Love this movie.

Delivery guy called me "papa" today. Perhaps it's time to embrace my "strange old man of the woods" vibe. Alternately: the sketchy bachelor version of Tom Bombadil.

Have you ever heard “we should improve society somewhat” used as a conversation stopper? Or as an ironic rejoinder to someone claiming we must be perfect to achieve any change? Have I got a book for you: That One Matt Bors Comic, now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

Happy book launch day to Isaac!

Slightly increase a band Emperor Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Just realized that the replica of Mikey Day's severed head used in SNL's "Inventing Spanish" sketch.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn9A...

Simplicity is a terrific graphic novel; RIYL utopian movements, corporate intrigue, anthropological SF.

For over a decade, @mcastimovies.bsky.social has been a treasured contributor to the site. AS she transitions to being the new film critic for The AV Club, the editors have compiled a list to honor all that she’ s published. Read on and dive in to her greatest hits:

Instead of that bullshit, if you’re looking for craft books about writing memoir, I’d recommend BODY WORK by Melissa Febos and THE ART OF MEMOIR by Mary Karr. (I often assign Febos’s book in my classes; Karr’s book was very helpful while I wrote HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES.)

Best adaptation of the Odyssey, wrong answers only www.youtube.com/watch?v=x466...

Hearing @synapsefilms.bsky.social is doing a 4K of NEAR DARK? I would like to help in any way you would like me to help including staying the fuck away from it. Commentary, booklet, anything. Was a time, I was going to write a book about this film. It's one of the key films of my life.

Continuing in my perennial "maybe I should do something on tiktok, because what The Kids want to see is a beardy middle-aged guy rambling about literature" series, here's me reading a very short excerpt from my first book. www.tiktok.com/@bootleg.tob...

The next Defector Reads A Book pick is Robert Coover's 'The Universal Baseball Association Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.' defector.com/you-are-here...

Gross. (From Publishers Lunch newsletter)

just spent several hours listing a shit-ton of rare, OOP movies from my personal collection on ebay. all sales will be helping fund my upcoming escape from texas. insomniacs and early risers... you get first dibs www.ebay.com/usr/maboot-6...

Ace of Cups, reversed.

Really digging this @johnlangan.bsky.social story, which contains the most intense depiction of fishing for catfish I've encountered since I watched the documentary Okie Noodling. reactormag.com/this-fleshy-...

Wrote a bit about Richard Byrne's excellent 'Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me' (riyl historical mysteries, anti-fascist writers, death masks) for this roundup of recent reading. www.insidehook.com/books/books-...

Wonderful to see @naokan.bsky.social's What's So Great About the Great Books? (out May 26th) featured in this roundup!

The only thing more terrifying than the Devil is the American health care system. TODAY OUR SHOW GOES LIVE. The Terror: Devil in Silver streaming on AMC+ & Shudder. On AMC linear in September. To celebrate I'm sharing a thread of the films and tv that inspired our show's tone and mood and style.

ah yes, the part of my work in progress that I wrote just after hernia surgery, when I had a perpetually leaking chest wound.

Ah yes, a brave and principled stance in favor of, um, childhood bullying. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/dis...

Really, really enjoying this new Setting album. setting.bandcamp.com/album/setting

Hey Bluesky, do you enjoy reading about -dilapidated amusement parks? -bizarre animatronics? -psychedelic dark rides? -cults? -friendship and sisterhood? If so, you might enjoy my book The Merry Dredgers. If you'd like to learn more, here's a review by Gabino Iglesias: locusmag.com/2023/06/gabi...

Being part of the fiction jury for the Pulitzer Prize means you read A LOT of books. Inevitably, there’s more excellent work than you can count. Since the prize has been announced, I’m recommending five other books that I read and loved during the process. Read ‘em all!

Loved this interview about the making of The Christophers. And hearing that the two leads spent that much time with the screenplay — it shows. Two absolutely virtuosic performances. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Recommended some May books at @insidehook.bsky.social! www.insidehook.com/books/10-boo...

Claude Cahun

To celebrate May the Fourth, I decided to repulblish this piece, previously only available from my Pulp & Popcorn Store. A snapshot of the moment I was most optimistic about STAR WARS. www.drewmcweeny.com/from-the-vau...

sometimes, you think, "hey, I should take a quick nap" and the next thing you know you're awake in the middle of the night. bodies are fucking weird, man.

For many years, I've been fascinated by Souled American, the mysterious proto-alt-country band that released six albums in the '80s and '90s, then disappeared. I never thought they would release a new album, or that I'd have the privilege of writing about it for @pitchfork.com:

TONIGHT, 7PM: Launch of Crown Inn Reading Series for emerging writers, cohosted by Franklin Park Reading Series! Readers: @deirdrekoala.bsky.social @jtprice.bsky.social & Wil Turner + featured authors @ellomelissa.bsky.social @sashafletcher.bsky.social. Beer specials, custom cocktails! #crownheights

Things I'd love to do that I am unlikely to ever do: lead a course on unconventional book-to-film adaptations. (Things like Pop. 1280 adapted as Coup de Torchon.) Exploring the risks that a less literal approach takes, what works and what doesn't, etc.

....did the "Perfect Body" episode of the show Review anticipate looksmaxxing? Feels like there's an argument to be made that it totally did.

Picked up the reissue of Everything But the Girl's debut album recently, and I'm impressed that one album (bonus tracks and all) includes contributions from both Charles Hayward and Johnny Marr.

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I think gmail wants to move half of my inbox to Promotions, and I really wish it would stop. (On the other hand, I get so many actual promotional emails that nixing the auto-sort feature would make my account unusable. So it goes, I guess.)

Do I enjoy reading The Cut's Personals newsletter? Yes; yes, I do.

ICYMI, wrote about @keezyyoung.bsky.social's fantastic graphic novel HELLO SUNSHINE. buttondown.com/komiksoj/arc...

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Wire Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Mr. Robot Deadwood Arrested Development Twin Peaks Toast of London Newhart Veronica Mars Terriers Hannibal Maniac Battlestar Galactica

It is beyond surreal to know that, when @sdshields.bsky.social and I ran an indie label in the late 90s/early 00s, we were pressing more physical copies of some releases than some much bigger indies are now. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

I kinda love that there's a market for vintage @theonion.com attire. www.ebay.com/itm/11681779...

This is a benifit for @jenpkelly.bsky.social all money to her for the Drs. Side A is a 14 min version of Faust’s Jennifer with Singing from @thescrvnr.bsky.social Meg Baird, Elisa Ambrogio @dadadrummer.bsky.social and Naomi Yang. hermithut.bandcamp.com/album/six-or...

Oh no. That's what it does. We are live, folks! My Gifts Are Hungry fundraising campaign is active at Kickstarter. Not all houses are haunted by the dead. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hig...

Read the Hobbit to my kids years ago and had great fun giving Gandalf a Foghorn Leghorn southern accent

A stunning lineup of musicians for an eminently worthy cause. (Plus: warms my heart to see a couple of East River Music Project alumni there.)

This was a fun one — chatted with Adrian Nathan West about his work translating Mario Vargas Llosa. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/30/a...

Recommended!

saw the stooges & the jesus lizard & sonic youth & the breeders & the feelies & the dirty three & others in this room (minus the tables) when all tomorrow's parties was held there in 2009-2010.