On January 1, 1943, the American folk music legend Woody Guthrie jotted in his journal a list of 33 “New Years Rulin's.' Nowadays, we'd call them New Year's Resolutions. Adorned by doodles, the list i...

It’s never precisely easy to be a writer — professional or otherwise. I mean, it’s easy in the sense of, hey, anybody can open a word processor and start (fiercely or methodically…

This is your annual reminder to have a happy, safe, and fulfilling holiday season, no matter what you celebrate or if you celebrate. Everyone deserves to have some time to fill their cups at the end of the year. You'll notice, however, that the customary Happy Merry card isn't here this year. That's because it just dang got away from us this year.

Yo, dogg, I heard you got little girls living in your house. You know what that means? ELSA. It means you've seen Frozen and it's aptly-titled sequel Frozen 2 maybe a hundred times. It means you often get "Lost in the Woods" stuck in your head once "Let it Go" has finally done what it says and gone. But wait!

I lost a couple days this week to a child home sick with an ear infection, so my output hasn't been so great. But I still managed to do something! Posted twice — Now you all know about my desire to have my face in the local diners and the hallowed tradition of Sandwich Day. Recorded more voice data set scripts…

Post Narration by The Black Laser Years ago—I can't remember if it was while we lived in California or if we'd already moved to Delaware—Sarah had the idea to celebrate the day after Thanksgiving with sandwiches. We always prepare a Thanksgiving meal at our house, so we always have a ton of leftovers. Just sort of the nature of the game.

Post Narration by The Black Laser There are two diners here in Milford, Delaware: Westside Restaurant (which is on the south end of town) and Milford Diner. They're both pretty good, but I prefer Westside. It's the one of the two that meets my exacting standards. Milford Diner doesn't have feta cheese, for some reason. Too bad, because their coffee is better than Westside.

What did I do this week?! Recorded a voice project – There's quite a bit of low impact work recording a variety of speech to help train virtual assistants' abilities to recognize speech. They give you a little phrase and a mood and you record it. This project had 256 prompts and took about four hours over as many sittings. Not great money, but not hard work either.

Post Narration by The Black Laser When Penny and Bea were very small—walking but not really expressing themselves well with words yet—they would walk over and ask to be held by reaching their arms up and squeaking. Or grunting. Whimpering? I don't know. Whatever you'd call that sound that little kids make when they want something. Listen to the narration to hear it.

These photos don't have any real theme. It's just a collection of snapshots through the summer of 2025. Enjoy the photos after the jump.

In an effort to stay true to my statement of intent in Tuesday's blog post, let's have a weekly check in with what I am making or doing during the week. Doesn't have to be fancy. Think of it as a way to keep me honest. Ok let's go! Published three blog posts — Feels nice to write here again.

Post Narration by The Black Laser With small children in the house, I get exposed to a lot of television and movies that I would otherwise totally miss. They're not iPad kids, either, so TV is a communal event which is much harder for me to ignore. Bluey? Seen every episode probably like 10 times. There are, what?, 170 of them?

Post Narration by The Black Laser Having standards is important. Without standards, we have no way of knowing if we're experiencing something good or if it's total crap. How can we know the quality of a thing if we have nothing to judge it against? Standards. This applies in a lot of ways in our lives: the clothes we wear, the groceries we buy, the music we listen to, the books we read, the dumb memes we send our wives, and so on and so on and so on.

Post Narration by The Black Laser I've been feeling stuck. Professionally, emotionally, creatively stuck. There are many factors. I don't love where we live and having moved here in the height of COVID while working from home and then having a couple sets of children, I've never developed a community or social life to speak of. We have no local family, which means no local relief.

One of the things I like to do while I am home alone during the day is to put on whatever old horror film I can find included in my streaming services. The cheesier, the weirder, the more off-putting, the better. I often don't even watch the film; I just put it on and walk away. Sometimes it's nice to have some noise in the house, you know?