Vernon Miles

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Any time the producers assign me to writing a sports story. Writing about Ronaldo and Saudi soccer teams and I just want to claw my eyes out.

I left my first journalism job at the Alexandria Gazette because I had to cover high school graduations and I'd *almost* prefer that.

"A Grain of Truth" slaps. It's a fan favorite but I also love "Lesser Evil" from the first collection too.

Baptism of Fire's my favorite, but I'm a sucker for "party of adventurers" type fantasy stuff and that's the book where Geralt's crew really comes together.

Both short story collections are great but Sword of Destiny has my two favorites: "Bounds of Reason" and "A Little Sacrifice"

One of the TVs at my office plays Jeopardy every day at 7 and it's my Hades torture that it's the only TV in the whole station without captions turned on

Pull up a chair and let me tell you about the murder of a little guy called John Fitzgerald Kennedy...

He’s been very protective ever since we brought Cadien home. When he starts crying, Hugo’s ears perk up and he runs over to check on him.

Story time

Kind of wild that for all the medieval RPGs we have, Mount and Blade is literally the only one to have jousting.

I’ve played it but I’m in a medieval fantasy mood

Needed something I could play with one hand and pause now that the baby is here, so starting my second Baldur’s Gate 3 playthrough. Dragonborn Resist Durge Paladin of Selûne: Sir Pentine

Comparing Trump to Hitler does not align to the values of the New Chinese Century. I would kindly encourage my comrades to instead reframe Trump with comparisons to second century warlord Dong Zhuo

Four days into having a child, what I’m most impressed by in Lone Wolf and Cub now is not Ogami Ittō’s impressive swordsmanship or taking care of a child alone but having time to do literally anything other than meet the basic needs of a baby

On Monday morning, at the height of the worst snowstorm in a decade, Cadien Fox Miles was born.

I already love him with all my heart. He’s absolutely adorable and sweet and we spent last night cuddling on the couch watching shows.

My wife and I just hit the 24 hour mark and so far the closest comparison I can make to the feeling is the Battlestar Galactus episode “33” the the have to jump every 33 minutes or the Cylons will get them. That level of raw exhaustion.

Respectfully it’s not an “unknown artist” it’s AI. This is a cropped version that doesn’t show the watermark.

Jeff Wheeler, The Minnesota Star Tribune

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

January 24, 2026 at 18:42 Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

For those who haven’t seen it yet, a heartbreaking statement from the victim’s parents.

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Day 8: What It Means If Brendan Banfield Takes the Stand Spotify video

Nothing that I know of, I’ve just been dressing for work since I started covering this court case on tv every day

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Best part of wearing a suit to work is getting a reason to wear my favorite tie

I’m sorry, I can’t stop thinking about this: imagine you’re from the actual Jefferson Territory delegation and you show up at Congress and they’re like “yeah, we already decided on this, Idaho”

Co-worker said they liked piña coladas. I got halfway through the rest of the questions from the song "Escape" before I realized my confused co-worker was talking about a cocktail on the lunch show and had never heard the song before - we were like one line away from moving into "call HR" territory

I made my friends watch it and the legacy of the movie has been whenever the Exodus story comes up once in a blue moon, my friends always whisper “thats just like the end of the Warcraft movie”

There are people who work in journalism whose greatest honor is more noble and lofty than being recognized at the local grocery store… and I am not one of them.

You hate to credit Johnny Depp so I’ll credit Ve Neill instead: I think Jack Sparrow opened a lot of doors for that in the early 2000s (an Emo bands, but that was a little less mainstream)

Anchor: Now Vernon, how long do we think this Banfield case will continue?
Me at the end of week 2:

99% of the time that’s a safe assumption for something I post

My Huguenot ancestors watching my parents raise us Catholic

I hate to say this as the descendant of Huguenots but Cardinal Richelieu in the Siege of La Rochelle painting goes hard

I love in George RR Martin’s stuff that people and events from before the books still cast big shadows, like Rhaegar in ASoIAF or the Blackfyre Rebellion in the Hedge Knight. It makes the world feel more real and lived in. People mention stuff off-hand the way we’d talk about the Cold War