Scott Edelman
@scottedelman.bsky.social
Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of SF, fantasy & horror. And host of the Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
My wife has commanded me not to buy either those pants or that jacket, and she will be obeyed.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
My wife has commanded me not to buy either those pants or that jacket, and she will be obeyed.
Happy 75th birthday to Chris Claremont, with whom I worked 50 years ago in the Marvel Bullpen, the only proof of which is this pic taken there during the mid-'70s. That's me, bearded and wild-haired in a Mickey Mouse hat, him kneeling, with his face obscured as he takes a photo of the photographer.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Happy 75th birthday to Chris Claremont, with whom I worked 50 years ago in the Marvel Bullpen, the only proof of which is this pic taken there during the mid-'70s. That's me, bearded and wild-haired in a Mickey Mouse hat, him kneeling, with his face obscured as he takes a photo of the photographer.
We should have done this with Donald Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We should have done this with Donald Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
If you would seek me Sunday, I'll be at the 10th anniversary celebration for Submersive Productions, the immersive company I've been telling you about since 2017, when I started attending every one of their amazing experiences I could. submersiveproductions.ticketspice.com/you-are-here...
You Are Here Gala
Please join me at the upcoming Gala Fundraiser to make an impact in our community.
submersiveproductions.ticketspice.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you would seek me Sunday, I'll be at the 10th anniversary celebration for Submersive Productions, the immersive company I've been telling you about since 2017, when I started attending every one of their amazing experiences I could. submersiveproductions.ticketspice.com/you-are-here...
Your context-free comic book panel of the day.
![Two women, a student and a teacher, stand on either side of a doorway to a room dark save for a single spotlight illuminating a table on which is a statue of a baby in a diaper.
CAPTION: "Betty is cut short by the net display ... "
BETTY'S WORD BALLOON: "Oh! A statue of a baby! Why is it here?"
MISS WHITE'S WORD BALLOON: "To remind us, Betty, that -- "
[from the educational comic Eat Right to Win, 1952.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ac2kmpveixxnm4cp4janyafx/bafkreieh66z2od266o2xvthh4sidnxm5f7mgqsaok2vmeaalor4va22jvu@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Your context-free comic book panel of the day.
I do hope you'll follow this suggestion.
Crawl inside somebody else’s skin in @scottedelman.bsky.social’s creepy new story “What Am I This Time?”
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November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I do hope you'll follow this suggestion.
How did he not know you're only supposed to do that sort of thing on Thanksgiving?
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
How did he not know you're only supposed to do that sort of thing on Thanksgiving?
Today in Donald Trump's state-sponsored terrorism. www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Today in Donald Trump's state-sponsored terrorism. www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
I dreamt the producers of The Good Place liked the pitch I'd submitted for an episode of the show and invited me to drop by tomorrow so we could talk it over. I then reread my pitch plus pulled out copies of The Good Place comic I was writing for DC (which was not an IRL thing) to prep. Then I woke.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I dreamt the producers of The Good Place liked the pitch I'd submitted for an episode of the show and invited me to drop by tomorrow so we could talk it over. I then reread my pitch plus pulled out copies of The Good Place comic I was writing for DC (which was not an IRL thing) to prep. Then I woke.
This is the Saturday Night Live sketch I've watched more times than any other from recent years, and it's never failed to make me laugh. I'm amazed Heidi Gardner and Benedict Cumberbatch managed to keep it together having to say lines like those.
I have begun reading a novel for a review, and unfortunately my brain has decided that its narrator sounds exactly like Benedict Cumberbatch in this sketch. This is going to get weird, isn't it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Fd...
Blue Bunny - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is the Saturday Night Live sketch I've watched more times than any other from recent years, and it's never failed to make me laugh. I'm amazed Heidi Gardner and Benedict Cumberbatch managed to keep it together having to say lines like those.
For those who like knowing how Eating the Fantastic's podcast sausage is made — editing the raw audio from my recent chat with @naomikritzer.bsky.social to ready it for your ears took 720 snips, removing 15 minutes and 37 seconds of distractions. Please join us Friday morning! pod.link/1083737796
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
For those who like knowing how Eating the Fantastic's podcast sausage is made — editing the raw audio from my recent chat with @naomikritzer.bsky.social to ready it for your ears took 720 snips, removing 15 minutes and 37 seconds of distractions. Please join us Friday morning! pod.link/1083737796
Where was I seven years ago tonight? Attending Chessiecon in Timonium, Maryland, about to dig into a multiplicity of ice cream flavors with friends, something which started small, but as it turned into a tradition, grew. Oh, how I miss that con ... and all that ice cream!
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Where was I seven years ago tonight? Attending Chessiecon in Timonium, Maryland, about to dig into a multiplicity of ice cream flavors with friends, something which started small, but as it turned into a tradition, grew. Oh, how I miss that con ... and all that ice cream!
Now that it's been five days since I returned from my NYC trip and its various unmasked encounters (though not on the trains, never the trains), it seemed the right time to check I'm not wandering about asymptomatically. And all continues to appear copacetic, for which I'm grateful.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Now that it's been five days since I returned from my NYC trip and its various unmasked encounters (though not on the trains, never the trains), it seemed the right time to check I'm not wandering about asymptomatically. And all continues to appear copacetic, for which I'm grateful.
