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Why aren't I writing?
I should be writing.
Those demons won't take care of themselves.
It would be so much worse if they did...
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There's more than one way to report a story.

That gnu was right, no news is good news.

Good news is deadly!
Battle Creek Moon-Journal. Battle Creek, Michigan. Tue, Jun 29, 1926. GOOD NEWS KILLS HIM. Washington, June 29. -- (U.P.) -- Jacob Flannigan, 60, walked into a hospital here, said he had been in an automobile accident and asked to be examined. Physicians pronounced him uninjured. He heard the verdict, lapsed into unconsciousness and died an hour later.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I'm sure it was all above board.

That's barely $1.9 million, inflation-adjusted.

Probably pocket change for our mysterious banker who definitely did nothing untoward.
Jersey Observer and Jersey Journal. Jersey City, New Jersey. Monday, December 31, 1923. "Banker Beats Cousins. Hexham, Eng. -- A dozen cousins who contested the will of Mrs. Isabella Hopper leaving her estate of $100,000 to her banker were defeated in court."
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "Riiiiicola!"

At least it has an astonishing promptitude.
The Morning News. Wilmington, Delaware. Wednesday, June 01, 1887. Advertisement for Hale's Honey of Horehound & Tar Artistic image of a beehive nestled amongst pine trees and flowers. Text: " Affords relief to coughs and colds with a promptitude which often astonishes those who use it. Ask for Hale's and take no substitute. 3 sizes, 25c., 50c., $1.00."
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Imagine a dimension as vast as space & as timeless as infinity...the middle ground between light and shadow. A dimension where you must tell people you want seedless raisins.

This is where things went wrong. P&G thought they were helping, but you know how these things go.

24 pies men like...
Cover of a promotional pamphlet from The Proctor & Gamble Company, 1934. Sketch image of three men at a restaurant table. Title "24 pies men like" Recipe from page 21 of a promotional pamphlet from The Proctor & Gamble Company, 1934. RAISIN PIE 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup water 1 tablespoon Crisco 1 tablespoon lemon juice grated rind 1 lemon 1 cup raisins (seedless) Mix cornstarch, sugar, and salt, stir in water. Cook until thick. Add Crisco, lemon juice and rind, and raisins. Cool before pouring into pie tin lined with digestible Crisco crust. Cover with top crust. Fasten the edges by moistening between them with cold water. Press together tightly. Prick or slit the upper crust to allow the escape of steam. Bake in a hot oven (400°F.) until golden brown.
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I can't stop thinking of that zephyr-like pressure.
Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. Sunday, November 15, 1931. Advertisement for Faultless Nobelt Pajamas. Two inked images of a man in pajamas with the text "for high-strung individuals" "ARE you high-strung? Do you go to bed in "surcingle"* pajamas, hitched up around you? How can you get a good night's rest in pajamas that twist and bunch themselves around your waist? THE ANSWER - You need Faultless Nobelt Pajamas - tailored for sleep - with no "surcingle"* to make the trousers uncomfortable on you, or to interfere with deep breathing from the diaphragm. A light band of live sheet-rubber, encased in resilient webbing moulds the Faultless trousers to you with zephyr-like pressure. UP-TO-THE-MINUTE STYLING, TOO - Faultless Nobelt Pajamas are carefully styled, too - in collar-types, V-necks, round-necks. Marterial? Broadcloth, madras, silk, percale - solidly colored, striped, figured. Be sure to say Faultless Nobelt. Don't be sold a cheaper substitute. Be gentle but firm - like the Faultless Nobelt. Envision the laundering your suit will get. Then remember that only Faultless has the patented Nobelt feature - unconditionally guaranteed to retain its elasticity. Christmas will soon be here. Make your friends happy with Faultless Nobelts. (Give yourself a pair, too; you can use 'em!) The Faultless Manufacturing Company, Faultless Square, Baltimore, Md. Chicago Sales Office, 209 South State Street." Image of a horse with text: "*See the horse. He is wearing a surcingle. It is pulled tight, to keep the saddle in place. He runs and grunts in it, but ordinary horse-sense tells him he can't sleep in it." "FAULTLESS NOBELT PAJAMAS"
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Constant vigilance.
Graffiti on a park bench done in black marker. open palm with all-seeing eye, a horizontal eye, a vertical eye text "constant vigilance"
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Today we have a blanket of snow.

