Brent Shepherd (he/him)

It was relatively recently that I became aware of my misspelling whenever I made a "gun in the first act" reference. So: Anton Chekhov (with an 'h') is the Russian playwright. Pavel Chekov (no 'h') is the navigator of the starship Enterprise. Rest in peace, Walter Koenig. #ShepcatEditsEverything

Yeah, I’m calling it: Butker has the yips. He can’t get out of his own head. He’s cooked. Which in a way is great, because for four decades #ChiefsKingdom has relied far too much on placekicking. Time for our first-ballot Hall of Famers to start taking the ball to the house. #KCvsSEA

In Which, in the Run-Up to Election Day, I Issue a Plea for Empathy by Picking a Fight with Every Candidate for Office, Elected Official and Registered Voter, Just to Cover All Bases

TTW you’re reading the third novel in a truly marvelous series, and someone in the editorial pipeline doesn’t know the difference between *flaunting* and *flouting*. #ShepcatEditsEverything

If Ohioans elect Vivek Ramaswamy after he’s doubled down on his reprehensible last-ditch campaign ad with the public support of the rapidly decaying Sociopath in Chief, it may be (to date) the ne plus ultra of how much we hate women in this country.

Like something you’d blurt out while having a stroke, here’s today’s seemingly random three-word combo to beat.

Is there a more optimistic phrase in all of sports than "the go-ahead run comes to the plate." I mean, we've all been here before. How often is it the case, really? #CLEvsTB #ALCS

Two Tommys, same energy.

Not sure I've ever seen two ground-rule doubles in a single inning before. #MILvsLAD #NLCS

BOOM! Shohei's back, y'all. #MILvsLAD #NLCS

The Giants have a tight end named Isaiah Likely, which is like getting a call from someone who's not saved in your phone yet, so they come up as "Maybe: Isaiah." #NYGvsWAS

At the risk of seeming paranoid, I just opened the dishwasher to discover a drinking glass placed right side up. Which on one hand likely means I was distracted when I put it there, but on the other is exactly the sort of thing I'd do instead of stealing anything if I broke into someone's house.

#SNL host Shane Gillis just slipped an F-bomb in a live sketch. Somebody is being dispatched to wake up Brendan Carr as we speak.

Anti-Talarico trans panic ad airing during ABC's #TEXvsOU broadcast, in which a "concerned mother of five" reminds you that even the dumbest, most gullible rubes in America are guaranteed the right to vote.

MUNCY WITH THE DAGGER. #LADvsATL #NLDS

Truckers, this is what you've been training for your whole life.

Think how lucky I am to have been seated here with you. Luminous. Alluring. The smartest girl I ever spent the night with on a train.

And lately I've been thinking that if a drone strike happened to take out Mar-a-Lago, a majority of us wouldn't consider it to be an attack on American soil. Since we're talking about small prices to pay.

MUNCY! #ATLvsLAD #NLDS

BREAKING: It's not even Monday yet, and I'm already grinding my teeth.

FREDERICK! #ATLvsLAD #NLDS

Kenneth Walker III. You can’t stop him. Youcanonlyhopetocontainhim. #KCvsLV #ChiefsKingdom

Colson Whitehead. Harlem, 1986. A work of fiction, yes, but a prescription for our times, a broader interpretation of “termination for cause.”

YES. But for any of this to happen, two things: 1. Besides flipping the House, we need 51 Democratic senators, not counting Fetterman. 2. Hakeem and Chuck must be removed from leadership with votes of no confidence. They don't have the cholesterol for this fight. We need wartime consiglieres.

If you believe in the Holy Spirit and the existence of angels, you may have a natural predisposition toward compliance with the surveillance state. This post is about Christian nationalism and Flock cameras.

Al Roker just said this is the first year since 1814 that there hasn’t been a named hurricane in the Atlantic, which is great, but also I imagine, at least in terms of the continuity of seasonal cycles, some climatologist has posited, “Is that a harbinger of something we should be worried about?”

Kash Patel's girlfriend says she fell in love with him because he made her feel seen.

Client: We’re hoping you can help us out. We don’t have a lot of money left in the budget after the logo, but we’d like to add sort of a mascot for our product line that’s just, like, absolute fuckin’ nightmare fuel. Graphic Designer: I got you, fam.

Yeah, I have violent thoughts all the time, too, but I have impulse control, and my whims aren't bolstered by unlimited law enforcement resources and the most powerful military in the history of the world as I struggle in vain to the fill the void in my life left by a dead father who never loved me.

K9? To the house? Already? OK, I'll allow it. #KCvsMIA #ChiefsKingdom

Jake, I'm still waiting on the proposal for your book about Trump's diminished mental capacity to complement the one you wrote about Biden's. Waltz, you literally shared classified plans to bomb Yemen with the executive editor of a news outlet in real time. Both of you, go fuck yourselves.

Speakeasy unisex restroom, in lieu of a mirror over the sink.

My grocery shopping regularly takes me past the specific Sonic Drive-In — now defunct, its stalls empty, its landscaping grown rampant and weedy — that was the villain of my tater tot origin story. In this economy and political climate, all schadenfreude matters, no matter how minor it may seem.

As the old adage goes, "It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask for permission." But because legal procedure and congressional oversight move so slowly in any case involving his demolition, renovation, construction, and renaming efforts in D.C., Trump's M.O. is "Third option: Go fuck yourself."