1st CD I bought

There’s an advertisement on my fortune. We are truly in the bad place.

Wearing my most patriotic t-shirt for the Fourth of July

Apparently everyone’s doing this now Link to do your own: bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

Proof

The original cover of Where’d You Go Bernadette? Felt like it trivialized what was a rather formally inventive (and comic) book. Although looking at it again over a decade later, it seems less embarrassing to me than it did back then. Maybe I’m just more mature or less self-conscious.

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

A graph showing the percentage of PoC in Essays in the Pushcart anthology. Because I didn’t start collecting this data until late in the process and have not always been able to backfill the missing values (there are about 500 missing), errors in the early years are fairly high. The dotted lines

IMDb says you are correct

Pick a Bond from a photo you already have on your phone

I made a thing

I guess this is upper middle class graffiti

catception continues #caturday

I really would like to know what I’ve done that Reddit thought I should see this

#caturday

You, from a different decade

My first publication of 2026 in @hangingloosepress.bsky.social . The copyright date on the issue says 2025, but it just came in the mail today and they seem to have put the issue page up after the first of the year. But your own copy. It won’t do the dishes but it won’t get them dirty either.

My assistants actually

It they’re cute as hell so it all balances out.

I totally misread the top line of the menu at the local Catholic schools’ basketball tournament

Culinary experiment for today, Crepas a la Mexicana. My crepe game is garbage. Crepes were either scrambled batter or too thick for the name. Fortunately I have lots of extra filling so I’ll try doing the crepes again, applying some of what I learned today.

Still no better way to keep the rain away.

if you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

Not for lack of trying

Shrinkflation in the literary world: Ten years ago the anthology from @pushtheneedle.bsky.social was Pushcart Prize XL and now it’s merely Pushcart Prize L. Eventually we’ll be seeing Pushcart Prize M, just watch.