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I’m tired of these lazy people living off the government and refusing to work.

An announcement of a night of the living dead screening tonight with ME in Madison, Wisconsin

TONIGHT!

SATURDAY!
Ashland Public Library, Ashland, MA.
It's gonna be a blast! Be there!

Totally fucking insane.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

Zipper the bunny from Animal Crossing throws his arms wide, reveling in Bunny Day.

If you know, you know. Sky Eggs, Water Eggs, Stone Eggs...

I understand the impulse not to let this guy's statements dictate the news cycle but the fact that he can say shit like this and it barely causes a ripple in the media is a key to his ability to maintain power. Constantly pushing the bar of normality downwards, no pressure to take responsibility.

Probably was a bad idea to elect both the dumbest and most emotionally fragile president in American history.

Not sure this is even a point of dispute, but just in case: using the plates from semi trucks or moving trucks for the license plate game ruins the whole thing.

Who among us has not found ourselves at a Waffle House by mysterious means after a very long night

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

The Maris Review, vol 97 This week's theme is homecomings What I read this week The Fountain by Casey Scieszka For transparency: Casey is a member of my writing group. That said, she joined when this novel was pretty much...

In my latest newsletter I wrote about how AI messes with the generous readers (per @emilyhughes.bsky.social) who are the lifeblood of the business. I also covered two excellent debut novels. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

PS This is the shop of the person behind @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social & if you've enjoyed my occasional RTs, a) you should follow! & also b) in another post she said "The more art is bought, the higher the (weirdly existent) chance of me getting to Readercon" & EYE will be ordering some socks

National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022 “Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

This is an EXTREMELY cool project that @maris.bsky.social and @sandyernestallen.bsky.social worked so hard on!

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

4th in the competition, but 1st in our hearts

Post a banger not in English.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVxi...

My personal opinion is that this guy did a great job. Strong message, well presented.

The top of the First Federal Building in Rochester, NY launches off of the rest of the building, with a magenta burst of energy. We are looking out over the buildings with Ted who is watching the launch.

I made the poster for this year’s Rochester Independent Comics Expo and it turned out pretty rad.
May 16, gonna be a blast!

Love this!

if you’re not hearing from me on Instagram, or through the email address that corresponds to my website, or my personal address, or Bluesky messenger, etc., then doublecheck. Specifically if you hear from authorowenking [at] gmail dot com, that’s *not* me. (2/2)

Identical Spidermen pointing at each other

I’m sorry to say that someone is running around impersonating me. I suspect most of you are already on your guard for this kind of thing, but (1/2)

Goodbye to Dan McQuade The absolute Best of Philly

I wrote about Dan
open.substack.com/pub/tommcall...

Thank you yes, her website is great. May her fame grow exponentially today.

So this is pure gangsterism, and also premised on the absurd notion that the people of Minneapolis would just lie back and take it if not for Tim Walz saying mean things about ICE.