Chyld were a remarkable band — a hybrid of grunge, progressive metal, and sludge/doom metal before any of those things were even things. True innovators, all but forgotten to time except to hardcore local music fans like myself and probably John Boden…

‘But it is my experience, and I will share it with you. I don’t know that it’s wisdom, but it is my truth…’

‘Posting a link to it on Instagram is useless, because people just look at the accompanying picture and comment on that, rather than whatever the topic of the Blog was. Seriously. I could write an essay here about children dying in diamond mines, and post a link to it on Instagram with an accompanying photo of a diamond, and the comments would all be “Oooooh! What a pretty diamond!”…’

She’s the same age as The Great Gatsby, and she’s lived through and witnessed major events in human history such as the Great Depression, World War Two, the end of Segregation and Jim Crow, Sputnik and the Moon Landing, Vietnam, the collapse of the USSR, the inventions of television and the internet, cloning, 9/11, and even the Kardashians.

The opposing party has, thus far, been like a crossing guard on quaaludes, either afraid to stand up and mount an actual political resistance movement when there was still time, or — like my homeboy John Fetterman — playing footsie with the other side in a ill-fated attempt at self preservation.

Local elections are taking place across much of the United States today, including in New York City, where one of the most pressing issues on people’s minds isn’t taxes or crime or healthcare or tolls, but the fact that an eighteen-year old child has never seen a thirty-eight year old film called The Princess Bride.

And look, that gin wasn’t even supposed to be for me. See, what happened was this…

But I left him in charge of all that, so I never really paid attention. All I cared about was “did the show sound good” and “did we get the interview”. And since in the entirety of the show, there was only one recorded interview that got lost and never made it to the air (a 90 minute sit down with…

Unfortunately, Jim, Dacia, and myself didn’t foresee recording a podcast to deal with that sort of stupidity.

The 1X Neo begins shipping to homeowners next year. It can turn your lights on and off, and maybe open a door. If you want it to do anything else, however, you’ll have to grant camera access to your home so that somebody half the world away can operate the robot with…

Which is apparently America’s only export now — a succession of old men from both political parties drooling into their Cream-O-Wheat…

Last night’s wrap marks the end of phase 1 of filming for DEAD FORMAT. We have some second unit scenes to film with actor…

The three of us talked a lot about the things we still want to do. Jonathan has had an amazing career, working with artists like Waylon Jennings and Jerry Reed, recording in places like Abbey Road…

A digest because I was at the store today, and it was one of those days where we were busy, but then it would slow down and as soon as I got a moment to write, we’d get busy again. So there was no…

Shocked. Shocked I am at the way our country is going, with a brain trust like this allowed to vote and operate motor vehicles and have children and all the other things that adults do.

but somehow I ended up having to sit next to Eddie Berganza, which is like sitting in a sweaty pile of gum for two hours, so I did not enjoy myself.

“I’ve learned a lot from Mary SanGiovanni. Like, for example, that Brian Keene can occasionally be wrong about something.”

— Hailey Piper

Up at 4am yesterday morning. Did my usual Monday workout and then yoga. At 58, I’m probably not going to gain any muscle mass, so everything I do is just about maintaining strength, cardio, mobility, and varying attempts at losing weight. I lift weights every other day, and walk and do yoga daily. The type of yoga I do is something I call David Lee Roth Yoga, in which I listen

Today is October 20, 2025. According to my records, I took my first shot at writing a story for publication on October 20, 1995. The nice thing about having been doing this writing and publishing thing since 1995 is that I’ve been around for the entire internet.