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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Had so much fun at @armadillocon.bsky.social this weekend I forgot to take photos. It might have been the best year yet for me, and I’m already pining for next year’s

It’s me, reading to a not-empty room, though you can’t see the audience in this picture

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Chairman @bruces.bsky.social read at the closing ceremonies of @armadillocon.bsky.social from his old collaboration with Howard Waldrop, a medieval Japanese tale of spies and investigation and mono no aware. Perfect ending

The venerable @bruces reading at the closing ceremonies of Armadillocon

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m at Armadillocon again this weekend! Hope to see you here

My Armadillocon schedule:
Saturday, September 12
1pm
The Cruel Magic of Wishes
Cherry, 1pm - 1:55pm
4pm
What You Should Have Read This Year
Cherry, 4pm - 4:55pm
5:30pm
Speculative Poetry Exquisite Corpse
Sycamore, 5:30pm - 6:25pm
8pm
Roasting Writing Advice
Cedar, 8pm - 8:55pm
Sunday, September 13
10:30am
Reading - Clayton Hackett
Pecan, 10:30am - 10:55am
11:30am
Is LitRPG the next cyberpunk? Was Dungeon Crawler Carl a fluke?
Sycamore, 11:30am - 12:25pm

2pm
Is There an "American" Vampire Story?
Cherry, 2pm - 2:55pm

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Sleep deprivation making for a surreal day back home after readercon. Grocery run ended with a novel temptation at the checkout stand, quickly followed by crossing paths with one of our better state representatives wearing a J Dilla t-shirt

Grocery store checkout rack featuring a publication titled “Haunted History of Old San Antonio.”

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I’ve been given the solemn duty of guarding the celebratory canollis for the @reckoningmag.bsky.social 10-year anniversary

Close up of a closed box of canollis from LaCascia’s bakery

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Sneak peak at rehabilitated harpies and Wagner from @marissalingen.bsky.social’s forthcoming novella

Marissa Lingen, masked, reading into a microphone

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

19th century Jewish immigrant experience in New York, through @matthewkressel.net’s lens of dark fantasy

Matt Kressel in glasses and a “PKD made me do it” shirt reading to an audience

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

From this morning’s trail run, where I got to encounter two rabbits, two minibears, and a hawk. This place is gorgeous

Greenery surrounding the water at the south end of Mill Pond Conservation Area

Yours truly, sweaty and haggard, on the north dam of Mill Pond

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

And by “good adventure” I’m using @semi-rad.com’s definition, from his flow chart postcard on my fridge

A flow chart with most of the results being “not a good adventure” or “it was a good adventure”

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Today was the first time she came along on my run. Our speeds don’t align, but it all worked out. Between the rain and her first real spill, it was a good adventure #dadshit

Me, the middle aged white guy with the bad beard and goofy smile, running behind my daughter on her bike on a neighborhood street

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Last weekend at the finish line. Not fast but getting faster.

Yours truly, a middle aged white dude with a graying beard, “running” at the end of a race

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Print I bought last year that I still need to frame and hang

An art print showing the pixelated solider from the 90s fps shooter DOOM on a pink background with the text “Male Loneliness Epidemic”

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A slow ten miles through the Hill Country State Natural Area this morning

The view from an overlook in the Texas Hill Country, juniper trees and limestone under a cloudy sky

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Dropped by @ghoulish.bsky.social tonight and got a nice haul, including @scribeofhades.bsky.social’s Shitshow and @sanfordallen.bsky.social’s Deadly Passage. Added bonus learning about Occulto! Monthly News

The cover of an alternative tabloid paper purporting to show giant pan dulce flying like UFOs over a bakery with the headline “Unidentified Aerial Pan!!”

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Evergreen Valentines from young Werner WernerHerzogvalentines.com

A virtual Valentine’s Day card with a black and white photo of a young mustachioed Werner Herzog. “Valentine, in your eyes I see the light, the heat; also the chaos, hostility, and murder.”

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Wonderful event tonight listening to @johnpicacio.bsky.social interview @comptonwrites.bsky.social about his new horror novel DEAD FIRST at @nowherebookshop.bsky.social, with a bonus of running into the fantastic @celsohurtado.bsky.social. Love it

John Picacio and Johnny Compton in front of an audience in Nowhere Bookshop

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Seven slow miles through clouds of cedar pollen at Government Canyon today, and then bought ten boxes of Girl Scout cookies

A middle aged white dude with a Padres cap, a running vest, and a bad beard “running” through cedar trees under blue skies

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

If you want a short, too real scare for this Halloween, I have a 100-word story in this free online collection Im this week’s @sacurrent.bsky.social that has gotten some powerful feedback, thanks to @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social and @sanfordallen.bsky.social

A text message saying “Seriously, you walked over my fucking grave with that 📝 dude”

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Great turnout and energy tonight. Martha is a treasure, and this event felt like a balm in trying times.

A seated audience in a bookstore in front of author Martha Wells and the event host

A more zoomed in shot of Wells in front of the audience at Nowhere Bookshop

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

And the crowd presses the stage with @johnpicacio.bsky.social revealing his original artwork from the double insert spread in THE INVISIBLE PARADE for the first time. A fitting end to the con

A crowd presses in on John Picacio on stage with his artwork

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Yesterday morning on my run, I tried to find the giant trees along Onion Creek that @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social wrote about last year. Misjudged my means of ingress and wound up at Dove Springs instead, and was joined by a friendly pit mix for a mile or so on my way back

A creek bed running through a forest at dawn. The far bank is elevated, and there standing water and gravel in the creek.

A stray dog trotting down the sidewall in a residential neighborhood

Some sweaty schmuck taking a selfie at the creek bed from the other photo

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Yesterday’s reading with Patrice Sarath and this morning’s with @joshrountree.bsky.social

Patrice Sarath at a round table reading in front of a laptop, with her book Into the Dark displayed

Josh Rountree showing his book The Unkillable Frank Lightning

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Stoked to be a panelist at @armadillocon.bsky.social again this year! If you’re around, hope to see you there

A screenshot of my schedule for Armadillocon this year:

Friday, September 12
5:30pm
Is Being a Writer Worth Paying the Self-employment Taxes?
Ballroom D, 5:30pm - 6:25pm
9pm
Erotica and Horror: Bodies and Relationships
Ballroom D, 9pm - 9:55pm

Saturday, September 13
2:30pm
What You Should Have Read This Year
Ballroom D, 2:30pm - 3:25pm
7pm
What is the Value of Climate Fiction?
Southpark A, 7pm - 7:55pm
9pm
Severance, Foundation and the AppleTV Prestige SF Renaissance
Southpark A, 9pm - 9:55pm

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Great turnout at @johnpicacio.bsky.social and Leigh Bardugo’s event for The Invisible Parade at TPR today

Two authors sitting on a stage before a large audience

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Deadass @hackett.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Just tore through the second half of @sgj.bsky.social’s THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER, and yeah, this just might be my new favorite vampire novel. My heart is full.