Happy anniversary everybody

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff "Why did they never find a vegetable that was bad for you, hey? And what was so wrong with onion gravy anyway? It has onions in it didn’t it? They made you fart, didn’t they? That was good for you, wasn’t it? He was sure he had read that somewhere."

All my chumbas wamba’d.

All my gobs macked.

Virginia Woolf book cover designs by her sister, artist Vanessa Bell ( 1920's - 30's) #WomensArt

THE DEVIL THREE TIMES by Rickey Fayne

DIVINE DAYS by Leon Forrest

Charles Saunders, Imaro

WIZARD OF THE CROW by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Name a book from a Black author

I guess I should give The Talisman another try. Sigh. On one hand, love the title. On the other hand, the title really feels like it would be better for a Dark Tower-themed short fiction anthology, like The End of the World as We Know It was for The Stand.

Hey, you know that AI feature you’ve been steadfastly ignoring since we tried to foist it on you a few years ago? We just moved the button to a more prominent spot so you’ll click on it by accident. Please use it. For the love of god, please use it.

This news story is a couple weeks old, but it inspired me to write thing thing that might give you a chuckle. www.out.com/film/he-man

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Story idea: Jarndyce and Jarndyce vs The Vampire In a mash-up of Bleak House by Dickens and the novel by Bram Stoker, Dracula must navigate a complicated legal case concerning multiple wills and the ownership of a large estate while trying to seduce his virgin bride. Bloodsucking lawyers abound.

The average American starts working while in high school, even if it’s only part-time and summers, and doesn’t retire until 65 at the earliest, but no, FIFTY YEARS isn’t enough for these jackals, we need to give them more, more, more.

Some of my great-grandparents left Germany in the '30s (can't imagine why), some others left Alsace in the 1870s and '80s (ditto), and if what I found recently on this LDS-run genealogy website is correct, a bunch of my German ancestors 10-11 generations back arrived in Pennsylvania before 1760...

Today's SFF news

Why did I decide to start a 1,000 piece puzzle with mostly white pieces? This is gonna take ages.

Neil Gaiman should never be readmitted to polite society. A man with that much money and power, actively putting up a smokescreen of progressivism to conceal his predation, can never be trusted.

The Nut.

This is who runs this account.

So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am.

Book checkpoint Last: Bleak House, Dickens Current: Throne of Jade (Temeraire #2), Naomi Novik (reread) Next: Moby-Dick, maybe? Or another Stephen King? Or Mary Renault? Last added tbr: Hammajang Luck, Makana Yamamoto; Iron City, Lloyd L Brown; The Song of Stork and Dromedary, Anjet Daanje

Everything old is new again.

doubting those traditions did not make those traditions one whit the less facts

High speed trains and health care plus decent wine and cheese to go with your 36 hour week and actual vacation time

My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

If I was a billionaire I would not take trips to Crime Island. I would start my own vanity press to help save the mass market paperback from extinction, and also to just print/reprint any unusual and neglected works that catch my fancy. Anyone interested in The Complete Works of Henry Darger?

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

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Rowling: you know why the children today don't like harry potter? Barker: oh this is going to be good Rowling: it'ss becausse they've fallen out of love with liberalisssm Barker: ah haha ha Barker: oh MAN ha ha Barker: i knew it was going to be good Barker: i didn't know it was going to be THAT good

Perry: JK Rowling, how does it feel to be the most persecuted woman in all history? Rowling: oh louisse it'ss sso hard Rowling: the children today, they jusst don't appreciate all that i've done for them Rowling: but i ssmile through my tearss Perry: brave words from history's greatest warrior

Barker: oh yeah the new york times Barker: definitely the paper that i would trust to have an accurate read on this situation Lovecraft: you know what they say about the new york times Barker: Poe: King: Koontz: Lovecraft: it's all run by potterheads Poe: i was not expecting that

ExSQUEEZE me?!

The Wax Museum of Dorian Gray

You wouldn't believe how many portraits he's got stashed away in the attic.

there is nothing wonderful

“It IS precious to you, and you won it fairly in that riddle contest. Why should your nephew have it?”

We're owed a president with some virtuous scheming viziers after this. Some guy hissing "We must ban the SUVs sire"

Our new immigration policy: Here sits Stephen Miller, suspended over a dunk tank full of piss. While we process and approve your application for citizenship, please enjoy this complimentary bucket of softballs.

The chicken-legged hut of Baba Yaga kan tourne yn two directiouns: Cluck-wyse and countir-cluck-wyse.

Currently (re)reading: HIS MAJESTY’S DRAGON by @naominovik.bsky.social Has it really been 20 years? Gosh.