Rob of San Francisco
@robofsf.bsky.social
Retired art director, now tending my garden in exile. Short stories in NE Review, Zyzzyva, Epoch, etc. @[email protected]
My favorite chorus from The Messiah is WE. ALL. LIKE. SHEEP!
Because, of course, we do.
#Messiah #holidaymusic
Because, of course, we do.
#Messiah #holidaymusic
December 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My favorite chorus from The Messiah is WE. ALL. LIKE. SHEEP!
Because, of course, we do.
#Messiah #holidaymusic
Because, of course, we do.
#Messiah #holidaymusic
Have just started in on Jon Hickey’s debut novel featuring a scrappy political campaign on a Midwestern Indian reservation. Hard-boiled, just the right dash of cynicism and comedy.
#nativeAmerican #politics #booksky #literaryfiction
#nativeAmerican #politics #booksky #literaryfiction
December 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Have just started in on Jon Hickey’s debut novel featuring a scrappy political campaign on a Midwestern Indian reservation. Hard-boiled, just the right dash of cynicism and comedy.
#nativeAmerican #politics #booksky #literaryfiction
#nativeAmerican #politics #booksky #literaryfiction
Got a Christmas CD out to play this morning, and have been playing vinyl so exclusively the last few years that, truly, I checked to make sure I was starting with Side One.
#vinyl #holidaymusic
#vinyl #holidaymusic
December 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Got a Christmas CD out to play this morning, and have been playing vinyl so exclusively the last few years that, truly, I checked to make sure I was starting with Side One.
#vinyl #holidaymusic
#vinyl #holidaymusic
1/2) Just changed the old smoke alarm for a new, talking alarm. And now I want to set something up for holiday dinners with relatives that will go off whenever some anti-science/anti-migrant/racist/anti-trans or -gay BS is spouted:
December 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
1/2) Just changed the old smoke alarm for a new, talking alarm. And now I want to set something up for holiday dinners with relatives that will go off whenever some anti-science/anti-migrant/racist/anti-trans or -gay BS is spouted:
Can anyone tell me when the NYT Book Review quit publishing book reviews? Plenty of lists, obituaries of authors, features on literary subjects . . . I found two reviews about four scrolls down. If anyone’s got recommendations for another place to find actual reviews, much obliged.
#booksky
#booksky
December 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Can anyone tell me when the NYT Book Review quit publishing book reviews? Plenty of lists, obituaries of authors, features on literary subjects . . . I found two reviews about four scrolls down. If anyone’s got recommendations for another place to find actual reviews, much obliged.
#booksky
#booksky
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So it's the literal Hunger Games.
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So it's the literal Hunger Games.
www.comicsands.com/newsom-troll...
1/2) Does anyone but me find GN’s style tiresome? I’m a big fan of satire to take down a tyrant, but Newsom’s just so playground. Beating Trump at his own game in middle school taunts.
1/2) Does anyone but me find GN’s style tiresome? I’m a big fan of satire to take down a tyrant, but Newsom’s just so playground. Beating Trump at his own game in middle school taunts.
Gavin Newsom Says What We're All Thinking After Trump's Boastful Primetime Speech
Accurate.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
www.comicsands.com/newsom-troll...
1/2) Does anyone but me find GN’s style tiresome? I’m a big fan of satire to take down a tyrant, but Newsom’s just so playground. Beating Trump at his own game in middle school taunts.
1/2) Does anyone but me find GN’s style tiresome? I’m a big fan of satire to take down a tyrant, but Newsom’s just so playground. Beating Trump at his own game in middle school taunts.
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O primeiro livro que estou a tentar ler em português. Prosa bela, lírica, simples.
For English language readers, there’s “You Died On Me,” which this book is a kind of sequel to, 20 yrs later.
#booksky #portugalcluster
O primeiro livro que estou a tentar ler em português. Prosa bela, lírica, simples.
For English language readers, there’s “You Died On Me,” which this book is a kind of sequel to, 20 yrs later.
#booksky #portugalcluster
O romance sobre a pior doença
José Luís Peixoto é desde o seu primeiro romance, Morreste-me (2000), um dos escritores que mais leitores tem no seu próprio país, como no estrangeiro
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December 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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O primeiro livro que estou a tentar ler em português. Prosa bela, lírica, simples.
For English language readers, there’s “You Died On Me,” which this book is a kind of sequel to, 20 yrs later.
#booksky #portugalcluster
O primeiro livro que estou a tentar ler em português. Prosa bela, lírica, simples.
For English language readers, there’s “You Died On Me,” which this book is a kind of sequel to, 20 yrs later.
#booksky #portugalcluster
Let’s bring up the Christmas lights!!
In which I begin my exploration into the bowels of the house, a dig into a tomb untouched in 24 months, redolent of rat, and strewn with the bones of lesser men.
