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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1h

HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE is two years old. My monster mash of memoir and criticism exploring the experience of PTSD is my less popular book, but I love it and I'm proud of it. Thank you to everyone who has supported this one with your blurbs, reviews, and recommendations—you're all diamonds.

The book HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE: ON VIOLENCE AND MEMORY laying on white painted wooden slats, next to three spent bullet casings.

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 2h

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 2h

Not yet. This is the first I'm hearing of it.

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 10h

It's great! Andy is a great character in a great show!

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 10h

Hard to remember that the loathsome Chris Pratt was introduced to us as the lovable Kramer of Parks and Rec.

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 10h

This is extremely true.

Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 10h

I have a theory and it's that there was a Family Guy gag about Tron in like 2002 that tricked a whole generation of people into thinking they were nostalgic for Tron when actually they were just the target demographic for the Animation Domination programming block on Fox.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 10h

One of the great studio tasks tonight.

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 12h

Baseball fans, buy this book. And buy Andrew's other books too. He's a phenomenal author who writes about baseball like no other.

Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 12h

To celebrate the Jays' ALDS win, @pressassembly.bsky.social is making Field Work available for 34% off the e-pub edition (1% per run the Jays scored on NYY). Not valid on print b/c Assembly isn't shipping rn in solidarity with striking Canada Post workers...

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Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living

Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew Forbes Baseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream—and for some, it’s also a…

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 13h

Very wealthy people once again learn the hard way that there are still a few things in this world that can't be bought. A clean conscience, for example.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 13h

whew

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Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 13h

Crazy stuff happening at my publisher.
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House of Anansi Press announces restructuring - Quill and Quire

The restructuring includes the formation of a new board of directors and a change in the management of House of Anansi and Groundwood Books.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 23h

Please everyone buy my latest book which is all about this problem and how we can fix it. It has, of course, been ignored by the mainstream press.

www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 22h

Ten horror movies to get to know me:
📹The Blair Witch Project
🪓The Shining
👌Incantation
🪵Hereditary
🧟Night of the Living Dead
📼Ring (1998)
🛻The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
🌥️Nope
🛹A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
💍Bride of Chucky

Nadia Bulkin @nadiabulkin.bsky.social · 23h

10 horror movies to get to know me

🔥 Saint Maud
🫗 Personal Shopper
🎦 Red Rooms
↩️ It Follows
👹 Noroi: The Curse
👰🏻‍♀️ Demon (2015)
😢 A Dark Song
📸 Lake Mungo
👂🏻 Kwaidan
🪓 The Descent

Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 2d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🩸Messiah Of Evil
🪏Dead And Buried
✝️Exorcist III
🔪Alice, Sweet Alice
🪟The House With The Laughing Windows
🎅Black Christmas '74
🐺The Thing
📺Ghostwatch
⚪Phantasm
🪦Creepshow

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1d

it's glorious

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1d

There's free shipping today at Bookshop[dot]org!
Perhaps it's a perfect time to check out an essay collection that John Hodgman called "...a brilliant, humorous, heartbreaking examination of how certain events break our lives apart, and what we do with the pieces.”
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How to Restore a Timeline: On Violence and Memory

On Violence and Memory

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1d

Ol' Sammy's still got the juice—befuddling morons from beyond the grave!

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1d

If you send me photographic proof that you bought How to Restore a Timeline through this, I will mail you your fortune written on a tarot card (when the mail strike is over)!

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1d

There's free shipping today at Bookshop[dot]org!
Perhaps it's a perfect time to check out an essay collection that John Hodgman called "...a brilliant, humorous, heartbreaking examination of how certain events break our lives apart, and what we do with the pieces.”
bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

How to Restore a Timeline: On Violence and Memory

On Violence and Memory

bookshop.org

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1d

VILLAIN is coming out in May! That's in like seven months! Folks, I implore you: SMASH THAT PREORDER BUTTON!

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 2d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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emma dawn of the dead @emmadawn.com · 1d

My cameo on Dark Web this week was found out by my friends across the ocean haha. Fun to send something in earnest (while in the middle of moving), kinda forget about it, and then get jumpscared by your own work?? Rob was really cool and nice about it which made me happy 🥹

Joe List @joel.ist · 1d

@emmadawn.com @peterbcounter.com OMG, YOU TWO!

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1d

Social media is great! It's important! And it sucks that it's been hijacked by people with political brainworms!

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1d

I was approached by a publisher to write my first book thanks to a link to my blog in my Twitter account. I've also made dozens of friends though social media, meant of whom are very dear to me.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Nick Kornek @kornek.zone · 1d

Let the Right One Into the Zoom

Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 2d

The Amityville Honorarium

Courtney 🐙 Lovecraftian 🐙 Actually @hexadecibelle.fyi · 2d

the blair witch project manager

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