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You’re a customer. -EPMD
January 30, 2026 at 3:53 PM
You’re a customer. -EPMD
hbd Richard Brautigan
January 30, 2026 at 3:41 PM
hbd Richard Brautigan
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@joebankswriter.bsky.social Because it's his birthday and science fiction -- and I just blathered about it earlier in the day, check out Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar (1968)! super bizarre/surreal/different :)
Despite the miserable cover, I'm a hug fan of Richard Brautigan's New Wave SF(ish) novel In Watermelon Sugar (1968), which charts the memories of a nameless narrator attempting to write a book about the community and inhabitants of iDEATH. sciencefictionruminations.com/2021/09/12/b...
Book Review: In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan (1968)
Edmund Shea’s photograph for the 1969 edition 4.5/5 (Very Good) Desperate for something unlike any other New Wave SF experiment, I came across Richard Brautigan’s surreal post-catastrop…
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January 30, 2026 at 2:54 PM
@joebankswriter.bsky.social Because it's his birthday and science fiction -- and I just blathered about it earlier in the day, check out Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar (1968)! super bizarre/surreal/different :)
Babe wake up, my songs about taking down the oligarchy are streaming on all platforms.
January 30, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Babe wake up, my songs about taking down the oligarchy are streaming on all platforms.
You know how easy it is, especially in the post-Twitter era, to avoid the insipid National Post and their op-eds of no consequence?
Oh look, a a hot take on the Charter by the academic equivalent of Kevin Sorbo! Please. Stop giving these dim losers your attention.
Oh look, a a hot take on the Charter by the academic equivalent of Kevin Sorbo! Please. Stop giving these dim losers your attention.
January 30, 2026 at 4:48 AM
You know how easy it is, especially in the post-Twitter era, to avoid the insipid National Post and their op-eds of no consequence?
Oh look, a a hot take on the Charter by the academic equivalent of Kevin Sorbo! Please. Stop giving these dim losers your attention.
Oh look, a a hot take on the Charter by the academic equivalent of Kevin Sorbo! Please. Stop giving these dim losers your attention.
It’s not a Jerome Charyn novel until someone gets a tapeworm. From Maria La Divina.
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 AM
It’s not a Jerome Charyn novel until someone gets a tapeworm. From Maria La Divina.
Pivoting to video with David Brooks boss just like you asked.
January 29, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Pivoting to video with David Brooks boss just like you asked.
Art Carney rules btw (I don’t think there was ever a question) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSf...
Dinah and Friends with Art Carney and George Burns - 1979
YouTube video by GenSixFour
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January 29, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Art Carney rules btw (I don’t think there was ever a question) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSf...
Callas gets new shoes in Jerome Charyn’s sumptuous Maria La Divina.
January 29, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Callas gets new shoes in Jerome Charyn’s sumptuous Maria La Divina.
Crestfallen sidekick
January 29, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Crestfallen sidekick
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There's a bit of a longer thread here, but this is the essence of it.
Also, as @alexdecampi.bsky.social said in that thread, you should probably distrust the heroic struggle that writers offer up as their process for writing a novel.
Also, as @alexdecampi.bsky.social said in that thread, you should probably distrust the heroic struggle that writers offer up as their process for writing a novel.
If there's any secret to writing it's that you need to be left alone, unstressed, untormented by the evils of this awful world, for a little while every day, and that's a luxury.
January 29, 2026 at 3:07 PM
There's a bit of a longer thread here, but this is the essence of it.
Also, as @alexdecampi.bsky.social said in that thread, you should probably distrust the heroic struggle that writers offer up as their process for writing a novel.
Also, as @alexdecampi.bsky.social said in that thread, you should probably distrust the heroic struggle that writers offer up as their process for writing a novel.
Canadian crime procedural i.ytimg.com/vi/j10TmxrhW...
January 29, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Canadian crime procedural i.ytimg.com/vi/j10TmxrhW...
Lest there be any doubt about Jo Nesbo’s intentions:
January 29, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Lest there be any doubt about Jo Nesbo’s intentions:
Yessss!
Ooh it’s time again for me to recommend Henry Hoke’s Open Throat book! A queer lion in LA, subject to the same bullshit as everyone else in LA/on earth. Beautifully done. typebooks.ca/products/978...
January 29, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Yessss!
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"Your homes are not at stake: Ktunaxa title and rights can co-exist with fee-simple land ownership" - from "An open letter to residents of ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa:" www.ktunaxa.org/an-open-lett...
An open letter to residents of ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa : Ktunaxa Nation
www.ktunaxa.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:34 AM
"Your homes are not at stake: Ktunaxa title and rights can co-exist with fee-simple land ownership" - from "An open letter to residents of ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa:" www.ktunaxa.org/an-open-lett...
Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole.
January 28, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole.
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”Along with many others, Coffee House, Graywolf, and Milkweed in particular are known for publishing fiction that would give an ICE agent a stroke”
January 28, 2026 at 9:26 PM
”Along with many others, Coffee House, Graywolf, and Milkweed in particular are known for publishing fiction that would give an ICE agent a stroke”
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"We clink our icy confections together and look upon the wreck of existence"
I never get tired of short fiction about/around junk food.
“All aboooooooard!” screams Tim Can along with the intro to “Crazy Train.”
... and so, too, we scream, about today's Casey Jo Graham Welmers story
"Saturdays are disco days. Fred lets us use the generator to spin records for an hour from Grandma’s collection."
https://www.havehashad.com/km6q6
... and so, too, we scream, about today's Casey Jo Graham Welmers story
"Saturdays are disco days. Fred lets us use the generator to spin records for an hour from Grandma’s collection."
https://www.havehashad.com/km6q6
January 28, 2026 at 6:36 PM
"We clink our icy confections together and look upon the wreck of existence"
I never get tired of short fiction about/around junk food.
“All aboooooooard!” screams Tim Can along with the intro to “Crazy Train.”
... and so, too, we scream, about today's Casey Jo Graham Welmers story
"Saturdays are disco days. Fred lets us use the generator to spin records for an hour from Grandma’s collection."
https://www.havehashad.com/km6q6
... and so, too, we scream, about today's Casey Jo Graham Welmers story
"Saturdays are disco days. Fred lets us use the generator to spin records for an hour from Grandma’s collection."
https://www.havehashad.com/km6q6
THE ONLY FOOD TRUCK AT THE END OR START OF THE WORLD by Casey Jo Graham Welmers
I used to hate slushees, but Fred still has grape and that counts for something. Newt enjoys the sweet tang of lemon lime. “Cheers!” We say. We clink our icy confections together and look upon the…
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January 28, 2026 at 6:35 PM
I never get tired of short fiction about/around junk food.
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I really do believe comics are a perfect tool for curing tiktok brain and regrowing attention spans, and we should publicize that
found an alternative to TikTok called Reading A GD Comic Book
January 28, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I really do believe comics are a perfect tool for curing tiktok brain and regrowing attention spans, and we should publicize that
If you put thief or thieves in your title, I’m going to take a closer look.
January 28, 2026 at 4:49 PM
If you put thief or thieves in your title, I’m going to take a closer look.
Transit, Alix Hawley, upcoming novels hotdogcode.beehiiv.com/p/sic-transit
Sic Transit
Things that go, Alix Hawley, upcoming novels
hotdogcode.beehiiv.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Transit, Alix Hawley, upcoming novels hotdogcode.beehiiv.com/p/sic-transit