In which I begin my exploration into the bowels of the house, a dig into a tomb untouched in 24 months, redolent of rat, and strewn with the bones of lesser men.
December 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Let’s bring up the Christmas lights!!
In which I begin my exploration into the bowels of the house, a dig into a tomb untouched in 24 months, redolent of rat, and strewn with the bones of lesser men.
In which I begin my exploration into the bowels of the house, a dig into a tomb untouched in 24 months, redolent of rat, and strewn with the bones of lesser men.
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Why read 58 best books lists when you can just read one? This is the ultimate best books list for 2025.
The Ultimate Best Books of 2025 List
Happy List Season, children. I hope you’ve been good. Just like every year, I have arrived to present to you the Ultimate List, otherwise known as the List of Lists—in which I read all (or at…
buff.ly
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Why read 58 best books lists when you can just read one? This is the ultimate best books list for 2025.
My father always insisted we sing absolutely every verse of #JingleBells, right up the end where they have to shoot the horse.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
My father always insisted we sing absolutely every verse of #JingleBells, right up the end where they have to shoot the horse.
Just had some fancy ass cheese, and was thinking about back in the 70s, before people started milking sheep.
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Just had some fancy ass cheese, and was thinking about back in the 70s, before people started milking sheep.
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Murdering crew members claiming they were smuggling drugs while pardoning a drug kingpin. Very on brand for the Trump regime.
November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Murdering crew members claiming they were smuggling drugs while pardoning a drug kingpin. Very on brand for the Trump regime.
Walking by the tennis courts, or as the dog knows them, staring longingly, Balltopia.
November 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Walking by the tennis courts, or as the dog knows them, staring longingly, Balltopia.
“rrrrRPhff!”
—me, as the hygienist reaches toward my mouth
—me, as the hygienist reaches toward my mouth
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“rrrrRPhff!”
—me, as the hygienist reaches toward my mouth
—me, as the hygienist reaches toward my mouth
Found this little guy on the path around the pond yesterday. Leaned down to hear him screaming in a tiny high voice, “I am not a crook!”
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Found this little guy on the path around the pond yesterday. Leaned down to hear him screaming in a tiny high voice, “I am not a crook!”
Two YouTubes plus a Udemy course in, and I’m finally ready to hang up my shingle!
My Artisanal Trepanning service will be offering 50% off to my first ten clients!!
My Artisanal Trepanning service will be offering 50% off to my first ten clients!!
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Two YouTubes plus a Udemy course in, and I’m finally ready to hang up my shingle!
My Artisanal Trepanning service will be offering 50% off to my first ten clients!!
My Artisanal Trepanning service will be offering 50% off to my first ten clients!!
Our insurance agent’s trying to sell us on an umbrella policy. Told him, Look bub, I don’t know what kind of pricey accessories you’ve got hanging at home by _your_ door, but I got my umbrella for eleven bucks at Cole Hardware, and I think I’ll just keep living on the edge for now, thanks very much.
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Our insurance agent’s trying to sell us on an umbrella policy. Told him, Look bub, I don’t know what kind of pricey accessories you’ve got hanging at home by _your_ door, but I got my umbrella for eleven bucks at Cole Hardware, and I think I’ll just keep living on the edge for now, thanks very much.
I’ve been misled many times before, brother. Don’t even think of trying to misle me again.
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I’ve been misled many times before, brother. Don’t even think of trying to misle me again.
Finally got my ancestry DNA results. Turns out I’m about 18% Swedenborgian, and, probably through a paternal great grandmother, equal amounts of American Staffordshire and chert.
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Finally got my ancestry DNA results. Turns out I’m about 18% Swedenborgian, and, probably through a paternal great grandmother, equal amounts of American Staffordshire and chert.
This Lisbon neighborhood we’re staying in is great, except for the iron monger. There is literally an iron monger right across the street. Mongering iron. At this very moment. He is mongering.
October 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This Lisbon neighborhood we’re staying in is great, except for the iron monger. There is literally an iron monger right across the street. Mongering iron. At this very moment. He is mongering.
Portuguese Halloween Fish. Handed out to trick-or-treaters. When children finish eating one, they get to spread the bones in their parents’ bed as a memento mori. It’s a deeply religious country.
October 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Portuguese Halloween Fish. Handed out to trick-or-treaters. When children finish eating one, they get to spread the bones in their parents’ bed as a memento mori. It’s a deeply religious country.
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I hate the sound of joy.
October 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I hate the sound of joy.
“Interesting contraption. It’s been newly fangled, I take it?”
—Me, shopping for an electric car
—Me, shopping for an electric car
October 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“Interesting contraption. It’s been newly fangled, I take it?”
—Me, shopping for an electric car
—Me, shopping for an electric car