Brian Belew

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Kristi Noem is a lying liar.

YouTube video by ArtFluids The Masque of the Red Death - The Dark Eye - Read by William S. Burroughs

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, read by William S. Burroughs, with art by Richard Downs and music by Thomas Dolby. (From the video game, The Dark Eye).

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I’m having a hard time answering this in 300 characters. (238) One more try: I found Jade, the protagonist, one of the most real portrayals in fiction of a certain kind of teenager. I related to her. Beyond that, the story is well-paced, suspenseful, tragic, often funny, horrible, and beautiful.

Jennifer gave me a signed copy of My Heart is a Chainsaw for my birthday!

I read Mongrels first and thought, “This is fun—especially the ending.” Then I read My Heart is a Chainsaw and realized, “This guy (SGJ) is something special. I must read more.” I’ve read everything since. I love this book!

Writer dude alongside a couple book covers: one elky, one werewolfy.

Anybody looking for me after lunch, I’m here: www.bcslibrary.org/2025-2026-au...

Handmade medieval style pattens made from Poplar and leather.

He scoured medieval paintings and tapestries and studied museum pieces to make our pattern. Then we carved the poplar, cut, stained, and sewed the leather, and even found medieval-style cut nails so that my son could have his very own pair of pattens. We still need to add a loop for the strap.

A new Crimson Corsair story is out today in Star Wars Insider # 234. Tensions rise and old wounds reopen as the Corsairs crew unravels… the Sinster Secret of the Binary Star!
I used some Nick Brokenshire art from our 2020 story here - sadly no new art - just prose this time. :(

Finally watched THE LIFE OF CHUCK, and it’s by far one of my favorite films of the year. Brimming with ideas & genuine emotions. Unlike any movie I’ve seen, but absolutely relatable to anyone. @mikeflanaganfilm.com has crafted the most human movie in years. Go in knowing as little as possible.

Ripley & Jonesy. New in my store andiwatson.bigcartel.com

YouTube video by Discovery Future DNA of The ONLY Clovis Ever Found Changes Everything We Know About The First Americans!

Very interesting!

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A young boy playing a Parker Nitefly guitar.

And his work was a small part of so much beauty.

My son, seven years ago, playing my guitar:

What happens when people make things and then put them into the world is wonderful. The lives and the works that they inspire; their acts of creativity that spawn more acts of creativity. People can be pretty amazing!

I didn’t know Ken Parker, but he seemed like a pretty good guy.

For almost 30 years now, I’ve written many songs, I’ve played many more songs badly, and I’ve enjoyed the privilege of having this instrument in my life. I’m sure that many, many others have similar stories.

I’m not a good guitarist. A Parker is too nice of a guitar for me.

I played it. I loved it. I knew I shouldn’t buy it.

The store owner must have felt sorry for this kid, me, and he made me an offer that I couldn’t pass up.

Mike didn’t bring home a guitar that day, but I did.

A couple of years later, my friend Mike was going guitar shopping. He asked if I wanted to go with him. We drove to a shop in San Francisco because they carried the Schecter guitar that he had an eye on. They had some used gear, too. A used Nitefly, in fact.

Ken Parker died today. Among many other things, he helped to design the Parker Fly and Parker Nitefly guitars. Weird and wonderful works of art and engineering.

In the 90s, I saw Reeves Gabriels playing a Fly with David Bowie. That day, I found a new favorite guitarist and a new gear obsession.

The last 8 months precedent means we now have a system where the POTUS can demand any business practice as he wishes, or he will impose “emergency” Executive Orders to tariff their sales & destroy them…

A free market is not possible in such conditions. It is servile.

I'm also supposed to be helping him make a jupon, but so far, that exists as a pile of as half-sewn muslin test pieces (and has since June).

Pattens are essentially wooden high-heeled flip-flops, worn with soft-soled shoes when walking outdoors. A couple of months ago, I didn't even know they existed.

Hand-carved medieval style wood pattens; essentially wooden flip flops to be worn with soft-soled shoes

I appreciate my son's belief in my ability to make things, but his optimism often overleaps my capabilities.

He's very interested in medieval history & fashion, so this Summer I’ve been recruited to help make pattens.

I'm pretty happy with the results considering I've never carved wood before!

I just started this one. It’s been classic Christopher Golden so far. I really like the setup.

Book cover for The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. The design shows a small white building with two windows and a central door, set against a misty, purple-toned landscape. Tall, shadowy trees rise behind it, draped with hanging moss, fading into a vivid orange and pink sky. The title “The Reformatory” appears prominently at the top in bold white letters with decorative flourishes, and the author’s name, “Tananarive Due,” appears at the bottom in large orange text.

I’m so late to this! The Reformatory by Tananarive Due is both beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s terrifying and horrifying. Set in Jim Crow-era Florida, it tells the story of Robbie Stephens, a 12-year-old sentenced to six months in a boys’ reformatory that’s rumored to be haunted.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

Our elected officials will spend a hundred times more effort and emotional distress over the Cracker Barrel logo and Taylor Swift's engagement than they will in even pretending that they care about gun control laws.

man, wow. who'd have ever guessed. vampires go everywhere, yeah? so do Blackfeet:

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

Complete malpractice that will lead to countless preventable American deaths.

Absolutely horrifying. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

andrew chen of 3sixteen explaining why you may not feel the tariffs yet

IG 3sixteen

Shocked, shocked at this wholly unexpected turn of events.

If only someone had made a free downloadable comic which explained why this might happen and why his tariff policy is a ticking bomb.

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