"I feel like a better version of your joke would be the thing you're making fun of."

Pick a Super Bowl. Keep one team. The other team is all Muppets. Pick a Shakespeare play. Nothing changes, but Shakespeare is a Muppet. Everyone is a Muppet but you.

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. Upstream. Diabolical. Impossible to prove.

"We literally never know what's around the next corner. Instead of creating suspense, though, that complete lack of expectation tended to leave me disengaged. ... Where everything's unpredictable, there can be no preferred course of action and no surprise." www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2026/ma...

Happy Mother's Day to all you moms who do so much!

My feed is full of Daniel Kraus appreciation, which means I'm doing it right

Remember when Michael Myers pins Bob to the wall with a butcher knife and then tilts his head like an art nerd in a museum?

Watching "Hannibal" (TV), and how often characters refer to others by their full names is driving me up the wall

HEY AUSTINITES AND CUCURBS: I’ll be in town Monday afternoon 5/18 through Thursday 5/21 (Gourds shows Tuesday and Wednesday night). LET'S DO SOMETHING!

So happy to be onboard with @ruemorguemag.bsky.social, the BEST horror genre publication out there!

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

This morning, NASA sent up a message recorded by Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell before his death:

If no one ever wrote in cursive again, it would cause no problems while solving some

In an alternative universe, there are 49 sequels to "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," one for each other state

Exactly

Freshly shorn for sprummer

I named the littermate calicos in my short story Fargo and Arizona, and I'm feeling pret-ty, pret-ty pleased with myself

Today's the day! Be sure to listen to Annie's interview on @talkscaredpod.bsky.social, also out today

I can't stop thinking about Herzog's latest www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2026/ma...

Congratulations!

My talk with Will Canon, republished on my Substack about Texas horror, deepinthedarkheart.substack.com

Y'all. This is completely real. Our great clerk/receptionist Lindsey left this review: "Advertised big raw potato. Ordered big raw potato. Received big raw potato. 10/10, no notes."

The debut short story collection from @annieneugebauer.bsky.social will finally be available next week! I reviewed it waaaaay too early for @ruemorguemag.bsky.social ... (Click for explanation) open.substack.com/pub/deepinth...

The "Undertone" trailer is badass, and I can't wait to read this cover story! Plus (ahem) this issue includes my review of the @claymcleod.bsky.social novella "Bodies of Work."

Last year for the On the Line podcast, I interviewed author Robert E. Stahl. Later that day he read from his debut story collection, Show Me Where It Hurts, in Texarkana, where he was born. Robert's one of the brightest new stars on the Texas horror scene. open.substack.com/pub/deepinth...

Psst. Over on Instagram I’m sharing teasers and secrets about each story in my forthcoming collection YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED. So far we’ve toured through the purple section. Come follow along, but stay close; the path is winding…

We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

That feeling when you know folks are waking up and reading a story you wrote that might actually make a difference ... www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2026/fe...

Streets of Minneapolis Irish female duet cover youtu.be/Ci_0PAObc4A?...

Many, many, many people have done coke in a restroom without involving a toilet seat

Loved the Return to Oz episode, @scaresshapedus.bsky.social... Have you seen the trailer for "Gale," the new public domain Oz horror movie?

Another year at the Texarkana Gazette under my belt. 🎂 That makes lucky 13.

No one on Threads got my stupid joke

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

Arguably one movie in two parts

María Corina Machado giving that manchild her Nobel medal made him look so pathetic. While he's all "MY PRESH-USSSSSS!" and sucking it like a pacifier, she couldn't care less about it because she's focused on saving her country.

Instead of Clarence Oddbody, Black 🐐 Phillip intervenes in George Bailey's suicide in "It's a Delicious Life"

Michael Gingold’s Best Horror Films of 2025! https://ow.ly/xzoZ50XNRXm

Momo's verdict on Welcome to Derry: Total snoozefest Mine: Guess what I've been doing all day?

Watching Hammer's "The Mummy" (1959) and thinking about @joerlansdale.bsky.social 's "Bubba Ho-Tep"... There's a mummy accidentally sunk in a creek near a nursing home... 🤔

I really liked this www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2025/oc...

I'm refocusing my Substack. It's now called Deep in the Dark Heart: Perspectives on Texas Horror. It will help you discover, understand, and appreciate Texas horror in the context of the Lone Star State's history and culture. If that sounds interesting, check it out! deepinthedarkheart.substack.com

John Carpenter's Old Yeller

We are very, very close to 1,000 followers, which would be a great milestone to hit this Halloween season. If you like the show, tell your friends! Let's hit 1K!

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#thefrogisboiled Pass it on

Hypothesis: The emphasis in writing advice on word counts predisposes overwriting. Experiment: Set content goals (describe the house, explain the families, express her emotions) and reach them in as few words as possible. Solving that puzzle means better writing and more fun than typing word storms.

The right today: “Clearly, this violence was caused by the demonizing rhetoric of liberals — those psychotic communists who hate America, hate conservatives, and want to murder babies and destroy the country and your family, ...