Sometimes, it's a blanket of paper.
Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. Fri, Nov 11, 1927. November 11, 1918, photo of a downtown Chicago street covered in paper tossed by people celebrating the end of World War I. Caption: WHEN CHICAGO CELEBRATED CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES IN WORLD WAR NINE YEARS AGO TODAY. Scene in the downtown district on Nov. 11, 1918, when tons of paper whirled through the air and the maddest festivities took place. This anniversary of Armistice day will be more generally observed today than ever before. (Story on page 1.)
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This guy ain't going to St. Ives, that I can tell you.
Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. Saturday, November 14, 1925. Headline: Bill Didn't Figure on So Many 13s; He's Jailed Text: William Stokes, 16 West Chicago avenue, went into the locker room at the Y.M.C.A. hotel last night. In his pocket were thirteen keys. He stopped at locker No. 13, opened it, and extracted $107.13. A lodger who saw him called Police 1313 and Policemen Weber and Phelan responded. They caught Stokes and placed him in a cell. His only excuse was that he forgot it was Friday the 13th.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Does your coal hole look like this?

Could be the large lump.
Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, August 03, 1919. Advertisement: Image of an Ottomatic Coal Chute, close up Image of a house with an inset image of a man opening and using an Ottomatic Coal Chute. Text: Ottomatic Coal Chute Opening Window Brings Out Chute A Window All the Time A Coal Chute Any Time Simple and practical to operate - a useful and attractive appliance for every type of building. THIS modern coal chute combines an attractive window with a practical coal chute. It does away with the unsightly old-fashioned window that did double duty and was a blot on the house. The OTTOMATIC COAL CHUTE is attractive and fits into the design of any building. It may be used in old as well as new buildings. This ideal chute can be used with any coal from pea to large lump. There are only three parts to it - a window, shield and hopper. In the summer the glass may be easily replaced by a screen, perfect ventilation is produced INSET SKETCH IMAGE of a broken window with caption, "Does your Coal Hole look like this? Take a look at it and send us an order for the Ottomatic Coal Chute." Text: Church Appliace Mfg. Co. 937 Hennepin St., La Salle, Ill.
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I'm embarking on my Pluribus journey.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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This was too on the nose for Final Destination Bloodlines.

Pour one out for Garner Rose, who did it his way, sort of.
Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois, Saturday, July 04, 1925. Headline: "Safety First" Sign Causes Death of Man It Falls On Text: Niagara, Falls, N.Y., July 3. - (AP) Physicians today attributed the death of Garner Rose in a hospital here to blood poisoning which set in after a "safety first" sign fell on him. The sign was jarred loose by Rose's efforts to close a window in the factory where he was employed. Glass from the sign entered his back, penetrating his lung.
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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"Maybe it’ll forget me.

Maybe something else will take its attention.

Maybe it’s time to run."

We're excited to share an excerpt from @angelaslatter.bsky.social's witchy new fantasy novel A Forest, Darkly!
Read an Excerpt From A Forest, Darkly by A.G. Slatter - Reactor
A dark fantasy fairy tale of persecuted witches, snatched children, twisted magic, changelings, and the sins that bind…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The pole is out. Parachute dropping is all the rage.
Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, October 23, 1927. From the W.E. Hill "Among Us Mortals" section titled "The State Fair" Sketch of an acrobat in typical show clothing, casually standing and smoking a cigarette. "Dare Devil Dan, the handsome hero of many a parachute drop, waiting around in front of a grandstand to do his turn."
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Conspiracies, cults, and UFOs.

I can't believe I haven't watched this before.

Let's do this.
Watch the Skies Exclusive Trailer (2025)
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November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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I'm not disappointed by what I've seen of Talamasca: The Secret Order through three episodes.

I gather that's not the reigning opinion.

