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December 2023

  1. The 2023 Exit Photo
  2. The December Comfort Watches, Day Thirty One: The Princess Bride
  3. The December Comfort Watches, Day Thirty: Pride and Prejudice
  4. The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty Nine: The Nice Guys
  5. My Professional 2023
  6. The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty Eight: Return to Me
  7. The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty Seven: Pacific Rim
  8. The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty Six: Sleepless in Seattle
  9. The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty Five: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  10. The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty Four: A Christmas Carol
  11. The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty Three: Tangled
  12. New Music: Next Halloween I Will Be a Dolphin (Instrumental)
  13. The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty Two: Stranger Than Fiction
  14. The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty One: A Knight’s Tale
  15. The Big Idea: Debbie Urbanski
  16. Trying Out Underground Sushi
  17. The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty: Addams Family Values
  18. New Music: The Stars Are Brightly Shining
  19. The December Comfort Watches, Day Nineteen: Hidden Figures
  20. The December Comfort Watches, Day Eighteen: Die Hard
  21. Thoughts On Godzilla Minus One
  22. The December Comfort Watches, Day Seventeen: The Nightmare Before Christmas
  23. The December Comfort Watches, Day Sixteen: Hail, Caesar!
  24. The December Comfort Watches, Day Fifteen: Speed Racer
  25. The December Comfort Watches, Day 14: Crazy Rich Asians
  26. The December Comfort Watches, Day Thirteen: The 13th Warrior
  27. Abandoning the Former Twitter: A Four-Week Check-In
  28. The December Comfort Watches, Day 12: Josie and the Pussycats
  29. The December Comfort Watches, Day Eleven: Tootsie
  30. The December Comfort Watches, Day Ten: Noelle
  31. The December Comfort Watches, Day Nine: Bolt
  32. The December Comfort Watches, Day Eight: The Godfather
  33. Close To Home: Coastal Local Seafood (COLO)
  34. The December Comfort Watches, Day Seven: Much Ado About Nothing
  35. The December Comfort Watches, Day Six: Down With Love
  36. The December Comfort Watches, Day Five: Invictus
  37. The Big Idea: Lida Sideris
  38. “Saltburn” Is An Experience
  39. The December Comfort Watches, Day Four: While You Were Sleeping
  40. The December Comfort Watches, Day Three: Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
  41. The December Comfort Watches, Day Two: The Emperor’s New Groove
  42. The December Comfort Watches, Day One: The Holiday
  43. The Big Idea: Aaron Sofaer
  44. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2023, Day Five: Charities

November 2023

  1. The Big Idea: Felicia Day
  2. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2023, Day Four: Fan Favorites!
  3. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2023, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
  4. New Music: Study of Decay I
  5. The Big Idea: Paige E. Ewing
  6. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2023, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books
  7. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2023, Day One: Traditionally Published Books
  8. O Captain, My Captain
  9. Whatever 2023 Holiday Gift Guide Starts Monday!
  10. Announcing the John Scalzi Humble Book Bundle, Benefitting First Book
  11. The Existential Longing for Walkies, 11/23/23
  12. The Big Idea: Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
  13. Why There’s No New Scalzi Novel Next Year, Why You’ll Get Two New Scalzi Novels in 2025, and What I’ll Be Up To in 2024
  14. The Big Idea: Naomi Kritzer
  15. Walk? Walk!
  16. The Big Idea: M V Melcer
  17. Music To Close Out the Work Week
  18. Yup, Done With the Former Twitter
  19. The Big Idea: Marie Brennan
  20. A Somewhat Belated Annual Unsolicited Endorsement of WordPress
  21. The Big Idea: Sharon Shinn
  22. I Have An Earworm And I’m Bestowing It Upon You
  23. The Big Idea: Cory Doctorow
  24. The Abandoned Rose of Texas
  25. Seeing a Favorite Band For (Probably) the Last Time
  26. Off to Depeche Mode, and Texas, Respectively
  27. How to Get Signed & Personalized Books From Me For the Holidays, 2023 Edition
  28. The Big Idea: Nick Bantock
  29. FYI, I’m Writing a Film Column For Uncanny Magazine
  30. Let’s Talk About Last Night In Ohio
  31. The Big Idea: David D. Levine
  32. Quick Reminder: Vote Today!
  33. Today I Nearly Made Myself Insane Trying to Remember the Name of the Singer Who Had an Album Cover With Her Wielding a Sword on the Hood of Car and Who Wasn’t Jenny Lewis
  34. (Just Past) Sunset, 11/5/23
  35. Meanwhile, Krissy
  36. That New, Last Beatles Song
  37. The Big Idea: Ryk Spoor
  38. Starter Villain Still a New York Times Bestseller
  39. Look At My Amazing New Stickers!
  40. Oh, Look, It’s November Now
  41. The Big Idea: Greg van Eekhout

October 2023

  1. Dear October: What is This Crap
  2. The Big Idea: Elly Swartz
  3. New EP Out Today: “Travelogue”
  4. The Big Idea: Annie Carl
  5. Ach, Matthew Perry
  6. Catching Up With the Pixel 8 Pro: A Review, Mostly About the Camera
  7. The Big Idea: Greta Kelly
  8. Trying Tinned Fish
  9. New Music: “Bridge Over the Danube”
  10. The Big Idea: Bethany Jacobs
  11. Hey, Noticing Weird Ads From Me on Facebook and Instagram?
  12. Catching Up On The World, As Briefly As Possible
  13. Close To Home: Luca Bistro
  14. Sunset, 10/23/23
  15. The Big Idea: Michael Mammay
  16. A Sunday Composition: “Lake Monona”
  17. Small Business Saturday: Household Books
  18. The Big Idea: Alex Shvartsman
  19. View From A Hotel Window, 10/19/23: Nashville
  20. The Big Idea: Dan Moren
  21. View From a Hotel Window, 10/18/23: Detroit
  22. The Big Idea: Tobias S. Buckell
  23. Sunset, 10/17/23 + Annoying Facebook News
  24. The Big Idea: E. E. Williams
  25. A Deer Tried To Murder Me Today (Spoiler: I’m Fine)
  26. And Now, One Of My Favorite Photos From My NYC Trip
  27. The Terrifying Visage of the Pac-Man Lights Up the Skyline
  28. Hello From New York Comic Con
  29. View From a Hotel Window, 10/12/23: NYC
  30. The Big Idea: Christina Consolino
  31. Ohio: You Can Vote Now
  32. The Big Idea: Hailey Piper
  33. And Now, a Brief Dandelion Break
  34. The Big Idea: Caitlin Starling
  35. View From a Hotel Window 10/9/23: Wichita (Finally)
  36. Saturday Music: “True Blue”
  37. Saturday Gourds and Mums
  38. Where Will John Scalzi Be in October?
  39. The Big Idea: Delilah S. Dawson
  40. Starter Villain a New York Times Bestseller (Again)
  41. The Big Idea: Daniel Hope
  42. The Unlamented Former Speaker
  43. I Read A Book This Year
  44. The Big Idea: Alden E. Stoner
  45. Ági Szabados Does Not Need To Apologize To Me
  46. On Blurb Hiatus Through the Rest of 2023
  47. Back Home! For Now!
  48. Heading Home

