There needs to be a class for every electrical engineering degree that teaches the physics of pouring water into a coffee maker, and then the coffee into a cup, because every coffee maker I've ever owned is shit. Water and coffee everywhere but where they're supposed to be.

One of the things I've noticed about being older is you sure walk around with your pants unzipped a lot more than you used to.

What music am I writing to today? Ozzy died, man. I'm listening to the Prince of Darkness. youtube.com/watch?v=hQ_Z-1…

Damn. I guess super heroes ARE real. yahoo.com/news/articles/…

Who's the grooviest Sesame Street guest? Oh, yeah. Only Ash Williams.

Wow. The weather got a little frisky in my northwest Missouri town yesterday.

This summer, I wrote a memoir (all but the final chapter; it hasn't happened yet) because I was going through fiction doldrums. I'm back, and 10,000 words into my next horror novel. Summers are good.

"So You Had To Build a Time Machine" Is on my publisher's Friday Highlight. Check it out. See this Instagram photo by @camcat_books instagram.com/p/DM0v9oZR2hF/…

Let's talk monsters. nvusalien.com/exploring-cryp…

Writing with The Runaways today. youtube.com/watch?v=w86QcI…

Vampires would get a lot of easy meals if they'd simply advertise themselves as "organic phlebotomists."

I’d really like Weird Al to parody songs from my youth, like Beethoven's "Symphony No. 9 in D minor," Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik," or Gok's "Beating on Rock with Mammoth Tusk."

Wait. This bust is of Tom Brady and not Sloth from "The Goonies"? I'm confused.

Coming September 8, 2025, a new Foreword by Loren Coleman (Loren Coleman) in Jason Offutt’s new book Chasing North American Monsters. The foreword addresses 2025’s latest on the etymology of the term “cryptozoology.” Jason Offutt. I write, and stuff. Llewellyn Cryptozoo Museum

I'm editing, and came across the line, "...she crossed her arms over her chest." I deleted "across her chest," because where the fuck else would she cross them? I hate being stupid.

How to say you're painfully white without saying you're painfully white: you're upset over the new Cracker Barrel logo.

Why Gen X is the way it is: You know what Baby Boomer dads did when their kid told them he didn't want to play Little League baseball? They threw him in front of a fucking car. That's just the way parenting worked back then.

Woot.