It's possible I just really like Elizabeth McGovern.
First Look at Talamasca: The Secret Order | Behind the Scenes | Two Episode Premiere Oct. 26 | AMC+
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November 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I'm sure it works. How could something called a physcomotrope not work?
Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut, Friday, May 04, 1866. WONDERFUL BUT TRUE: MADAME REMINGTON, the world renowned Astrologist and Somnabulistic Clairvoyant, while in a clairvoyant state, delineates the very features of the person you are to marry, and by the aid of an instrument of intense power, known as the Physcomotrope guarantees to produce a perfect and life-like picture of the future husband or wife of the applicant, with date of marriage, occupation, leading traits of character, etc. This is no imposition, as testimonials without number can assert. By stating place of birth, age, disposition, color of eyes and hair, and enclosing fifty cents, and stamped envelope addressed to yourself, you will receive the picture by return mail, together with desired information. Address in confidence, MADAME GERTRUDE REMINGTON, P.O. Box 297, West Troy, N.Y.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Jurassic World Rebirth is a wild mess of a movie. I want to read some meeting notes.
Jurassic World Rebirth: In One Minute
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November 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Come. Be with us for Tobe Hooper's LIFEFORCE!

New 4K Restoration - Playing this Friday & Saturday at Midnight + Encore Screening next Monday November 10th at 4:15pm

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November 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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This is a horror film. You know how those folks are.

"Some of 'em have queer narrow heads with flat noses and bulgy, starry eyes that never seem to shut, and their skin ain't quite right. Rough and scabby, and the sides of the necks are all shriveled or creased up."

Wrong Turn: Starboard Slaughter
The Mississippi Press. Pascagoula, Mississippi. Friday, August 04, 1899. "A 'gospel yacht' is being built at Jeffersonville, Ind. It will carry the gospel to the boatmen on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and then sets its course for the coasts of Cuba, where it will be used as a floating chapel for evangelistic work."
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I spoke with Novel Suspects recently.

Thank you so very much for this lovely conversation. 🖤🏙️

A Conversation with Cynthia Pelayo, A Prolific Voice in the New Wave of Horror

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A Conversation with Cynthia Pelayo, A Prolific Voice in the New Wave of Horror
Novel Suspects: Your books are generally set in Chicago, follow a serial killer/missing persons case, and/or pull themes from fairy tales. To someone unfamiliar with this work, they might find thes…
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November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Trying the demo for The Legend of Khiimori.

Bond with your horse in 13th-century Mongolia?

Hell, yeah.

The demo is short, but charming.

Keep on steppe'n
Screenshot of The Legend of Khiimori game demo. Horse and rider. Horse grazes. The sun sets over hills in the far distance.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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It's always a *!⅞?$-& delay.
The Cincinnati Post. Cincinnati, Ohio. Thursday, June 19, 1980. Headline: "*!⅞?$-&; delay ahead" "X-rated words instead of road conditions greated rush hour motorists traveling on south-bound I-75 Wednesday afternoon. How the two obscene words got on one of the electronic-control signs remains a mystery today, although traffic engineers are investigating. Traffic engineer Curtis Fields said the words - one was so long it had to be abbreviated to fit the space - were on a sign between Hopple Street and Ft. Washington Way. Fields has not ruled out the possibility that one sign message "somehow garbled into abbreviated obscenities." The normal messages for the hour was "Delay Ahead. Right Lanes Reduce Speed."
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Been there, friend.

Saturday night's alright for fighting, but it's also for a large edible and eating leftovers straight out of the fridge like Jennifer Check after a hot live music show.

There's more than one way to get a little action in.
Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. Sunday, February 07, 1926. From the "Mr. Nickeldick" section, written by William Donahey (1883-1970), a U.S. cartoonist and creator of "The Teenie Weenies". Caption: "Ate all his meals out of the ice chest." Ink drawing of a rabbit in a suit sitting on a stool in front of an open ice chest with various food on plates at his feet. He is holding aloft a drumstick on a fork.
November 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Happy Halloween. Stay sharp.
Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, October 31, 1926. HALLOWEEN SHAVE KILLS BARBER Joseph Gaetano, 55 years old, a barber, dropped dead of heart disease last night while giving a quick shave to a patron of a shop at 426 South Clark street. The customer had said he was late for a Halloween party.
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I didn't need to start playing this. That music hypnotizes me. I am now a sleeper agent for Pac-Land.
Google Pac Man mini game start page Google Pac-Man mini game between level animation showing ghosts Shadow ("Blinky") and Bashful ("Inky") chasing Pac-Man in front of a house Google Pac-Man mini game Level 8 "Ready!" screen Google Pac-Man mini game ending screen after completion of Level 8. A boom box surrounded by dancing Pac-People and a jumble of text. Buttons "Play Again" and "More Games" beneath the mini game.
October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM