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Wrote Rome Sweet Rome, Acadia, and encyclopedias. Bylines in Wired, Mental Floss, Slate, Boing Boing. Won Jeopardy. Alum of WGA, SFWA, AFSCME. Let’s be pals

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This is the only day of the year I post

10.11.2025 13:26 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

In my sci-fi novel Acadia from 2013:
-A Russia-related scandal leads to a complete overhaul of the US intelligence community
-An anti-Mexican demagogue briefly seizes power
-the richest man in the world rules space in collusion with pro-AI forces that secretly shape US foreign policy

04.02.2025 01:48 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0

Told ya

10.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"The Empire is like America ten years from now".

10.05.2025 14:44 — 👍 956    🔁 203    💬 4    📌 3

Please tell me one of the kids gets thrown off Hell In A Cell and plummets 16 ft through an announcer’s table

10.05.2025 14:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

three million years ago somebody picked up a rock because it looked like a little face and held onto it

This is older than any god this is who we truly are

10.05.2025 13:55 — 👍 769    🔁 197    💬 20    📌 8

the pope isn't from chicago unless he works being from chicago into every conversation

10.05.2025 00:27 — 👍 274    🔁 15    💬 7    📌 8

Recognize ≠ respect

09.05.2025 20:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You don’t flip over the table when you’re holding aces

09.05.2025 20:49 — 👍 63    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great minds!

09.05.2025 14:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Feeling emboldened that perhaps, in my lifetime, we could have a pope that was in The Sea and Cake

09.05.2025 13:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

*two wolves fly out of the soles of your feet*

09.05.2025 12:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Didn’t even need the third F-18 to get a pope from Chicago, it turns out

09.05.2025 01:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

-Their fleet could not have accomplished anything had they not briefly paralyzed the New Republic’s political and military leadership.

09.05.2025 00:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Mothma Doctrine was proven correct; while the First Order and Final Order bet on huge capital ships which could force the surrender of key planets, neither could deal with the numbers or agility of the Citizens’ Fleet once concentrated. This is why the First Order destroyed Hosnian Prime-

09.05.2025 00:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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08.05.2025 21:03 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

08.05.2025 17:36 — 👍 28909    🔁 8154    💬 38    📌 763

Hard agree

08.05.2025 18:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the New Pope says he's from Chicago but he's *actually* from Naperville

08.05.2025 17:19 — 👍 3480    🔁 444    💬 120    📌 90

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

08.05.2025 17:26 — 👍 13342    🔁 2936    💬 7    📌 71

INTRODUCING YOUR CHICAGO PAPAL BULLS STARTING LINEUP [monophonic Gregorian chanting intensifies]

08.05.2025 17:38 — 👍 193    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 2
The “Fishes” episode of The Bear where a dysfunctional Chicago Catholic family dissolves into a fight over Christmas dinner

The “Fishes” episode of The Bear where a dysfunctional Chicago Catholic family dissolves into a fight over Christmas dinner

The moment Bobby Prevost decided to leave for seminary

08.05.2025 17:30 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

He's gonna be out there turning water into malort

08.05.2025 17:24 — 👍 96    🔁 28    💬 3    📌 3

A mathematician from Chicago! Get ready to hear a shitload of Wilco blasting across St Peter’s Square

08.05.2025 17:22 — 👍 34    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0

i don’t believe in the great man of history theory, but i do kind of believe in a stupid asshole theory of history where one dumb motherfucker ruins things for everyone

08.05.2025 06:56 — 👍 1282    🔁 205    💬 24    📌 32

Just want to make this plain: You only have permission to make a weird computer sock puppet of me during the trial of my killer in order to explain my fan theories about Admiral Ozzel from The Empire Strikes Back

08.05.2025 03:22 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

okay if i get murdered and someone plays a video of a robot version of me in court FORGIVING MY MURDERER i'm haunting everybody. the judge the jury the lawyers, the bailiff, everybody

08.05.2025 03:17 — 👍 1229    🔁 153    💬 28    📌 4

*A Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS plane steps out of the shadows and grinds a cigarette out with its heel*

“Forget it, MH-60R Seahawk. It’s the USS Truman”

08.05.2025 01:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

*takes hit off asthma inhaler* EXCUSE ME, but as the sun’s increasing luminosity will make photosynthesis and thus virtually all multicellular life on Earth impossible in about a billion years, it will also increase Mars’s habitability and *wheeeeeeeze*

07.05.2025 20:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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