Ben Monroe
@benmonroe
“Just a man” — Billy Shakespeare I write stuff that nobody reads. www.BenMonroe.com He/him
Tangentially, a pal of mine does a neighborhood screening of Jaws in his back yard every July 3rd. This year, someone brought cupcakes…
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie released the year you turned 18? I still believe.
Discovered today that my local public library carries a copy of my novel “the Seething.” That’s pretty cool.
Today is (according to the lore) the birthday of one Professor Henry Jones, Jr. Celebrate accordingly. Wear a hat. Punch a Nazi.
I was just thinking about what a gift this reflecting pool fiasco is. Memes about the Iran war would be gross, because there’s nothing funny about it at all. But this pool is just such a disaster, and yet also relatively harmless. It’s giving people a well needed laugh at his expense.
I think I may have finally perfected the Julia Childs scone recipe. I skipped the dusting of granulated sugar on top, and did an orange glaze instead (orange juice, powdered sugar, butter). Holy crap these are good. (My dad loves cranberry/orange scones, so I made him a bunch for Father's Day).
One of my awesome kids turned my book cover into a spooky Halloween decoration.
I’ve been working on these little hills/rocky outcrops for gaming scenery lately. Just got them painted tonight, and I can’t help but notice they look like a bunch of horse turds.
Wading through the shitshow which is the state of the world, trying to go into work with a good attitude…
Well, go back to the 80s, and Reagan ditching the fairness doctrine, and initiating the GOP’s decades-long attack on the public education system and it starts to make sense…
Every time he says something will take two weeks, and a reporter doesn’t call him out on it, a Journalism professor takes up day drinking.