I was assigned this for school back in the day. It was supposed to be a warning, not a guide!

That book is on two lists: 1. Widely banned/challenged books I was assigned for school 2. It was supposed to be a warning, not a guide

Fifty years of RHPS at this point, and I just revisited Congo. #FilmSky #RockyHorror #TimCurry #BruceCampbell

Revisiting this one, and a question I had last time still holds: What's up with vampires doing that open-mouthed teeth-bared hissing/roaring thing in late-90s/early-00s movies? #FilmSky #Vampires

Halloween is coming, and I officially call bullshit on making autistic kids carry blue buckets to mark them as different. That's the one night of the year when anybody can show up at the door and be made welcome with snacks. I don't care if kiddo has trouble saying the passcode.

It's the end of September and I swear to dog there was an active ice cream truck out and about.

I've seen plenty of typos in books from major publishers that consisted of sound-alikes used out of context, which made it past computer-assisted copyediting due to being spelled correctly. #BookSky

Few months back someone asked me if I could think of a way to help non-French-speakers learn the language. First thing that came to mind was the #Tintin books. Yes they're very dated and varying degrees of racist, but they've been so widely translated and distributed ... #BookSky #French #Language

This one hits a LOT harder these days. #FilmSky

One of my local libraries is having their big annual book sale this coming weekend. I'll be reupping my Friends membership and looking for treasure. #BookSky #Libraries

Right-wingers: Shut down libraries, they share propaganda! Me: Said distribution includes YOURS, genius. 🤨 #BookSky #Libraries

#BookSky #Discworld #Libraries

Nothing says no corruption to see here like arresting those coming to take a look.

Oh the horror, a scout troop funded at the well-manicured hands of the fabulous! #LGBTQ #GirlScouts #Cookies #Drag

English doesn't "borrow" from other languages, it knocks the over the head and drags them into dark places to go through their clothes for loose vocab and grammar.

I got a request to borrow in one of Charlie Kirk's books. I disagree with what he said and stood for, but I'm processing that request. Why, you might ask? Because I believe in freedom of information and am in a position to help people read whatever they want. #Libraries #BookSky

"We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. "I give you a holy word: DISARM." Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Deadeye Dick (1982)

Once again somebody on the street felt compelled to inform me I'm an asshole for continuing to mask in public. Honestly, entitled individuals like that are part of the reason I still do it.

I keep seeing things pop up about Santa crowd-surfing at a Nine Inch Nails concert. If @treznor.bsky.social, or any performer, is going to need a moment during a live show there are MUCH worse reasons than spotting a fan having a good time. #Music #MusicSky

People have been miscalculating my age for a long time now, and today somebody hit a new record for lowballing it. How am I supposed to take a sidewalk Cause Rep seriously after that?

Years back I caught part of a Chinese (language) horror movie that I've been curious about but can't remember a title. It involves a pop star who's killed in a car accident and her ghost appears to a mortician with appeal to "Help me die beautifully." #FilmSky

I'm reading Irving Wallace's The Seven Minutes, which among other things takes a hard look at literary censorship. Gandhi taking inspiration from Thoreau comes up, and I'd just heard discussion of that connection not being officially recorded. #BookSky

Just got dinner at a Ukrainian food stall. Tasty stuff, and one of the guys was wearing a Make Russia Small Again shirt. Slava Ukraini!

Behold a golden splooted pupperpillar! #DogSky

This and the "Destroy our societal structure and current leadership? Well, get on with it!" demon summoning are very relevant.

Barely started and I already like it! #BookSky #Shakespeare #Mead

One of my ongoing bafflements has popped up again, specifically in regards to those Labubu toys. I seriously don't understand the thought process behind hating a product/company so much that one willingly contributes to their overhead and visibility by buying new product for public destruction.

I missed it in theatres, so I got in line to borrow on disc and my turn just came up. I believed my friends who gave good reviews, and hot damn I'm enjoying it! #FilmSky

Bring out yer dead! Bring out yer dead! #MySCA #Pennsic

I'm reading G. Scott Huggins' story The Hound of the Bastard's Villa in the 2022 anthology No Game For Knights. The makeup and policies of the ruler's council in that world are ... disturbingly prophetic for current times. #BookSky @baenbooks.bsky.social

For anybody who says cats can't or don't smile, what do you call this happy cuddle monster's expression? #CatSky

I'm finally watching this and there's Robert Duncan MacNeill futzing around with an interstellar transit key years before he entered the Star Trek universe. #FilmSky #StarTrek

Borrowed from elsewhere: The ridiculousness of someone who got fined millions for running a fake university trying to dictate to Harvard (or anything related to education). #Resist

holy shit lmao

It's a 31-year-old telling of older events, and a rather disturbing mirror of current events. #FilmSky

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Steve Cutts.

#StarTrek #TwilightZone

When someone asks to borrow something in a manner that's outside the rules, then possibly use it in a way that you're not sure is possible, and then it turns out the precise thing isn't even available locally ... #Libraries

I was accosted by a pibble today when I passed close enough for the sweet happy slobber monster to reach out and slurp. #DogSky

This is now one of my favorite performances from the late great Alan Rickman. #FilmSky

I run ILL for a good-sized PL system and rely on the individual libraries' staffers to keep an eye out for serious red-alert stuff from their patrons. I do my best to fill any requests that come to me, including things that make me shake my head or want to bonk someone else's. #BookSky #Libraries

As a former kid who got into stuff that was not parent-approved, I'd rather sit down with current kids to talk through something they read than risk killing their curiosity. #BookSky

This is one of those movies that hits very different watching as an adult vs watching as a kid. Lots more context now, and I recognize more of the actors. #FilmSky

One of those coyotes violated my skull! Do you know what that's called? I do. And I sincerely hope he got both eyes. Oh ye gawdz. #FilmSky

... and by god I have had this congress. We're cursed beyond what that iteration of John Adams was bemoaning. #Resist #NoKings