Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Mastodon and Bluesky, and also wind up here.
It’s independent bookstore day today! Visit your faves!
Last year I wrote about the indie bookstore that changed my life: dansinker.com/posts/202…
posted at 7:07AM on April 25, 2026
Note to myself. 
posted at 9:29AM on April 24, 2026
Just wrote a text: "When you're ready do you want to take first crack at writing the end of the Civil War?" Must be Rebel Spirit season...
posted at 11:46AM on April 22, 2026
The thing I think about whenever Palentir comes up is that I once played Werewolf sitting next to a guy that worked at Palentir and he spent the entire time trying to convince me that the company wasn't evil while simultaneously picking off every villager in the game.
posted at 8:23PM on April 19, 2026
The thing that is hard about writing is conclusions. Also introductions. And the middle stuff.
posted at 1:49PM on April 17, 2026
One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost. 
posted at 9:20AM on April 17, 2026
Happy the shittiest tax day in recent memory.
posted at 8:05AM on April 15, 2026
Fascism always fails.
posted at 4:17PM on April 12, 2026
I love that there are people that gassed Trump up so hard that he went to the Supreme Court to witness his argument being dogwalked by even the shitty justices.
posted at 10:57AM on April 1, 2026
I got the shittiest fortune cookie fortune ever.
posted at 8:25PM on March 23, 2026
Covid was the first time he couldn't just bullshit his way out of something. We might be seeing the second.
posted at 7:31AM on March 23, 2026
It's 70 degrees and my grocery store's snow-and-dirt mountain is still holding strong.
posted at 4:59PM on March 21, 2026
Never in a million years would I have expected Bikini Kill in a Disney movie
posted at 9:25PM on March 20, 2026
What an honor to spend $4.29 a gallon to fill my tank, god bless our troops 🫡
posted at 8:36PM on March 19, 2026
Not gonna brag or anything, but I just got to fill out two supplimental financial aid forms for my kids college and *now* get to go to the oral surgeon.
posted at 3:23PM on March 19, 2026
Otherworldly sunset through the Costco cart return door
posted at 7:00PM on March 11, 2026
Did two kick-ass interviews for the next season of Rebel Spirit today, including perhaps one of my favorite quotes ever: "One of my hobbies is killing dead confederates." Yes, sign me up for that hobby as well.
posted at 3:27PM on March 11, 2026
wild storm rolling through
posted at 9:07PM on March 10, 2026
THEY STILL HAVE KINKOS IN JAPAN????
posted at 10:13PM on March 9, 2026
A perfect day.
posted at 5:24PM on March 9, 2026