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If you're wondering why I decided to attend @easterconuk.bsky.social next year, it's because it would be a bad idea for anyone from that side of the pond to cross over to this one. Thanks to Donald Trump., U.S. cons will be (and have to be) a no-go for international travelers for years to come.

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Now that the 2026 @easterconuk.bsky.social site has been settled — it will take place April 3-6 in Birmingham — I did as I said I would do and bought a membership. With Donald Trump making travel to the U.S. dangerous for my international friends, it's the only way I'll be able to see them again.

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Me in the 2nd national security group chat

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Today's treadmill TV was the second episode of Black Mirror's 7th season — "Bête Noire" — with a final scene which left me one or two beats short of fully feeling closure. But as with the season's first episode, perfectly cast.

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With convention season about to kick off for me, I filled in the Patreon supporters of my Eating the Fantastic podcast on who I'll be chatting and chewing with there. And if you'd like to help keep the conversations coming, why not join them? www.patreon.com/posts/how-ea...

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A poster repurposed from the groovy Gene Colan/Tom Palmer splash page to Doctor Strange #180 (May 1969).

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Once you've finished gorging on peeps and chocolate Easter eggs, check out my newly published short story "What Do You Have To Be Sorry About?" — out today in the latest issue of Black Cat Weekly! blackcatweekly.com/b/1a357

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For those of you who remember that in the first quarter of 2025 I shredded 5,000 pages of poetry, short stories, and novels the world will be better off without, and are wondering whether the fact I haven't reported shredding anything lately means I'm done ... nope! I've just been too busy lately.

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Happy Easter!

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Oh, my! It's George Takei's 88th birthday! May it be a happy one, and may he continue to be a beacon of hope in a darkening world.

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Her her her her her

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Last night's earworm which popped into my head each time I was woke was a song I've always loathed — "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks — because of the way Rod McKuen's rewritten lyrics turned Jacques Brel's far more moving "Le Moribond" into saccharine greeting card fluff. youtu.be/7dENI7urpQo

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Today's treadmill TV time took in the first episode of Black Mirror's 7th season — "Common People." It was enjoyable, particularly with that cast, even though what followed from the premise was a wee bit too predictable.

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For those who like knowing how Eating the Fantastic's podcast sausage is made — editing the raw audio for Friday's episode took 1,445 snips, deleting 30 minutes and 49 seconds of the extraneous so my chat with @jarrettmelendez.bsky.social will be more pleasing to you. Join us! pod.link/1083737796

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Three former guests of my Eating the Fantastic podcast — @ktempestbradford.com, @shsilver.bsky.social, and @mthomases.bsky.social — are celebrating their latest trips around the sun! Learn more about this birthday trio by chatting and chewing with us on Episodes 67, 78, and 244. pod.link/1083737796

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Me relaxing in the weekend.

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With con season about to begin — Balticon, StokerCon, the Nebulas weekend, Readercon, and so on — that means a season of early morning donut hikes is also about to begin. Which reminds me of my favorite donut of 2024 — a coconut hibiscus from San Diego's Nomad Donuts. What wonders will 2025 bring?

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Seeing this quote from Anna Julia Cooper in the passport which due to Donald Trump I feel I should carry whenever I travel had me shaking my head in despair: "The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity."

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AGREED.

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Edited to the halfway point in the raw audio from my recent Awesome Con dinner with Chef's Kiss author @jarrettmelendez.bsky.social so our chat will be pleasing to your ears when you join us at the table one week from today on the next episode of my Eating the Fantastic podcast. pod.link/1083737796

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The 87th anniversary of the first appearance of Superman seems like the right day to help bring back Lion Man, who in 1947 made his first and only appearance in All-Negro Comics #1. Check out the teaser for the new adventures of the Black superhero other publishers prevented from having a future.

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Got another COVID-19 jab this afternoon, not only because con season is about begin, but with the way Trump is dismantling the healthcare system, it's likely they'll soon be unavailable. And when I looked down at the sleeve protecting my vaccination card, I saw a list of three things he's against.

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Action Comics #1, in the pages of which Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster changed the world, went on sale 87 years ago today. Without the superhero created by those two kids from Cleveland, I wouldn't have lived this lucky life, and I am forever grateful.

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Today marks the birthdays of two fascinating former guests of my Eating the Fantastic podcast — @cherylmorgan.bsky.social and @kradec.bsky.social! I invite you to celebrate their latest trips around the sun by eavesdropping as we chat and chew on Episodes 106 and 116. pod.link/1083737796

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Pass.

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Happy International Juggler's Day from the me of more than a third of a century ago, who apparently hadn't yet learned you weren't supposed to play with fire.

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That essay I've been struggling to finish due to my Trump-induced inability to string together sentences? I completed it a few days after thinking I'd have to tell the person who commissioned it they'd need to find someone else. Not sure how I did it other than by refusing to let the bad guys win.

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Ended the night editing 15 more minutes of raw audio to remove any infelicities from my recent Awesome Con dinner with comics creator @jarrettmelendez.bsky.social. I hope you'll take a seat at the table a week from tomorrow on the next episode of my Eating the Fantastic podcast. pod.link/1083737796

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Donald Trump has decided cutting cancer, Alzheimer's, and vaccine research wasn't inflicting sufficient pain and cruelty on Americans, so he's making it more likely there'll be food poisoning in our futures as well. He wants us to die younger, sicker, and poorer. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Today's treadmill TV took me to the end of Yellowjackets Season 3. Which has me considering that since it was just a few weeks shy of two years between Seasons 2 and 3, how long will we have to wait for Season 4? They were only stranded for 19 months, so I worry a bit about the young cast aging out.

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"It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and R.F.K. Jr. very fast." www.wonkette.com/p/yall-hear-...

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"To allow Trump the authority to seize and disappear immigrants at will is to close the curtain on democracy for citizens, too. You cannot have despotism for some and freedom for others." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...

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I really needed a laugh this morning, and @joedator.bsky.social gave it to me.

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Last night's earworm which bounced through by brain each time I woke was "Don't Stop Believin'" — though not the original by Journey. Instead, it was the performance by these two. youtu.be/MjSZs_uOWxg

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Felt a need to end the night on an up note, so I once again watched Jon Batiste's live performance of "Freedom" from the 2022 Grammys. A perfect way to banish the blues. "If nobody ever gave permission to be who you are, I'm giving it to you right now. Be yourself." youtu.be/LZ0zgmKWBgE

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I never see Tom Homan talk without being reminded of that sheriff who gets handcuffed in the opening scene of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. And in a just world, Homan will end up in handcuffs, too. youtu.be/Y-lRLgFulw8

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Now this — courtesy of the brilliant Roz Chast — would be my kind of seder!

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Managed to squeeze out 482 words on an assigned essay which has been slow in getting written, because the past few weeks have been my most creatively inefficient in decades. Due to Donald Trump setting the world on fire, some days sentences have come in a fragmented fashion, some days not at all.

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A film that takes place where you're from.

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Your context-free comic book panel of the day.

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Based on what Bergen and Cornelia Evans had to say in their 1957 reference book A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, the phrase "fit for a king" should be abandoned, because it's a "ghoul's cliché." Hey, some of us like ghouls!

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