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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 6d

good morning! I reviewed Thomas Pynchon’s latest—and, perhaps, last?—novel, SHADOW TICKET, for the @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir

“Shadow Ticket” may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

newrepublic.com

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 16h

what?

NFL Daily News @fantasynflnews.bsky.social · 17h

HC Campbell on blitzing Patrick Mahomes:

"If you're gonna disguise, it better be worthy of a Grammy."

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 2d

LeBron’s retirement may finally allow me to become the greatest rostered NBA player of my generation.

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 2d

the other day I walked past Independence Hall--where America was basically invented. it's closed now. I wrote about the thudding symbolic heft of tourists milling about a shuttered landmark, for the @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

John Semley: The Liberty Bell is locked up. What does that say about America right now?

I prefer an imperfect union to no union whatsoever and I worry that latter is what America is currently previewing with this government closure.

www.thestar.com

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 4d

looks like Ohtani bet the over!

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 4d

just say you like money! holy shit!

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 4d

Louis C.K. is a truly pathetic specimen

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 4d

just say you like money! holy shit!

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 4d

Louis C.K. is a truly pathetic specimen

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 4d

good-ass shelf alert!

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 4d

Damn, so our best writer on Trump & the nightmare we're all living through is _also_ superb at writing on movies? It's fine, I'm not jealous at all. David Roth on OBAA, 1970s paranoid political thrillers, & how revolution, by its very nature, is always a work in progress. flaminghydra.com/issue-416/

Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

flaminghydra.com

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 4d

all-dressed is the BEST chip!

John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 4d

America has all-dressed potato chips now. for the @thestar.com I dared to ask: can the Yankee mind comprehend the "tout-garnie" lifestyle? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

John Semley: Can Canadian potato chips lead to American acceptance of ‘tout garnie’?

There is no Canadian culinary confection quite like the all-dressed chip. As schoolchildren we’re taught to believe that Canada is a land of cultural and ethnic diversity. It’s the kind

www.thestar.com

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 6d

good morning! I reviewed Thomas Pynchon’s latest—and, perhaps, last?—novel, SHADOW TICKET, for the @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir

“Shadow Ticket” may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

newrepublic.com

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 8d

Feels like my brain is cooking sous vide in its own cranial fluid grappling with Hegseth announcing “I am so sick of fat, effeminate men” to warm up a crowd of generals for a planned loyalty pledge to DONALD TRUMP, the show tunes president currently dreaming of a ballroom the size of the Taj Mahal

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 8d

Donald Trump: we should move the military into our own cities.

Hakeem Jeffries: I call him “Doofy Donald,” or “Don Doofio.”

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 8d

borsch belt stalinism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump to a room of generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent before. Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud."

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 8d

“Webster’s dictionary defines ‘peace’ as….”

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 9d

he reminded me of Vince McMahon, especially the stick-in-the-ass strut

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 9d

the future is a boot stomping you in the face while “Mo Bamba” plays, forever.

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 9d

I think the future stuff is “now,” just based on the smart phones and shit like the antifa soldier and people talking about triggers and whatnot.

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 13d

I reviewed One Battle After Another—Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrilling, idiosyncratic, funny, nervy, utterly Pynchonian new American epic—for @thenation.com.

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Wild American Epic

One Battle After Another, a sensational adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel, captures the manic energies of a country on the brink.

www.thenation.com

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 11d

I never mind the gap when I board a subway or train. not my way!

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Deborah Dundas @debdundas.bsky.social · 11d

When "pathological" becomes an excuse: thanks, @johnsemley3000.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

John Semley: Is Donald Trump a pathological liar? No. It’s worse than that.

There’s a foundational myth in America, which holds that, when he was still a tender boy of six years old, George Washington hacked into his father’s prize cherry tree with

www.thestar.com

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World Cafe @worldcafe.bsky.social · 12d

It’s the return of Spinal Tap and Cafe host Raina Douris sits down with the legends for a chat about the reunion. @rahrahraina.bsky.social has
youtu.be/Metkirmcu7c?...

Spinal Tap on World Cafe

YouTube video by World Cafe

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 13d

not the funny and not annoying people! but the amount of humourless replies I get on here is truly shocking.

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 13d

make everyone funnier and less annoying.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 14d

If you could change one thing about Bluesky, what would it be?

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