See, everyone who looks at me funny when they see my stacked bookshelves of (mostly older purchases) DVDs/blu-rays even though it’s 2025? It’s not just me! 📽 www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Glad this is getting more love!

A return to physical media. Make DVDs/Blu-rays widely available. With commentary tracks!

My favourite books—the ones I get lost in but that also impress the fock out of me—are those making it hyper clear the author reads across *eras* and *cultures*. I want to see massive vocabs that aren’t afraid of archaisms, regionalisms and superb poetry craft. No mass-market beige here. Slurp.

Since there are no gifs for The Conformist or Beau Travail, since I too often vaunt 2001 and Barry Lyndon, and since I’d get in trouble for throwing Inglourious Basterds up here, it’s this one. And I’m not sad about it.

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

It doesn’t. I don’t mind not knowing what every word or allusion means, or little moments that don’t immediately seem to fit into the whole. If the prose is skillful and if I find at least one character interesting, I happily follow the vibes.

Eat it, jackboot. (I am so so so tired of having fascists in my orbit, between all the Putin diplomats in my building and dealing with this dick ambassador’s security apes outside his mansion that’s way too near our free city swimming hole. Perils of capital-city living… 😒)

Sounds made by animals in various different languages... Pip pip (Swedish mouse) Woke woke (Burmese dog) Meh (Portuguese sheep) Kum Kum (Polish frog) Ungaa (Tagalog cow) Behehe (Albanian goat) Haloom (Bengali lion) I-go-go (Russian horse) Gulu gulu (Turkish turkey) ???? (any fox)

Well, it finally happened: after years of publishing, I got my own “vanished story” now: a tale I love printed in an antho, but it's only available in the US, no online version, no contributor copy or PDF, no copyedit communication... Zero idea what it looks like and can’t access it from abroad. 😔

Writers and editors the world over salute him. 🌹

1. Cooking for/feeding friends and fam 2. A day with nothing to do but write 3. Freshwater swimming... 4. ...while leaves whisper and cicadas sing 5. My film collection

Chain thread after my own heart🥧 Best pie: mincemeat, lemon meringue, rhubarb Best ice cream: mint choc, Niagara peach Best donut: cinnamon, cruller Best bar: none but will eat lemon bar if pressed Best cake: orange/lemon w meringue icing Best other: île flotante, pavlova, Eton mess…any meringue!

Oscar Wilde all the way down.

When you enjoy bedtime-audiobooking the works of a certain author and want to B-A more and your library has multiple titles available (yay!) but every one of them by this author is read by a narrator you find unlistenable-toable so now you’re just moving on.

One thing I always emphasize to a newer journalist is that there's a balance between speed and accuracy that needs to be found, and the latter always trumps the former. It's better to be fifth to a story and correct than first and wrong. Feels like a lot of media orgs need to relearn that right now.

Still very much my headspace this morning. 🤷‍♀️

how can I compete with this

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

Lot of bigots showing up. Remember, don't interact. Just report and block block block.

The nerve of these corporate-owned politicians and media figures who think that they have the moral authority to lecture the rest of us on how to react to the decay of American society that they are directly responsible for

The absurdity of "you sling words for a living, therefore you must become a video influencer" is becoming more and more salient

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swear to cock, is it secretly Rian Johnson making all of these campaign ads??? they are the GLASS ONION of campaign ads

Years ago when I saw agents encouraging authors to get on booktok and publishers linking videos of authors doing the "swirly arrow points to trope" for marketing I hated it. I see "trailers" for books now and I just fucking hate it all. Books don't need movie trailers, stop it pease.

Aside from all the other stuff I love about swimming, there’s also how badass you feel coming out of the river on a brrrrisk day after doing laps for an hour when everyone else is huddled under blankets on adirondack chairs (incl. the lifeguard), watching you emerge. 💪

Can't help but wonder how US authors would feel if a French AI company stole their novels, and a French court told them they couldn't be made whole because they'd foolishly neglected to register their copyright in a government office in Paris. Copyright is copyright.

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!" just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement it's 95% now you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

Personally I think reading old books ('classics' or not) is good, actually, as is reading new books, and you can and should read both, and not make a virtue out of not reading one or the other. Art is contiguous with history, and readers/writers should have an awareness of what came before.

End of a very special era. 💔

A tinge of hope, and I’ll take what we can get.

F for Fuck You. Leave Orson alone.

The single biggest money earner in my entire career is a 5,000 word short story published in Asimov's in 2011 that was never nominated for any award except the Amazon Readers' Poll It's literally made me more money than any of my novels have. Protect your rights.

As Marissa says, always read those contracts completely and make sure you understand what every clause means, regardless of the market. You worked hard on your story. It’s your baby. Protect your baby.

Glad Sam excepted Bradbury from this, because FUCK ME he could write (his prose is finer than much stuff published today) and I still love reading him.

SFF’s apology industry has turned into some kind of kink or fetish for a lot of people. It’s just weird now. All meaning has been lost.

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Every time I’m around swim spots and see a tiny child with an adult who’s made sure they’re confident little swimmers with water-safety antennae (whether they’re still in floaties or not), I want to hug that adult for being so responsible and caring.

Sigh, rewatching my Footprints on the Moon DVD from Shameless, and the coming attractions reminded me I *still* haven’t seen my white-whale giallo. If anyone spots The Designated Victim rolling onto Tubi, Shudder or elsewhere, please ping me, #horrorsky and #filmsky. 📽️

Keeping this one, given my…tendencies.

Maybe feed people and fund schools instead, I don’t know.

Now this? THIS is art.

think we've reached the inevitable point in genre book discourse when i just need everyone to read things they enjoy instead of reading things they hate to get mad at. but the fact that this happens every time points to a fundamental problem with... discoverability? but also willingness to engage

Damn, still thinking about Stranger By The Lake on Criterion Channel (until midnight tonight). All vibes that just lulled me into a meditative state, @nmkennedy.bsky.social. Gotta enjoy endless shots of franks n beans (CW), France and people swimming in lakes, tho, which thankfully I do. Banger. 📽️

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

Just noticed that Criterion Channel’s September lineup includes “Nunsploitation" and "70s Thrillers” on top of even moar Altmans. I’ve seen everything in the first two but there’re a few I’ve been wanting to rewatch (been decades!) so once again CC has my whole entire heart. 📽️