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Another of Trump's Trademark "Complete Lies"
October 1, 2019
Daniel Dale on Twitter, with a fact check of a typically trumped-up tale from Hair Furor: Daniel Dale @ddale8Trump told US diplomats at the UN that CNN built...
What's The Buzz?
September 30, 2019
Given how late I wrote it on a Sunday night, my newsletter entry about pricing your work as an entrepreneur has generated a surprising amount of interest and...
Don't Sell Yourself Short
September 30, 2019
Let's talk a little bit about money and self-employment or selling your own work for yourself. When I left my last day job to go into business for myself --...
The Puck Apologizes, 2019
September 28, 2019
If you mortals are offended,think but this, and all is mended:there was neither foul nor harm,thus no cause to give alarm.And this outraged twitter mob,a...
A Series of Unrelated Events
September 27, 2019
A question I keep seeing is: how are Republicans still defending Trump in the wake of the transcript, much less everything else that has come out? Now, I...
The Innocence of Donald Trump
September 26, 2019
So, I'm reading the whistleblower report this morning. A lot of national security experts and legal experts are poring over this thing and on those issues, I...
Dial H For HONK
September 24, 2019
So, I got myself Untitled Goose Game for the Switch on Sunday as a little treat after the successful bookstore launch. I've been looking forward to it since...
When Turns The Wheel
September 24, 2019
One of the persistent obstacles in getting to impeachment -- whether we're talking about the legal proceedings, the outcome, or just the word itself in the...
Of Little Shops, And Horror
September 23, 2019
In an email conversation with my father about the Flying Camel and our increasing visibility and growing buzz, he made a very interesting point about...
Is This [Stephen King's] It [Chapter Two]? Is This All There Is?
September 23, 2019
So, my capsule review of It Chapter 2 is: the parts that were supposed to be scary were funny, the parts that were supposed to be dramatic were boring, but...
A Case of Mistaken Identity
September 21, 2019
So, the bane of the Flying Camel since it opened has also been one of its charms: it's really easy to overlook a hole-in-the-wall jazz club tucked away in a...
The Wolf Who Cried, "Oh, Boy!"
September 20, 2019
One thing that Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leadership has consistently overlooked is how it helps Trump when they do not take action in response to his...
Brevity is the Soul of an Octopus
September 20, 2019
When I applied for the gig running the bookshop, I was mainly looking for something to do with myself outside the house and incidentally a way to help my...
The Ides of September and Everything After
September 19, 2019
So, this thread. Greg Olear @gregolearThe #Whistleblower could well blow the lid off three-plus years of Trump/Russia shenanigans and expose Trump as the...
Of Boris and the Beeb
September 18, 2019
One of today's viral clips that went around the twitternets involved an angry and distraught father confronting British Prime Minister Boris Andnatasha...
The Dice Are Cast
September 17, 2019
When I walked into my bookstore this evening to find the little apothecary jar I had filled up with sets of gaming dices and pouches was completely empty,...
Unboxing My Office
September 17, 2019
…slowly, and then all at once. Part of it was that when we moved in to a house provided by family, the owners hadn't finished moving out. It's been an...
Of late, I have dreamed of my mother.
September 16, 2019
It started with a dream about a family gathering. The dream was obviously set after my mother's death because she wasn't present and my dad was running the...
Pennywise, Pound Senseless
September 15, 2019
So, last night we watched the movie retroactively titled It Chapter 1, the first part of the more recent adaptation of Stephen King's novel IT. Our...
I'm Starting A Newsletter
September 14, 2019
Hey, so, I'm starting a newsletter. I've run a newsletter before. In the years before Patreon, that was my way of connecting with readers and giving special...