We asked Lauren Boebert to autograph a “Beetlejuice The Musical” playbill outside the courthouse today.

Apropos of nothing, I had a girlfriend in college who had a job as a receptionist at a screw factory in Illinois and she would sometimes answer the phone with, 'Wanna screw?'

Chill shark alert.

Hard Case Crime Me in every bookstore: FIVE DECEMBERS! HEY - HEY YOU, RANDOM PERSON; C'MERE. I GOT YOUR BOOK. HEY! WHY YOU RUNNING AWAY?!

When you live in a major US metropolis like me, you have to be ready for hard hitting news pieces like this: Famous Idaho Potato Tour Makes its Final Stops on Oahu. khon2.com/local-news/fam…

勞倫斯·達雷爾說一個城市成為一個世界在你愛一個的它的居民。上海是一個全世界。

To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we teamed up with 20 indie booksellers across America (all of North America, since one is in Ontario!), who have put up Hard Case Crime displays like the ones you see here. We can't thank them enough. 1/

We ran into Anthony Blinken on this particular evening. I don't know if he did anything to improve US-China relations, but I'm pretty sure I accomplished a lot in that regard.

The optimistic take, if there is one, is the Court is telling Biden it’s open season, and there’s no bag limit.

This is probably news to nobody but me, but it turns out kiwi fruit originated in China and the kiwis in China are off the hook. Which is just one of many nice things I’ve found here.

I entered the world's smallest Chinese erotic poetry contest (two entries this year) and won with this innuendo-laden masterpiece.

From the Department of Daily Honolulu Rainbows

Fun with knots on my sailboat. This one isn't in my Ashley Book of Knots, and I don't think it is a sailing knot.

Someone got me started reading poetry from the Tang dynasty. I like the form so I thought I’d try writing one of my own. In Chinese it rhymes and stuff.

夜森林裡再迷路
無人能幫該自去
風樹葉颯記親愛
道黑但心燈能來
望星後低頭夢她
再走森林路無怕
危險道引到珍寶
喝夜露長力開跑

I guess it was an ok walk to the office this morning.

If you live in Germany, this is coming out in September.

Everyone should try having a Senator they like. It's great. Thanks Brian Schatz

It's 12:06 am in Paris which means this just came out:

I taught my son how to ride a bike on Friday. On Saturday I got to teach him lessons about life and the English language when he woke up and said, 'I hope I haven't forgotten how to ride a bicycle.'

Update: 我兩個禮拜都沒睡覺過了，都沒說過了英文； 可能是我變瘋。我的想法越來越奇怪。是這麼樣：我正在鍾情一個從上海來的美女。她出生在七月七號，七夕節。這個織女，在餘燼昏光裡，正在我的德州牛郎心上巧地做細針線。可能是中國東方航空公司會變我們的喜鵲橋樑，銀河系不可以分我們。