My Westlake shelf, rearranged a little so you can see more of its.

This is the best series of crime novels, particularly the first batch up through BUTCHER'S MOON, you will ever read.

“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said. “Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back. “Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”

that was a really good shuffleboard that the curling man just did

God, I bet she’s, like, happy or whatever.

2026 just keeps getting more insane.

He was an emotionally abusive tyrant BECAUSE he was bearing the weight of such a terrible heroic burden, am I the only one who’s ever heard of Batman

According to social media, Stanley Kubrick was either an emotionally abusive tyrant OR a crusading martyr who gave his life battling a global cadre of evil. I'm still weighing the wealth of evidence that has been presented by both sides.

You don’t understand. Cryptocurrency is the future. All it will take is everyone agreeing to this and if that doesn’t happen? Okay hold on

Once more I am a horror fan who feels completely removed from what's going on in the genre. I've seen the first READY OR NOT and it was dogshit.

"Sigmund Freud's Impression of Albert Einstein in America" by Randy Newman www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aac...

I keep watching this because it's so finely tuned. Margaret isn't just interrupting, she has a compulsion. She gives her answer, is briefly relieved that she scratched it, but over time the remorse and internal conflict rise. You see her internal struggle. Subtle comedy! youtu.be/YIKWAgFsIYk?...

Back when I used to read the Washington Post regularly (which in fairness was quite a while ago), I was devoted to their book coverage, especially Book World on Sundays, because that's where I could read my favorite literary critic, Michael Dirda.

Even I, as someone who no longer cares about STAR WARS, can see that this is an insane way to go about watching it. This is what we have done to our children. Look. Don't you dare look away from what you've done. Don't you dare even blink!

updated with a picture of the DeLillo that actually works

Announcement of next two books since you all keep asking me. There's even a little puzzle you can try to solve! billryan64.substack.com/p/the-two-bo...

By full-on Kaufman-head, I of course mean that THE RIGHT STUFF, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS ('78), and THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING are among my all-time favorites, and WHITE DAWN is really good too and QUILLS is kind of interesting I should rewatch it some day.

Why have I still not watched THE GREAT NORTHFIELD MINNESOTA RAID? I own it, and I'm a full-on Kaufman-head.

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oh i'll bet not all of them are nauseated

I can't rank them but THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE THE SHOOTING UNFORGIVEN SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON THE TALL T HOMBRE RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY OPEN RANGE RIO BRAVO THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES... ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

In this book, characters have to solve puzzles in a crazy house or die. For one puzzle, they find numbered cards or something: 2, 3, and 7. Someone says that adds up to 13, they all agree(!) and they got on to solve the puzzle. I'm losing my mind.

ugh i'm so tired of hearing about this story

Maybe it's just me, but people eating what they enjoy doesn't really upset me that much.

no matter what happens in my life from this point forward, they will never be able to take this away from me

Me, same, age 16:

I've been listening to some Classic Tunes lately & if a law were passed declaring "Sympathy for the Devil" to officially be the Greatest Rock & Roll Song of All Time & no one could have a differing opinion, that could get you arrested, while I would object to the policy I would accept the choice.

i maintain that this is the most embarrassing picture of a famous person ever taken, and that includes all the pictures of famous people hanging out with Epstein.

I'm reading a book I hope will be fun trash in between books for my reading project, and while the book is fun-ish so far, I don't think I've read many novels that were so generally ignorant of the world in which its story is set. I should know less than the author.

It's never too late to become a paid subscriber! Who among you can possibly resist?!

looks like i'm going to have to learn how to bake and become british www.bbc.com/news/article...

I assume the people objecting to Lupita N'Yongo being cast as Helen of Troy also want, out of that same concern for authenticity, this guy to play Odysseus.

Here's a free peek at my digression on John D. MacDonald! Catch the fever! (don't know why this didn't work last time)

At last, my new EXCLUSIVE TO PAID SUBSCRIBERS Reading Project post is up. In this one, I take a look at THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BAS CUBAS by Machado de Assis, and BOMBER by Len Deighton. I also go on about Derek Robinson and John D. MacDonald. billryan64.substack.com/p/my-conscie...

where else was I supposed to hid it

don't worry everybody she has her banana

Here's a free peek at my digression on John D. MacDonald! Catch the fever! (don't know why this didn't work last time)

At last, my new EXCLUSIVE TO PAID SUBSCRIBERS Reading Project post is up. In this one, I take a look at THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BAS CUBAS by Machado de Assis, and BOMBER by Len Deighton. I also go on about Derek Robinson and John D. MacDonald. billryan64.substack.com/p/my-conscie...

I think Gallagher is on to us.

One of the screenwriters of the Iranian film "It Was Just an Accident" has been arrested. Sonny Bunch and Mona Charen talked about it here:

now rewatching from the beginning

kathryn just suggested rewatching TWIN PEAKS from the beginning oh well, okay I guess

there's a thing going on over at another website altogether asking for everyone's favorite line delivery. I'm not asking anyone here to take part but I do want to say that after some thought this is genuinely probably my single favorite line delivery of all time

This is who runs this account