Novelist. Critic. Books about crooks.

Extended Greater Appalachia
Joined May 2009
I gotta believe that green juice, detoxification, and intermittent fasting will cure it.
It took about five minutes for Jesse Dalton’s iPhone Duo dream to shift into nightmare mode. He had only opened and closed the Duo four or five times when the hinge got stuck at a 45-degree angle. Dalton tried to pry it open and heard a loud pop. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3UrzwNd
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New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @GrahamRayman & @joeanuta politico.com/news/2026/10/26…
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This is as close as gay men of my era will ever get to seeing Tab Hunter in a date with Natalie Wood.
.@BarackObama I recommend the Cheeseburger Spring Rolls.
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I'll beat this dead horse until it comes back to life: not only do Jews and Muslims share status as tiny minorities in the US, but Judaism and Islam are far, far more similar to each other as religions than either is to Christianity.
MSU/YouGov: Only 11% of Jewish likely voters in Michigan hold a negative view towards Muslims. 34% of Michigan likely voters hold a negative view towards Muslims.
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Honestly tickled that The UPS Store just misses the top quartile of American chain snobbisme.
Is The Cheesecake Factory Really a Restaurant for Regular Americans? Here’s what the data show washingtonsun.com/policy/che…
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Homo floresiensis Don Rickles
Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."
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I remember the first time I saw myself *represented* in a major Hollywood blockbuster...
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À chaque Rubio son propre Parthénon.
Does Obama not understand that to most Americans the Cheesecake Factory is a very nice and fancy restaurant?
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Tapping my "One-time downloads are not use" sign.
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The Big Lebowski
You can’t say Rocky, Remember the Titans, Coach Carter, or The Sandlot. What’s the greatest sports movie of all time?
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Bring back NFTs at this point.
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