David Busboom
@davidbusboom.bsky.social
Horror writer, science editor, dinosaur/bird enthusiast, husband, dog dad. Author of EVERY CRAWLING, PUTRID THING (JournalStone 2022). HWA and CSE member. Anti-fascist. He/him.
https://davidbusboom.com/
Cover art: @flancortes
Profile pic: Don Noble
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David Busboom
@davidbusboom.bsky.social
· Jan 24
Every Crawling, Putrid Thing - JournalStone
EVERY CRAWLING, PUTRID THING “It would be accurate to say that Busboom’s fiction is a love letter to schlocky, neon horror, peppered with sticky-sweet nostalgia and loving luridity. It would, however,...
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I recently left Facebook after almost 17 years, making this my only active social media presence. It's mostly a relief, don't get me wrong, but I suppose I should be a bit more proactive about promoting my work. To that end, if you dig pulpy fun horror with a literary heart, I think you'll like...
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Noël Coward’s 🇬🇧British romantic drama “BRIEF ENCOUNTER” directed by David Lean was theatrically released #OTD in 1945 to widespread critical acclaim. It received three nominations at the 19th Academy Awards, Best Director, Best Actress (for Johnson), and Best Adapted Screenplay
🎬 Eagle-Lion Films
🎬 Eagle-Lion Films
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Noël Coward’s 🇬🇧British romantic drama “BRIEF ENCOUNTER” directed by David Lean was theatrically released #OTD in 1945 to widespread critical acclaim. It received three nominations at the 19th Academy Awards, Best Director, Best Actress (for Johnson), and Best Adapted Screenplay
🎬 Eagle-Lion Films
🎬 Eagle-Lion Films
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(1) Write genre from outside of it in, not the inside of it out.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
(1) Write genre from outside of it in, not the inside of it out.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
I've said it before and I'll say it again until he's visibly too old for the part, but somebody please cast Billy Crudup in a Rod Serling biopic already.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again until he's visibly too old for the part, but somebody please cast Billy Crudup in a Rod Serling biopic already.
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@bsky.app are you kidding me? Goran is a treasure-- unsuspend him now.
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
@bsky.app are you kidding me? Goran is a treasure-- unsuspend him now.
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God has let Bolsonaro slip the icy cold grip of death time and time again just so this moment can happen
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
God has let Bolsonaro slip the icy cold grip of death time and time again just so this moment can happen
I make my money as an editor of scientific journals. My writing money is barely enough to cover a monthly meal out, if that.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I make my money as an editor of scientific journals. My writing money is barely enough to cover a monthly meal out, if that.
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In stead of sending a link to old threads every time someone uses the term "Dark Ages", I decided to put it all in an article.
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”
This is not YET another article on why calling the early middle ages the dark ages is iffy, it’s a list of sources & references. These days most historians no longer use the term “D…
fakehistoryhunter.net
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In stead of sending a link to old threads every time someone uses the term "Dark Ages", I decided to put it all in an article.
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Reading Harlan Ellison's old commentaries/screeds on '60s/'70s TV culture and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in the past month has been an entertaining, fascinating, and somewhat depressing experience. So much and yet far too little seems to have changed in the past 50+ years.
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reading Harlan Ellison's old commentaries/screeds on '60s/'70s TV culture and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in the past month has been an entertaining, fascinating, and somewhat depressing experience. So much and yet far too little seems to have changed in the past 50+ years.
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Tura Satana the queen forever. She wrote most of her own dialogue for this movie too. The Mae West of beating the shit out of people
like I don't beat clocks, just people
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Tura Satana the queen forever. She wrote most of her own dialogue for this movie too. The Mae West of beating the shit out of people
Whenever I hear someone say, "I just don't have time to read" my immediate thought is "how many episodes of [SHOW] did you binge this week?"
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Whenever I hear someone say, "I just don't have time to read" my immediate thought is "how many episodes of [SHOW] did you binge this week?"
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My obit for DOGE points out that in the end it didn’t even save money. It did kill 430,000 children, though. If the goal was to eliminate foreigners, DOGE was a stunning success. About 64 expired for every AID employee fired or placed on administrative leave.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
DOGE May Be Dead, But Its Crimes Live On
A now-abolished agency that never was did a remarkable amount of damage—including, surprisingly, to the budget deficit.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
My obit for DOGE points out that in the end it didn’t even save money. It did kill 430,000 children, though. If the goal was to eliminate foreigners, DOGE was a stunning success. About 64 expired for every AID employee fired or placed on administrative leave.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
My Star Wars take is why the fuck are we still ranking Star Wars movies like it's 2016? Who the fuck really cares whether one of the newer ones ranks higher than one of the older ones in some rando's list? WHO CARES? Just like what you like (especially if it's NOT a bloated corporate IP corpse).
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My Star Wars take is why the fuck are we still ranking Star Wars movies like it's 2016? Who the fuck really cares whether one of the newer ones ranks higher than one of the older ones in some rando's list? WHO CARES? Just like what you like (especially if it's NOT a bloated corporate IP corpse).
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Wrote just over a thousand words last night in a new short story about a robber of graverobbers who may be in love with his client. 500 words is a decent writing night for me, so I woke up feeling pretty good this morning.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Wrote just over a thousand words last night in a new short story about a robber of graverobbers who may be in love with his client. 500 words is a decent writing night for me, so I woke up feeling pretty good this morning.
Dragonslayer
Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
The Thing
The Fly
Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
The Thing
The Fly
Name your top 4 80s films.
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Dragonslayer
Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
The Thing
The Fly
Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
The Thing
The Fly
Garfunkel & Oates Meet the Monsters
Yes yes, Nosferatu (2024), Frankenstein (2025), Werwulf in 2026
but now we need an Abbott and Costello equivalent to meet them all in 2027
but now we need an Abbott and Costello equivalent to meet them all in 2027
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Garfunkel & Oates Meet the Monsters
AI peddlers fuck off.
Why yes, @microsoft.com, I will HAPPILY provide you feedback on how exactly I feel about Word right now.
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
AI peddlers fuck off.
The lovingly rendered direct line between the two titans of my heart: Ray Bradbury and Godzilla.
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The lovingly rendered direct line between the two titans of my heart: Ray Bradbury and Godzilla.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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download our app to buy coffee! get your coffee by simply entering your email! coffee is just one password containing a number, letter, and special character away! hey. fuck you
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
download our app to buy coffee! get your coffee by simply entering your email! coffee is just one password containing a number, letter, and special character away! hey. fuck you
I'll die on the hill that Bob Clark's BLACK CHRISTMAS is and always will be superior to John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN (which I do quite like, though I hate all the Myers-centric sequels).
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I'll die on the hill that Bob Clark's BLACK CHRISTMAS is and always will be superior to John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN (which I do quite like, though I hate all the Myers-centric sequels).
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his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her