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Today on the blog is the final installment of my short story project. The story, Quantity, is about living with the ever present American phenomenon of gun violence. A vignette of a walk through town dealing with "The New Normal" reddreddington.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/q...

Just saw You Can See Everything and now I wanna get back on some Letterboxd bullshit

Early bday present from me to me

I’m having a hard time with the Cheesecake Factory discourse. As a cook, I respect the hell out of the place. Working that big a menu as cleanly as they do is a triumph. But the place IS pretty silly.

This isn’t my first rodeo. It’s my second rodeo, but I’m just now realizing that two rodeos are still not enough to be good at rodeo.

There are centuries of books I haven't read. I'll take any excuse I can get to thin out the "To Be Read" list. Being AI generated is a perfect reason to not read a book

Horror authors and their themes: Lovecraft - I saw a black person and it drove me insane King - The scariest thing on the planet is a novelist Barker - If you’ve ever had fun, you go to hell

Reposting this not because I think it's a great post or anything, it's just a really weird story that happened the other day and I can't stop thinking about it

It’s very interesting to be the same height as Tyrese Maxey. I’m taller than most people but I see him next to Joel Embiid and he looks tiny

Uhhh. Sorry. 35 degrees? That’s your best offer? I’m staying in bed

Oh shit. Guess I’m gonna read some comic books

Sometimes I don’t feel like I’m turning 40 in a few weeks and sometimes I fall asleep reading on the couch, drop my book and tweak my wrist picking it back up

Been giving it a lot of thought and my favorite Marvel movie of all time is "How Many Spider-men Can Fit In A Jamba Juice" youtu.be/U5MYa4tyMeU?...

Why don't I hit my word goals? Because I just spent the whole morning researching a conspiracy theory about architecture

We're 30% of the way through October and I just now remembered to update to a scary screen name

I wrote about the Interactive Fiction Competition for Remap!

Shane Gillis filmed his show on my block, ruining street parking for several weeks. So he sucks for that too

This morning I'm at an historic hotel. It's got a beautiful lobby, nice rooms with a view of the town and, as far as I can tell, no temperature control on the shower

Ah marlins man. The guy that pays thousands of dollars to try to show his phone to people intently watching the most exciting moments of baseball. Year in, year out

After reading Across The Universe by @natanlast.bsky.social I've been doing like 5-6 crosswords a day. Newspapers, magazines, Puzzmo, indie blogs. I did two from K. Austin Collins bangers this past week (NYT 10/3 and New Yorker 10/5) and I was in heaven

Every once in a while I'll pick up a copy of the Philly Inquirer and think that writing about baseball must be the most fun job in the world

On the eve of official Spooky Season, I wrote about how I've never written a horror story, but I want to and what that entails reddreddington.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/s...

If Philly could bottle the energy of "It's so over" and "We're so back," we could fund Septa for a century

On the eve of official Spooky Season, I wrote about how I've never written a horror story, but I want to and what that entails reddreddington.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/s...

Just started playing Well Dweller and that game seems pretty neat. It feels great and looks great. Strong early impression

The Philadelphia Phillies are trying to kill me

I don't know who thought it was a good idea to schedule playoff baseball for a September afternoon, but go Phils either way

Oh neat, today's New York Times crossword and Puzzmo crosswords were both made by the same person, Hanh Huynh. I wonder how often that happens

All my Phillies fan friends are so mad their team won the game to hold onto their spot in the postseason, what a beautiful city of normal people.

Sure, I've never seen a team limp into October worse than this, but a win's a win

Resident Evil? More like PRESIDENT Evil

Why does USA Today have the worst possible online format for their crosswords?

I very badly misread this and thought it was a Scarlett Johansson in ghost in the shell situation

I wrote about one of the best books I've read in a while. A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper reddreddington.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/r...

I don’t know much about Hasan Piker. I just know that he has big money, big muscles, and the ability to drive his political rivals utterly insane. If that’s not the modern American dream I don’t know what is

There's no better feeling in the world than when you open up the fridge having forgotten that you got a rotisserie chicken a couple days ago

Not sure what it says about humanity that when something is announced to come out in 2030, the prevailing reaction is “well all be long dead by then”

Wordle In One, part of NYT's new weekly bonus puzzles, is probably the best thing since Wordle first started Wordle in 1 Bonus September 9, 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0:50

No words but Hell Yeah

I just heard some 15~ year olds singing Cotton Eyed Joe and I don’t know what to make of this world anymore

Mother 4 announced, will only get Japanese language release