September 2023

  1. Hello From Budapest 9/29/23 + Hugo Voting Reminder
  2. My Experience At Plates & Pages
  3. Hello From Budapest, 9/28/23
  4. Starter Villain a NYT, USA Today, Indie and Audible Bestseller
  5. This Is A Post About Roller Skating
  6. View From the Sky, 9/26/23
  7. View From a Hotel Window, 9/25/23: CVG
  8. View From a Hotel Window, 9/23/23: Pittsburgh
  9. View From a Hotel Window, 9/22/23: DFW
  10. Meet the Ohioana Award
  11. Not a View From a Hotel Window, 9/21/23: Denver, Unfortunately
  12. Trying Out A New Recipe: Half Baked Harvest’s Chewy Maple Brown Sugar Blondies
  13. View From a Hotel Window, 9/20/23: SFO
  14. View From a Hotel Window, 9/18/23: San Diego
  15. Starter Villain is OUT + Starter Villain Theme Song by DESSA!
  16. View From a Hotel Window, 9/18/23: Scottsdale, AZ
  17. New (Sort Of) Music Release: MFH23EP
  18. Saturday Music: Two Remasters
  19. The Half-Price Books Union, and Also, Australia
  20. View From a Hotel Window, 9/15/23: Troy, MI
  21. The Big Idea: Matthew Sangster
  22. 25 Years of Whatever
  23. I Went To A Bourbon Pairing Event Despite Disliking Bourbon
  24. The Big Idea: Malon Edwards
  25. Smudge Has Questions About His Meal
  26. A Note About a Thing
  27. Saturday Music: Over the Hillside (Rough Mix)
  28. COVID Paranoia in Full Effect
  29. Fani Willis Says “Bless Your Heart” To Jim Jordan
  30. Mr. Scalzi Goes to Columbus
  31. The Big Idea: Abby Goldsmith
  32. Come With Me On A Journey Through Six Caramel Flavors
  33. The Big Idea: Jon Evans
  34. New Music LP Out Today: “Eternal”
  35. Saturday Music: “Ride the Wind to Me”
  36. New Books and ARCs, 9/1/23
  37. The Big Idea: Dwain Worrell
  38. An Update From the Old Church, August 31, 2023

August 2023

  1. Today I Sneezed For Ten Minutes Straight and It Appears to Have Caused Me Some Minor Brain Damage So Here’s a Picture of Smudge High On Catnip While I Recover
  2. A Night On The Town Featuring Candlelight Concerts and Losanti Steakhouse
  3. 20 Years of Science Fiction Conventions
  4. Saturday Music: “She Goes On”
  5. I Was Gonna Post About Trump and His Mug Shot, But Then I Got Busy and Also OMD Came Out With a New Video, So Here Is That Instead
  6. My SciFri Interview About The Kaiju Preservation Society
  7. The Big Idea: A.J. Hartley
  8. Starter Villain in the House
  9. The Big Idea: Caye Marsh
  10. Various and Sundry, 8/21/23
  11. A Weekend Jam
  12. New Books and ARCs, 8/18/23
  13. The Big Idea: Joe R. Lansdale
  14. In Which I Am Informed By the Boss It Is Time to Go Back to Work
  15. The Big Idea: M. A. Carrick
  16. Close To Home: Eight Green Lilies
  17. The Big Idea: Keith Rosson
  18. View From a Hotel Balcony, 8/14/23: Brooklyn
  19. Announcing the Starter Villain Book Tour
  20. A Quick Weekend Report
  21. View From a Hotel Window, 8/11/23: Washington DC
  22. IUDs: Anxieties and Realities
  23. RIP, Robbie Robertson
  24. Post-Mortem on Ohio Issue 1
  25. An Addendum To My “Crafted & Cured” + “Speakeasy Miso” Posts
  26. Last Minute Reminder to Ohioans: Vote NO on Issue 1 Today
  27. The Big Idea: Scott James Taylor & Sarah Thérèse Pelletier
  28. Various and Sundry 8/7/23
  29. The Big Idea: Michael A. Burstein
  30. Win An ARC Of Starter Villain, Part II: The Winnening!
  31. Sunset, 8/3/23
  32. A Review Of “Oppenheimer”
  33. The Big Idea: Howard Andrew Jones
  34. Various and Sundry, 8/2/23
  35. The Really Big Indictments Have Arrived
  36. A Spoiler Free Review Of “Barbie”
  37. The Big Idea: Jacqueline Carey

July 2023

  1. Various and Sundry, 7/31/23
  2. The Big Idea: J.D. Blackrose
  3. And Now, a Semi-Industrial Cover of the Psychedelic Furs’ “Love My Way”
  4. New Books and ARCs, 7/28/23
  5. Various & Sundry, 7/28/23
  6. (Still) Probably Not Aliens, Folks
  7. I Bought Ten Flavors Of Pretzels, Now I’m Gonna Rank Them
  8. RIP, Sinead O’Connor
  9. Various and Sundry, 7/25/23
  10. The Kaiju Preservation Society is a 2023 Ohioana Book Award Winner
  11. The Big Idea: Josh Rountree
  12. Preparing My X-it
  13. The Big Idea: Sheila Jenne
  14. Today’s Celebrity Sighting
  15. The Big Idea: Jennifer Estep
  16. Just a Couple of Ohio Voters, Voting No on Issue 1
  17. The Big Idea: Stephen Blackmoore
  18. Trying Out “The Pickle Guys” Pickles & Assorted Pickled Vegetables
  19. The Big Idea: Jayne Cowie
  20. Oh, and, Look, Here Are My New Boots
  21. I Was Going To Write Something Today But It Turns Out Driving 430 Miles Kinda Takes It Out Of You, So Here Is a Napping Cat Complete With Toe Beans
  22. The Big Idea: Kemi Ashing-Giwa
  23. View From a Hotel Window, 7/13/23: Winston-Salem, NC
  24. The Big Idea: Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle
  25. The Big Idea: Stephen Aryan
  26. Flower Break
  27. The Big Idea: Rachel Cantor
  28. Extended Preview of Starter Villain Out Now
  29. Thoughts on Social Media (and Me), Mid-July 2023
  30. A Review Of “Dining In The Dark” At Little Llama Peruvian Tacos
  31. Hugo Neepery, Via Reddit
  32. New Books and ARCs, 7/7/23
  33. The Big Idea: Gourav Mohanty
  34. That Hugo Nod For Kaiju + Other Related Thoughts
  35. The Big Idea: Gregory Lynch, Jr.
  36. The Kaiju Preservation Society is a 2023 Hugo Award Best Novel Finalist
  37. In Which a Hapless Nature Photographer Is Attacked By a Vicious Pack of Short Wolves!!!
  38. Happy July 4th
  39. Three Photos For July Third
  40. Whoops 12
  41. The Mid-ness of “The Flash”

