Wrote the first 9 scenes of an audio comedy pilot today! I found 17 scripts at my mom’s house for a silly superhero show that I wrote when I was about 10-12, and even recorded a few with my school friends. It’s honestly pretty good, just needs to be fleshed out. I know real actors now lol!

Almost done with Ray Bradbury’s remix of his own debut story collection (originally Dark Carnival in 1947, revised into this in 1955), it’s fantastic. “The Next In Line” is as good a short story as I’ve ever read from anyone. “Skeleton,” “The Small Assassin,” “Jack-In-The-Box,” all wonderful.

Hi - Amy Klobuchar here. We’re looking for 10 volunteers in your area to help me move & install a washer/dryer unit. Won’t you help today?

Book haul from The Tattered Cover in Denver (I have recurring dreams about the original location); my dad gets an employee discount there, so I went ham, ten books for a nice price. I already have a chunk of novels in my To Read pile, so this time I went for a lot of short stories.

I’d say the biggest positive of The Odyssey’s success is that way more people will understand what Sting means by “caught between the Scylla and Charybdis” in Wrapped Around Your Finger. Thanks, Chris!

Just got my next three archival EPs scheduled for release in September! These are from 2006, 2007, & 2008, they contain my two most popular covers (Daniel Johnston’s My Life Is Starting Over Again, Billy Bragg’s Greetings To The New Brunette), plus many unheard songs!

Absolutely loving this collection of slightly lesser known creepy tales from the great Shirley Jackson, some of these were found in a box mailed anonymously 30 years after her death, which is very appropriate. “Louisa, Please Come Home” is one of the most unsettling things I’ve ever read.

A perfect 90s album, not by the big boys.

optiMSTie@optimstie.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains.

I thought I had no pictures with my Grandma Sue, who was one of my all-time favorite humans, but my mom found TWO of them. I feel a little bit more complete! First is from Sept 1993, the second is summer 1985.

Flying to Denver to attend my mother’s latest wedding. I am listening to Grace Jones and will also have a window seat, so it’s going well.

I just turned in all the files for a little cassette release of my best early tunes, it’ll be a limited run on a lime green tape. All the A & B-sides from my first three records plus 5 C-sides from each one. I’ll go on some pods to promote it! Soon!

I finished Patricia Highsmith’s last book of short stories, kind of loved it. Nothing like the Ripleys, these are more Catch-22, strange black comedies about various apocalypses. Cancer growing wild in a graveyard, a 200 year old woman who won’t die, a whale bent on revenge, etc.

Mitch McConnell has passed on. He is no more. He has ceased to be. He’s expired and gone to meet his maker. He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace, if you hadn’t nailed him to his bed he’d be pushing up the daisies. He’s off the twig, he’s kicked the bucket, he’s shuffled off this mortal co

All I’m saying is if there WERE a Sherlock Holmes porn parody called Sherlock Holes, then it would be very funny to call the story A Stud, He In Starlets.

I read Malice by Keigo Higashino in a day, it’s very quick and very hooky, a murder mystery where you learn the how & the who before the halfway point, but then WHY becomes the whole game. Such a fun structure, quick & punchy!

I don’t even know what to say about finishing The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin other than to apologize for not having read it much sooner. What a titanic work of imagination, intelligence, empathy, realism, physics, and it’s not like it isn’t funny! Or romantic! Blown away.

Okay, totally agree, but you could also just make brand new records and send them on tour for you, seemed to work okay for Out Of Time and Automatic, which both sold more than 18 million copies lol I just miss you boys so desperately you don’t even know.

MOJO Magazine@mojomagazine.bsky.social · 3w ago

“I don’t want to cheapen it by going out there just for ego and money.” Despite a recent flurry of R.E.M.-related activity, guitarist Peter Buck explains why a full reunion with his former bandmates is never going to happen...

Finished my next book, Keith Rosson’s Fever House, a propulsive, gory genre mash-up, it’s horror/crime/X-Files-y, with an alt rock twist, and very hard to put down! I’ll have to read his sequel, The Devil By Name, pretty much ASAP. Absolute banger.

Diva down.

Finished my next book, the recent Harlan Ellison’s Greatest Hits collection. I’ve always known his TV work, but not read tons of his prose; this is the most inspiring, imaginative, ill-behaved writing I’ve come across, & he’s currently deeply out of print! GH 2 coming next May, at least. INCREDIBLE.

Finished my next book, Richard Matheson’s Hell House (1971). This rocked. Matheson I know as an ultra-prolific Twilight Zone writer, also I Am Legend, Stir Of Echoes, Duel, but I’ve never read him before. His horror prose is fantastic. “He felt the ropy form start oozing up his legs adhesively.” 🥰

Reading my next book, Death On Gokumon Island, another ghoulish 1940s murder mystery featuring scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi, my second of these, they’re really detailed and intricately plotted, I love them. Grinklin naps happily in the background.

My lost second record is out today, lost no more! My earliest batch of Painkiller The Pigeon songs had titles but weren’t completed until I recently found a folder of lyrics labeled Crashing The Creep Seed, the lyrics matched the song titles, finished in a few weeks. open.spotify.com/album/4gAPJu...

Crashing The Creep Seed - Album by Painkiller The Pigeon | Spotify

Painkiller The Pigeon · album · 2005 · 10 songs

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I love every time they ask me to tweak the lyrics for the Scott Hasn’t Seen tune, which at this point might be my longest-running theme for a show (along with Rob Lowe’s Literally). Burnt sent me some new lyrics, I dutifully hollered them in my office haha. CBB Presents at CBB World!!

Dave Moore@otherdavemoore.com · last mo.

Superb work from @bafflegabs.bsky.social on the “Joan Hasn’t Watched” theme song in the CBB Crisis episode

I read Patricia Highsmith’s Found In The Street, a hypnotic & cruel novel about 1980s New York & a dream girl who flits through, warping everyone around her. It’s only a suspense thriller by disposition, rather than plot, it’s too singular to play by any genre rules. Very vivid.

I’m so sad that Justin Richards has died, he was an absolutely crucial figure to Doctor Who’s Wilderness Years and beyond, and I just spent so many happy hours reading and listening to his work. RIP, and thank you very much.

Doctor Who Book Club@andwbcpodcast.bsky.social · last mo.

Justin Richards RIP (1961-2026) #DoctorWho Author 💙💙➕📚

Stayed up late and read all of Soji Shimada’s Murder In The Crooked House in one day. This is a brilliantly intricate locked-room mystery complete with diagrams and angles and a really fun, manic Sherlock-type character who arrives halfway through. So much fun, have to read more by this writer.

Finally finished The Unlimited Dream Company by JG Ballard, a truly bizarre but exquisitely written book, a sort of evil Surrealist Jesus crashes his plane in Shepperton, starts to invert all moral & physical laws, & eventually to subsume the townsfolk into his body. Poetic & unhinged.

The Avengers episode we watched last night had the wildest cast for 1967: Charlotte Rampling, Donald Sutherland, and a distressingly beardless Brian Blessed

Well, this is awfully sad. James Burrows was the co-creator of Cheers, but he also directed every single episode of Will & Grace and in that capacity I got to talk to him over Zoom several times while making that podcast, he was sharp & charming & funny. Rest in peace.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo ago

James Burrows, the director behind iconic TV comedies like "Cheers," "Taxi," "Friends" and "Will and Grace," has died.