Now, I've never worked in intelligence and I'm not a Senator or anything, but what makes someone think, "Another country's spooks are telling me things my own country's won't? Yeah, I'm sure it's good... "
This is gonna be one of those Saturdays when I just put on my lengthy playlist of Chet Baker albums and wait for the earliest socially acceptable hour to have some bourbon...
It took Google saying, "Yeah, we're not gonna say, 'Don't be evil' anymore" for me to finally get it through my thick skull.
I love how open and helpful the SFF writing community can be. We are an imperfect and motley mess, but there are so many cool and good people in this sphere.
Feels like I just took a five pound weight of my brain!
"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"
arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...
I guess if I was gonna summarize my content in a nutshell...
to this end, may I humbly recommend this week's Tiny Desk Concert by De La Soul. So much fun and joy and celebration of playing together
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVY...
Catherine Rockwood, Ruth Joffre, and Andrew Kozma at the Reckoning table at AWP 2026
Among the best parts of #AWP is getting to hang out live in person with fellow editors we work with virtually the other 362 days of the year
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
Allegiant General Enric Pryde and the Eighth Doctor get drunk and spend a delightful weekend in the country with Vernon Dursley.
The lessons of LOGAN'S RUN have clearly been lost. 😐
Bitch, I surfed the web on Lynx.
Two words: Cleveland Freenet.
Really, none of you could tell me this was a thing??? You know how much I worship Howard Waldrop!!
Yeah, I know I probably have most of these stories already shut up!
www.centipedepress.com/masterssf/ms...
Actually, the more I think about it, the more "Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas" sounds like the title given to a cult's human sacrifice to a folk horror deity.
*Private Joker from FULL METAL JACKET voice* "Issat you, Markwayne? Is this me?"
Kristi Noem on her first day as Special Envoy For The Shield Of The Americas
I could be wrong but I feel pretty sure "Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas" was ripped off from a Fredric Brown story... 🤔
New on SHUDDER...
I once played trumpet alongside a former saxophone player for The Jazz Messengers.
From what I can tell, both grandpas were trying to eke out whatever living they could to raise their families during the Spanish, American, and Japanese occupations of the Philippines.
Order for new glasses is submitted and my coffee mug turned up, so I broke even.
I think I deserve a bourbon...
I do
RFK clearly forgot the first rule, which is “Don’t mess with New Englander and their drink of choice, lest ye wind up in Boston Harbor.”
Au contraire: this is TERRIFYING. It means someone in Iran is waking up a sleeper network. I wonder why? (That was a rhetorical question: the obvious answer is "revenge", probably planned some time after 1988 (the US shoot-down of Iran Air flight 655).
Got on the Zenni app on my phone while on the bus and ordered a new pair. Should be here next week 😁
And, of course, coffee tumbler NOT at my desk. ☹️
As they should
