Geoffrey Cubbage
@geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
Social Justice Worrier
Personal account; tweets are not representative of any employer (but are often nerdy about Chicago and/or local government)
It’s pronounced “Blewski”
He/him
Personal account; tweets are not representative of any employer (but are often nerdy about Chicago and/or local government)
It’s pronounced “Blewski”
He/him
Oooh that’s a good one. Masters of Atlantis was legitimately laugh-out-loud funny at multiple points, just a masterpiece portrait of uniquely American venality.
February 6, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Oooh that’s a good one. Masters of Atlantis was legitimately laugh-out-loud funny at multiple points, just a masterpiece portrait of uniquely American venality.
It is not an animal story! It is VERY MUCH not an animal story. But it is spooky and weird and kinda makes me wish he’d done more Not Animal Stories.
(That said, The Ship’s Cat was a masterpiece and I can still recite large chunks of it from memory. So I guess I have two Adams entries.)
(That said, The Ship’s Cat was a masterpiece and I can still recite large chunks of it from memory. So I guess I have two Adams entries.)
February 6, 2026 at 4:42 AM
It is not an animal story! It is VERY MUCH not an animal story. But it is spooky and weird and kinda makes me wish he’d done more Not Animal Stories.
(That said, The Ship’s Cat was a masterpiece and I can still recite large chunks of it from memory. So I guess I have two Adams entries.)
(That said, The Ship’s Cat was a masterpiece and I can still recite large chunks of it from memory. So I guess I have two Adams entries.)
Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance, rather than Scarlet Letter or Seven Gables.
Richard Adams’s The Girl in a Swing, absolutely nothing like his far more famous Watership Down and a HUGE surprise to anyone who picks it up hoping for more bunny stories.
Richard Adams’s The Girl in a Swing, absolutely nothing like his far more famous Watership Down and a HUGE surprise to anyone who picks it up hoping for more bunny stories.
February 6, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance, rather than Scarlet Letter or Seven Gables.
Richard Adams’s The Girl in a Swing, absolutely nothing like his far more famous Watership Down and a HUGE surprise to anyone who picks it up hoping for more bunny stories.
Richard Adams’s The Girl in a Swing, absolutely nothing like his far more famous Watership Down and a HUGE surprise to anyone who picks it up hoping for more bunny stories.
I was lucky enough to catch an in school suspension for my reading crimes, back in the day. Which had to be served in…wait for it…the school library.
Taking a kid out of class for reading in class and putting them with all the books certainly teaches a lesson, but perhaps not the intended one.
Taking a kid out of class for reading in class and putting them with all the books certainly teaches a lesson, but perhaps not the intended one.
February 3, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I was lucky enough to catch an in school suspension for my reading crimes, back in the day. Which had to be served in…wait for it…the school library.
Taking a kid out of class for reading in class and putting them with all the books certainly teaches a lesson, but perhaps not the intended one.
Taking a kid out of class for reading in class and putting them with all the books certainly teaches a lesson, but perhaps not the intended one.
I wish I could find my copy, since the only scan I could find online was very blurry, but this was the one!
February 2, 2026 at 10:47 PM
I wish I could find my copy, since the only scan I could find online was very blurry, but this was the one!
My first copy of this was some 99
cent spinner rack Wal-Mart paperback edition done up to basically look like a Goosebumps cover, and it was not at ALL misleading.
cent spinner rack Wal-Mart paperback edition done up to basically look like a Goosebumps cover, and it was not at ALL misleading.
February 2, 2026 at 5:13 AM
My first copy of this was some 99
cent spinner rack Wal-Mart paperback edition done up to basically look like a Goosebumps cover, and it was not at ALL misleading.
cent spinner rack Wal-Mart paperback edition done up to basically look like a Goosebumps cover, and it was not at ALL misleading.
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North, south, west, lake. Even in the coldest cold of winter, living here still rules.
January 30, 2026 at 2:01 AM
North, south, west, lake. Even in the coldest cold of winter, living here still rules.
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