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With the San Antonio Spurs sitting at the bottom of the Western Conference with a 4-20 record and just recently ending a franchise-worst 18-game losing streak, they are looking to make some changes. According to Hoops Wire, one player the Spurs have expressed interest in is Phoenix Suns forward Bol Bol. Last year, Bol played for the Orlando Magic with whom he averaged 9.1 points and 21.5 minutes in the 70 games he played.

Andrea Sorrentino and I have teamed with Blackwing, the producer of great notebooks and pencils, to create a limited edition run of Bone Orchard notebooks! The notebooks feature some of Andrea’s beautiful art from our graphic novel, The Passageway… The notebooks are available now, over at Blackwing. Link below… https://blackwing602.com/products/blackwing-artist-series-slate-notebook-andrea-sorrentino BLACK HAMMER Black Hammer: The End #1 came out this month and I thought I would share a first look at some art from the upcoming Issue #3 by series artist Malachi Ward…

i’m back in the middle of a horrid grinding obsession with adventure time. i know, i know, when am i not, but like, for real, it’s intense and A Lot and i feel bad about continually messaging unsuspecting friends about it so instead i’m sending it in an email to dozens of people.  anyway so the harm i am inflicting on you today, dear reader, is an overly involved post about martin mertens, noted deadbeat dad/head trauma-sufferer.

Hey there - A number of you said yesterday’s post, Four Stories, was not explicit enough that my second book—Master, Minion—is live on Amazon, Apple and will soon be available in independent bookstores and on audio book. Invaluable feedback! For those of you that already bought a copy, thank you. For those of you that have not, the cover is the image below and you can buy it by clicking this link.

By the time the 90s were coming to an end, the horror franchise landscape as the public and producers had known it was changing. The established icons – Freddy, Jason, Chucky, and ol’ Michael Myers – were still relatively strong coming out of the 80s, but towards the end of the next decade things had taken an obvious downward turn. Friday the 13th had stayed long past its welcome, A Nightmare on Elm Street had ended then started up again to mixed results, Don Mancini was beginning to take Child’s Play in interesting but slightly alienating directions, and Halloween was simply flailing for any kind of direction at all.

Even ThisI Get to Experience (Penguin Press, 2014) by Norman Lear, who died this week at the age of 101, moved me when I read it a few years ago. In the aftermath of his death, I re-read my margin notes. Because his is a remarkable career in television—he was a true freethinker—I want to pay tribute to a creator. I wrote this review. (For additional, personal thoughts, including meeting Mr.

I found out about this book from another one I read called "The Psychology of Money." The title caught my attention, especially since I'm someone who enjoys alone time and is always pressed for time. I often wish there were more hours in a day. Even though I already know a few things about the topic, this book surprised me with some new insights. Here are my top 10 learnings from this book:

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023). I’ll warn you right up front, this book deals with the horrific topics of child abuse and, ultimately, murder/suicide. You may have some memory of the book’s subjects, the six Hart children, who made headlines in 2018 when their adoptive parents drugged them and drove them off a cliff into the ocean.

Like most 80s kids, I learned about getting your period by reading Are One There God, it’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume, and learned about sex from a passed around bookmarked copy of Forever. Literally, the girls passed it under their desks in class in 6th grade and I remember reading the particular passage ten times before I passed it on, because I could not fathom WHAT they were talking about.