June 2023

  1. View From a Hotel Window, 6/30/23: Norman, OK
  2. How Hazy Have the Canadian Fires Made the Skies Today?
  3. The Big Idea: Jason Fischer
  4. Keeping Up With The Joneses, Part 3: The Last Crusade
  5. “Slow Time Between the Stars” Now Out on Amazon and Audible
  6. Requesting Recommendations From The Readers (That’s You!)
  7. The Big Idea: Brenda W. Clough
  8. How Awards Work: A Quick Primer
  9. The Kaiju Preservation Society Wins the 2023 Locus Award For Best Science Fiction Novel
  10. The Big Idea: Robin C. M. Duncan
  11. “Between the Stars” EP Out and Available On All Streaming Platforms
  12. Pixel Tablet Impressions
  13. A “Spot”light On Comedic Villains
  14. Starter Villain Gets a Starred Review in Booklist + Goodreads ARC Giveaway
  15. Today’s Rather Silly Purchase
  16. The Big Idea: Madison Davis
  17. Vote for The Kaiju Preservation Society in the Ohioana Book Awards “Reader’s Choice” Category
  18. The Big Idea: Liz Kerin
  19. The iPad Pro Road Test
  20. 28 Years Married
  21. A Review of Candlelight Concerts: The Best of Hans Zimmer
  22. The Big Idea: J. R. Dawson
  23. Keeping Up With The Joneses, Part 2: The Temple of Doom
  24. The Big Idea: Nicole Kornher-Stace
  25. Coming in Exactly Two Weeks: “Slow Time Between the Stars” – Part of the “Far Reaches” Collection
  26. Read the First Chapter of “Starter Villain”
  27. The Big Idea: Pierce Freelon
  28. New Music (Again!): “Ganymede Flyby”
  29. New Music: “Remnants of the Supernova”
  30. The Big Idea: CJ Leede
  31. We’ve Had First Indictment, Yes. What About Second Indictment?
  32. New Tech Just Dropped
  33. A Much Needed “Closet” Clean-Out
  34. Fire Haze Sun, 6/7/23
  35. The Big Idea: James L. Sutter
  36. RIP George Winston
  37. A Musical Production Musing
  38. The Big Idea: Alaya Dawn Johnson
  39. Keeping Up With The Joneses, Part 1: Raiders of the Lost Ark
  40. Your Reminder that “AI” Will Just Flat-Out Make Things Up
  41. New Music: “Magnetic Fields Around an Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Source”
  42. New Books and ARCs, 6/2/23
  43. The Big Idea: Isabella Maldonado
  44. Starter Villain Review at Publishers Weekly
  45. A Window to the World
  46. The Big Idea: Beth Cato

May 2023

  1. Universal Yums: May 2023 Review
  2. Help Me, I’m Weak
  3. And Now, The Scalzi Family Foundation Logo
  4. Mid-Weekend Update, 5/28/23
  5. The Big Idea: Yukimi Ogawa
  6. View From a Hotel Window, 5/26/23: Baltimore
  7. The Big Idea: Jean Marie Ward
  8. Balticon Bound
  9. Tina Turner, RIP
  10. I’m Skeptical
  11. The Big Idea: William C. Tracy
  12. The Winner of the Starter Villain ARC Contest
  13. I’m Giving Away a Starter Villain ARC! You Could Win It! Yes, YOU!!
  14. The Big Idea: Scott Fulford
  15. Don’t Buy This Place
  16. A Quick Note On Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  17. The Big Idea: Jacqueline Vogtman
  18. Pre-Order a Signed and Personalized Copy of Starter Villain Through Subterranean Press
  19. The Kaiju Preservation Society a Finalist for the 2023 Ohioana Book Award
  20. Archiving for Posterity: A Twitter Thread on Book Blurbing, 5/13/23
  21. New Books and ARCs, 5/12/23
  22. Universal Yums: April 2023 Review
  23. The Big Idea: Jules Sherred
  24. An Appropriate Cover: “With Or Without You”
  25. 54
  26. The Big Idea: Lisa Brideau
  27. Visiting the Darke County Food Truck Festival
  28. The Big Idea: Dorothy A. Winsor
  29. Cover Reveal: Starter Villain
  30. Reader Request Week 2023 #10: Short Bits, Part Two
  31. Reader Request Week 2023 #9: Short Bits, Part One
  32. I and Michi Trota Talk About Writing and Life and Stuff
  33. Reader Request Week 2023 #8: The British Head of State
  34. Reader Request Week 2023 #7: Money Among the Generations
  35. The Big Idea: Jarrett Lerner
  36. Reader Request Week 2023 #6: An Update On the Church
  37. The Big Idea: Mick Ryan
  38. Reader Request Week 2023 #5: That Big Damn Contract, Revisited
  39. I’m the Guest of Honor at the 2023 Budapest International Book Festival
  40. The Big Idea: L.R. Lam
  41. Reader Request Week 2023 #4: My Memory
  42. Reader Request Week 2023 #3: Our Giant Lawn
  43. Reader Request Week 2023 #2: The Future of Social Media
  44. Reader Request Week 2023 #1: The Fallout From Abortion Restrictions
  45. Quick Update on the Researcher Gig

