Look, I’ve watched the episodes of Ted Lasso. It’s not worse, people just hate women.

And the first faculty meeting of the year arrives like a thief in the night.

In Brooklyn for the week.

I’m watching The Dark right now and I’m enjoying it. It’s interesting to me how often I consume writing and music from the UK.

This is a truth. I have room in my heart for Blood Meridian and The Gilmore Girls. But if I could get a Gilmore Girls Blood Meridian book, I’d mighty happy.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but sometimes it’s just an empty room and not a liminal space.

For this Saturday my goal is finish editing an Astrophil Press book and clean the house. Both objectives make bring me unbelievable peace of mind.

Never has I ever looked at social media and thought, “That really improved my mood.”

Your government is failing you.

Really phoning in the headlines these days.

If I had the money, would I buy a hot rod from the 1920s and drive it around dressed as a Universal monster in October? Maybe.

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A headline where each word somehow gets worse.

Three days of 120+ heat index in South Dakota, yet some fool will find the one time it happened in 1936 (read Dust Bowl) to refute claims about corn sweat and climate change.

Everything Taylor Sheridan creates is hot garbage. His popularity is a symptom of everything wrong with this nation.

Just watching the kitten destroy our blinds as she hunts a fly.

Ah, we meet again O’Hare airport. What’s our delay this time? A birding? How unfortunate for the bird.

O’Hare, you are the stuff of legend. Evil legend.

The kitten is at it again.

Evil Dead Burn was messy but very fun. More enjoyable than Rise but not as coherent as Evil Dead (2013). It’s been a good summer for horror.

RTJ4 is such a fantastic LP. I keep coming back to it and it feels fresh every time.

Two questions here…someone accused him? And did he use them like flint or like fuel?

Omaha has more steak houses than people.

Americans have a way of making the World Cup look Nascar.

I am editing a forthcoming book and stopped for a minute to think about how fortunate I am to work with talented authors.

As a boy, I dreamed of a world where people share the current temperature at their location.

Somewhere in this world there is a person who looks forward to all of these awful low budget shark horror movies.

Here’s one without a typo! My next novel will be released with Stalking Horse Press.

Packaged the latest South Dakota Review double issue. It mails on Wednesday. Starting with volume 61, I will be co-editing (co-collaborating) with my delightful new colleague, Éireann Lorsung. I am the editor for issue 61.1 and it’s filled with excellent writers.

Gen X is dying younger than the few previous generations, but hey, boomers solved the age old problem of people trying to cook eggs on diamonds.