Gonna go to the grocery store during the Big Game, basically paradise guaranteed

"...one of the things that helped people accept their work as concentration camp guards was that the terrible conditions of the camps themselves made the prisoners’ literal filth synonymous with their inherent filthiness. " www.welcometohellworld.com/look-at-what...

All consumption is unethical under capitalism, unless you are shopping at my bookstore

My wife bought me these like ten years ago and I am a lucky fella, just endless wonder throughout

Finally a video that combines my interests

I hope it happens to Bezos

chickens are good little weirdos. they deserve better lives than the ones we give them.

I have a rich and authentic Himalayan taste

Feels like it's been 6:45 am all day/week/etc etc

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Thinking about becoming a virtuoso multi instrumentalist

I made these and I can't wait

At some point I'm gonna do a neoluddite thing where we smash computers and light effigys in the parking lot

they say it's an "exuberant debut" I say "tell your friends about it" www.publishersweekly.com/9781541603240

Fuck it, we're open

One thing you can do to feel good and stay calm is say the name of the rikishi Wakatakakage three times. Like taking a belly breath. www.sumo.or.jp/EnSumoDataRi...

Look, there's very limited opportunities for praxis so it's important to take those you have

My fellow bookseller, the Amazon CEO, is watching hagiography with the Hitler family. Different strokes etc

Gerald on free jazz

Got this little beaut up and running again via a cheap USB cable. Only like 23 years old. Has all my stuff from 2005. Y'all ever hear this album Yoshimi Battles the Robots???

Just got to say "you probably recognize this song because it's from a soundtrack for gay pornography from the 1970s" on the FM radio so things aren't that bad I guess spidertaylor.bandcamp.com/album/surge-...

I made an 11x17" double-sided poster version of "Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?" Please DO NOT edit anything on it, but print and distribute freely! I'd love to see it in windows, bookstores, schools, taped up in public, rolled and rubber banded, etc. tinyurl.com/WhoSharesWit...

X the Owl from Mr Rogers is a follower of Louis Farrakhan. Will not be answering questions.

Thurston Moore from Thurston Moore, thank you for the message

I don't recognize the legitimacy of the "Gregorian" calendar

Seems like a good occasion to remind you that I have written the only (to my knowledge) English-language introduction to the work of Hungarian television director András Rajnai. theatomicelbow.bigcartel.com/product/vizu...

happy Q1 to those on that grind #hustle

I know everyone else is over Olivia Nuzzi discourse but it's funny to me that her book sold 235 copies nationwide the week before Christmas, the only week you are guaranteed excellent book sales

2025 has been another memorable year of pop culture, according to my TV

Gonna play a bunch of good 2025 songs on the radio in six minutes. Takomaradio.org or even better, 94.3 FM if you don't live too far away.

If you repost this image Mr Pots will bless your family for three generations

Now available at @peoplesbooktakoma.com 🎷🎷

2026 is the year of "no events". No events will happen in my life and nothing unexpected will occur.

Merry Xmas

I preferred the John Baldessari version, personally

Finally Kelly gets one right

Someone called wowd voicemail tonight and left the nicest message about my show. It made my birthday. Thank you, stranger. I love you.

Currently playing what is, in all honesty, a killer Christmas show on the FM radio. Takomaradio.org for those of you not in range of the 94.3fm studios

Rich loser who needs to go away 👇

Got two birthday cards, one from my insurance agent and one from my financial advisor. Truly #blessed. 💕💖

Local unshaven slob featured on news www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/l...

@rainbowrodeo.bsky.social Would love to sell your zines in our bookstore. Email me if you're interested? [email protected]

Kemonito vs Kemalito [🎵 - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush]

If you do not like field recordings of the beautiful Ibis then do NOT listen to my radio program. room40.bandcamp.com/album/ibis

People's Book has been open 888 days. Pretty auspicious if you ask me

Listening to Axacan by @danielbachman.bsky.social for the first time in a while. it still rules and is a great preview of where he was headed with his more recent work. Very highly recommended danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/axacan

oh you think the jokes in thomas pynchon novels are corny? the names? you don't like the songs? you might like the single greatest stylist of the 20th century and the one novelist who almost grasps the totality if he wasn't so "cringe" for you? should we throw a party? call the papers?