Found in a local book exchange. They don't make covers like that any more. I don't even care whether the book is good.

Just realised I'm the exact opposite with wrestling. Fucking love wrestling, often watch it when I'm low, but have zero interest in wrestling video games.

I hate golf on an atavistic level in real life but weirdly when I'm stressed I get the urge to go pretend golfing with Mario. I suppose it's the same as the urge to do pretend murders in video games. It's a safe space to do something terrible.

Macha Ma’am Sandy Ravage would be a good drag name.

In 5 days, the crew will be further away from Elon Musk than anyone else has ever been. Goosebumps!

I have a portrait in the attic and let me tell you that guy looks in amazing shape.

the objectively funniest period in history was just after the fall of the soviet union because neoliberal academics all got so tremendously fucking high that they wrote shit like "history is over" or "it is physically impossible for two countries to go to war if both have a McDonald's"

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Peter Pan is my favorite story about how running away from all your problems will allow you to remain youthful and to possibly fly someday

I should be allowed a podcast where I interview MPs and former MPs and we should do it in person in an abandoned warehouse and [REDACTED]

Just thrashed a stroke victim at gin rummy. Not sure how I feel about that.

“Lee plays the scene almost completely internally. There is a fleeting look across his face which the camera catches. It isn’t triumph exactly. It’s more complicated than that. Doubt perhaps, or reverence. Or maybe just the expression of a man who has just set something irreversible in motion...”

I quite want a beer but I'm also so tired I feel like I might pass out just from the effort of sipping.

I see Labour is going for their patented "alienate the left while failing to appease the right" manoeuvre. It's just one shart after another.

Just remembered that as a child I thought the Ides of March were some kind of mythical monsters that killed Julius Caesar.

I made a negroni and it feels like I’ve been punched in the face.

Stupid holiday reading while I'm cat sitting for my sister. Can it somehow be even worse than the Left Behind series?

With great respect and admiration, fuck you 💜

STOP MAKING LIVE ACTION VERSIONS OF CARTOONS AND GO BACK TO MAKING CARTOON VERSIONS OF LIVE ACTION MOVIES

(eyes rolling back) this is the good shit

It's flattering how so many #gamebook readers rate Heart of Ice as their top favourite. And if you want to buy a copy then thank you. I really appreciate it. But if you don't have the money, please try it for free. woodendice.org/flamekebab/h...

The extent to which I'm really enjoying Smallville is definitive proof that, whoever you are, I am not better than you.

ok yes that lrb piece is as good as everyone is saying

VG stuff here from pal Stu

It’s almost International Women’s Day and I’m currently thinking about some of the most badass women on earth: The Akashinga Rangers These Zimbabwean women train hard to protect wildlife from the worst people on the planet: poachers

TIL that the guy who made Call Of Cthulhu is, like, *properly* into HP Lovecraft

Thanks to @vennart666.bsky.social for introducing me to the unique moves of Luigi Primo, the pizza throwing wrestler

Whenever I feel like illustrating some sword and sorcery I think of this analysis of Frazetta's style, written by the late great Jesse Hamm sirspamdalot.livejournal.com/68226.html

"Spring has come, with all its gentle showers. Methinks 'tis time to hack the prince to death."

RIP Nelson the cat. You were a proper cat until the end.

Every time I see William Sitwell on a cooking show I cheer myself up by remembering he has almost certainly consumed way more spit and and urine than he thinks. If I was cooking for him I'd find a syphilitic dog and get it to cough on his food.

Not saying I'm struggling today but this morning it took me a moment to remember how peanut butter works (you spread it on things).

My favorite Lovecraft story is that one where the narrator was like "Boo hoo there's a generational curse in my family, all the male descendants die super young ever since we were cursed by the Sorcerer" and the Sorcerer just lived in their basement and shot each dude with a gun

“I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.” —JG Ballard

My brother, currently working in Bahrain, reports explosions near at hand. Possible strike at the US base there? Very scared.

Quentin Tarantino should have been run out of town for speaking ill of this man

Accidentally made dinner with lots of hot smoked paprika instead of lots of regular smoked paprika. I ate it anyway and the good news is I no longer fear death.

Sony rebooting their stupid Spider-Man but there's no Spider-Man film universe is amazing news. I genuinely believe they can screw worse with even less beloved characters and it's going to be a hell of a thing of they pull it off.

I so love that there is a entire ‘cinematic universe’ which is just Waiting For Godot but Godot is Spider-Man

Nice little adrenaline rush just now as I put on some washing and briefly panic that I left my phone in the pocket of my muddy trousers. Who needs extreme sports?

If you’re a musician there’s literally no better song you can write than the one you write at 1 am and listen back to at 2 am. There is no worse song than that same song at 9 am the same morning.

Billboard advertising the concept of February.

If anything there should be more RPGs based on Jim Jarmusch films. Mystery Train RPG where every session has a mandatory encounter with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. A character class that’s just Tom Waits.

Aspirational me staying away from home: While I'm away I'm going to cook a bunch of extravagant things my husband doesn't like. It will be a welcome chance to spread my culinary wings. Actual me staying away from home: I might just eat these crisps I found in a bin.

This is @glutelord.bsky.social and he's completely fucking correct. The fundamental tension at the heart of all incel culture is that these guys HATE women and refuse to appeal to them but desperately want to get laid anyway, and this contradiction can only really be resolved through violence

Gonna stack those gems. Gonna stack'em real good. That's the good stuff right there.

Sure the new Warlock for Diablo 2 is great and all but a previously non stackable item suddenly being stackable is possibly the best high in video games. I feel positively giddy.

Actual good news!

It reminds me of my theory that if every season of The Walking Dead had been six 45 minute episodes it would have been a much better series long term.