Alex Flinn

Really @CNN.com you’re going to use the announcement that President Biden has aggressive prostate cancer as AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROMOTE Jake Tapper’s book? Time to go back to David Muir for my news. How crass.

What happened to bringing the Oscar movies back to theaters the weeks before the awards? Now they’re only available to BUY on streaming!?!?!

Normalize putting menus on restaurant websites without making me have to pretend I’m ordering. You haven’t passed the test yet.

She cowrote it with her mother, so possibly her mother.

Britney Spears’ YA novel and my first YA novel came out the same year. One of them is still in print (but I did like Britney’s memoir).

We’re at Fuddruckers and they’re playing Mary Did You Know? super loud. I feel like the expiration date on that song is December 25.

Mariah Carey and Jose Feliciano can go until New Years.

I’m sorry for your loss but glad that you had him.

💙Kathy Bates AND legal procedurals but #Matlock requires too much suspension of disbelief. No you can’t go to a judge’s house. No you can’t film confidential settlement negotiations, & no you can’t practice under an assumed name. Do the writers not know a lawyer? Hire me as a consultant!

Good for Joe!

Abbott elementary starts at 8pm this week with an hour long special. Please spread the word! 🎄 🫡

Call me cranky, but I feel like the camera operators in the #MacysThanksgivingDayParade owe it to the parents of those band kids to wipe the raindrops off their lenses occasionally so the parents can see their kids on TV. One camera is clean and the other angle is covered in droplets.

Oh sorry not kidlit.

Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Jane Austen: It is the truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a cup must be in need of some tea. Mrs. Bennet had a plan to make certain that the tea was that of one of her daughters.

Thanks.

Scary. My uncle lost a fortune to a scammer who said he was going to go to jail for selling drugs (Of course he WASN’T selling drugs but the scammer said it was someone else with the same — very unusual — name) but the scammer could help him. I think the shame of it killed him.

A lot of folks are giving up in advance. Capitulating before a single skirmish.

Well, not this old warrior. I’ve seen much worse from the U.S. government in my day. I’m concerned for our country, but not a bit scared of these miscreants. I’m ready to do my part.

Who’s with me?

Dear Every App including my MAIL: “Have to” and “Must” aren’t exact synonyms so stop telling me I should use “must” to save a word. “Must” is for legal requirements like paying taxes; “have to” means REALLY should, like calling my mom. It’s like obscenity —I know it when I see it #grammar #computers

Tortie cat making a chair her own.

Here’s what keeps me from sitting down and writing. #IAmWriting.

I've seen 500 posts about returning shopping carts. But can we talk about people who don't return unwanted groceries -- even refrigerated/ frozen items? It's rude to leave raw chicken dripping salmonella in the checkout area. Just say, "I changed my mind." Who raised you?

Suddenly have great ideas for a book I haven't worked on in months. It's like it's poking its nose out of the holiday mess and saying, "Me! Me! Remember me?"

I'm here! Thanks to @cybilsawards.bsky.social for the invite! Looking forward to seeing what all the fuss is about!