Dammit.
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Dammit.
I mean, what do experts really know? Except for whatever specialty they’ve devoted their lives to?
Big Globe wants you to think the Earth is round because that makes the Spherical-Industrial complex more money than flat maps. We need to stop listening to so-called geographical experts and think for ourselves. Just ask the Aussies if they're walking upside down! No, mate! Wake up, sheeple!
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When a soldier gets separated from his squad on an unfamiliar planet, an accidental meeting with a native civilian turns violent—and leads to a surprising, life-changing turn of events involving a local animal. Read “On My Side” in my recent short-story collection, The Sad Rains of Mars!
Please London friends, acquaintances, and strangers... go see The Curse of Frankenstein on the big screen in 4K and then tell me how great it was so I can live vicariously through you. Really unfair that this is just a week and a half before I'm visiting London!
My internet is slow AF today, and it’s making me a little cranky.
Almost everything Trump says demonstrates A) his profound ignorance about almost everything; B) his increasing cognitive decline; or C) a combination of A and B. GOP: It's long past time to take the keys away from Grandpa. Biden was run out of town for much less. And he wasn't a vindictive bully.
Same.
My thoughts are with all the residents—documented or not—of Washington, PSC (Police State of Columbia).
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
This painting creeps me out in the best possible way.
I’ve had three gimlets, but don’t ask me anything, because we live in a police state.
Spiders don’t understand when you’re trying to help them out of a sink.
I don’t think we talk enough about what a juvenile asshole Steven Cheung is. Fuck that guy.
In my geeky hand! Now available from ATBPublishing.com, including my piece, “The Incredible Shrinking Shuttle,” a humorous essay on the Deep Space Nine episode “One Little Ship.”
Dr. Moira Ready's cutting-edge brain-computer interface allows users to program their dreams, like a gaming console plugged into your brain. But her latest tests have thrust her into a dark gothic dreamworld unlike anything she has programmed. Read "The Ghosts of Glenmirror" in my recent collection!
Gravity is only a theory! I’ve done my own research, and let me tell you about what Big Physics doesn’t want you to hear: sticky feet.
I’m binging White Collar for the first time and it’s both fabulous, so damn good, but infuriating, because it emphasizes how much it sucks that we lost Willie Garson so early.
It seems to be up and running now…
Are you certain it wasn’t just Steve Martin hiding in the bushes?
Yet another guy to add to the “Yeah, fuck that guy” list.
When the oceanographers of Mariana Base investigate unusual events in the Mariana Trench, 10,000 meters below the surface of the Pacific, they discover something older—and darker—than they ever imagined. Read my underwater Lovecraftian tale "The Shadows Under Mariana Base" in my recent collection!
Antifa weapons cache.
Red shirts are a preexisting condition.
BREAKING: Trump issues executive order changing name of DC to Trumpington. The Lincoln Memorial becomes sentient and declares, “Man, that guy’s an asshole.”
When the Invisible Man forces the Time Traveller to help him with his experiments, they inadvertently change the outcome of the War of the Worlds—can they fix the timeline and save humanity? Find out in my H.G. Wells mashup "In the Time of the Martians," included in my new short story collection!
Today in proofreading gigs... Red Shirts #3! Will more people wearing red shirts die in gruesome ways? I'll let you guess the answer. On stands October 1. From the bloodthirsty team of @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social, @meganlevens.bsky.social, @charliekirchoff.com, and @longtalljodie.com.
Is it just me or could Wednesday's roommate totally play a young Chapel?
Donald J. Trump. The J actually stands for "Just stick gold shit on the walls."
Yep—and you and the rest of your party need to stand the hell up and do anything and everything you can do to resist.
Actual footage of Trump's minions sticking with him all the way.
Thanks for the tip!
No matter what settings I fiddle with on my MacBook Pro, MS Word windows keep randomly going full screen, something I would do IF I WANTED TO. Any ideas on settings I might have missed? Constantly resizing windows is driving me (more) crazy and wasting time.
