Thank you to Booth for publishing my new story “The Hurricane Repeller”

No robot umpires. No designated hitter. Astros forced to vacate 2017 World Series. Each team’s entire schedule available in its home market on a dedicated, reasonably priced SVOD service. Henry Rowengartner in the Hall of Fame.

Thunderbolt Ross legit a Top 15, maybe Top 10 U.S. president.

How’s everyone’s Super Bowl ratings prediction looking?

Thanks @nmwhitley.bsky.social, so glad you liked the story!

According to Douglas Brinkley’s “American Moonshot,” JFK proved he was more than just a spoiled brat whose daddy bought his success by … sleeping six hours a night?

12 y/o just did 15 tight minutes on how the system of magic in Eragon is similar to the system of magic in Earthsea and oh my god I think I’ve got this parenting thing DOWN

Any recommendations for an audiobook (or podcast) on the making of Star Wars (the original movie/trilogy)? Going to be commuting a lot post-holidays, and need a break from my England-in-the-Middle-Ages kick.

a good way to get me to do something I don’t want to do is to tell me the honor of England is at stake.

To the neighbors lighting midnight fireworks on Xmas Eve: I’m sure Jesus is super moved by your birthday wishes and is making extra room for you in heaven right now.

A non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring.

damnit I’ve probably watched him whistle for that damn dog five or six times today. Fine, I’m in. Fine, you got me.

May you live to be as absolutely devastating as Barbara Tuchman in “The Guns of August”

My story “Bronze World” was published this week. Thank you so much to the great folks at @theforge.bsky.social

Last year I started keeping a list of short stories I read. Sometimes I read one and my reaction is that of an Italian chef in a Bertolli ad, who is moved to tears that someone other than him, some Bertolli fuck, has made-a a lasagna so-a perfect, so-a sincere. Then I put an asterisk by that title.

So, my story “Collecting the Autographs of Pro Football’s Top Stars” won Miracle Monocle’s 2024 Award for Innovative Writing. Thanks so much to @miraclemonocle.bsky.social for publishing this weird thing I wrote alongside such great work.

Pick a movie/TV show, keep one actor, rest are Muppets: Stand By Me, Kiefer Sutherland stays. (Wheaton deserves to stay, but I need Fozzie to deliver the line to Sutherland while holding the gun at the end.) bsky.app/profile/kell...

Thank you to everyone at Blue Mesa Review for publishing my story “Christian Kings and Stolen Cars” in their new (50th!) issue. Come for the great work by some really talented writers. Stay for my weird-ass story that includes the Norse goddess Frigg watching a John Mulaney special in bed.

It’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving, so I just asked the 12 y/o if he has any homework due Monday, and the fucking dude said “paper mache mask”

[CRACKS KNUCKLES] “Time to make some bland, unappealing food.”

Finished the audiobook version of Ball Four, and best part was hearing an aged Jim Bouton crack himself up telling stories about Joe Schultz. Related: Spent the entire fall-ball season fighting the impulse to tell the 9 y/o to “pound that Budweiser”

Walter Tevis: Come for the perfect first graf, stay for the em dashes.