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Darrell Z. Grizzle
@dzgrizzle.bsky.social
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Queer Writer of Horror, Dark Fantasy, Crime Fiction. Gay Bear. Episcopalian. Meditation practitioner. Deadhead. Democratic Socialist. Fan of cats, coffeehouses, comics, Star Trek, Godzilla, DragonCon. 🌈 🐻 📚☕️🐱💙 https://linktr.ee/dzgrizzle
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 1h
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 9h
For over 20 years I’ve thought Bruce Hornsby was singing “blood all over my face” when in fact he was singing “mud all over my face” in his song Resting Place. What else have I been wrong about?

And the storm clouds are flying high
Mud all over my face
And I’m a long, long way from my resting place
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 13h
That’s what it reminds me of.
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 13h
I’m slowly reading the new Witcher novel (slowly because I don’t want it to end). Crossroads of Ravens by Andrzej Sapkowski is a prequel about Geralt’s early days as a witcher. It reads like a bunch of interconnected adventures instead of a continuous narrative. I’m enjoying it.
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 14h
While they were close friends, their relationship was not always described as “warm” due to their differing views. Eliot was more conservative and religious, while Woolf was a feminist and atheist. Despite this, they maintained a dynamic dialogue & saw each other regularly til Woolf's death in 1941.
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 14h
Literary Connection: Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard Woolf, published some of Eliot's work, including his poem “The Waste Land,” through their Hogarth Press.
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 14h
T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

Photo June 1924
By Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938)

Woolf and Eliot were friends and contemporaries for over two decades, meeting around 1918. They were both readers and critics of each other's work, and they respected each other's literary judgments.
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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 16h
Today's $2.99 Kindle deal is not to be missed! Karl Edward Wagner's IN A LONELY PLACE (1983) is one of the best modern horror collections, featuring some of this master storyteller's best work. Grab it at a bargain price today online on Kindle worldwide! www.amazon.com/Lonely-Place...
Book cover, IN A LONELY PLACE by Karl Edward Wagner
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 20h
Barbie’s Malibu Dream Marxist Internet Archive
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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 1d
A not talked about but weird part of being a writer is how often you’re in a group talking books and you virtually smile and nod when a recommendation comes up for someone you dislike for a petty reason like they were rude to a friend at a once, but saying so would veer on unnecessary gossip.
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 1d
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. - Kurt Vonnegut
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 1d
I’m kinda starting to feel this way about Haruki Murakami.
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 1d
LÁSZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI — When I am not reading Kafka I am thinking about Kafka. When I am not thinking about Kafka I miss thinking about him. Having missed thinking about him for a while, I take him out and read him again. That's how it works.
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 1d
Today the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, pictured here in Venice with Patti Smith.
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 1d
Pedro Pascal visits a bookstore in Paris
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 2d
Top 8 songs by The Monkees:

Me & Magdalena
Birth of an Accidental Hipster
Pleasant Valley Sunday
Shades of Gray
Listen to the Band
Last Train to Clarksville
I'm a Believer
Daydream Believer
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 2d
Procession of Souls (1890) by Louis Welden Hawkins (1849-1910)
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 3d
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 3d
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 3d
This guy.
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Charles R. Rutledge @crutledge.bsky.social · 3d
Why, yes. I DO read Sutter Cane.
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 3d
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." - James Baldwin
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 3d
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com
Panel 1 A figure stands at a lectern "This image illustrates my theory that, presented with a sufficient quantity of intricate formulae, overcomplicated diagrams and impenetrable acronyms, an audience will agree with almost anything." The screen is completely packed with such things Panel 2,3,4,5. Four audience members say enthusiastically: "My thoughts exactly!", "Hear, hear!", "I quite agree!" and "Excellent point!"
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 4d
On the trail yesterday at Boggs Creek in the North Georgia Mountains
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 5d
Sunday afternoon at Boggs Creek in the North Georgia Mountains
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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 6d
Me & another gangstacat were robbing a liquor store. He picked up a bottle and said “is this whisky?” I said “yes but not as whisky as wobbing a bank.”
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