Andrew Moore

Andrew Moore

@scrapsflippy.bsky.social

Writer, Dallas Stars fan

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“That’s it? As a supposed Michigander that’s the breadth of your opinion on the Red Wings?”

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

Every time I see the name “Leon Black” in headlines.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Billionaire Leon Black, who had a business relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, defied a congressional subpoena calling him to testify before the House Oversight Committee. Black has sued the committee over its Epstein investigation.

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8. The Monster at the End of This Book. 9. At night, in bed. 10. Pursuant to the Dave Grohl rule, no. But in the spirit of this list… probably the aforementioned Space Cadet. Actually, all of Heinlein’s juveniles. 11. I used to really enjoy Seth Godin’s stuff. Books about writing—King’s On Writing!

I have a better answer for 10: Movie novelizations! I grew up in a church that frowned on going to the movies, so I read a lot. Faves include the novelizations of E.T. and Buckaroo Banzai.

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17. The Monster at the End of This Book (which could be all five), The Francis books by the Hobans, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tails, Where the Wild Things Are, and Mister Dog: The Dog Who Belonged to Himself

18. I don’t hate them, I just don’t seek them out. Don’t have a favorite period. 19. I don’t really dislike any books. I have indifference to certain books—sparkly vampire stuff—but I don’t dislike them. 20. Engaging characters.

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12. Oh yeah. We moved around a lot and I got to read To Kill a Mockingbird twice. Of Mice and Men. Never got into Gatsby, though. 13. I think so. Don’t really use it. 14. When I was a kid. Not anymore.

15. Two buddies with great series: JC Macek III with his Jake Slater mysteries and Garrick Blake with his Lawrence Miller ghost stories. 16. I don’t know. Maybe if I was trying to win a Pizza Hut personal pan pizza I’d keep better track. Maybe 6 or 7.

2. The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Name of the Rose by Eco, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Márquez, The Stand, and The Monster at the End of This Book 3. Sci-Fi, with horror a close second. 4. Lately, manga and horror. 5. Mostly Amazon these days. I miss Borders.

6. I read A Wrinkle in Time for the first time. I got through the first three volumes of Blue Period. 7. I can’t pinpoint it. We always had books when I was a kid. Maybe The Space Hut. Later on I got into Hardy Boys and consumed those books like they were cheese puffs.

In other words: “It is essential that Dems gerrymander so that they can ban gerrymandering.” This is an object lesson in Popper’s Paradox.

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social

Democrats still have the chance to redraw several states below by 2028 to counteract Republican congressional gerrymanders. But without Colorado, their path is narrower. It’s essential that Dems redraw every state they can to keep the House winnable in 2028 so they can ban gerrymandering nationwide

“You know what the best part of my day is? It's for about ten seconds when I turn on my phone to when I open my news app. 'Cause I think maybe I'll open it up and I'll look and the headline will be there. No goodbye, no "see ya later", no nothin'. He’s just gone. I don't know much, but I know that.”

Trifling honkies make brown people feel unwelcome as fuck and then blame them for not wanting to be more like trifling honkies.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."

I had jury duty earlier this year. My pool sat outside a courtroom waiting to be called in. It never happened. When the judge finally let us go, he came out to tell us, “Don’t think you wasted your day.” He said our presence helped encourage several plea deals that avoided trial.

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social

Americans are far too comfortable with plea bargaining. We are an outlier among English common law nations in allowing it (to the horror of other such countries) and the coercion used in the process is in contravention of 5A due process voluntariness. It's good to see SCOTUS address it.

Comparing notes with coworkers, this is astonishingly common. Small data set, though. How about you? Have you had jury duty? Did you sit around only to find out that all the pending business was plead out that day?

My wife and I like to do bingefests (usually around the holidays). This is the second summer we’ve done Denzel Summer Nights, because the man’s oeuvre is phenomenal. Tonight it’s American Gangster.

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I think. I think that’s what it’s about. Maybe it’s just about a mediocre writer having a conversation with himself across the yawning maw of a mid-life crisis that never really developed.

When I put it that way, it doesn’t sound interesting. And maybe it’s not. But it’s a story I’ve been trying to tell for two decades, and I’m finally committing to finishing it.