Brandon Ketchum

For only the third time in my writing career, I have found a short story call that I felt was so perfect for one of my stories that it must be accepted. For fellow submission grinders, you know how little certainty there is. Here's hoping I'm write (haha), er, right again!

Okay, see, you should have written up the synopsis. That sounds cool! I'm not sure what Vince Gilligan has done, so I'll look it up to see whether I've liked his stuff or no. Sounds like I'll be watching!

Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on building local libraries, working for world peace, education, and scientific research. He funded Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Peace Palace in The Hague, founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Carnegie Hero Fund, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, among others.

Elon just got a trillion dollars. Will he go to Mars? Fund Nazi white nationalists around the world? Will Bezos have to build a super-hyper-yacht to keep up? Old time rich guy Andrew Carnegie was a piece of shit in many ways, but he also used his money for this. How about it, Elon and Jeff?

I don't even know if I should be excited for this show because of the bad pub. It's getting buzz but the teaser is literally just her howling at the night. The synopsis on IMDB doesn't say much. So...what's this about?

Make ICE Smell Like Mustard And Onions Again (MISLMAOA)

The Story Of The Rogue Burger King In Pittsburgh Every city has its own fast food urban legend, here's Pittsburgh's.

Holy crap! This is the Burger King in my neighborhood!
link via @violetblue.bsky.social
www.cracked.com/article_2801...

Oh yeah! I remember fries served in white Styrofoam cups.

As much slop as having a collector's edition of an unfinished series.

Caption: Despite his status in the mathematics community, Torus never stopped feeling inferior to his more delicious relatives, Doughnut and Bagel. Image: A wireframe torus with arms and legs waves awkwardly to a donut and bagel. From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.com

One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions. I am in Spain this week launching the book - come along! www.tomgauld.com

Nah, it's actually a good question! You'd have to grey it up 😀

Gray, as I write in American English. Grey would be incorrect and stand out in any manuscript I would try to sell. Ah, two nations divided by a common language!

I see your Pink Panther reference and respect it.

Yeah, I hear you, and it will help if they are much swifter than the Bear was. Still no reason for it. I don't think it would have been hard to just complete an arc or two that would have taken probably 5 minutes or less of screen time. I think it's just writers getting lazy.

Title: The desk of a late, great author Panel 1: A woman asks "The publisher is on my back again. Have you guys got anything left in there?" Panel 2: A desk, with four drawers and a friendly face on each, replies "Nope" "Sorry." "Nothing." the last one says "I might have something..." Panel 3: The woman reaches into the drawer which says "That's it...Right At the back." Panel 4: The woman holds some paper "It's just a pizza menu." Panel 5: The drawers reply: "Oh well" "We've done our best" "We have secured a great reputation for eternity!" But another voice joins in: Panel 6: "Now, hold on there. I've got a few things that might Interest you..." It is the waste-paper basket, filled with crumpled balls of discarded paper.

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

Let theme at cake.

Dang, I'm jealous that you have a nice covering for yours. Well, I guess the upside is that visitors at my place can pick it up and "play" with the puzzle cube hehe

I have the same critique for this as the season before last of the Bear: It wasn't a season. The story arcs didn't arc--they only went one direction. Lame. Very, very lame. Some entertaining content, but not a full season.

If this were a movie, this is the point where the highly skilled combat veteran snatches the pistol away from the cowardly bully boy federal agent, pistol whips him with it, and calls him out. Because that "federal agent" is a little nothingburger with a badge.

A dark impressionistic panel of ICE beating a civilian in a Home Depot parking lot. There are flames in the background. The panel is captioned, "I've never seen the real monsters until now."

I agree with Lynda Barry. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Amongst the Witcher’s glaring idiocies is its gross mishandling of archery. Ima dive into the water with my bow and come up and immediately shoot a bunch of guys smfh

Image: three figures in protective suits watch from behind a screen as a child approaches a door-like mechanical structure in which stands a man. Between them is an amorphous glowing shape. Caption: Scientists at the institute of halloween studies have succeeded in creating "The treak": a quantum state that is simultaneously trick and treat. It is stable for a millionth of a second before decaying into a half-hearted prank and a mediocre candy bar.

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

Reasons to visit your local haunted bookshop: Open Until Very Late (image: moonlit bookshop) Staff with nine hundred years experience (image: skeleton bookseller) Home delivery by Headless Hoseman or flying fiend (image: deliveries being made) Readings from famous authors (Image: Shakespeare zombie) Stay and browse forever (Image ghost in a bookshop)

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’ Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels

Harrison Ford on Donald Trump: "It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. ... I don’t know of a greater criminal in history." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For Halloween, I will quote Wednesday: “Woe to the republic.”

Xander asks Buffy, whose dressed up as red riding hood: What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: weapons.

Gm! 🎃

I hope so too, but it is a tricky day.

Yes!!! It's bad pulp, but hey, pulp is fun.

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Image: The library of an ancient castle. A full moon shines through a gothic window. A vampire creeps up behing a carpenter. Caption: "It had not been easy, but the Count was glad that he had resisted drinking the carpenter's blood until his beautiful new bookshelves were complete."

A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com

This feels right. It is at least in part about the midterms. Which are utterly critical.