April 2023

  1. New Music From Me: “Just Here For the Bassline”
  2. The Kaiju Preservation Society a Locus Award Finalist + Final Two Days For Hugo Nominating
  3. An Electric Pause
  4. Reader Request Week 2023: Get Your Requests In!
  5. The Big Idea: Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law and Susan Forest
  6. Two Beauts From The Bradford Public Library Sale
  7. The Big Idea: Cory Doctorow
  8. The Big Idea: Kat Howard
  9. Travel By Bullet Out in Print and eBook From Subterranean Press
  10. Goodbye Sidebar Twitter Feed
  11. Mama Mia! The Super Mario Bros. Movie Sucked!
  12. What the Scalzi Family Foundation is Up To
  13. Still In Hollywood
  14. My Glamorous Los Angeles Experience
  15. Close To Home: Speakeasy Miso
  16. Happy Birthday, Krissy
  17. The Big Idea: Philip Plait
  18. Flowers, 4/17/23
  19. My New EP “How Far From Home Do You Want To Go” Is Out Now
  20. New Books and ARCs, 4/14/23
  21. “Researcher Wanted” Update
  22. The Big Idea: Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold
  23. A Small But Important Change to the Big Idea
  24. The Big Idea: Piper J. Drake
  25. In Which I Praise Accountants
  26. The Big Idea: Chika Unigwe
  27. How To Look Haughty, Featuring Spice the Cat
  28. How I Will Survive the AI Revolution
  29. Good Music for a Good Friday
  30. Springtime in New York
  31. Working Through the Suck, Musically Speaking
  32. The Big Idea: Courtney LeBlanc
  33. Wanted: Researcher. Details Below.
  34. The Big Idea: Ness Brown
  35. Reminder: I’m in New York This Friday for the Cabinet of Wonders
  36. New Music: How Far From Home Do You Want To Go

March 2023

  1. The Big Idea: Stark Holborn
  2. Trump Indicted and What That Means
  3. Universal Yums: March 2023 Review
  4. The Big Idea: Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan
  5. Reader Participation Thread: Music That Made You Stop
  6. The Big Idea: J. L. Worrad
  7. New Music: City At Night
  8. The Big Idea: Lavanya Lakshminarayan
  9. The Spareness of Early Spring
  10. New Books and ARCs, 3/24/23
  11. And Now, Me Singing “Just Can’t Get Enough” at the 2023 JoCo Cruise Final Concert
  12. Smudge Watching Spice, Spice Watching Birds
  13. The Big Idea: Leopoldo Gout
  14. Trying Out A New Recipe: Iced Lemon Loaf
  15. The Big Idea: Blair Austin
  16. Equinox Sunset, 3/20/23
  17. Krissy and I Have a Band: Introducing OEMAA and “Parking Space”
  18. Friday Night Music: MaryLeigh Roohan
  19. A Big Day For the Church
  20. Brandon Sanderson and the Scalzi Award
  21. The UK Cover of Starter Villain
  22. The Big Idea: Jane Hennigan
  23. My New Current Favorite Picture of Krissy
  24. Appearance News: Cabinet of Wonders, April 7 8pm, City Winery, NYC
  25. The Big Idea: Mia Tsai
  26. Quick Note On JoCo
  27. Everything Everywhere All At Once, and the Gen X Oscars
  28. Back in the World
  29. The Big Idea: Elle Marr
  30. Happy 25th Birthday Scalzi.com
  31. The Big Idea: J. Dianne Dotson/Jendia Gammon
  32. What AI Is Good For
  33. The Big Idea: Karen Katchur
  34. The Alex Award Arrives
  35. The Big Idea: Michael Berry
  36. Is It Ethical to Be On Twitter In the Musk Era? A Personal Answer

February 2023

  1. The Big Idea: J.A. Tyler
  2. Close To Home: Crafted & Cured
  3. New Books and ARCs, 2/24/23
  4. OMG is the AI Coming For My Job?!???!??!!!?!?!?
  5. The Big Idea: Susan McDonough-Wachtman
  6. Oh, God, He’s At It Again, or, Hey, Look, I Covered Another Song
  7. Exercise Update
  8. Scalzi’s First Pączki
  9. The Big Idea: Matt Ruff
  10. It’s Monday, Have A Banger Song To Get You Through It
  11. My Long Awaited Taste Test of Mary O’s Irish Soda Bread Scones
  12. Hello, Savannah
  13. Charlie and Me, 2/15/23 (Plus a Very Vague Announcement)
  14. The Big Idea: Jane Yolen
  15. Close To Home: Swan House Tea Room
  16. A Valentine’s Day Song For My Gal: “That Ain’t Bad”
  17. The Big Idea: Paz Pardo
  18. Happy Valentine’s Day
  19. I Think I’ve Finally Figured Out Why I Write About Politics Here Rather Less Than I Used To
  20. A Lazy Sunday
  21. New Books and ARCs, 2/10/23
  22. Stationery Haul Courtesy Of An Internet Pal!
  23. Krissy’s Office at the Old Church
  24. Oh, Hey, A New Depeche Mode Song
  25. I Have No Brain and I Must Veg: The Virtue of How It’s Made
  26. Housekeeping Note For Big Idea Pieces, re: Bookshop.org
  27. The Big Idea: Bruce Schneier
  28. I Was Going to Write a Piece Today But Then I Got a Secret Rush Assignment, So Here’s a Cat Instead
  29. She’s a Little Bit Rebel Senator, He’s a Little Bit Moisture Farmer
  30. Everything Pop Punk
  31. State of Personal Social Media, February 2023
  32. The Big Idea: S.B. Divya
  33. A Crumbl Cookies Location Opened Up 45 Minutes Away From Me So Obviously I Had To Go Get Some
  34. The Big Idea: Dan Rice

January 2023

  1. Ranking My RPG Stats
  2. The Kaiju Preservation Society Wins a 2023 Alex Award
  3. Black & White Concert Photos Are Totally the Best
  4. Winter Meander
  5. A Gentle Reminder
  6. Where is My Mind
  7. I Cleaned Out My Bathroom Today (Yes, That’s Really What This Post Is About)
  8. A Mildly Disappointing Snowpocalypse
  9. The Great Leveler
  10. HBO Max Subtitles Need To Get With the Program
  11. Hey, Wanna Know Who Won This Year’s Robert A. Heinlein Award?
  12. “My Year of Dicks” an Oscar Nominee!!!
  13. The Kaiju Preservation Society Out in Paperback Today
  14. Chengdu Worldcon Now Accepting Credit Cards
  15. Happy Lunar New Year!
  16. Absconding With My Wife For the Weekend
  17. Jam-A-Rama: Part 1
  18. The Big Idea: James L. Cambias
  19. I Have A Strange Obsession With This Song So I’m Making You Listen To It
  20. Family Portrait, WWII Style
  21. Close To Home: Boscoe’s Place
  22. Whatever Twenty-Five, Part One: Introduction & Scene Setting
  23. Popcorn Palooza: Part 1
  24. The Big Idea: Mary Baader Kaley
  25. Wipeout, Rural Ohio Style
  26. Two Pets, One Door
  27. The Big Idea: Jen Comfort
  28. Exciting New Additions To My Collection Courtesy Of A Reader
  29. The Big Idea: Nancy Kress
  30. The Dispatcher: Travel By Bullet Signed, Limited Print Edition Now Available for Pre-Order
  31. Stardew Valley & Slowing Down
  32. Meanwhile, These Two Buttheads
  33. A Slow Day at the Scalzi Compound
  34. Spoiler: It Wasn’t a Tornado, It Just Looks Like It Was
  35. For Your Consideration: “My Year of Dicks”
  36. What I Have Eligible for Award Consideration This Year, 2023 Edition
  37. Am Sick, Have Dog
  38. Happy New Year!

