Rob Williger
@robwilliger.com
Writer, Marketing Strategist, Early Stage Playwright, & US Army OEF Veteran.
I read a lot, mostly dead authors, and share a lot of quotes. I don’t subscribe to any isms but connect with rationalism, absurdism, and humanism.
I read a lot, mostly dead authors, and share a lot of quotes. I don’t subscribe to any isms but connect with rationalism, absurdism, and humanism.
I hope nobody tries to sexualize Betty Boop now that she's in the public domain.
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I hope nobody tries to sexualize Betty Boop now that she's in the public domain.
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
Though it isn't the kind of thing one hears discussed every day, serious Disney fans do tend to know that Goofy's original name was Dippy Dawg. But how many of the non-obsessive know that Mickey's fai...
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January 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
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Happy Public Domain Day! Jan 1 marks the date when eligible works pass into the public domain in the United States. Notable works entering the public domain this year include certain early Mickey Mouse cartoons, the novel As I Lay Dying, and the Gershwin composition Embraceable You.
#copyright
#copyright
Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
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January 1, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Happy Public Domain Day! Jan 1 marks the date when eligible works pass into the public domain in the United States. Notable works entering the public domain this year include certain early Mickey Mouse cartoons, the novel As I Lay Dying, and the Gershwin composition Embraceable You.
#copyright
#copyright
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Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running
Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running
On January 1, 1943, the American folk music legend Woody Guthrie jotted in his journal a list of 33 “New Years Rulin's.' Nowadays, we'd call them New Year's Resolutions. Adorned by doodles, the list i...
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January 1, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running
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Pentabus Young Writers – Local Applications Now Open!
If you’re 18–30 and living in the rural shropshire ? West Midlands? or Wales? this is your chance to develop your voice, your craft, and your confidence as a writer. Don’t miss it — get your application in!
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If you’re 18–30 and living in the rural shropshire ? West Midlands? or Wales? this is your chance to develop your voice, your craft, and your confidence as a writer. Don’t miss it — get your application in!
pentabus.co.uk/local-young-...
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Pentabus Young Writers – Local Applications Now Open!
If you’re 18–30 and living in the rural shropshire ? West Midlands? or Wales? this is your chance to develop your voice, your craft, and your confidence as a writer. Don’t miss it — get your application in!
pentabus.co.uk/local-young-...
If you’re 18–30 and living in the rural shropshire ? West Midlands? or Wales? this is your chance to develop your voice, your craft, and your confidence as a writer. Don’t miss it — get your application in!
pentabus.co.uk/local-young-...
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I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
ReCalibri
They always make us do everything ourselves, anyway
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December 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
Trading Places is in my top two movies of all time. It was part of my inspiration to become an options trader.
Today in the December Comfort Watches: Trading Places, a tale of disparate classes coming together during the holiday season to do what's important: Punish rich dickheads! Also, remembering Eddie Murphy's rise as a generational talent in comedy:
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Six: Trading Places
Trading Places takes place within the holiday season, with two of the big moments happening on Christmas and New Year’s Eve; does this make it a holiday movie? I suppose it might, although un…
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December 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Trading Places is in my top two movies of all time. It was part of my inspiration to become an options trader.
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George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose
George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose
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Most everyone who knows the work of George Orwell knows his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” (published here), in which he rails against careless, confusing, ...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose
Glad to have done my part for the cause.
people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Glad to have done my part for the cause.
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The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.)
The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.)
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With the old joke about every generation thinking they invented sex, Listverse brings us the papyrus above, the oldest depiction of sex on record.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.)
I found myself on my first "reply all" hell in a decade today. It was some SPAM message and people decided to keep replying with, "stop", "unsubscribe", "remove me", etc...
According to the email signatures these were high-level people amazing they don't know how email works.
According to the email signatures these were high-level people amazing they don't know how email works.
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I found myself on my first "reply all" hell in a decade today. It was some SPAM message and people decided to keep replying with, "stop", "unsubscribe", "remove me", etc...
According to the email signatures these were high-level people amazing they don't know how email works.