I have no recollection of how I ended up with this card signed by Peter Yates, director of Bullitt, but here it is, found it tucked in my old DVD of the film.
Going old school tonight… spinning up A Bridge Too Far on DVD.
And Robert Picardo!
Spinning up Brazil in 4K tonight!
Accidentally stumbled across this. Maybe don't trust the website Hyphenator[dot]net.
I've seen multiple reports referring to the X number of dollars Trump's tariffs have "brought in," as if tariffs work like in Trump's fantasy where exporters pay the tariff. I want to see a report on how much of any money raised has been paid by American consumers due to the importer raising prices.
Yeah, I could probably fiddle around with some settings to do that, but the picture would look pretty crappy.
Recently becoming more and more aware that I still own DVDs that are so old they're not formatted for 16x9 screens, so the movie appears as a little rectangle, both letterboxed and pillar boxed!
Cover reveal for Greg Cox's forthcoming TOS novel, due this December! It's set after Star Trek V but with a backstory during the five-year mission, as you might surmise from the cover art...
And so many of these bugs—like the erratic behavior of custom spellcheck dictionaries—have been there for years. New versions add bells and whistles few people need but leave long-term bugs in the most basic functions of a word processor.
Another manuscript I'm editing has the old chestnut of various words, or portions of words, randomly assigned to different languages, so it underlines an English word as misspelled because it's spellchecking it in Portuguese.
MS Word, always finding new ways to demonstrate what a buggy piece of shite it is, has randomly littered the manuscript I'm copyediting with nonbreaking spaces between words so lines occasionally end suddenly halfway across the page in the middle of a sentence.
You've seen the vague posts. Some of you have heard a bit of the story from me in person. But now here it is, the whole big convoluted epic disaster. Spoiler: I'm fine!
Another month, another CMOS Q&A!
Just got off a phone call with a client that went really well, and I said out loud, alone in my office, "That went brilliantly, motherfuckers," and then started gleefully chanting "motherfucker, motherfucker, motherfucker." AM I THE WEIRDO
Damn, forgot that Shutterstock credits expire. It's a sucky policy. It's like I just flushed a $50 bill down the toilet.
And the Oscar goes to… all the people in the Trump administration who can keep a straight face dunking on Biden’s decline while Trump spouts gibberish about wind mills, picture frames, and the Unabomber.
Haven’t mentioned this for too long… if you’re an editor or writer, you should be listening to @lzats.bsky.social and @erikhane.bsky.social on the @printrunpodcast.bsky.social.
I copyedited the text for this, and can’t wait to see it—the book and your final cover art!
Dear universities, Just like private citizens, you have two choices: resist or collaborate. Which do you want to be remembered for?
Raise your hand if you made it through another month of freelancing! I did, and you can read about it in the blogosphere.
Fuck the Trump administration. No money for the CPB, but they have plenty of funds for the secret police grabbing people off the street.
I did that same thing once! It was a multiple-choice test. If the answer was d, I put a c. My bully copied the c, and a little later I quickly added the line to make mine the right answer. I did let him have a few right so he wouldn’t get too suspicious.
Okay, Apple Maps, where are the nonhuman settlements? And are they mutants or extraterrestrials?
And to do so especially under this president, who often refers to his good genes and calls women of color "low IQ."
Motherfucking wind farms…
Dick Nixon's ghost is all like, "Why did I bother with a coverup? This fucker just does it all in the open and still gets away with it."
This, this, a thousand times this. Fuck ICE!
Just proofread IDW's Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #1 from @susanlbridges.bsky.social, @tillybridges.bsky.social, Angel Hernandez, @charliekirchoff.com, and Neil Uyetake. Off to an exciting start! On the stands 9/3, which gives you plenty of time to find coffee in that nebula . . .
Current WIP proceeding ever so slowly. It's my next contribution to the Tales of the Weird World War series I'm doing with @wleisner.bsky.social. Our first volume was set in the forties, the second in the fifties, and now we're working on the third, which takes place in—wait for it—the sixties!
