Solving crosswords with @wordgarbler.bsky.social for the next couple hours, come say hi! www.twitch.tv/megaphonicfm

dhghem- also happens to be one of my favourite novels by smhul- dlny-

Nice!

Dhalgren is a difficult book to talk about, and I feel like I barely scratched the surface here. Wait, why would I want to "scratch the surface"? Wouldn't that just distort the light coming through even more?

Charlotte and I got to talk about some movies! One of them she had seen before, and one of them I had seen before. Can you guess which is which? Oh, you can. Yeah I guess that makes sense.

Happy hundredth birthday to Frank O'Hara! "Why I Am Not a Painter" is one of those poems I read when I was young and internalized in more ways than I realized.

hugo nominations close tomorrow!

as this monumental book is reprinted, honoured that my essay "Death in the Village" will be joining it as an afterword. If you haven't read @daviddemchuk.com's book yet, this is the time to get it.

We’ve had Peanuts on the shortlist of books to cover for years. This is such a fantastic deal!

Every so often I think: I should try writing a novel. But then I remember that there is few forms of literary bliss as delightful as that felt by a person who has not read a story by someone who has not written it. Joe Brainard once again gets it.

IT’S HERE! 😮 We are happy to announce the release of our sixth crossword puzzle pack. Folks who donated during the presale period will receive their puzzles today. If you haven’t donated yet, head to fund.nnaf.org/tpfa6 !

2025 eligibility post!

We (me and @wordgarbler.bsky.social) are returning to Night in the Woods on Twitch! Come say hello! www.twitch.tv/megaphonicfm

Blogs are still an option.

I am playing Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip with @wordgarbler.bsky.social , come say hello! www.twitch.tv/megaphonicfm

😍WOW, what a roster! These Puzzles Fund Abortion 6 will be released in March. This all-star lineup has been hard at work making an incredible pack of crossword, cryptic, and variety puzzles, and we can’t wait for you to solve them 🤩 #tpfa6

This was a fun one. One of these books was turned into a movie (which we talk about), and maybe the other one should be as well?

We've been planning this pairing for YEARS. So happy to finally get to blurble on about Xavier de Maistre's weird little book with Suzanne.

it would actually be cool if @bythebywater.bsky.social were nominated

Either Basquiat or Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys.

This seemed like my inevitable end.

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Gotta say, my Bluesky feed is filled with trans literary exuberance; from my outsider perspective, the scene seems energizing and enthusiastic. Anyway, this article/review was compelling!

Can we help our pals @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social expand their programming and build a fabulous workshop? crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...

A few moments of proper internet bliss here.

1624 reasons to hit the soundboard.

10/10 ICE protest sign

Technology Connections knocking it out of the park in this one. Twice.

@erlking.bsky.social and @wordgarbler.bsky.social of Megaphonic FM will be streaming the game demo in 20 minutes! 7:30PM EST Hope to see you there! twitch.tv/megaphonicfm

After great pain, an admin feeling comes —

Hunh, YouTube recommended this today, can’t imagine why. https://youtu.be/jKVnur5DkdI?si=NKhrUrkFh4z_I8SV

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

For a second I thought @dropout.tv managed to get Miss Piggy on Very Important People.

Thursday, 11 December 2025 in Portland, Oregon. #IceOutPortland #IceOutMPLS #IceOutComics

Let’s see if Mikey can drive in the snow and be a friend.

oh no, i may have finally written baby's first cryptic crossword, what have i done

Servo and Crow tried to bring WAITING FOR GORGO to Broadway but producers balked when they heard it was only three minutes long.

Revisiting this old cover of John Prine that @wordgarbler.bsky.social and I did in the early days of the pandemic. Makes me tear up. music.youtube.com/watch?v=hE5-...

A chill night hanging out with @wordgarbler.bsky.social and playing Night in the Woods! Come join us www.twitch.tv/megaphonicfm

If you live in Toronto, I'm curating a series of music docs at @hotdocs.bsky.social this year, starting with The Devil and Daniel Johnson at the end of the month! See you there? hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...

There are many ways to torture @erlking.bsky.social some of which we will explore tonight

Why is every version of R.E.M.'s song Catapult on Apple Music wrong? (The versions on Spotify are correct, the versions on YouTube are correct, but the versions on Apple Music have Stipe singing a weird line instead of "your mother remembers this" around 3:10!)

"illegal vs. legal" doesn't map to "evil vs. good" or "wrong vs. right"

According to my notes, I listened to exactly 666 new-to-me albums last year. So I guess that was all my bad, sorry.

I have been trying to write this puzzle for the last six months...

I've been looking forward to this one for months! Who doesn't want to talk about queer Jesus stories? Who doesn't want to do a close reading on Milton?

If you’re not busy today, you can hang out with us. If you are busy today, well, Munchie is ageless.

It’s not our latest episode but @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social and @nedraggett.bsky.social are part of the annual holiday bonus podcast the #MegaphonicFM folks put on for our Patreon subscribers. This time around: tackling the forgotten musical _Song of Norway_! www.patreon.com/megaphonic

We had so many thoughts about Grieg, but no one had more thoughts than @erlking.bsky.social, Megaphonic's own official Grieg Enjoyer. It was a delight.