According to the email signatures these were high-level people amazing they don't know how email works.
I'm glad I did!
as we approach noon on publication day for my new book of lyrics & commentary I can’t help thinking that you should totally buy my book
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This Year - John Darnielle
From New York Times bestselling author and Mountain Goats’ singer/songwriter John Darnielle—“a master at building suspense” (Los Angeles Times)—comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, artis...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm glad I did!
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BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
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The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic
The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic
Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition around here. Recorded in 1967, the 18+ minute counterculture song recounts Arlo Guthrie’s real encounter with the law,...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic
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November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it started with style--with a dramatized adaptation of Brave New World, narrated by A...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
Glad the post recognizes John Cage!
Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and 1,000 Musicians Protest AI with a New Silent Album
Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and 1,000 Musicians Protest AI with a New Silent Album
The good news is that an album has just been released by Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn of Gorillaz, The Clash, Tori Amos, Hans Zimmer, Pet Shop Boys, Jamiroquai, and Yusuf (previously known as...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Glad the post recognizes John Cage!
This best describes where I stand.
Also, if 15 is old enough please point me to your advocacy of lowering the voting age to 15. If you're old enough for that stuff, you should be old enough to vote, smoke, drink, etc... Let's be consistent with what's an adult.
Also, if 15 is old enough please point me to your advocacy of lowering the voting age to 15. If you're old enough for that stuff, you should be old enough to vote, smoke, drink, etc... Let's be consistent with what's an adult.
@scalzi.com you say this? bc it’s the best - and your the best but people should know it’s you for realz.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This best describes where I stand.
Also, if 15 is old enough please point me to your advocacy of lowering the voting age to 15. If you're old enough for that stuff, you should be old enough to vote, smoke, drink, etc... Let's be consistent with what's an adult.
Also, if 15 is old enough please point me to your advocacy of lowering the voting age to 15. If you're old enough for that stuff, you should be old enough to vote, smoke, drink, etc... Let's be consistent with what's an adult.
It's sad that people believe choosing not to evolve as a human is a sign of strength.
I've got no issue with looking at things I said and thought twenty plus years ago and seeing how I know now where it was wrong. I don't beat myself up as it was what I knew at the time.
I've got no issue with looking at things I said and thought twenty plus years ago and seeing how I know now where it was wrong. I don't beat myself up as it was what I knew at the time.
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It's sad that people believe choosing not to evolve as a human is a sign of strength.
I've got no issue with looking at things I said and thought twenty plus years ago and seeing how I know now where it was wrong. I don't beat myself up as it was what I knew at the time.
I've got no issue with looking at things I said and thought twenty plus years ago and seeing how I know now where it was wrong. I don't beat myself up as it was what I knew at the time.
It still makes one a sick piece of shit and these women were trafficked, abused, and not able to consent.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It still makes one a sick piece of shit and these women were trafficked, abused, and not able to consent.
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I honestly think we should just stop giving them the air they so desperately crave! Literally!
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I honestly think we should just stop giving them the air they so desperately crave! Literally!
I agree. I followed the advice and have the feeling this album will be making more of an appearance in my music rotation.
PSA – if you, like me, haven't listened to the first Violent Femmes album in years... it's still amazing. Do yourself a favour!
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I agree. I followed the advice and have the feeling this album will be making more of an appearance in my music rotation.
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Yes really — the “we asked this guy. He doesn’t actually know jack shit but he’s rich” model of reportage really needs to go
theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yes really — the “we asked this guy. He doesn’t actually know jack shit but he’s rich” model of reportage really needs to go
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Listen to Recordings of Allen Ginsberg & Other Poets on Phone-a-Poem, the 1970s Poetry Hotline
Listen to Recordings of Allen Ginsberg & Other Poets on Phone-a-Poem, the 1970s Poetry Hotline
Much of what we once used the telephone for, we now use the internet for. Conversely, some tasks to which the internet now seems perfectly suited were once performed, imperfectly, through the phone. T...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Listen to Recordings of Allen Ginsberg & Other Poets on Phone-a-Poem, the 1970s Poetry Hotline