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December 2022

  1. Closing Thoughts on 2022 + Thoughts on 2023
  2. But Wait, What About the Scalzi Pets?
  3. The Scalzis in 2022
  4. Whatever Best Of 2022: Athena Edition
  5. My Professional 2022
  6. Some Things I Liked in 2022
  7. Behold, the New Computer, Late 2022 Edition
  8. Twenty-Four
  9. The Worthless Billionaires of 2022
  10. In Which Sugar the Cat Accurately Characterizes the Soporific Liminality of the Post-Christmas Week
  11. Whatever Best of 2022
  12. 24
  13. New Books and ARCs, 12/23/22
  14. From 1999: “I Love You, My Pet”
  15. A Holiday Gift For You: “End of the Year PR Missives From Scrooge & Marley”
  16. A Sincere But Scatterbrained Christmas Card
  17. This Has Been Earworming Me All Day So Now I’m Giving It You
  18. Get Phonky With It
  19. New Release Date For Starter Villain: September 19, 2023
  20. Process Notes on Starter Villain
  21. Hey, Guess Who Just Finished a Novel?
  22. Yeah, Okay, You Got Me, Greta Gerwig
  23. Get Locus Magazine Over Its Fundraising Goal Today and I Will Write a Christmas Story
  24. Deadline Update
  25. Help Me With My Hoarding Problem: Pusheen Subscription Boxes
  26. An Update On My Thoughts on AI-Generated Art
  27. Pixel Watch Thoughts and Impressions
  28. Making Half Baked Harvest’s Soft Gingerbread Latte Cookies
  29. The Big Idea: Nathan Tavares
  30. Do You Want A Box For That?
  31. The Big Idea: Denise Crittendon
  32. Notice of Head Down
  33. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2022, Day Five: Charities
  34. The Big Idea: Leah Vernon
  35. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2022, Day Four: Fan Favorites!

November 2022

  1. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2022, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
  2. What’s the Ethical Use of AI-Generated Art?
  3. The Big Idea: Kayleigh Nicol
  4. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2022, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books
  5. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2022, Day One: Traditionally Published Books
  6. New Books and ARCs, 11/25/22
  7. How to Weave the Artisan Web
  8. The Great Escape
  9. Whatever 2022 Holiday Gift Guide Starts Monday!
  10. The Big Idea: David Sandner & Jacob Weisman
  11. This is a Post to Set Up Verification on Mastodon, You Can Totally Ignore it
  12. The Big Idea: Sharon Shinn
  13. Whoops We Bought Another House
  14. RIP, Greg Bear
  15. Universal Yums: November 2022 Review
  16. The Scalzis Go Corporate
  17. Experiment 111722
  18. The Big Idea: Elijah Kinch Spector
  19. The Kaiju Preservation Society an Amazon “Best of 2022” in SF/F, and an Opening Round Nominee for the Goodreads Choice Awards
  20. The Big Idea: Jim Ottaviani and Jerel Dye
  21. A Workin’ Woman
  22. The Big Idea: Daniel Church
  23. 2022 Election Thoughts
  24. Your Creation Museum Report, 15 Years On
  25. The Saddest Turtle From Kentucky
  26. Right On Time
  27. The Big Idea: Lavie Tidhar
  28. The Old Church
  29. How to Get Signed & Personalized Books From Me For the Holidays, 2022 Edition
  30. The Big Idea: Steve McHugh
  31. A Week of Working Out
  32. The Big Idea: Emery Robin
  33. Good Morning, Lunar Eclipse
  34. Sunset Clouds, 11/7/22
  35. A Very Silly Workaround to Verify the @scalzi Account on Twitter is Actually Me, John Scalzi
  36. Yes, Queens
  37. Verification of Where I Am Online
  38. New Books and ARCs, 11/4/22
  39. A Couple of Days With the Pixel 7 Pro
  40. The Big Idea: Lavie Tidhar
  41. That Whole Twitter Thing: Further Thoughts
  42. The Big Idea: Julia Rust & David Surface
  43. Spice Meets the Macro Lens
  44. The Big Idea: Joelle Presby

October 2022

  1. Staying Or Going at Twitter: Ironically, a Twitter Thread
  2. Tiger Tail and Moon Mist
  3. Hello From Halifax, Day 2
  4. Welcome to Halifax
  5. Universal Yums: October 2022 Review
  6. Pepsi Points and the Jet: A Column From 1996
  7. The Early Vote Is In
  8. The Woolly Bear Is Coming For You
  9. My Award-Winning Saturday
  10. Exciting News That Must Remain Mysterious For Now
  11. Loitering in Paradise
  12. The Big Idea: J.S. Fields
  13. The Big Idea: David Walton
  14. The Power of Concentration
  15. The Big Idea: Mary Robinette Kowal
  16. Here’s Some Sunday Evening Ukulele For You
  17. The Big Idea: Ever Dundas
  18. A Quick Moment of Foliage
  19. The Big Idea: Aidan Moher
  20. Once Again It Is Time For My Annual Unsolicited Endorsement of WordPress
  21. Trying More Misaky Tokyo!
  22. The Big Idea: Jason Denzel
  23. Beware! Kaiju!
  24. The Big Idea: Brandon Crilly
  25. Hey, Ohioans: Today is the Last Day to Register to Vote (for the Nov. 8 election)
  26. I Finally Tried Crumbl Cookies
  27. View From a Hotel Window 10/7/22: NYC
  28. The Big Idea: Nicole Dieker
  29. “The Summer EP” Now Out to Streaming and Download
  30. The Big Idea: Mur Lafferty
  31. Trying Out A New Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake
  32. Minor Housekeeping Note Re: AMP
  33. Small Business Saturday: Twenty One Barrels

