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Author of the Lakeside Adventures, Liverpool and UA Basketball fanatic, passionate humanist
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Doris Burke just hit us with 'an historic' on national television

Chuck Norris gave my choice of ice cream a head nod while in line at the Häagen-Dazs in Sante Fe

Whatever your plans are for tomorrow, I'd just like to point out that in addition to obscuring one's face from despotic armed forces, a face mask will also mitigate the chances of contracting the newest and hottest covid varient. It's called razor blade throat, if you were wondering

Pro Tip: if writing science fiction, it can be very useful to have your work read by someone who knows more science than you do

I have a suspicion that a restaurant that delivers hush puppies in the middle of the night might not be economically viable, but that doesn't stop me from regretting the lack

When Disney sics it's vicious lawyers on the AI thieves

"Describe a favorite movie in the most misleading way possible." A battery wakes up.

The best thing about having actual human readers get their eyes on my book *before* I publish it is that I still have time to rewrite every part of it before subjecting the public to it

Do we think the entwives were maybe really fast? And maybe that's how the ents lost them? Just couldn't keep up then they're gone forever? I like the image of zippy entwives darting about, impossible to catch

BRB, googling how to establish an untrustworthy narrator

Liverpool winning the league and then heavily investing in the squad is the kind of thing we used to dream about when feeling particularly delusional. What even is this #YNWA

So, apparently the Club World Cup—an international club soccer tournament being held in the US this summer—is struggling to sell tix and worried about poor fan interest. Can't imagine why foreigners wouldn't wanna come catch some games right now

I cannot find a book I *know* I own, and it's driving me crazy

The more feedback I get from human readers, the worse the vapid flattery of the AI looks in comparison

"Sir, the override? It's been overridden." I love this ridiculous movie

One week till the rest of my beta readers should get back with their feedback. I'm looking forward to getting back to work

Amidst all this, LAFC is playing a home game tonight, and in addition to declaring their position with signs, the supporters booed the 'land of the free' during the anthem

I need a bigger bucket for all this Nope over here

AuDiOboOkS dOn'T cOUnT aS—blocked. Why are people like this

Guy saw my shirt as I disembarked the train and asked to be in my next book. Congrats, Ken, you're about to die to forward the plot

Heading to Powells! Trip starts with the boat into the city

I'm taking the train to Powells tomorrow and I'm so excited I can barely contain myself

One of my favorite things about high school was how the football team tried to pull off the Big Men on Campus jock routine while going out every Friday night to get walloped 63-9. We capped an 0-50 streak my junior year. Just great stuff

I'm honestly fascinated to see how today is covered in future history books

Huh. Apparently I need to recalibrate my definition of success. Wildly positive audience and critical reception is not the metric by which executives evaluate movies. From an accounting standpoint, this is apparently a flop, which would explain the shift in direction

I have had an unusually high amount of social interactions this week, and I'm pretty sure I've screwed up almost every one

I had an etymological query where Google was useless and my handy OED saved me from an embarrassing mistake. I love my OED

Just saw someone celebrating that we finally had a drivable NBA finals. Indy and OKC are 740 miles apart. The English mind cannot comprehend middle America

Alright, but the difference in tone in the Liverpool announcements of the transfers of Kelleher and Trent is actually hilarious. LFC just like me fr

In most respects, I did not peak in high school, but my programming skills absolutely peaked with MySpace

I'm taking a train down to the largest used bookstore in the country, so of course I schedule my trip for a week before the release of the book I've been waiting for and would love to buy there

Needed something to lift the mood, so I threw on the proper, animated Robin Hood, and goddamn if it isn't working

Just got back feedback from my beta, and I'm 95% sure she just fed my manuscript to an AI 😒😡🤬

Weather's great, time a lot of people start visiting Seattle, so just a heads up: Most private parking lots are not owned by the city of Seattle and have no legal grounds to enforce parking tickets because they are owned by companies in different countries. No more parking tickets, mostly. Enjoy!

It's amazing that after the success of Honor Among Thieves people are talking about adapting a dnd video game instead of one of the many beloved dnd properties people have been clamoring to see for decades

RIP, Neitzche, you woulda loved tumblr

You're laughing?! Muppets took Manhattan and you're laughing?!

And i remind myself, yet again, that the High Art of Pessimism is found in appropriately calibrating one's expectations so that when reality arrives it is a pleasant surprise, and I recalibrate lower still