Oh, I read the article, and it also lists the income of a:
ghostwriter: $164,768
fashion substacker: $275,300
comedian you've probably heard of: $142,000 ($100K of which is from writing and social media posting)
"seasoned" journalist [of book-length material as well as magazine articles]: $500,000
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This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
John Lennon doing that stupid walk
Walking away from Omelas like
AI shills coming after McCarthy's prose is going to turn me into a character from one of McCarthy's novels.
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
1970s ad: GUESS WHO'S BUILDING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. The Shah of Iran is sitting on top of one of the largest reservoirs of oil in the world. Yet he's building two nuclear plants and planning two more to provide electricity for his country. He knows the oil is running out - and time with it. But he wouldn't build the plants now if he doubted their safety. He'd wait. As many Americans want to do. The Shah knows that nuclear energy is not only economical, it has enjoyed a remarkable 30-year safety record. A record that was good enough for the citizens of Plymouth, Massachusetts, too. They've approved their second nuclear plant by a vote of almost 4 to 1. Which shows you don't have to go as far as Iran for an endorsement of nuclear power. NUCLEAR ENERGY. TODAY'S ANSWER.
Fun ad from the 70s
Oh man, Seth Rollins, Sam Rollins, Beth Rollins, Areth Rollins, Cody Rolling, Robby Rollings, Ramblin' Joe Rollins...so many masked Rollinses!
Headline from the New York Times: Tatjana Wood, Award-Winning Comic Book Colorist, Dies at 99. She was part of the acclaimed creative teams on comic book series for DC Comics, including Swamp Thing, which she called Shvampy in her German accent.
Only those of you who are comics nerds like me are going to recognize this name, but longtime colorist Tatjana Wood has apparently passed at age 99.
Since we're doing "saying writers should read is gatekeeping" again, I'll tell the tale of my friend whose dad wrote a book and truly believed it was going to be hailed as the best book of all time...bc he'd only read 2 novels in his life & was therefore "free from influence."
Spoiler: it was not!
And almost every beginning writer makes the same sort of editors and commits the same sort of infelicities. Clearly, writing is a *developmental* practice!
Good thing no one anywhere ever said you can "only" be a writer/filmmaker if you read/watch movies! The advice is to frequently and thoughtfully engage with your art form of choice. If that upsets someone, too bad? People are also upset that vaccines are real and I don't care about them either
And filmmaking is almost necessarily collaborative! You can't get away from someone on set or in the editing chair somehow having watched a lot of movies!
Really, no surprise that the last big reading-is-ableist jackass was and is the employee of a weapons manufacturer currently slaughtering members of an ancient and beautiful culture because two American TV stars said to.
Oh shut the fuck up. "Fascist"? The fascists would love if people stopped reading or even watching films before trying to write or make a movie. Unleash the great waves of kitsch, cliché, and state-mandated first thoughts and "common sense."
That's part of why fascist regimes are censorious.
Worth noting: it's easier to be a Times best-seller in, say February, than it is in December. And there are many categories, and people way down at the bottom of the list may still legitimately be a Times best-seller.
So #14 for one week in February, and various million-sellers are both NYT bests!
An old screenshot talking about Google on top. It says "Google is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit. Below is a screenshot from The Phantom Menace, where Anakin Skywalker is walking next to a building and behind him you see the shadow of Darth Vader.
On Saturday, March 7th Jello Biafra suffered a hemorrhagic stroke caused by high blood pressure.
As per Jello:
People think it's sad when your dad goes out to get cigarettes and doesn't come home, but it's even sadder when he comes back empty-handed. Shop wouldn't sell him any. Said he's not cool enough to smoke. Said he could have only have a scented candle.
Crazy scenes at the end of the Scottish Cup Quarter Final between Celtic and Rangers.
Celtic beat Rangers 4-2 on penalties at Ibrox and it caused a pitch invasion by both set of fans at FT.
Memories of the 1980 Scottish Cup Final. Celtic fans celebrate on the pitch. Rangers fans invade the pitch to attack them.
I'm glad this happened during the six weeks every four years in which I actually retain knowledge of the rules and goals of curling.
Yup!
Black and white photograph of Ruadán Books CEO R.B. Wood standing behind a table full of books at the Long Island Convention of Horror in February 2026. Photo by Nick Mamatas. Text on the photos reads "So long and thanks for all the LICH."
A collage of three photographs taken at the Long Island Convention of Horror in February 2026, featuring (clockwise): R.B. Wood with James Chambers, R.B. Wood with Nicholas Kaufmann, and R.B. Wood flanked by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas.
We had a fantastic time at @lihorrorcon.bsky.social this year! Thank you to the con organizers, and it was great to see (and meet!) so many friends and readers.
Photos: @mothman13.bsky.social, @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social, @nmamatas.bsky.social, and @datlow.bsky.social.
#BookSky #HorrorSky
She only got five grand because she was SUPPOSED to kill a guy named Humphrey Goldstein. Thus the embarrassed googling after.
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
happy international women's day
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Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥
