Let’s get one thing clear / The bait's over there, the brew's right here

Happy beginning of Whamageddon! for those who celebrate it.

I recently reviewed Aja Gabel’s excellent novel LIGHTBREAKERS for the Washington Post. “Egotistical billionaires and their outlandish, eschatological pet projects make for easy literary targets…” Today, the Texarkana Gazette ran it without a paywall. www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2025/no...

I’m confident that we Philadelphians will retain our usual demure, silent-but-proud dignity over the next few days and week. 🦅

Planes, Trains *and* Automobiles? In this economy??

I really miss Gabe Hudson

This is Oberon

anyway. go read a short story or a chunk of a novel today. enjoy a piece of art. maybe even buy a drawing or painting! reach out and tell an artist how much something they made meant to you.

Omfg Dalesandro’s just got a Michelin “Bib Gourmand” prize.

Before they supposedly release the Trump/Epstein files, keep in mind chapters 5-7 of Tacitus’s ANNALS. And 18.5 minutes of tape from Nixon’s June 20, 1972 conversation with Haldeman.

There’s a 30th anniversary edition of INFINITE JEST and I’ll just be over here turning to dust and being dispersed by the winds

We have an extra #PAXUnplugged badge for Saturday if you hear of someone looking for one.

We’re listening to way too much Foreigner these days. Check it and see.

Holy shit everyone in The Hague is going to get paid a lot of overtime very soon

The entire GOP right now?

On this Veterans Day, I'm reflecting on the fact that our Commander-in-Chief is a lying draft dodger who kicked out 5,000 trans service members who, unlike him, were serving ably and honorably, after hiring a white supremacist, alcoholic TV chatterbox to run our military.

I can’t fucking believe I voted for Fetterman. I’m so sorry.

Rodney Dangerfield’s character in “Easy Money” (1983) was named Monty Capuletti

Rhymin *&* Stealin? In this economy?

Roar

Just a gentle reminder that Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” is a Christmas movie.

if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is

I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

My group’s PAX Unplugged badges arrived today. Can’t wait. I’ll be there Saturday. Find me, I might have something for you. 🐄

I like the cut of that Daboll guy’s jib

Somehow Ben Solo didn’t return.

Everything has turned to shit since John Candy died

The Democrats are highlighting lines about legal precedent while the library is burning

It’s a throne room, isn’t it

I could make the argument that Busta Rhymes has been the goat all along.

In other circumstances, I’d be glad to see the White House demolished … and the Oval Office moved to a place not built by enslaved people.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday I took a walk to Zipperhead I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead (Punk rock girl) please, look at me (Punk rock girl) what do you see Let's travel round the world Just you and me, punk rock girl

A friend wrote a tremendous essay about the table we use to play D&D at my house. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/173...

I think it’s time for MLB to have a salary cap.

The past few nights, we’ve been woken up by a screaming fox around 3 or 4 a.m. It’s pretty cool and quite unusual for our NW Philly neighborhood. 🦊

We’re all Brewers fans or bloaty hogs tonight.

Seriously. One single fucking day of not having to hear about him would soothe my tired soul.

But what I’d really enjoy is not having to hear about the American government every day. Bring back boring.

I feel terrible for Kerkering and hope he has good people around him. He’s going to be a great asset for the Phillies.

Did @andrewervin.bsky.social introduce Krasznahorkai to the American masses? (aka Philly alt weekly readers c. 2001) lithub.com/is-this-the-...

I might’ve been the first to review Krasznahorkai in America. Now up at LitHub: lithub.com/is-this-the-...

That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man’s company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is called the feast of Chase Utley.

For the record, and I quote: “Gunter gleiben glauchen globen.”

I wonder if David Grossman is going to win the Nobel Prize tomorrow.

This one isn’t over but if any team shows up in Philly and takes the first two games you have to give them credit

Game night pizza

My Nobel prize prediction: Andrey Kurkov or Helen Garner