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Fiction and essays that pair well with exotic cocktails served in haunted hotel bars by the sexiest ghosts one could survive beholding directly.

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Breakfast.
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Just a reminder that the coolest villain name belongs to Apocalypto’s ZERO WOLF.

#FilmSky
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The Arc Raiders tagline confounds me.

Enlist. Resist

That dropped second period is intentional, right? Why? What does that choice accomplish?

Any copywriters want to weigh in and tell me what I’m missing?
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Midday pep talk in the mirror.
November 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.”

— C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian.
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
There are many phenomenal action hero jackets.

There are only a few perfect ones.
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Heads up out there today.
October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Birthday post.
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Woke up to a full manuscript request today.

#amwriting
October 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Grateful to have been invited to my son’s first grade classroom as a visiting author.

I did not tell them I am an author in the same way that Captain Crunch is a naval officer.
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
For some reason, encountering one of these setups feels like picking up some extra health in an old Sega game.
October 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I love Chicago as a Chicagoan. And I love New York as a non-New Yorker. Big difference.
October 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Me on Sept. 30 vs Oct. 1
October 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
September 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
September 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Mood.
September 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
September 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This summer, Ken stars as Dash Rendar in Waterworld 2.
September 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“Yes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, yes, the Sting, yes, Three Days of the Condor! Whatever! In this house, we START the list with director JC Chandor’s 2013 nearly silent emotional adventure All is Lost. End of story!”
September 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Untitled by Mark Strand.
September 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’ve finally cracked it.

It’s taken years but I have my new and more perfect writing setup.

A remarkable device + keyboard.

A dedicated digital music player.

No internet. No pop ups. No off ramps.

Nerd ecstasy.
September 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Me and the fantasy football league before shit gets real.
September 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
When I see someone “sent” my IG post.
September 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
#XMen 9, 1965

"We join the X-Men in their civilian/nerd/prep garb. The team hangs about a luxury ocean-liner bound for Europe through iceberg-studded seas. Cyclops shoots aparta a mountain of ice blocking the ship’s path with an optic blast."

thrillstate.substack.com/p/the-x-men-...
September 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM