Did 3 sets w/ 20kg kettlebell: 5 one-arm rows left 5 one-arm rows right 10 goblet squats 10 diamond pushups Why? I saw a variation of it on YouTube and thought, "Why not?"

My advance review of @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social 's 2nd Jesse Stone sequel, ROBERT B. PARKER'S BIG SHOT: chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/12/robe...

Dec. 1-7 at The Five-Two, "Bedding Enemies" by A.C. Perri Text: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2025/12/ac-p... YouTube reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yK... Submit your work: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/p/guidelines...

Rest in peace, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa: RISING SUN, SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO, MORTAL KOMBAT, NASH BRIDGES...

I doubt this will work as a movie, and possibly as a tactic to lure Will.

I don't have a favorite Christmas movie. I have favorite Christmas TV episodes, like The Big Bang Theory "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" and JAG "Jaggle Bells." Christmas sometimes feels like we have to store up joy all year and release it Christmas Day. The idea of doing that feels phony.

Doesn't WB have the right to take the deal they want, so if they want to snub Paramount and go with Netflix, they can?

My advance review of @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social 's 2nd Jesse Stone sequel, ROBERT B. PARKER'S BIG SHOT: chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/12/robe...

Love it 🙌

I say Robert Parker's high-priced defense attorney character Rita Fiore can pull off a ponytail. Rita's eyes probably aren't gray, but they look good gray. A trick of the light, I'm calling it.

Bluesky describes emojis w/ anchor text when you mouseover them before you post them. Emojis should also have anchor text descriptions in the published post. Thank you.

If you’re looking to cut back on paid streaming services, get in the habit of checking out the free movies on YouTube. They change frequently, but at the moment you can catch ‘The Host,’ ‘Into the Wild,’ ‘Bullitt’ and many others there. Just click on ‘free’ under ‘Movies and TV.’

At one point in this quoted podcast, Patrick Labyorteaux discusses the JAG reunion on NCISLA, panning it. I agree. JAG ended uncertainly. NCISLA picked up but ultimately left Harm and Mac in a similar place of uncertainty. If you were going to do that, just leave them be.

NYT headline: "Why Does A.I. Write Like...That?" A.I. doesn't write. Writing is expressing yourself in documented form. A.I. has no self to express. It generates text based on what it's fed. I say again, not writing. If you know writing, you know that.

It says what you'd think: A lot of people are racist but would never think it of themselves. Add those to open racists and that's the enormity of the problem.

Being plain, no one will be able to spin it if Trump dozes off and dies on live TV.

Over and over, the NYT amplifies Trump's damaging and cruel propaganda. This was egregious, set in large type and plastered at the top of the website. I fixed it for them, but they should NOT be printing this, ahem, garbage.

Excited to announce my new story "Learn How to Dance the Salsa!" now up at THE ACENTOS REVIEW A salsero remembers the crazy Christmas night his passion for dancing began. #puertoricanheritagemonth acentosreview.squarespace.com/richie-narvaez

One of many things I don't believe about the aptly-named Incredible Hulk: That Banner grows into a humongous Hulk. I'd believe if he became enraged and grew muscles but didn't grow in stature.

Defend a terrible film by picking something from it that saves it? If terrible films could be saved, they wouldn't be terrible. I enjoyed Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in The Avengers and I like Jeremiah Chechik as a director, but it's still a poor movie.

Is it me or was it easier in the past to vote down or replace cabinet members who messed up?

The 10 best restaurants in Hell's Kitchen https://gothamist.com/food/the-10-best-restaurants-in-hells-kitchen

The r-slur is not only used to denigrate the developmentally disabled; it's used to slam ppl of any ability level to whom you want to feel superior b/c deep down you know you're inferior. It's the equivalent of calling anyone stupid or an idiot. None of the three should be tolerated.

The Patriots beat the Giants, and fan channels are calling it humiliation. Can a heavy underdog be humiliated? If your coach is fired mid-season, it's a lost season. W/ your best players injured and out for the season, it's highly unlikely your interim coach will win, but you're a fan; you insist. 🤦‍♂️

On sale today, Ace Atkins' Cold War spy thriller set in 1985 Atlanta, EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD, told primarily from the POV of 14-year-old Peter Bennett: chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...

Another name used on multiple Bellisario shows: T.C. (Theodore Calvin, MAGNUM; Tobias C. Fornell, NCIS) Tired of this yet? I'm surprised DiNozzo never called McGee Big Mac. Then again, I haven't seen all 470-something episodes.

If only it were simple enough to tell ppl, "You're not even light. How can you expect to move faster than light?"

Pleased to report there was a days-later email w/ the correct spelling of Spenser that did not mention it was a correction. I'll take it.

On sale tomorrow, Ace Atkins' Cold War spy thriller, EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD, set in 1985 Atlanta shortly before Reagan's meeting w/ Gorbachev, and told primarily from the POV of 14-year-old Peter Bennett. chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...

You're stranded on a desert island, but you can play music and movies? How did that come about?

On sale tomorrow, Ace Atkins' Cold War spy thriller, EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD, set in 1985 Atlanta shortly before Reagan's meeting w/ Gorbachev, and told primarily from the POV of 14-year-old Peter Bennett. chatterrific.blogspot.com/2025/09/ever...

Dec. 1-7 at The Five-Two, "Bedding Enemies" by A.C. Perri Text: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2025/12/ac-p... YouTube reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yK... Submit your work: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/p/guidelines...

Having watched sports team fan YouTube channels for play-by-play, I realize they're like political YouTube channels, hyping you up about your team's chances to beat the opponent, all the way till game day. If the team loses, the host rages at all the missed opportunities.

Sure to fall short of some fans' imagination, my artist's rendition of Robert B. Parker's Susan Silverman letting her hair down. I claim artistic license to give her a widow's peak.

Nov. 24-30 at The Five-Two #Crime #Poetry weekly, "Whips" by Fatimah Akanbi Text: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2025/11/fati... YouTube reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o7A... Submit your work: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/p/guidelines...

When you say “Bond tropes,” people will think of Sexy women Drinks International travel Megalomaniacal villains Etc. But the Bond trope that really resonates, which is baked into Fleming’s novels and seeps into almost every movie? Death. Let’s get into it. 🧵

Some Amazon reviews complain Spenser has gotten too political under Atkins and Lupica. Clearly these reviewers forgot or didn't know Parker always tackled hot-button issues w/ Spenser. It's why he gave WASP Spenser a Jewish girlfriend and a black criminal best friend.

Peanuts and the Quiet Pain of Childhood — how Charles M. Schulz made an art of difficult emotions www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/20/c...

Visibly influenced by Robert Parker, here's my early morning artist's rendition of Spenser out for a run or on a stakeout, lit by streetlamp and clad in Red Sox colors.

Only a footnote to his career, surely: Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay for the 1998 HBO movie POODLE SPRINGS, based on Robert B. Parker's 1989 completion of Raymond Chandler's "The Poodle Springs Story," which saw Philip Marlowe marry Linda Loring.

My ranking of best detective TV shows to counter TVLine's below. 5. PETER GUNN 4. MANNIX 3. VERONICA MARS 2. MAGNUM P.I. 1. THE ROCKFORD FILES

Hmmm. This ranking of best detective shows spreads the recognition around. www.tvline.com/2037667/best...

Last day to grab four of the McNee books free on Kindle. If you like em, do leave a review. If you don't, well, they're free. But awesome folks like @evadolan.bsky.social & @sirbenfro.bsky.social have had very nice things to say about them...

Here's my promised artist's rendering of Robert B. Parker's Hawk in 3/4 view. No head hair nor eye work necessary or included, but check out his gold-rimmed sunglasses and unsmiling mouth.

An episode last season had McGee hauled into the DoD about one of his books, but it wound up a mixup and nothing needed to be censored. Moreover SecDef was a Gemcity fan. 🙄

My art skills have advanced to the point I think can do a good rendering of Robert B. Parker's Hawk. No head hair necessary after all.

"Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us?" No lawmaking politicians would go for it.

I thrived in college. It was split into semesters w/ breaks from mid-Dec. to February. I've always been sluggish in January, so the timing totally worked in my favor.

Thanksgiving is about thanks, but I think it's also about giving yourself a break. The year's almost over. I was worried I wouldn't get to do everything I wanted yesterday. Then I realized I could take the whole weekend.