James Kestrel

I'm going to remember the best parts of the last 365 days, and I'm going to take all the rest and bury it in a deep, dark hole that no therapist will ever find.

@FXRegan @stick631 Is it still polling higher than syphilis?

@stick631 We don’t hate Congress enough. This is political stunt that can be fixed with a voice vote.

@MJMcKean @RockLovesMe2 35 years after it came out and still, every time I come across an acoustic guitar I’m picking out “She Talks to Angels.”

@RockLovesMe2 Black Crowes

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@AdamKinzinger If he needs a little condiment to go with his sack of anus he could read what the Founding Fathers had to say on this topic.

Oh just eat a sack of anus you absolute clown of a douche bagged ass hat.

@HenpeckedHal Man, I remember when my kid asked me how they get the bones inside chicken wings so they look so real.

Simple facts I'm terrified of my toddler discovering: - public parks don't randomly close - tv's don't run out of batteries - there is no actual world record for "fastest at putting away toys" - chicken the animal and chicken the food are one and the same Got any to add?

I had some calluses on my feet and my plan was to sit down and rub them with this rock I found outside. My wife caught me in the act and broke out her full kit of Yangzhou foot care products and now I’m at the foot spa. Image

If you haven't read other work by #EdgarAward winner @JamesKestrel, I highly recommend it. I just finished *The Dark Room*—written under his other name, Jonathan Moore. It was a perfectly crafted #noir #thriller that kept me up late turning pages. #books #writing

My kids are nine and seven and I’ve been making complex breakfasts for them for years. Misoyaki salmon, eggs Benedict, crab cakes. Today I discovered they eat cereal. How did I not think of that years ago?

My daughter made a catapult with her erector set and then came and found me to invite me to shoot checker pieces at my Edgar Award.

I finished reading *The Night Market* by Jonathan Moore, aka @JamesKestrel. It was the third of his books I've read, and it definitely goes into my "would recommend to a friend" pile. Great near-future #noir #detective fiction. Thumbs up Jon. P.S. Do you write by hand then?

@JoyceCarolOates Yes, I would like to make a realistic John Wick movie, where John Wick gets killed in the first five seconds and the end credits roll.

hmm. tell us you are a novice re. season renewals, contracts, plot-lines to keep the pot boiling & everyone happily employed. if the situations giving rise to mysteries & dramas were sensibly solved, some of our very best entertainment would be a single hour, & our best mystery novels solved in 20 pp.

@JoyceCarolOates Never would have pegged her as a Rousseau scholar. “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.”

there exist, or once existed, in rural America, serious recipes for roadkill. also there's that bright green scummy algae on stagnant ponds, very high in protein but free if you have a handy old moonshine bottle. chicken gizzard, chicken feet & chicken beak--who needs caviar like rich folks at Marla-go-go?

@DubhghlasWright I’d have been happy to get a Hugo. I wrote a noir science fiction novel called The Night Market, but alas, no Hugo.

@JamesKestrel Now I wish there was an edit button. Oh well, there are worse things than having the wrong award attributed to your name. 😂

I finished reading "The Poison Artist" this morning, by Jonathan Moore (aka. the Hugo Award winning @JamesKestrel) - It was a classy, page-turning drip chamber of mystery, longing, darkness...and absinthe. #noir #fiction #murdermystery #books

Rainy day comfort food.

Big Island avocado. Bigger than a grapefruit.

@FXRegan @jeffreycortese I love Japan. Once, my son projectile commuted all over the inside of a beautiful, clean taxi and the driver refused a tip even though we’d turned his car into a rolling puke bag.

Never understood why it's on a percent of the bill. Especially if booze and wine are involved which inflates the bill/tip dramatically and usually has nothing to do with the server. What has put people over the top is asking for a tip at every cash register, no matter what is involved anymore.

At least you had the option. I received a bill last night with a 20%service charge. Only three of us eating. I was going to give 20% anyway, but there’s something about it being mandatory that makes me want to eat at home. This tip culture is going to get me to tip less.

@FXRegan @wadelentz My mom has this baby-shit yellow fridge, washer and dryer set from the 1970s that will never die. They really knew how to make them back then.

LOL, we went thru 5 mid-level refrigerators in 16 years. (GE 2, Jenn air, Kitchenaid.) When the last one just failed, we went back to GE Profile. The first two they delivered did not work, sent back right away. The third, guys dropped it off the truck. The fourth seems to be working. Thankfully, the 15 year old plain jane (no ice maker, no wifi, just keeps your stuff cold,) in the garage works as a back up.

Our refrigerator just died... again. This is our second refrigerator in ten years. It was a Whirlpool, a "plain Jane" model with no bells, no whistles, and no fancy screens. We bought it for its simplicity, thinking it would be the one thing in our house that just worked. It lasted five years and one month, exactly thirty days past the warranty. The repairman’s verdict? A dead compressor. But the real diagnosis... it was Built to Break. Under the guise of "green" regulations and "energy efficiency," we’ve traded tanks that lasted thirty years for plastic-heavy shells that barely last five. We are forced to pay a premium for "high-efficiency" tech that saves ten cents a month on electricity, only to be told to throw the whole $1,500 + unit into a landfill when a single internal component fails. It’s a racket. The government mandates the specs, the manufacturers cut the quality, and the consumer is left holding a bag of spoiled milk. We don’t own appliances anymore; we just lease them from the scrap yard.

@blacklionking73 @itsmorganariel Two analogies from my side gigs (when I’m not suing people). I’m talking about writing and cooking. You can’t write a dialogue between two people who agree on everything or else they wouldn’t need to talk. And you can’t cook anything worth eating if you only have one ingredient.

@blacklionking73 @itsmorganariel I have lived more than 3/4ths of my life in minority white places—Taiwan, New Orleans, and Hawaii—and I can report back from the front lines that it’s fucking great to live in a world where not everyone is the same as me.

Not a single white person in sight. Diversity means erasing you.