Paul McNamee

Your monthly reminder:

Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write.

Maybe this will work.

It amazes me how much age played a part in the media when it came to Biden but here's Orange Adolf half dead in office and not a peep.

We’re 8 months in to Trump’s term, and the official administration position is that all good things are because of Trump and all bad things are because of Biden and Obama.

This shit would embarrass Orwell.

Construction on Trump’s $200 million White House ballroom to begin in September | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has been envisioning a new ballroom on the White House campus for a decade and a half.

Full on Gilded Age / Robber Barons now.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/p...

From his knees, a naked man throws out his hands and arches his head back in anguish. Dangling like puppet strings, loose cords attach to his flesh at nodes that look like electrodes. His face is blank—not expressionless but literally a flat template to cover with one of the many masks lying on the vibrant purple ground in front of him. Light reflecting from his pale skin tints his flesh an unnatural desaturated gray-blue. The background offers an angry contrast of red, clouded with smoke rising from behind, a reflection of the turbulence building inside.

ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED (1978)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 30" x 22"

An early career illustration that might be best remembered for its later inclusion in the liner notes of Meatloaf's BAT OUT OF HELL II album. 1/3

NYTimes headline reading "NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say"

Onion headline: 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens'

THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE

I tried explaining crypto to my 9-year-old and she said," it sounds like someone is trying to sell you their imaginary friend."

😅😅😅

“We’re smart enough to invent AI,
Dumb enough to need it,
And too stupid to know if we did the right thing.”

- Jerry Seinfeld

“The Flight Across the Lake”, a painting by one of my favorite artists (N.C. Wyeth), featuring one of my favorite fictional characters (Natty “Hawkeye” Bumppo), in a scene from one of my favorite books (The Last of the Mohicans). Just sublime.

#artsky
#booksky

The thing with intentional misinfo or satire tweets is that I am not on Xitter to verify. (Same with [laughably] “Truth” Social)

So, probably not gonna comment or share unless someone else has verified.

Medieval knight’s complete skeleton discovered beneath Polish ice cream parlor | CNN Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a medieval knight, buried under a shuttered ice cream parlor in the Polish city of Gdańsk.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream and nightmares of blood-soaked medieval battles that haunt us forever.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/s...

Robert E. Howard: What if you saw a cosmic horror and hacked at it with a sword?

Alexandre Dumas, born July 24, 1802. Author of THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1844), THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (1846), and other great stories of adventure.
“I am upset by the fact that there are limits for genius but not for stupidity.”
#AlexandreDumas #TheThreeMusketeers #TheCountOfMonteCristo #amreading

Overheard: I'm surprised the nickname “Pedofuhrer" hasn't caught on yet.

Getting Naked on Main: It Was Her House First — The Haunt* I’m not gonna lie: I’ve been putting this off. It’s not like I didn’t know I had a book coming out today, and it’s not that I had better things to do with my time than tell you, the reading public, ab...

Cherie Priest is a fine writer with a new book out. Her recent blog post is a somewhat harrowing but important read.

www.cheriepriest.com/blog/getting...

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Rereading a favorite Robert E. Howard story, The Gods of Bal-Sagoth, in the same paperback where I read it originally, over 40 years back. This is the stuff of high adventure, with a lost city, sorcery, and monsters.

This joke hurts my pride .. in the name of love. At least you didn’t post it on New Year’s Day.

we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history

GULF OF MEXICO

Hard agree. Trying to teach my kids to be comfortable with silence and letting their minds roam, inspect, etc.

Living with your own mind is a life skill.

The Conan/Tarzan commission I got from Thomas Yeates a couple of decades back made the new issue of Comic Book Creator, #39. Tom said he really got inspired drawing that one.

Schumer is an idiot who clearly is only being sold the business ‘model’ and doesn’t even see or understand the IP theft aspect, at all.

ATOMIC ROBO books

Love me some Kickstarter rewards. Long live ATOMIC ROBO!

Kindle edition up for pre-order now. Includes my story, “Red Cold Front”

a.co/d/6euakUn

Counterpoint: Fuck off

Diamondback by Derrick Ferguson

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle by Edgar Rice Burroughs

#fridayreads

Ashamed I campaigned for, did an appearance for, and voted for this man. Maybe this is who he was all along. I don’t know. What I know is that being a Moderate to serve your constituents is one thing. Betraying those constituents to the thugs wiping their ass with the Constitution is something else.

One on One with Mike Sullivan My interview with one of the contributing authors to Feral Lands

Did an interview about my story in the new anthology Feral Lands. #horrorbooks #horrorreaders #horrorwriters

newworlds.substack.com/p/one-on-one...

An eternal truth I stumbled across watching a stand-up clip from @danagould.bsky.social, which explains so much of the nonsense I see on social media:

“Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don’t know how anything works.”