September 2022

  1. New Books and ARCs, 9/30/22
  2. All Shot Up
  3. The Big Idea: Rob Wilkins
  4. How To Annoy Your Dog
  5. A Fancy Mustard Review
  6. The Big Idea: Laura Kat Young
  7. The Opening of Oh! Boba
  8. Smudge Confronts Modern Technology and Is Less Than 100% Thrilled
  9. Bleep Bleep
  10. Trying Out A New Recipe: Half Baked Harvest’s Chocolate Chip Espresso Oatmeal Cookies
  11. The Big Idea: William C. Tracy
  12. Even More New Music: “9/22/22 (The Last of the Summer Skies)”
  13. Why I’m (Probably) Not Going To Be Able To Give You Useful Advice Regarding Writer’s Block
  14. The Big Idea: R. B. Lemberg
  15. In Which My High School Gives Me An Award
  16. See You in Hell, Cursive Writing
  17. The Big Idea: Jennifer Estep
  18. I’ll Be In a Movie At Sunset Time Today, So Here’s Yesterday’s Sunset, Which I Saved Up For a Situation Just Like This
  19. More New Music: “9/18/22 (Calm O’er the Campus)”
  20. Universal Yums: September 2022 Review
  21. Making the Greatest Bread I’ve Ever Made
  22. Is Your Ministry Insured?
  23. I’m In a Canadian Mood Tonight So Here is kd lang
  24. The Big Idea: Gemma Amor
  25. I Asked Midjourney To Imagine Me In KISS Makeup and the Results Are Not Flattering
  26. The Big Idea: Max Brallier
  27. Trying Out A New Recipe: Justine Doiron’s “Best Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies”
  28. 24 Years
  29. The Big Idea: Stacey McEwan
  30. The Post-Travel Malaise Day
  31. View From a Hotel Window, 9/8/22: Portland
  32. The Big Idea: Victor Manibo
  33. New Books and ARCs, 9/7/22
  34. Two Bits of Book News
  35. The Big Idea: Katherine Cowley
  36. Back From Chicago
  37. “Travel By Bullet,” the Third Installment of The Dispatcher Series, Is Out!
  38. The Big Idea: Jody Keiser

August 2022

  1. My Chicon 8 Schedule
  2. The Big Idea: Bob Smietana
  3. The World’s Biggest Pooper Scooper
  4. Church Update, 8/28/22
  5. Sunset 8/27/22
  6. The Big Idea: Randee Dawn
  7. Universal Yums: August 2022 Review
  8. The Big Idea: David Quantick
  9. GeForce Now: A Review
  10. The Big Idea: Dan Koboldt
  11. More New Music: “8/22/22 (Perseus Galaxy Cluster)”
  12. (Not) Getting a New Computer
  13. Charlie Points Us All Toward the Weekend
  14. The Big Idea: R.R. Virdi
  15. The Big Idea: Kate Heartfield
  16. Oh, Right, Governance
  17. Why I Like Making Music
  18. New Music From Me: “8/13/22 (They Were Not Aware They Had Become Ghosts)”
  19. Your Weekend Cat
  20. Love Death + Robots Renewed For Season 4
  21. New Books and ARCs, 8/12/22
  22. The Kaiju Preservation Society a Finalist for the Dragon Award
  23. Some Thoughts on AI Art
  24. The Big Idea: Robin C. M. Duncan
  25. Trying Out A New Recipe: Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
  26. The Big Idea: Naseem Jamnia
  27. Sunset, 8/8/22
  28. Final Day In Atlanta
  29. Thoughts on “The Sandman” Series
  30. The Big Idea: Sarah Henning
  31. Day Three In Atlanta
  32. Review: Prey
  33. Day Two In Atlanta
  34. New Books and ARCs, 8/5/22
  35. The Big Idea: Jason Sizemore
  36. House For Sale in Bradford
  37. Day One In Atlanta
  38. The Big Idea: Sunyi Dean
  39. The Big Idea: Izzy Wasserstein
  40. Pixel Buds Pro First Impressions
  41. The Big Idea: Greg van Eekhout
  42. The Big Idea: Sim Kern

July 2022

  1. The Big Idea: Alan Smale
  2. Trying Out A New Recipe: Blueberry Crumb Cake
  3. The Big Idea: Dan Moren
  4. Upscaling and an Important Note About Photo “AI”
  5. The Big Idea: Ruthanna Emrys
  6. Universal Yums: July 2022 Review
  7. The Big Idea: Jackson Bliss
  8. Spice, the Mighty Hunter
  9. The Big Idea: Clay Harmon
  10. I Was Left Unsupervised: A Twitter Thread
  11. Late to the Party: Stranger Things Season Two
  12. The Big Idea: Chris Gerrib
  13. I Was Going to Write Something Today But Then I Sat Down to Write It and Forgot Was I Was Going to Write About, I Blame COVID Even Though I Am Almost Entirely Over It Now, Anyway, Here’s a Hibiscus
  14. The Big Idea: Trent Jamieson
  15. An Imperfect Apple
  16. The Big Idea: Will Wiles
  17. An Attempt At Binging With Babish’s Ube Roll
  18. The Big Idea: Zac Topping
  19. Hitting the Big Time, Musically
  20. The Big Idea: Alex White
  21. Trying A Unique Treat: Misaky Tokyo
  22. Some New Music From Me, For You
  23. The Big Idea: Ryan Van Loan
  24. The Big Idea: A. C. Wise
  25. Late to the Party: Stranger Things Season One
  26. The Big Idea: Kimberly Unger
  27. Trying Out A New Recipe: Blueberry Lemon Cream Cheese Bread
  28. Making the Call on the 2023 Worldcon
  29. The Big Idea: Mia V. Moss
  30. Sunset, 7/11/22
  31. The Big Idea: Rachel Swirsky
  32. It Seems Unfathomable I Have Gotten This Far Into the Summer Without Posting a Hibiscus Picture Here, and Yet I Have Not, There is No Excuse For It, I Am So Sorry
  33. Walmart Parking Lot Extravaganza
  34. Sky, Tree, Dog, Grass
  35. The Big Idea: K.B. Jensen
  36. A Brief Moment for Sunflowers
  37. The Big Idea: Erin Flanagan
  38. Universal Yums: June 2022 Review
  39. Today in “Scalzi Going Overboard With His New Photoshop Filter Plugin”
  40. Hey Scalzi, What’s Up With the Church?
  41. Status Update, 7/1/22
  42. The Big Idea: Lucas J.W. Johnson

