Shocking

Roz Chast is doing super-realistic work these days

It started two nights ago in Cheshire. The lounge is now adrift in cat hair.

From FT Datapoints by John Burn-Murdoch: the near wipeout of conservative support among young adults in Britain stands in sharp constant to the US and Canada

Happy to be the bearer of the rare good news from the UK
Source: FT

At this stage, even The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is looking at Suella Braverman and saying "that's a bit much, mate".

[benoit blanc in twin peaks] lordy there’s a burrito lookin girl on the beach

Pleased and proud to announce that one of my first short stories to see print, “Pluto and Tavis D Work the Door,” has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2023 issue. I wrote it for Carina Bissett’s “Season of the Hare” class. Check it out here: a.co/d/d4EJaqu

*1993*
X-FILES: UFOs are real and the government will kill to keep them a secret

*2023*
GOVERNMENT: UFOs are real
EVERYONE: not now

Was reminded of this (via Facebook memories) from 2018 and it still warms my heart

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Oh God yes. I’m in the UK and now want to book a flight straight to San Antonio

“Femicide”

Please spread this word far and wide it is the word the world needs now

If the world is still habitable in 2040 when you turn on the news it will just be two people saying “fuck you” to each other back and forth until they cut to a commercial.

Oh, my friends, if you have complete, functional Achilles tendons, treasure them. TREASURE them.

Sheree Renee Thomas had the most incredible short story in the 2022 StokerCon book. Some of the images from that story still haunt me. And don’t get me started on Paula Ashe.

Good morning - I hope you slept like a bird's-foot-trefoil-stuffed dingy skipper - I'm starting with ‘Winter Hare’, Bruno Liljefors, oil on canvas, 1908. Part of our Winter/Christmas card 2023 range.
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It is an astonishing collection, and I am grateful for it.

Totes. I’m a fan of popcorn and wine, myself. And ice cream sandwiches. My partner is in the UK and I’m in the US, both of us looking after aging parents, and we both love to cook. So it’s kind of a bummer, but on the other hand, there are plenty of ice cream sandwiches to ease the pain.

It’s a tough transition but I’m grateful for having all that home-cooked stuff in the freezer on nights when I just can’t be bothered.

Right? The freezer is your friend.

Oh wait, I thought you were replaying to a different thread! I know neither you nor Pants Man. But I do wish you well.

Lol he’s the best. But I can totally see the brother thing

Omg, how male: “Stick it in your pants!”

A new benchmark has been set. Lift your game, pumpkin carvers.

He writes the Storyville column over at LitReactor, where he also delivers one of his classes.

He’s put together several horror/spec-fox anthologies, has a few horror novels out, and teaches writing (which is where I know him from).

If Richard Thomas has anything to do with it, it’ll be great. The guy’s amazing.

Have you heard of Bone Clones? I desperately want a skeleton of a French bulldog. That skull! 😍

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