it plays havoc with my plans. Do I do this thing I planned two months ago, or do I stay at home and have a quiet evening with the man I love?

The need to silence your critics only reveals how weak and fragile you are.

With Michael at Mr. Tombstone’s Coffee Emporium in Marietta GA @otterwondering.bsky.social

Time is a flat circle.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. July 1907

sometimes the light's all shinin’ on me other times I can barely see lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been

Agnes Moorehead in The Woman in White, 1948. Very Gothic.

Hermann Hesse, Nobel Laureate, author of Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, playing with his last cat Porphy.

An afternoon visit from two of the neighborhood cats.

A beautiful version of metta (lovingkindness) meditation from the Buddhist tradition.

Happy Planet of the Vampires 60th Anniversary to all who celebrate! Mario Bava's sci-fi horror film was released in Italy on September 15, 1965, as Terrore Nello Spazio (Terror in Space) and released in the USA in October 1965 as Planet of the Vampires.

“The studious silence of the library... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.” —James Joyce, Ulysses

Now available in paperback. A story that blurs the lines between the dream world and waking reality. I read this novel last year and it still haunts me.

The front cover of my Folio Society edition of “No Man is an Island: A Selection from the Prose of John Donne” (1572-1631), edited by Rivers Scott, 1997, bound in Lorenzo vellum

Getting a helping hand from Chris Hemsworth

Photo from Tumblr. Appears to be an actual photograph of Heaven.

New bookstores in metro Atlanta to check out: www.artsatl.org/atlanta-metr...

Tonight we saw a giant hawk in the backyard. It was sitting on the ground, just staring at the house. When Michael went to get his phone to take a picture, it flew away. Its wingspan was enormous. Not the first hawk I’ve seen in our yard, but definitely the biggest.

NASA says Mars rock sample shows ‘potential biosignatures’ www.npr.org/2025/09/10/n...

Writing some Gothic Sword & Sorcery this morning while the darkness outside presses against the widows. I do my best writing early in the morning, I think, while my mind is still closer to a dream state and reality hasn't settled around me.

Today’s *other* shooting was at Evergreen High School—my old HS. Mass shootings are a solved problem in every rich country but the US, entirely because of the GOP and the gun industry. If you support either, repent of your sin and demand gun control. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/10/e...