Best of September 2026
Man, September has been so ridiculously packed with stuff that I’m a day late, posting this. And? October and November make September look slow. Should be fun. I mean, if I survive.
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Blue Butterfly Land
some few BlueSky posts about much etc—and, now, animals!—I chanced across whilst waiting in some line over the past week or so.
Best Reads from Lately
Looks like way more than the usual ten articles &etc—oops. Sometimes I forget to post these, so they snowball, roll into an avalanche, take out the whole cabin.
Had never seen this
And, I wonder what Jack Donaghy, in his Ronald Reagan cufflinks and his GE everything, would think of it:
Blue Butterfly Land
a few posts from BlueSky I liked enough to put here, pass on. includes the increasingly robust “Animals” section. which may include a not-exactly-real animal.
Looks to be fun
Like Gary Larsen, I’ve done a few desert island stories. Well, two that I can think of (this one and “Wolf Island”). Maybe more? I have sort of a real problem remembering all the fiction I’ve published. Years and years ago, at a bar in New Orleans, I was talking to a woman who said
Signage
Started finding these scattershot through my directories. This can’t be all of them, but . . . it’s the ones I’ve found so far, in the five minutes I gave myself before ducking back into the novel I’m currently losing my mind in. If you got some, get em to me, I’ll stash them here.
We All Live in Dollyworld
Even without her. Late addition: more of the fun that was everywhere yesterday, and also, still, today (8.26).
Best Reads from Lately
some cool-to-me articles and reads I happened to stumble. or, okay: I happened to find stranded in a tab, most often . . .
Good query
a jog application from a former copywriter, asking to please work in Hollywood, and being pretty clever with it.
Best Reads from Lately
the articles and posts and the like I’ve read the last little bit, that I thought worth saving, maybe passing on.
Down on Pearl Street Mall
Looks like: Or, rather: “My name is Stephen Graham Jones, and I approve this message”
Blue Butterfly Land
Ten or fifteen posts from Bluesky that made me grin. Or, “let me grin?” Whatever the case, grinning was going on. Because of these posts.
Against Book Bans
a six pack of books here, that go toward pushing back against bans, banning, and the losers that do that banning.
Best Reads from Lately
ten or so articles, reviews, columns and the like I thought worth saving—well, that I enjoyed enough to pass along.
FSU PhD
Scrolling through my camera roll looking for a cool mouse I saw on a rack somewhere (the clicky kind, not the “eats all my cheese”-kind [related: I have no cheese]), having to get past all the UK shots, which I plan on doing a post about before too long, and . . . found this,
Blue Butterfly Land
posting this from, as Dire Straits calls it, “London town”: Was thinking about doing some animal-specific version of these posts, so kept these a bit separate. Probably won’t, though. But . . . I might keep a little sub-section here sometimes?
How to know you’re living right
Friends at cons give you the actual knife FROM this: from there to my hotel room: And . . . probably going to have to check my bag to get home, now. Also, keeping this friend close to the vest, as he probably doesn’t want to be the Connection . . .
Best Reads from Lately
best ten things (well, articles, columns, that-type thing) lately, from all over