The best book I read this past year

“Blue Moon,” and the Love of Language A couple of us went to see Blue Moon Friday night. If you’ve not heard of this movie, it is inspired by the letters between Lorenz “Larry” Hart and the object of his late-in-life affection, Elizabeth Weiland. Hart, for those unfamiliar with the name, was the…

Just atrocious. theworcesterguardian.org/f/lawmakers-...

Thank you @shellyjones.bsky.social! So glad you enjoyed it!

#RobinWilliams #filmsky #moviesky 💔🔄

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

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Nature is healing

Disgraceful.

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Looking forward to moderating this panel!

Well, this will probably make repairing the shed a lot more difficult.

Sinners. Wow. Just wow. Go see it. Today.

Had such a wonderful time the New Authors breakfast this morning, and on the Theatre-based mysteries panel yesterday. Getting to meet some wonderful people down here at Malice! #malicedomestic #author #authorlife

Hello, Malice, it’s nice to meet you. #malicedomestic #author #authorlife

In one week I’ll have the honor of being part of this panel with these fabulous authors, taking about theatre-based mysteries. If you’re attending Malice Domestic, come check us out! #malicedomestic

Malice Domestic is coming up in less than two weeks! Who’s going? #malicedomestic

April 12….end we’re getting 3 inches of snow…New England. Whatareyougonnado?

We interrupt this regularly scheduled novel writing time to bring you a short story edit. #writing #writinglife #authorlife

Using the big painting behind my desk as wallboard for mapping out scenes #writing #writinglife #authorlife

Thou shalt not claim to be improving efficiency when all you do is fire people and then beg them to come back.

Not even 5am. But it’s time to do the work. #writing #writinglife

A very busy writing desk these days (Also, trying out Flashes to see what it’s like) #writing #writinglife

Spot on.

Jesus H we’re doomed.

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

Stuart worked on 5 Republican presidential campaigns.

Bwahahahahahaha

How cool is this thing? #lego

Can anyone else relate to this? I can't be the only one! #Books #BookSky

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Ok, I could get on board with this one.

Brining my driveway for the first time before a storm. Be interesting to see if this works.

Protect this law at all costs ! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

My current follower count. Yes, I am a child sometimes.

How’s that “winning” working out for everybody?

I continue to invite Google to fuck off

My VPN works

It's called The Gulf of Mexico. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Carl Sagan published this 30 years ago, 1995. Bullseye.

Google can fuck all the the fuck off.

From the Guardian: "Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and more. Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts." I have never seen such a bunch of belly-crawling boot-lickers in my life. Never even imagined them.

Is there anyone out there that is mapping any delayed or cancelled federal payments ? Would be really interesting to see which towns and cities are going to be hit

My ride is here

I mirrored a lot of this in an essay I did for @crimereads.bsky.social on neurodivergent characters in crime fiction. Among the most important points was Irwin’s #2, don’t make it the defining feature. crimereads.com/writing-bett...