June 2022

  1. A Personal History of Music, Day 30: “Lover’s Return,” by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
  2. The Big Idea: Victoria Aveyard
  3. A Personal History of Music, Day 29: “Boys,” by Charli XCX
  4. The Big Idea: Andrew Liptak
  5. A Personal History of Music, Day 28: “Ride the Wind to Me,” by Julie Miller
  6. The Big Idea: Elizabeth Bear
  7. A Personal History of Music, Day 27: “Fire Drills,” by Dessa
  8. Authors Talking About Politics: An Archived Twitter Thread
  9. Final Day of Santa Monica
  10. Status Update: 6/26/22
  11. A Personal History of Music, Day 26: “Cut Your Teeth,” by Kyla La Grange
  12. Day 6 of Santa Monica
  13. A Personal History of Music, Day 25: “Bachelorette,” by Bjork
  14. Day 5 of Santa Monica
  15. A Personal History of Music, Day 24: “Calling All Angels,” by Jane Siberry
  16. Today’s Court Case
  17. Status Update, 6/24/22
  18. Day 4 of Santa Monica
  19. A Personal History of Music, Day 23: “On the Radio,” by Regina Spektor
  20. Well, Poo
  21. Day 3 of Santa Monica
  22. A Personal History of Music, Day 22: “Something That You Said,” by The Bangles
  23. Day 2 of Santa Monica
  24. A Personal History of Music, Day 21: “Day After Day,” by The Pretenders
  25. Day 1 of Santa Monica
  26. A Personal History of Music, Day 20: “Jennifer,” by Falling Joys
  27. A Personal History of Music, Day 19: “Beloved Wife,” by Natalie Merchant
  28. A Personal History of Music, Day 18: “Higher,” by The Naked and Famous
  29. New Books and ARCs, 6/17/22
  30. A Personal History of Music, Day 17: “Help Me,” by Concrete Blonde
  31. 27 Years
  32. A Personal History of Music, Day 16: “Tear In Your Hand,” by Tori Amos
  33. The Big Idea: Karen Heuler
  34. A Personal History of Music, Day 15: “Coming Up Close,” by Til Tuesday
  35. Visiting Italianfest
  36. The Big Idea: Stephen Cox
  37. A Personal History of Music, Day 14: “Extraordinary Thing,” by k.d. lang
  38. The Big Idea: Sam J. Miller
  39. A Personal History of Music, Day 13: “The Big Sky,” by Kate Bush
  40. A Personal History of Music, Day 12: “Fast Car,” by Tracy Chapman
  41. Small Business Saturday: Figberrytea + Bonus Interview With the Artist!
  42. A Personal History of Music, Day 11: “Ray of Light,” by Madonna
  43. New Books and ARCs, 6/10/22
  44. A Personal History of Music, Day 10: “Basement Apartment” by Sarah Harmer
  45. Buying Mystery Books Paid Off!
  46. Meet the New Boss
  47. A Personal History of Music, Day 9: “Big Bright World” by Garbage
  48. The Big Idea: Maya Deane
  49. Sunset 6/8/22
  50. A Personal History of Music, Day 8: “Sweet Surrender” by Sarah McLachlan
  51. The Big Idea: Ren Hutchings
  52. Was “The Bad Guys” Good?
  53. A Personal History of Music, Day 7: “Willow” by Joan Armatrading
  54. The Big Idea: Samit Basu
  55. A Personal History of Music, Day 6: “Style” by Taylor Swift
  56. The Big Idea: Dave Creek
  57. A Personal History of Music, Day 5: “Love Is a Stranger” by the Eurythmics
  58. A Personal History of Music, Day 4: “Kiteflyer’s Hill” by Eddi Reader
  59. A Personal History of Music, Day 3: “Where Will I Be” by Emmylou Harris
  60. Strawberry Flavored Disaster
  61. The Big Idea: Erica Friedman
  62. A Personal History of Music, Day 2: “Maps” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  63. The Big Idea: Alex Shvartsman
  64. A Personal History of Music, Day 1: “Only You” by Yaz(oo)
  65. The Big Idea: B. L. Blanchard

May 2022

  1. We Interrupt This Tuesday To Bring You This Extremely Important Picture of a Dog Rolling About On the Grass
  2. The Big Idea: Bishop O’Connell
  3. Recipes That Actually Turned Out Well: Focaccia
  4. A Twitter Thread: OMW and “Best Of”s
  5. Iris, 5/28/22
  6. Universal Yums: May 2022 Review
  7. New Books and ARCs, 5/27/22
  8. RIP, Andy Fletcher
  9. Housekeeping Note Re: Search
  10. Understanding the Magic System of Jujutsu Kaisen, or, But Wait! There’s More!
  11. The Big Idea: Kate Heartfield
  12. Post-Creative Lassitude
  13. Spoiler-Free Thoughts On “Uncharted”
  14. View From a Hotel Window 5/20/22: Gaithersburg, MD
  15. When Everything Goes Right
  16. Academic Purgatory
  17. The Big Idea: Oliver K. Langmead
  18. Here, Have a Full-Episode Sneak Preview of the New Season of Love Death and Robots
  19. “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting,” Ten Years On
  20. And We’re Back
  21. The Big Idea: Jeff Macfee
  22. Whatever News: The Return of Athena
  23. This Cat Represents Where My Brain Is At This Friday Afternoon
  24. The Big Idea: David Towsey
  25. An Observation on Audiobooks
  26. RIP, Pixelbook
  27. 53
  28. I’m Trapped in Travel Hell So Here’s a New Love Death + Robots Trailer For You
  29. View From a Hotel Window, 5/8/22: Berkeley
  30. Hello From Cincinnati
  31. In Which I Try the Latest Coca-Cola Creations Flavor
  32. The Big Idea: Liz Michalski
  33. Notes on the Ohio Primary Election Results
  34. The Big Idea: Mark Matthews
  35. Today Is the Day I Discovered Reuben Kaye
  36. Spice Watches You From Above
  37. The Big Idea: Dan Koboldt
  38. I Haven’t Checked the News Today and Frankly May Not For the Rest of the Day, So Here, Have a Couple of Dogs Hanging Out in the Shade
  39. May Flowers and Plans

April 2022

  1. New Books and ARCs, 4/29/22
  2. A Housekeeping Note re: Book Blurbing
  3. Your Late April Church Update
  4. The Big Idea: Kali Wallace
  5. Damn, It’s 8pm and I Meant to Update Earlier But I Got Distracted By Shiny Objects So Here’s a Cat
  6. On the Matter of the New Twitter Boss and Other Things
  7. The Big Idea: Alma Katsu
  8. My Time in Los Angeles
  9. The Big Idea: Mar Romasco-Moore
  10. View From a Hotel Window 4/21/22: Los Angeles
  11. The Big Idea: Nicola Griffith
  12. A Month of The Kaiju Preservation Society
  13. The Big Idea: Steven Kotler
  14. In Case You Were Wondering
  15. Happy Birthday Krissy
  16. The Big Idea: Chris Panatier
  17. Reader Request Week 2022 #10: Short Bits, Part Two
  18. Reader Request Week 2022 #9: Short Bits, Part One
  19. New Books and ARCs, 4/15/22
  20. Reader Request Week 2022 #8: Whatever, Changing
  21. The Big Idea: John Dodd
  22. Reader Request Week 2022 #7: Space Exploration
  23. The Big Idea: EC Ambrose
  24. Reader Request Week 2022 #6: High School Reunions
  25. Reader Request Week 2022 #5: The Clawback of Rights in the USA
  26. The Big Idea: Nancy Werlin
  27. Reader Request Week 2022 #4: Rogue One
  28. Reader Request Week 2022 #3: Travel in the New Age
  29. The Big Idea: Wil Wheaton
  30. Reader Request Week 2022 #2: How to Be Pretty Happy
  31. Reader Request Week 2022 #1: My “Man-Cred”
  32. New Books and ARCs, 4/8/22
  33. Reader Request Week 2022: Get Your Questions In!
  34. Church Update: 4/7/22
  35. Hey, Look, the 2022 Hugo Finalists Have Been Announced
  36. The Big Idea: Adam Oyebanji
  37. “Kaiju” a New York Times Bestseller (Again)
  38. Double Vaxxed, Double Boosted
  39. The Big Idea: Leah Cypess
  40. A New Story For You: Grizzly Bear Conflict Manager
  41. Aaaaaand… Exhale
  42. A Handgun-Related Whoopsie in “Kaiju”
  43. The Regrettes: Anxieties

