As New World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness’ strongest soldier, I want to like Curseborne; but after giving it a cursory read through, I just don’t get what the game is going for.

Our first episode on The Lord of the Rings is out! Ben and i had so much fun that we ended up having to split this one. Fellowship of the Ring, Part 2 will be out next week! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“The face of Elrond was ageless, neither old nor young, though in it was written the memory of many things, both glad and sorrowful.”

This week, we close out the Sunmerof Bad Vibes with Don DeLillo’s “Libra”. Listen now to hear John and Ben get to the bottom of this whole JFK assassination thing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Alfred Bester, Tiger! Tiger!, Penguin, 1974. Cover: David Pelham. Serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction 1956-57. First published as The Stars My Destination, 1956. #AlfredBester #RichardPowers #tiger #stars #destination #vengance #telepathy #SpaceOpera

The greatest criminal in the history of Japan is the same greatest criminal in the history of the rest of the world: youtu.be/kcS1GwOanCA?...

i'm from a red state and i say kill us all

Always good to have a good book bull sesh with Molly, and this was no exception! Glad I finally got around to reading this one.

When I was job hunting last year, I applied to like 50 positions at U Chicago (mostly because i just want to move to Chicago), but now I’m pretty glad I only ever got one call back from them lmaooo

LORD OF LIGHT (Thomas Lee, 1981) Astronauts from Earth use technology to turn themselves into gods in order to subjugate the hostile natives of a planet they intend to colonize. Designed by Jack Kirby and based on a novel by Roger Zelazny.

I am hearing that on his deathbed Hulk Hogan received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

"I'M A FREAK OF THE UNIVERSE." Gully Foyle from The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.

☢️ This place is not a place of cunt... no highly esteemed wig is snatched here... nothing slay is here. ☢️

Justice Gang #Superman

Digging the new Lorde album because I also enjoy: A) Writing about my experiences of sex and gender in cryptic yet appealing fashions B) Blasting cigs

Longer tweets terrible for Trump as a writer. Imagine ““Boys” and in some cases “girls”? at the end of a 280 character tweet. he still has it in him, but being able to write longer rants means the je ne sais qoui of the older stuff just isn’t there any more. Sad!

Overall, I liked Superman a lot, and I don’t know who could have gotten it made except James Gunn; but at the same time, all the stuff I didn’t like in Superman were the parts when James Gunn was being the most James Gunn

Anyone else ever feel like chewing your own limbs off like a coyote in a trap? No? Just me then

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

All men are brothers

I sleep in a big bed with my books

I will say this about the Sabrina Carpenter album: it is a joke, and you may or may not think that it is successful, but any approach that does not start with "she did this because she believes it's funny" might be missing the point

There is some good content over on Twitter right now.

Desperately trying to make my podcast relevant voice: “If you think about it, Trump and Musk falling out is a lot like Chucho and Oscar Fate in Part 3 of ‘2666’.”

are patriots in control yet??

It’s our Pride Month Special 🌈🦄🏳️‍🌈Ben and I had a great time queening out and talking about Michał Witkowski’s “Lovetown”, a fascinating novel about gay life in Soviet-era Poland. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Is this a dagger which I see before me [Press R1 for LIGHT ATTACK], The handle toward my hand [Press R2 for HEAVY ATTACK]? Come, let me clutch thee [Hold R2 for CHARGE ATTACK]. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still [Press L1 + R2 for PHANTOM ATTACK (expends Ghost Power)].

your morning freud

First episode of the new @infinitelibrarypod.bsky.social series on “2666”! I think this is a really good ep. I got to talk about one of the best books of the last quarter century and tie it to all my pet topics: Freud, Bloom, magic, etc. Please give it a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

More and more people are saying it! Two great tastes that taste great together!

The Summer Season of the Infinite Library starts this Tuesday with an episode on the first two parts of Roberto Bolaño’s “2666”! Join Ben and John for some unconventional beach reads!

I’ve been terrible at promoting my podcast lately! We’ve been releasing episodes every two weeks this year, and we’ve got a new season starting this Tuesday and it’s gonna be great!

Movie-cels blown out to a permanent end. Book Heads remain undefeated. Thank you, Mr. President.

watching other anglosphere nations elect uninspiring technocrats

We don’t have a famous twink sickly and pale enough to play Elric.

Out today! April is the publishing-est month, for me at least, it seems. 120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era is out today, wherever books are sold. But you should pick up a DRM-free ebook over at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social , or on the @ruadanbooks.bsky.social site.

Hi Bookheads, John here. Due to an unexpected personal loss, this week’s episode on Melville’s “The Confidence Man” is going to be late. Ben and I are figuring out the schedule for this ep and the rest of this season, and we’ll share more as soon as we’re able. Semper Books!

I need some left-wing press to commit to publishing genre fiction from socialist states in translation. there are North Korean romance novels. Cuban detective fiction. East German sci-fi. stop trying to give me only ~dissident~ books or Literary Fiction! I want the communist schlock!

Got a good feeling we're going to get a lot of mileage out of Watt's Richardson vs Fielding dichotomy; ie The Novel of Interior Psychology vs the Novel Which Says Something About Society

Bullied @itsben1week.bsky.social into reliving his coursework days for this week’s episode. Reading “The Rise of the Novel” wasn’t exactly fun in the traditional sense of the word, but it was a blast to talk about!

Getting a concerning amount of new followers, so it's time to make the pitch again. Collective Action Comics is a podcast that depends on listeners like you to keep it going. There will NEVER be any corporate sponsors, because capitalism is anathema to the future. www.patreon.com/collectiveac...

Revisiting this one was a real treat. “Gentlemen” is Chabon doing all the stuff I like without the fluff.

Happy ten years to this bad boy.

The commonplace story about the rational and transparent ‘neoliberal subject’ is simply wrong, at least when it comes to the movement’s founders.” —@medinamora.bsky.social on neoliberalism's unconscious rationality: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/neo...

As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community. No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality. Hate has no home here.

Unalive the Boer

Another masterclass in dealmaking from President Deals.