David Blackwood
@ghostforest.bsky.social
Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
That's actually not much of an exaggeration of the story they made up for Theda Bara:
January 18, 2026 at 2:03 PM
That's actually not much of an exaggeration of the story they made up for Theda Bara:
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
5/30
(One of my favorite books, so I should have posted it before, but I'm trying to do less-obvious choices too)
5/30
(One of my favorite books, so I should have posted it before, but I'm trying to do less-obvious choices too)
January 18, 2026 at 8:21 AM
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
5/30
(One of my favorite books, so I should have posted it before, but I'm trying to do less-obvious choices too)
5/30
(One of my favorite books, so I should have posted it before, but I'm trying to do less-obvious choices too)
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
4/30
4/30
January 17, 2026 at 9:21 AM
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
4/30
4/30
Wow, I made it to day 3 before I almost forgot to do this! My memory is awesome!
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
3/30
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
3/30
January 16, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Wow, I made it to day 3 before I almost forgot to do this! My memory is awesome!
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
3/30
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
3/30
OMG, this meme put Sprinkles Cupcakes out of business!
January 16, 2026 at 7:05 AM
OMG, this meme put Sprinkles Cupcakes out of business!
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
2/30
2/30
January 14, 2026 at 11:55 PM
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
2/30
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That's funny because from my limited knowledge of K-pop and J-pop, must of the lyrics are pretty chaste, at least by Western standards. Blackpink seems to be a little "racier" though.
Random aside: I love the fact that Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas etc.) is an unapologetic Blackpink stan.
Random aside: I love the fact that Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas etc.) is an unapologetic Blackpink stan.
January 14, 2026 at 11:42 PM
That's funny because from my limited knowledge of K-pop and J-pop, must of the lyrics are pretty chaste, at least by Western standards. Blackpink seems to be a little "racier" though.
Random aside: I love the fact that Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas etc.) is an unapologetic Blackpink stan.
Random aside: I love the fact that Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas etc.) is an unapologetic Blackpink stan.
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
Aight, I'm doing this.
1/30
Aight, I'm doing this.
1/30
January 14, 2026 at 3:46 AM
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #30DaysBooksByWomen #books
Aight, I'm doing this.
1/30
Aight, I'm doing this.
1/30
Jehosaphat the mongrel cat
Jumped off the roof today
Some would say he fell, but I could tell
He did himself away.
(Am I doing this right?)
Jumped off the roof today
Some would say he fell, but I could tell
He did himself away.
(Am I doing this right?)
January 4, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Jehosaphat the mongrel cat
Jumped off the roof today
Some would say he fell, but I could tell
He did himself away.
(Am I doing this right?)
Jumped off the roof today
Some would say he fell, but I could tell
He did himself away.
(Am I doing this right?)
I almost forgot to post this, one of my favorite poems, by Mark Strand.
January 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I almost forgot to post this, one of my favorite poems, by Mark Strand.
Jesus Christ, this reads like an Onion story, but it's from The New York Times. Imagine being a grown-ass man and signing your emails to a sexual predator with "XOXO."
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Jesus Christ, this reads like an Onion story, but it's from The New York Times. Imagine being a grown-ass man and signing your emails to a sexual predator with "XOXO."
Today I learned: the Three Stooges released the first Hollywood movie to satirize the Nazis, "You Natzy Spy" on Jan. 19 1940, beating Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" by eight months. I grew up watching the Stooges, but I never saw that one. Too "controversial" I guess.
December 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Today I learned: the Three Stooges released the first Hollywood movie to satirize the Nazis, "You Natzy Spy" on Jan. 19 1940, beating Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" by eight months. I grew up watching the Stooges, but I never saw that one. Too "controversial" I guess.
"I sure miss the days when you could just choose to give a stranger lung cancer and there wasn't shit they could do about it."
Nostalgia is a mental illness.
Nostalgia is a mental illness.
December 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"I sure miss the days when you could just choose to give a stranger lung cancer and there wasn't shit they could do about it."
Nostalgia is a mental illness.
Nostalgia is a mental illness.
And...
(Masculinity is complex).
(Masculinity is complex).
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
And...
(Masculinity is complex).
(Masculinity is complex).
It's hard to see the front of it now, but it's cool to see how much those trees have grown in the last 22 years.
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It's hard to see the front of it now, but it's cool to see how much those trees have grown in the last 22 years.
A) That's not what being homeless means.
B) If anyone deserves to actually be homeless, it's him.
C) I gotta admit, the idea of vacationing in Cyprus and going to a nightclub for some light entertainment and fuckin' Kevin Spacey walking out on stage is kinda hilarious.
B) If anyone deserves to actually be homeless, it's him.
C) I gotta admit, the idea of vacationing in Cyprus and going to a nightclub for some light entertainment and fuckin' Kevin Spacey walking out on stage is kinda hilarious.
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A) That's not what being homeless means.
B) If anyone deserves to actually be homeless, it's him.
C) I gotta admit, the idea of vacationing in Cyprus and going to a nightclub for some light entertainment and fuckin' Kevin Spacey walking out on stage is kinda hilarious.
B) If anyone deserves to actually be homeless, it's him.
C) I gotta admit, the idea of vacationing in Cyprus and going to a nightclub for some light entertainment and fuckin' Kevin Spacey walking out on stage is kinda hilarious.
Maxine is a contender (full disclosure: I couldn't remember the name of this character, so I googled "grumpy woman comic"):
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Maxine is a contender (full disclosure: I couldn't remember the name of this character, so I googled "grumpy woman comic"):
Okay, this is a pleasant surprise. Genuinely didn't expect any trace of this building to still exist. Looks like it's heavily renovated, but I'm happy to see that they kept the central structure.
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Okay, this is a pleasant surprise. Genuinely didn't expect any trace of this building to still exist. Looks like it's heavily renovated, but I'm happy to see that they kept the central structure.
there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions
Wow, it looks so much better now. Sad that it got to that state of disrepair to begin with.
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Wow, it looks so much better now. Sad that it got to that state of disrepair to begin with.
Still there. Wish they had kept the blue trim, it looked so much better. But still, beautiful Art Deco building.
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Still there. Wish they had kept the blue trim, it looked so much better. But still, beautiful Art Deco building.
Interestingly, the painting that inspired this poem wasn't actually by Da Vinci. It was by an unknown Flemish painter, but was mistakenly attributed to Da Vinci for years.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Interestingly, the painting that inspired this poem wasn't actually by Da Vinci. It was by an unknown Flemish painter, but was mistakenly attributed to Da Vinci for years.