By Grabthar’s Hammer, it is exquisite.

Excellent! She did a great job as the judge for your Harvest Moon art competition.

Anyone put a chainsaw bayonet on an assault rifle in their book, yet? Turns out that is a thing.

How I imagine my short story submissions in the slush pile of first readers

Lifelong St. Louis Cardinals fan here, and I can’t understand how so many of the “best fans in baseball” are triggered by the organization’s stand against bullying of LGBTQ youth.

In case you missed it… Which, of course, you didn’t miss it, because you’re busy dealing with all you’ve got to deal with to stay sane in this world, and all that… But anyway, I made you a blog post.

Oh, man. There will never be another Ace. He was an outstanding guitarist. I hope he’s playing “New York Groove” somewhere tonight.

Tommy Baseball

This Substack piece by Henry Oliver has me feeling a tad more optimistic about the state of literature. But I still have some questions, and will probably riff off Oliver’s thoughts in a blog post next week. open.substack.com/pub/commonread…

as an English professor, I’d go as far to say these days I’m excited to see typos & fragments & run on sentences & page-long paragraphs & awkward word choices & any imperfection that suggests a human being sat down to do the very hard thing of writing a college paper.

Welcome to a new week! Start it off by reading this Friday Five Q&A with Chicanx poet Jose Hernandez Diaz 👇🏼

Very enjoyable read, and relatable. (Although I don’t get mani-pedis, I have made similar comments unintentionally, including to co-workers. Fortunately I was never summoned to HR.)

Best concert movie ever.

One of the greatest movie endings ever.

Looking for some writing tips? Learn from one of the masters, Ray Bradbury (video). andrewcareaga.com/2025/10/20/vid… #WritingCommunity #writingtips #writinghacks

Some great reads here!