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The John Scalzi Collection Returns to Humble Bundle, Supporting World Central Kitchen Starting today and going for the next three weeks or so, 22 of my books are up on Humble Bundle…...

Adventures in Refrigeration, or, How We Have Become Possibly the Midwestest People Ever Earlier this year we had a rather unfortunate incident involving our 25-year-old stand-up freezer, in which the condenser failed while the thing was full of frozen things, which quickly became rather disgustingly unfrozen....

Update: Yup, It’s Hot It's currently 93 degrees here (Fahrenheit), but thanks to the humidity the heat index means it feels like 106 (41 Celsius), or so the weather report in my phone tells me, the one that also tells me we have an extreme heat warning through eight PM....

Some Passing Thoughts About 250 Years In no particular order: 1. No, I'm not feeling particularly engaged with the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, but that's mostly because a malignant narcissist decided to make a national celebration mostly about himself, and that malignant narcissist is also an actual fascist, so that kind of sucked all the fun out of it this year....

Farewell, June I'm still traveling, so no huge update today (although I am fine! Everything is fine!), but I want to post this shot of the Ferris Wheel at Chicago's Navy Pier the other night. It feels very June to me. Onward to July. -- JS

View From a Hotel Window 6/27/26: Chicago There is a parking lot in this picture, but it's over in the corner, and I think it's attached to the marina....

Probably the Last Back Deck Construction Update It's done and the new deck furniture arrived today. The furniture, like the deck itself, is made of a composite material that is designed handle all the heat/cold/sun stresses of outdoor life, and comes with a lifetime warranty, which means its likely to outlive me at this point....

Dramatic Flowers are Dramatic For no particularly good reason, here, have some pictures of flowers and plants from around my house that I've taken in the last couple of days, which I then photoedited to look dramatic and possibly gothy....

Who Won the ARC of Monsters of Ohio? It was "Bjorn," who along with 12 others, correctly guessed that the Ohio-native mammal I was thinking of was, indeed, the Prairie Vole....

New Cover: “Comfortably Numb” https://youtu.be/WHXc12gTFs0 What can I say, I was feeling a little ambitious. And yes, I did the guitar solos, but before you get too impressed, please know…...

Win an Signed, Personalized ARC of Monsters of Ohio! Tor Books sent me a stack of Monsters of Ohio ARCs, and you -- yes you! -- can win one, and I will even sign/personalize it for you if you like....

31 Years The 31st anniversary isn't usually the one where people get introspective about the nature of marriage and stuff…...

The Yard Gets a Facelift Here at the Scalzi Compound we've been having a lot of work done: New garage/barn, new porch railings and entirely new back deck....

Hey, I Wrote an Actual Song: “Really Great” Apparently the 31st wedding anniversary is the "Write Your Spouse a Song" anniversary, because that's what I did this year....

Happy Flag Day It seems to come earlier every year, doesn't it? There may be other things going on today, but if there are, I don't want to know about them, I'll just be here with my flag. Also, congratulations to Knicks fans today, and condolences to Spurs fans. I think that covers it! -- JS

New Musical Composition: “Ingenuity” It's been a hot minute, as the kids no longer say, since I made an original musical composition; …...

Various & Sundry, 6/12/26 What? Friday again? David Hockney, dead: Hockney was one of those artists who I didn't know who they were until I was adult, and then realized I had been surrounded by his work all my life....