Surely there couldn’t be someone worse than Lindsay Graham for South Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat. Project 2025 creator Paul Dans: “Hold my beer.”
Here's a link to an excerpt from the title story of my recently published collection. "The Sad Rains of Mars" (one of three stories only available in this book) features a Martian detective struggling to work with the Metropolitan Police on a Mars colonized by the Victorian British Empire.
Just proofread Star Trek: The Last Starship #1 from @hivemindactual.bsky.social, @adrianbcomics.bsky.social, Heather Moore, and @claytoncowles.bsky.social, due on stands 9/24. Really enjoyed the appearance of [redacted] and how that brought about [redacted]!
Linked-In suggesting I add "Artificial Intelligence" as a skill. Can I add "Organic Intelligence" instead? I've invested decades in developing that skill.
Leno taking the “Don’t alienate the Nazi demographic” position.
Daytime and nighttime visitors…
Don’t forget to add FCC Chair Brendan Carr to your list of people who can fuck straight off.
The more I reflect on SINNERS, the more I think, “Damn, that was some audacious cinema.”
Always a Frankenstein's monster, never a Frankenstein.
Ooo, it’s been far too long since I spun up this CD!
Whoa and wow, that’s some powerhouse moviemaking!
Okay, here we go!
BREAKING: Trump now 1,253% certain Obama is really Rasputin and assassinated JFK on the orders of Putin. No, wait, I've got that wrong: He's 1,647% certain.
Settling in to finally watch this. And, no, I don’t think I need a bigger TV.
Nice ride. Don’t know how to describe for alt text… red ragtop 1940s hot rod?
White House says Trump diagnosed with 'chronic venous insufficiency'; he was also diagnosed with 'chronic empathy insufficiency,' but press secretary Karoline Leavitt added that this is a benign and common condition among the current GOP and nothing to worry about if you’re a true American.
Don’t forget to mark your calendar: Every day is “Fuck the Trump Administration Day”!
It's Thursday, but it's my first full day back in the office after a week or so on the road to and from Shore Leave, so it feels more like a Monday that's been waiting to get its hands on me.
TRUMP: Peanut butter—isn’t that something? It would be great in sandwiches. Someone should try that. Maybe with jelly. I just thought of that. Call it a Trumpwich. THE PRESS: How did we miss Biden’s decline? We’ll ask Dr. Phil.
That gore-filled montage… *chef’s kiss from Captain Pike*
This isn’t “a truly wild turn,” it’s a descent into dementia and confabulation. It didn’t happen, and Trump can’t tell the difference between reality and whatever slips out of his pie hole. That’s what the press should be saying every fucking time.
I keep thinking about posting a thread on the medical insurance nightmare I've been going through the last few months, but every time I get close to doing it, another problem pops up. Two more things are being dealt with right now, so maybe I'm close to having everything fixed?
Damn oceans always making things far apart.
In Lancaster PA for @shoreleavecon.bsky.social. @daytonward.bsky.social @davidmack.bsky.social @jmswallow.bsky.social
You, sir, are my hero.
I swear to fucking god, MacOS, stop guessing that when I'm moving a small window across my screen that what I really want is to make the window take up the whole screen. If I want to do that, I'll fucking do it myself. Instead I'm now fighting with you to keep the window the way I fucking want it.
Okay, I've proofread Star Trek: Red Shirts #2, and get out the bodybags and the wet-vac, because things are getting messy! Bloody mayhem coming at you from ifyoucantwell.bsky.social, meganlevens.bsky.social, charliekirchoff.com, and longtalljodie.com. On stands September 3.
Ripley in a Caturday triptych.
Someone with more time and money than I have needs to buy a big box of old-timey mustaches, the kind that villains twirl, and send them to the GOP in Congress.
The current incarnation of the GOP is largely composed of bootlickers and gutless fucks. To be fair, the Dems have a lot of spineless hand-wringers, so here we are, in a police state.
Here we go again, another CMOS Q&A!
Sure, I blogged . . . what of it?