March 2022

  1. The Big Idea: Marion Deeds
  2. And Now a Brief Musical Interlude
  3. The Big Idea: Jess Montgomery
  4. Return of the Space Toilet: A One-Month Update
  5. The Big Idea: Gareth L. Powell
  6. A Night on Cat Mountain
  7. Home 3
  8. View From a Hotel Window 3/25/22: St. Louis
  9. The Big Idea: Joe R. Lansdale
  10. View From a Hotel Window, 3/24/22: Iowa City
  11. The Kaiju Preservation Society a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Independent Booksellers, Amazon and Audible Bestseller
  12. View From a Hotel Window, 3/22/22: Parma
  13. The Big Idea: Kenneth Hite
  14. Jonathan Coulton and Aimee Mann Sing “Red Shirt”
  15. The Big Idea: C.G. Volars
  16. Happy Gotcha Day, Charlie
  17. The New Chair
  18. View From a Hotel Window, 3/18/22: Brookline
  19. KPS Workplace Guidelines
  20. View From a Hotel Window, 3/17/22: Richmond
  21. The Big Idea: J.L. Worrad
  22. View From a Hotel Window, 3/16/22: Decatur
  23. View From a Hotel Window, 3/15/22: Chapel Hill
  24. The Kaiju Preservation Society: Out Now!
  25. Back Home, Briefly
  26. The Big Idea: J.D. DeLuzio
  27. The Big Idea: Max Gladstone
  28. The Big Idea: Khan Wong
  29. Russian Royalties
  30. The Big Idea: Sarah Tolmie
  31. Vacation Mode is [ON]
  32. The Big Idea: Katherine Cowley
  33. What I Did With My Wednesday
  34. The Big Idea: G.R. Macallister
  35. Very Quick Thoughts on Brandon Sanderson’s Mega Kickstarter
  36. The End of an Era (Again)
  37. The Big Idea: Sean Patrick Hazlett

February 2022

  1. KPS Author Copies Are Here
  2. The Big Idea: J.D. Blackrose
  3. “Go Fuck Yourself” and The World Today
  4. The Big Idea: Rob Hart
  5. Hello I’m Deeply Annoyed For Technical Reasons
  6. The Big Idea: Juliette Wade
  7. The New Not Coolmobile
  8. The Big Idea: Michael Mammay
  9. Now Witness the Power of This Armed and Fully Operational Space Toilet
  10. The Big Idea: Richard Swan
  11. Okay, But, Seriously, What the Hell is Going On With My Shadow Here
  12. Sugar the Cat Wants to Know Why She is On This Side of the Sliding Glass Door
  13. Oh No, He Said, Wringing His Hands, Where Are All the Men in Science Fiction?!?
  14. New Book and ARCs, 2/18/22
  15. I’m Prepping For an Interview Right Now, So Here, Listen to Some Foo Fighters Pretending to Be a Death Metal Band
  16. Kaiju One Month Away; Review in Scientific American; Appearance at the American Writers Museum Festival
  17. Gale Scalzi, RIP
  18. On the Subject of Skin Thickness
  19. And Now, The Kaiju Preservation Society Tour
  20. The Big Idea: Scott Drakeford
  21. Zeus, 2008 – 2022
  22. The Big Idea: Ciel Pierlot
  23. The Times (UK) Review of The Kaiju Preservation Society
  24. Oh, Wait, The Oscar Nominations Came Out, Didn’t They
  25. Hangin’ With the Cool Cats Down at the Bar
  26. The Big Idea: Patrick O’Leary
  27. A Season of Contractors
  28. Fun Fact About Charlie
  29. Sunset, 2/4/22
  30. Snow Storm Update, Update
  31. Back to the High Seas
  32. Updates From The Storm
  33. Smudge, Not a Groundhog, Nevertheless Saw His Shadow Today
  34. The Big Idea: Rosiee Thor
  35. Tonight’s Weird Sky

January 2022

  1. Mobile Site Looks Wonky
  2. Censors and Boycotts: A Twitter Thread
  3. Get Your Stylophone On
  4. New Books and ARCs, 1/28/22
  5. The Big Idea: Chad Orzel
  6. Oh, Look, a Box of Kaiju ARCs
  7. Under the Surface
  8. The Big Idea: Sarah J Daley
  9. Smudge Offers You His Current Author Portrait
  10. Sugar and Charlie Wish You a Pleasant Day
  11. When Electric Cars Cross Over (From a CO2 Standpoint)
  12. The Big Idea: Cassandra Rose Clarke
  13. On the “New Movement” in SF/F: An Archived Twitter Thread
  14. This Man Needs a Haircut
  15. The Big Idea: Gwynne Garfinkle
  16. Sunset, 1/16/22
  17. Portrait of the Author As a Component of a “Punk-Or-Core” Formulation
  18. Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth
  19. An Omicron Update
  20. The Big Idea: Ron Walters
  21. The Kaiju Preservation Society Optioned For Television
  22. The Sleeping Dog Conundrum
  23. The Big Idea: Jacey Bedford
  24. I Did a Whole Bunch of Non-Online Stuff Today and Forgot to Update, But Look, I Brought You a Sunset
  25. Time Flies When You’ve Got Cats
  26. New Books and ARCs, 1/7/22
  27. Meanwhile, Smudge
  28. January 6 One Year On
  29. Call Me Britney Because Oops I Did It Again
  30. What Do I Have Eligible For Award Consideration This Year?
  31. Download the First Five Chapters of The Kaiju Preservation Society, For Free, You Know, If You Want
  32. In Theory, My Work Day
  33. A Twitter Thread on Book Blurbing
  34. “Kaiju” Review in Library Journal

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