Your context-free comic book panel of the day.
![Comic book panel of a woman in a yellow dress sitting on a couch being hugged by two sailors, one on either side of her, a blonde to the left, a dark-haired one to the right. She has one arm around each of the guys, while the blonde sailor's hand reaches around her to grab the other sailor's upper bicep. Her lipstick is off-register, so her lips are floating under her nose like a mustache.
SAILOR #1 WORD BALLOON: "I acted liked a chump because my pride was hurt, but I know you two are tops!"
WOMAN'S WORD BALLOON: "I'm so happy, I think I'm dreaming!"
SAILOR #2 WORD BALLOON: "This is no dream, honey ... "
[from the story "My Heart Went Sailing," Secret Romances #24, February 1955, no artist or writer credited.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ac2kmpveixxnm4cp4janyafx/bafkreia5r35rz6ag55xa4a6yckrb3ztpb2c4w2wauwxvhg3hkctk2ouwza@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Your context-free comic book panel of the day.
Stumbled upon — and immediately shredded — a notebook I'd kept in 1991 — which makes 6,200 pages I've turned to confetti so far this year. Doing the best I can to make sure nothing survives of my writing save the words I choose to publish in my lifetime, and hoping to leave nothing for archivists.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Stumbled upon — and immediately shredded — a notebook I'd kept in 1991 — which makes 6,200 pages I've turned to confetti so far this year. Doing the best I can to make sure nothing survives of my writing save the words I choose to publish in my lifetime, and hoping to leave nothing for archivists.
I spanked Donald Trump. Perhaps it would cheer you up to do the same. www.adbusters.org/spank-donnie
Spank Donnie
1 trillion spanks by the end of his term
www.adbusters.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I spanked Donald Trump. Perhaps it would cheer you up to do the same. www.adbusters.org/spank-donnie
Reading in Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin's obituary about the 1968 passage of a law making it illegal "to incite, organize, promote or encourage" a riot, I couldn't help but think — that's exactly what Trump did on January 6 when a mob attacked the Capitol at his command. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reading in Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin's obituary about the 1968 passage of a law making it illegal "to incite, organize, promote or encourage" a riot, I couldn't help but think — that's exactly what Trump did on January 6 when a mob attacked the Capitol at his command. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Last night's earworm each time I woke was the opening from the Pluribus theme song. youtu.be/s5b6hUUHleY
Dave Porter - Pluribus Theme (Main Title Theme from "Pluribus") | Apple Original Series Score Vol. 1
YouTube video by SonySoundtracksVEVO
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November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Last night's earworm each time I woke was the opening from the Pluribus theme song. youtu.be/s5b6hUUHleY
Continuing to edit audio for the next Eating the Fantastic, I'm horrified to hear I attributed the powerful poem "MAGA Hat in the Chemo Room" to ALTHEA Gibson — who's the tennis legend — rather than its true author ANDREA Gibson. As partial penance, I once again share it here. youtu.be/WCX-0zJTEbk
NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2023 - Andrea Gibson - MAGA HAT IN THE CHEMO ROOM
YouTube video by Andrea Gibson
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Continuing to edit audio for the next Eating the Fantastic, I'm horrified to hear I attributed the powerful poem "MAGA Hat in the Chemo Room" to ALTHEA Gibson — who's the tennis legend — rather than its true author ANDREA Gibson. As partial penance, I once again share it here. youtu.be/WCX-0zJTEbk
Have hit the halfway point in the raw audio from my recent dinner with @naomikritzer.bsky.social as I continue deleting any distractions which would interfere with you absorbing her wisdom. Subscribe to be among the first to join us on Friday's episode of Eating the Fantastic! pod.link/1083737796
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Have hit the halfway point in the raw audio from my recent dinner with @naomikritzer.bsky.social as I continue deleting any distractions which would interfere with you absorbing her wisdom. Subscribe to be among the first to join us on Friday's episode of Eating the Fantastic! pod.link/1083737796
Dinner's done, but I'm hungry all over again, because Beard Meats Food is giving me ideas for tomorrow's breakfast. youtu.be/rr20Bee7pUo
REDDIT SAID EVEN I COULDN'T BEAT THIS BREAKFAST CHALLENGE! | BeardMeatsFood
YouTube video by BeardMeatsFood
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November 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Dinner's done, but I'm hungry all over again, because Beard Meats Food is giving me ideas for tomorrow's breakfast. youtu.be/rr20Bee7pUo
Today's treadmill TV — Barry Season 2, Episode 7 through Season 3, Episode 1. I continue to be impressed.
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Today's treadmill TV — Barry Season 2, Episode 7 through Season 3, Episode 1. I continue to be impressed.
a movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
a movie that takes place where you're from
A 1934 Random House ad claims: "Ulysses is no harder to understand than any other great classic. It essentially a a story and can be enjoyed as such. Do not let the critics confuse you. Ulysses is not difficult to read, and it richly rewards each reader in wisdom and pleasure." I beg to differ.
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A 1934 Random House ad claims: "Ulysses is no harder to understand than any other great classic. It essentially a a story and can be enjoyed as such. Do not let the critics confuse you. Ulysses is not difficult to read, and it richly rewards each reader in wisdom and pleasure." I beg to differ.