Satire is my business. NY Times bestselling author of 19 novels, including Lamb, Fool, Noir, Razzmatazz, and Anima Rising (released May 2025).
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If you're a fan of "gangster noir political satire comedy creature feature" movies, you REALLY should read @theauthorguy.bsky.social Chris Moore's "gangster noir political satire comedy creature feature" novel "Razzmatazz" or maybe start with "Noir" the book that it's a sequel too. amzn.to/4mJ44TD
And I am the world's foremost astrophysicist ballerina who invented the piano, aspirin, and appetizers.
Ray's badge on the left. Mine on the right.
I went to an industry party at BEA once and wore Ray Bradbury's name badge the whole time. I was in my mid 40s at the time, and people would look at my badge, then at me, then at my badge, and I go, "I finally got that time travel thing dicked."
Thank you.
I like that they are having fun with it, with some great self-parody, feels like we're all in this for the fun.
I'm hoping they go through a wormhole and change the inevitability of his fate. Because I like what they are doing and I hope they keep doing it.
I'm embarassingly excited about watching the Strange New Worlds with Patton Oswald as a Vulcan. I've been watching that Spock, "give me five" gag all season and I laugh every time. Yes, my life is a joyless pit of despair.
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy. Tom Clancy’s Everyone Poops
Had to be done.
Tom Clancy's, The House at Pooh Corner
Excellent.
I didn't click on the link, but I'll be disappointed if each and every pair wasn't harvested from under the bed of an impossibly beautiful entertainer.
The assignment was to write a joke about Pete Davidson's socks.
I will not be taking questions at this time.
I just got a push notification from Amazon for Pete Davidson's Socks. Really. Please proceed with your most outrageous japes!
Thank you! I'm glad you are enjoying them.
His entire worldview has been static since the 1980s.
And cats, cars, and windows all kill more birds than windmills. They're all cranks.
Those are awfully good choices. Thanks.
You should share. It would be interesting to see how readers see the characters.
The troops and the ICE agents are different. You may be right about the ICE agents, but I don't think we should think that the people who signed up for the military are the same. They don't want to be there, and they are certainly not getting paid the same kind of money.
They have to do what he says, regardless how they feel about him. They don't have to be convinced or recruited. They are soldiers. When they start murdering Americans it's 100% on the President.
Unfortunately, they don't have law enforcement training, which is one of the reasons they shouldn't be there. I don't blame them, now, I blame the administration. When they start killing us, I blame them all.
We are going to need them on our side. Criticize ICE and the administration, absolutely, but the soldiers HAVE to do this, at least at this point.
I was one of those 60s and 70s kids. I had friends who were sent to war without consent, and there was no need to warn about them. Kids forced to do a job they didn't want to do. In this case, no one signed up to unconstitutionally occupy American cities. I don't blame soldiers. It's obey or jail.
I talking about the soldiers. Not ICE.
I'm beginning to suspect that the troops occupying our cities are not so much patriots as paid participants who aren't allowed to say no.
This doesn't look like a crowd made up of "geriatric hippies." The crowds are older during the week because older people often don't have to go to a job during the week. Thank you for your courage and conviction, D.C.
F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
“Change comes through action. Balthasar once said to me, ‘There’s no such thing as a conservative hero.’ ‘“ - Joshua, from @theauthorguy.bsky.social’s book, “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal.
He doesn’t need to be president, he just needs to get Dems those five seats so they can take back the house.
Glad you're enjoying the book. Thanks for kind comments.
People can't do that. Won't do that. The military isn't made up of his followers, it's young men and women who signed up to serve their country and are now in a position of having to follow illegal and unconstitutional orders from an authoritarian leader. They will be our allies eventually.
How are Republicans okay with massive tariffs, seizing ownership of private companies, and sending armed troops into American cities? These are things that they have spoken out against for more than 90 years. (Since Hoover). Did you have ANY principles that weren't for sale?
It's a word you can get a lot of miles out of given all the Trump toadies holding forth.
You didn't ask an AI search engine, did you?
Whatever you do, Visa holders, don't mention Felon47's tiny penis on your social media feeds.
I JUST WENT OUTSIDE IN MY BIG LIBERAL CITY AND WAS MURDERED BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS EVERYWHERE
If only there were someone who could solve murders in Oxford!
SQUIRREL OF THE DAY! SQUIRREL OF THE DAY! SPLOOTING ON THE AC SQUIRREL OF THE DAY!
Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's OBSESSION with him
Pretty sure they don't have the right to do that.
That may be more committing to the bit than I am prepared to commit for a text exchange.
That makes follow-up so awkward, though.
True. And I am pretty good at making the "dog horking up on the carpet" sound.
That's it. I need to get a dog so I'm credible.
that's a great line
that is SO much less than helpful 😁
Tell me, I had to try to live down years of shame when my mother texted me asking for the main ingredient of baba ganoush.
