John Peyton Cooke
@johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Whippet lover. Dilettante clarinetist. Author of novels and stories. Reader of great fiction (mostly). I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Greenland 🇬🇱 and Canada 🇨🇦. VOTE BLOOM NO MATTER WHOM 🌻.
The algorithm apparently knows exactly what I’m doing at this precise moment. Why else am I seeing your post? I want to get up, but someone won’t allow this.
February 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
The algorithm apparently knows exactly what I’m doing at this precise moment. Why else am I seeing your post? I want to get up, but someone won’t allow this.
Philip Glass @philipglass.bsky.social issued a statement today saying he is withdrawing the premiere of his Symphony No. 15 “Lincoln” which was to take place at Kennedy Center on June 12th as the final performance of the National Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-2026 season. See statement below:
January 27, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Philip Glass @philipglass.bsky.social issued a statement today saying he is withdrawing the premiere of his Symphony No. 15 “Lincoln” which was to take place at Kennedy Center on June 12th as the final performance of the National Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-2026 season. See statement below:
If we just give Hitler the Sudetenland, he’ll stop all of his territorial ambitions, we’ll have peace in our time, and I’ll get the Nobel Peace Prize!
January 27, 2026 at 1:22 PM
If we just give Hitler the Sudetenland, he’ll stop all of his territorial ambitions, we’ll have peace in our time, and I’ll get the Nobel Peace Prize!
While Rome burns …
January 24, 2026 at 12:02 AM
While Rome burns …
Now we finally know what the Empire was after in The Empire Strikes Back: rare Hoth minerals.
January 22, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Now we finally know what the Empire was after in The Empire Strikes Back: rare Hoth minerals.
Repost your home river.
January 14, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Repost your home river.
Oliver made me do it.
December 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Oliver made me do it.
As he placed the blue jockstrap over his head, the orange weeble said the heady scent of the FIFA Piss Prize reminded him of the gold-plated showers he once was gifted in Moscow. “If that happened today, I’d run afoul of the Emollients Clause,” he joked. “But it would be worth it.”
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
As he placed the blue jockstrap over his head, the orange weeble said the heady scent of the FIFA Piss Prize reminded him of the gold-plated showers he once was gifted in Moscow. “If that happened today, I’d run afoul of the Emollients Clause,” he joked. “But it would be worth it.”
Yesterday I handed President Donald J. Trump a blue jockstrap and told him it was the FIFA Piss Prize. Then he placed it over his head and cooed like a dove.
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Yesterday I handed President Donald J. Trump a blue jockstrap and told him it was the FIFA Piss Prize. Then he placed it over his head and cooed like a dove.
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This guy, though …
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This guy, though …
Here is a great antidote I just finished reading:
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Here is a great antidote I just finished reading:
I don’t know, maybe US oil companies?
September 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I don’t know, maybe US oil companies?
Alien or Predator?
September 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Alien or Predator?
Can advertising copy writers please stop it with the dangling participles already?
August 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Can advertising copy writers please stop it with the dangling participles already?
Happy 221st birthday to Nathaniel Hawthorne, born July 4, 1804!
July 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Happy 221st birthday to Nathaniel Hawthorne, born July 4, 1804!
“You wanna do it, Charlie? Right here. On the oriental.”
Just checked: PRIZZI’S HONOR was released June 14, 1985, so I’m a couple of weeks late wishing it a happy 40th birthday! (I was 18 when I saw it on its first run.)
Just checked: PRIZZI’S HONOR was released June 14, 1985, so I’m a couple of weeks late wishing it a happy 40th birthday! (I was 18 when I saw it on its first run.)
July 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“You wanna do it, Charlie? Right here. On the oriental.”
Just checked: PRIZZI’S HONOR was released June 14, 1985, so I’m a couple of weeks late wishing it a happy 40th birthday! (I was 18 when I saw it on its first run.)
Just checked: PRIZZI’S HONOR was released June 14, 1985, so I’m a couple of weeks late wishing it a happy 40th birthday! (I was 18 when I saw it on its first run.)
Becomes scarier in B&W.
June 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Becomes scarier in B&W.
I agree, Dave. Everything is fine. You have nothing to worry about.
June 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I agree, Dave. Everything is fine. You have nothing to worry about.
This chart shows the value of the US dollar vs the British pound during 2025. It peaked in January, before the inauguration, then began to fall, and today is at its lowest value since October 2021.
June 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This chart shows the value of the US dollar vs the British pound during 2025. It peaked in January, before the inauguration, then began to fall, and today is at its lowest value since October 2021.
