Holes-oween 2025 #Halloween #Costume #Holes2003

Goal Today: Princess Di drag

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Blah blah blah. Joke about Marvel’s two Quicksilvers. Blah blah blah.

Happy Atlanta Pride

Machado has received international recognition for her activism. In 2025, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy." - OOP

God bless art. I love going from a room of septuagenarian nature lovers to a room of late teen/early twenties here to listen to a Broadway playwright. #DecaturBookFestival

I love nature lovers. Presenter: There’s a waterfall in Tucker Audience Member (as if it was church): That’s right! #DecaturBookFestival

Just got an hour of wisdom from Saeed Jones and Victoria Chang. So glad that the #DecaturBookFestival is looking more like its old self this year.

Important to note this 2024 quote from new TikTok America majority stakeholder regarding AI: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”

Listen, I’m really enjoying The Secret of Secrets. It’s a great Langdon book, especially after the dud that was Origin. However, I’m begging Dan Brown to just leave women out of the next one. No women would be better than his current depictions.

I want you all to know that this isn’t based on outside economists. This is based on Trump Commerce data. I don’t know why the Forbes team is insistent on simping in their headline writing when they know people often won’t click in to see the truth of reporting within the article.

I’ve been reading the essays in Edwin Frank’s Stranger Than Fiction alongside their key texts, and I’m developing a theory that male literature stopped being interesting when straight men started passing the Bechdel Test

And that’s right, she contains multitudes

Okay, I’ve been watching some 1960s/1970s intellectual debate videos/documentaries (Buckley&Baldwin, Mailer&Vidal, Town Bloody Hall). I want the time back that mean little straight men entered the lions’ den. Not debating college kids ten years their junior.

Yall, I don’t know that I’ve felt this level of “scream at every line of dialogue”ness since RWRB. @sararaaschbooks.com, you DID that #BookSky #Romantasy

Y’all, this fortune cookie just called me a slur

Finished my fourth @thebookerprizes.com longlister in time for today’s shortlist announcement #BookSky #BookerPrize

A kid: *has their Gimkit character named Fetty Wap* Me: What do y’all know about Fetty Wap A kid: He greeted me very kindly. He was like, “Hey, what’s up? Hello.” #AdventuresInTeaching #TeacherSky

Okay, I’m back to be confused about the @nationalbook.bsky.social list again. How can The Sisters be a nominee this year if it seems like it was published in Sweden in 2023?

Y’all, it’s time for another episode of The Worst Century, and I think this is our smartest one yet. @namwalien.bsky.social would be proud.

I want folks like Ti West and Zach Cregger to win the first Nobel Prize in film for making horror movies that just do their job of being wacked out fun.

Time for the second part of my late night double feature. Catching this one before it’s out of theaters to see what everyone is talking about. #MovieSky

In texts I sent that sound like my momma: Cooper [Hoffman] looks and sounds so much like his daddy

Thought if I’m gonna be living in a fascist state, I might as well do research.

A new episode of the pod, on faces, drops tomorrow. @nosferatoos.bsky.social and I look at the writings of @namwalien.bsky.social and a quartet of movies from the century. Check the list here: boxd.it/OM604 #Podcast #BookSky #PopCulture

I know in the midst of #EverythingElse this is dumb, but it’s really irritating that a full half of the @nationalbook.bsky.social longlist isn’t out yet, including one title that doesn’t come out until the day before the award ceremony

And the @nytimes.com (whom Vara quote tweets here) are simping for freaks and weirdos once again

Between #MarthaRaddatz here and @kristenwelker.bsky.social asking Ro Khanna about Lisa Cook’s mortgage, it’s hard to say this is anything other than studio capitulation to Trump’s lawsuits…

The new episode of the #podcast about the critical darlings of 2001 is out now #BookSky. Listen on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, or Substack! (@nosferatoos.bsky.social, @chrisrd19.bsky.social)

Ya know what, maybe the government shouldn’t be investing in it as a surveillance tool… Until then, I hope not.

I love living under capitalism cuz I think it’s a good thing to wake up at 8:35am on a Sunday in a panic about missing work and taking a full minute to realize it isn’t a work day.

Scolding people into supporting Newsom is so pointless, my dude is going to wash out of the primaries so fast it's going to make your head spin, please spend your time doing literally anything else

Did I love this book entirely, or did I think the ending didn’t fully congeal? This isn’t a riddle. I need someone to tell me in the DMs. #BookSky @thebookerprizes.com #BookerPrize2025

Many of these are debut authors. Please check out their books also.

Life is hard and work is harder, but I did put myself on the announcement list for both of the Reese’s/Oreo collabs. So there’s that.

I don’t know if anyone has ever seemed more disdainful of another person as Joyce Carol Oates does of Monroe in Blonde. That was a torturous 736 pages, and I hope to never again be so plagued as a reader.

Life-saving idea! Pass it on!

Was told today my outfit gave “Urban Hawaiian”

Gonna go ahead and cosign this. My partner (God bless him for being the cook in the home) does this with chicken breasts before frying them, and it makes the best chicken sandwiches.

In books I’m actually liking, Palaver feels like a tone shift for Bryan Washington as he switches publishers, and I like it. Feels a little more Brandon Taylor than usual. (Thanks @fsgbooks.bsky.social)

Okay, and gods be thanked, but I am finally a hundred pages from being done with Blonde, and it really feels like JCO HATES Marilyn Monroe

Alright, so I saw the #BookerPrize longlist today, and I think I like what I see so far. I’ve read Flashlight, and I already owned The South (thanks to @fsgbooks.bsky.social for both!). Picked these two up from an indie today!

So we’re in agreement that the new Fantastic 4 is live action Incredibles, right? #MovieSky

Summer superheroes double feature #MovieSky

And Zendaya? Meechee

I think one thing that is under discussed when we tout the little joys of thrift shopping is the little things you find. This picture slipped out from the back of my copy of Servants of the Map that I got from @thriftbooks.bsky.social #BookSky

After some replies to my previous post, I do also want to share an essay I wrote earlier this year on Substack:

This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately as I continue to see Trump voters referred to as “under educated.” I know many of these folks and they would see them themselves as perfectly well educated to suit their needs. I don’t understand why there’s a continued elitist viewpoint.

Think this is my favorite read of the year so far #BookSky