Anyone know how to properly end a text conversation?
AND, there was a corresponding rise in sales at Costco, who emphasized their DEI policies.
Ladies and germs, the Trump effect.
They’re trading on potential.
I know a couple of guys who work in tech at a pretty high level (project-wise, not business management) and they all say the same thing. It all depends on how you train it.
We have to put "A.I" in our ads or people will think we're falling behind. But we make candy. We can have A.I. candy. How do you think those M&Ms on TV talk?
Every ad on TV and many on the web are touting A.I. as an attribute, and often from many products that you wouldn't think it applicable to, like weed killer. It reminds me of 2000 when they tacked "dot com" on everything like they were magic words. Feels bubbly.
yup
Yes. AI has actually made a lot of these things worse for now. I tried Grammerly when they first launched and it didn't work for me because I write so much in dialect. I'd suggest not worrying about grammer on you 1st draft. You can fix it on rewrite once you have a full draft.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, Dizzy, but when I broke in there wasn't even an internet. There are tons of resources just a Google search away, though.
I don't use a grammar checker, just the spell check in MS Word, so others may have better suggestions. I wouldn't worry too much about how to get published until you've finished something. I broke in so long ago that my knowledge of how to break in is well out of date. Sorry, I'm useless.
neener neener neener sorry, couldn't be helped you have to celebrate even the small neeners in times like these
I'm sorry for your loss, and honored to be part of the blessing of a fond memory of your friend.
JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ
Yes, Comcast/Universal is unloading MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen, and E. apple.news/AZbip1KpKQSm...
Look around you. If you do not see the squirrel of the day, the squirrel of the day is you.
The best thing about the SQUIRREL OF THE DAY is there isn't always a squirrel of the day.
WOW, first I've seen one of those.
Yes, every bit as relevant to what is happening as wearing a tie to a meeting.
H.L. Mencken proposed it back in the 20s: We need a sarcasm font.
Ice cream? Fuck you guys, I’ll keep what I want in my bell.
This is absolutely spot on. It was phenomenally stupid of me to ask, especially in this forum.
Of course I wasn't suggesting that. I was asking to see if Gavin Newsom could be redeemed. Evidently not. Oh well.
I'm not scared. I was trying to find out if Gavin was viable. That's it. But fuck you for thinking I'm Transphobic.
Yes, it's wrong. I never for a second questioned that.
Thank you for your response. Your experience speaks volumes. When I asked, I was misinformed about the high percentages (apparently) and I can't find the survey that reported such high numbers, but it was certainly anomalous to anything else I could find. "Under the bus" was never a consideration.
I'm not making that point. The article did. The point I was making was it is highly unlikely that Brown lost for not being pro-Trans enough in a 3X Trump state.
It's not push back if you're agreeing with the opposition's ads. Ohio has gone for Trump three times in a row -- they didn't NOT vote for Brown because he wasn't pro-Trans enough.
But you implied he lost because he didn't project being pro-Trans rights. The article says they beat him because he was pro Trans rights and pro abortion.
This article says that Brown was taken down because GOP ads portrayed him as "pro Trans rights." Should he have pushed back as anti-Trans rights? I like Sherrod Brown a lot. He was my substitute social studies teacher in high school, but Ohio sucks. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/p...
That's great to know. Thank you. My wife and I lived in Paris for almost 2 months while I was researching that book. Best time of my life.
Last time I saw Kevin he came to SF to get a Visa so he could live in Tahiti. Maybe 2007-8. Heard he moved to Moorea and sold his boat.
That's what they're doing. There's a whole chapter around that painting.
Perfect!
That's not what I said. I was asking, essentially, were Gavin's comments a bridge too far? The answer was yes.
Deleted it
This is helpful.
I didn't know that. That's unacceptable. Too bad, he was landing some hits on the administration.
I think you're right. I saw it on CNN but I can't find it replicated anywhere. I promise I'm not making it up, but the Trans issue isn't even on the radar for other surveys I found of Trump voters.
Hopefully the candidate who exhibits those principals will rise through the primaries.
That’s totally fair.
I'm not saying that, but I take your point. Just might not be a bridge we can cross. Okay. What if Mayor Pete or Gavin repent? Say they were just trying to reach that manosphere demographic and it didn't work? (Gavin was performing Gay marriages ten years before Obergfell and the Supremes.)
Who was that?
Good for you. I don't encounter people like that in person. I live in San Francisco. I also don't get out much.
I didn't know that. That's unacceptable.
That sounds good.
Thanks. Legitimately good to know.
It's such a huge block of voters to give up on. But if there isn't a way, there isn't a way, I guess.
Good to know. Do you think it's possible to change minds of people who are misinformed or unnecessarily afraid?
