Nicholas Kaufmann

The good news is, this is one of Jack Black's less insufferable performances, keeping it pretty grounded for most of the movie. Cate Blanchett is great, as always. (2/2)

THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS is a cute children's fantasy that I think kids will like a lot (provided they don't mind some mild scares). I enjoyed it, although I found it a little by-the-numbers and forgettable. Then again, I'm not the target audience. (1/2)

Some cool book news coming up soon!

NYPD searching for suspect in Brooklyn subway hate crime attack Police are looking for the suspect who they say punched a 54-year-old man on a subway train and made antisemitic comments.

"Authorities say the suspect punched the victim in the face and body, made anti-Jewish statements and removed the victim's yarmulke from his head."

Where did you get that actual video of Laird with his birthday cake?

@lairdbarron.bsky.social Happy birthday, my friend! I hope you're doing well!

Spooky Science Lab is back!

Also, if you're in the NYC area, be sure to catch Spooky Science Lab Live 2, on Sunday, April 19th! Catch Dave and Nick in front of a live audience at the Flying Fox Tavern, 6-78 Woodward Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens! Doors open at 5 PM! Be there!

And may the fungus be with you...

My review of ENSHITTIFICATION: WHY EVERYTHING SUDDENLY GOT WORSE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT by Cory Doctorow.

All the Beautiful Sinners Amazon.com: All the Beautiful Sinners eBook : Jones, Stephen Graham: Books

Alert! The e-book of ALL THE BEAUTIFUL SINNERS by @sgj.bsky.social is on sale for just $1.99!

FACT CHECK: Posts show American author Nicholas Kaufmann, not Duterte’s lawyer The American author has previously called out Filipinos for mistaking him for Duterte’s lawyer

This is a better, less off-putting link:

"Also, buy my books!"

It's still happening! Apparently, my picture is still being used in articles about Nicholas Kaufman, the ICC lawyer who's representing Rodrigo Duterte. This crap will never end. (A note about the article: It's obviously poorly translated into English from Filipino, so it's not entirely accurate.)

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Happy book birthday to my pal @randeedawn.com, whose new novel WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM hits bookstores today!

A great one, even if it's Hammer's last gasp.

I agree that without verification, they're just selling a logo.

Also, anyone can pay $10 to get the certification mark without the Guild verifying if the work really is human-written.

Human Authored Usage Guidelines - The Authors Guild Human Authored is a certification mark owned by the Authors Guild that may be used to indicate that a book was written by a human and not generated by AI. The mark, illustrated below, consists of the ...

The Authors Guild is now offering "Human Authored" certification marks for literary works in which "the text itself was fully authored by one or more human beings and not generated by AI." What a time to be alive!

A photo of me holding up H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu adapted and illustrated by R.J. Ivankovic in the style of a Dr. Seuss book for beginning readers.

I forgot to mention that Chaosium donated a bunch of merch for the big Call of Cthulhu game Saturday night at #lich2026, and I walked away with this adorable book!

Damn.

Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

Hello, fellow Girl Scout Cookies aficionados! If you're looking to pick up a few boxes, please consider buying from my "niece" Lily in Connecticut!

Sexy self-portraits, $1,000,000!

He's shaking so many hands it even bruised his neck!

I'm starting to reintroduce wheat to my diet after eating gluten-free for over a month. What was the first meal I had? A bagel and cream cheese, of course!

Deep cut reference

People are saying SCREAM 7 is worse than SCREAM 3, and that's really saying something!

Thank you!

Favorite Short SF from 2025 Continuing my roundup of excellent science fiction, fantasy, and horror from 2025, here are some of my favorite short stories and collections published last year. (For my favorite novels and novell…

Big thanks to @benfrancisco.bsky.social for including MONUMENTS IN DARKNESS in his "Favorite Short Story Collections from 2025" roundup, calling it "an excellent collection of horror, dark fantasy, and weird fiction from a master of the genre." You can read the rest of the review at the link!

Every six months.

Back home from #lich2026! It was a lot of fun! Big thanks to head honcho Patrick J. Kennedy for inviting me as a "Guest of Horror" and Charles Barouch for putting together the program! Extra special thanks to Fred Van Lente and Crystal Skillman for being my travel buddies and convention companions!