Taking an idea from @downtheline.bsky.social and the legendary Bergen St Comics, we are going to have @fredvanlente.bsky.social at the register this Friday 7/10 at 7pm at Anyone Comics. Pick up your books and let him talk to you about his new book Vampyrates from @boom-studios.com!

David Lynch man. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ur3...

Your fog lamps are on, there's no fog!

Nausea-inducing stat from this marvelous book: the August 13, 1998, edition of the SF LGBTQ weekly Bay Area Reporter was the first without a reported AIDS death in 17 YEARS.

The state of books coverage today

Happy Birthday to one of my favorite actors, the singular Warren Oates. One of my favorite artists, hands down. "Heavies are closer to life than leading men. The heavy is everyman -- everyman when he faces a tough moment in life. It's the heavy that has to do with the meat of life."

Happy Birthday to the great Warren Mercer Oates, born 98 years ago today

Jul 4th 1881 - Little Bill (Gene Hackman) arrests English Bob for a concealed weapon. 📽️📅 Unforgiven (1992)

Favorites of the year (so far)

Favorite reads of 2026 so far (first 3 were released this year)

CRISIS ON INFINITE BANG BANGS! Joan Never Watched - The Lakehouse (2006) w/ special guest Doug ꓘorn-Credenza

Today. bookshop.org/p/books/red-...

I mean, ALWAYS read Emily Hughes — but this one is particular salient even if you don't care about the novel in question. It's grappling with nothing short of how the novel can and should function in These Times, and stands as a model for modern criticism!

Music, as it turns out, is cool and good. wolfsweek.substack.com/p/tracks-of-...

BOTD Eric Ambler!!! Astonishing run of 1st 6 novels 1936-1940 ➡️movies Journey into Fear, Background to Danger, Hotel Reserve, Mask of Dimitrios Revered by Graham Greene & John le Carré More John Gray: www.bbc.com/news/magazin... @crimereads.bsky.social: crimereads.com/eric-ambler-...

/ My Kids Are Screaming as I Wax Poetically about Perverse Extreme Metal / Feat: Fires in the Distance / Hanging Garden / Alkuharmonian Kantaja / Dark Citadel / Loneshore / @russiancircles.bsky.social / The Blind Philosopher / Vafurlogi / Eric Andre shorturl.at/E7jAm

An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍

DETH DEKK DOMINIONS:🎧🆕🎧 VINNUM SABBATHI - Live At Doom City 🇲🇽⚛️ 5 track Live album from Mexico City, Mexican outfit⚛️ BC➡️interstellarsmokerecords1.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...⚛️ #VinnumSabbathi #LiveAtDoomCity #StonerDoom #InterstellarSmoke #DDDJun25 #KMäN

The Nicholas Brothers did not pull this off so you could tell me AI is inevitable.

Books to check out July-December

Spot on.

180 units but also a 139-vehicle parking garage in a neighborhood with a Walk Score of 100, Transit Score of 100, and Bike Score of 91, less than 10 blocks from multiple subway and LIRR lines at Atlantic Terminal. What are we doing here?

Funboys review – Steve Coogan joins this gleefully silly and laugh-out-loud sitcom

FULL FORCE FRIDAY:🆕June 19th 🔟🎧 WARNING - Rituals of Shame 🇬🇧⚛️ 3rd album (20 years on) from Essex, UK Doom Metal outfit⚛️ BC➡️warningdoom.bandcamp.com/album/ritual...⚛️ #Warning #RitualsOfShame #RelapseRecords #DoomMetal #FFFJun19 #KMäN

“Wow, I thought you were a real badass when you said you smoked crack. But under a car? At 3am?! In SAN FRANCISCO?!!!!!!”

Oklahoma eliminates No. 3 seed Georgia, 11-4, to advance to the College World Series championship series. The Sooners have won eight in a row, including wins against No. 2 national seed Georgia Tech (x2), No. 15 Kansas (x2), No. 7 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia (x2) 247sports.com/college/okla...

Today is the birthday of legendary artist & writer Wally Wood (June 17, 1927-Nov. 2, 1981).

Yes good Winners bracket.

Happy Birthday to the great Ben Johnson, born Francis Benjamin Johnson Jr. 108 years ago today

Jun 11th 1970 - William "Billy Batts" Bentvena was attacked by Tommy DeVito after breaking his balls. IRL the welcome home party, and the attack (which happened on Jun 11th) were 2 weeks apart 📽️📅 Depicted in GoodFellas (1990)

William T. Vollman on James Ellroy’s new novel. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/b...

Recommending Hot Weird Metal While Being Unsure of What Month This Is Feat: Archive Dystopia, Auzawandils, Regulator Watts @solidbrassrecords.bsky.social, Fournier, Nothingness, Nailvillage, Fen, Dangerous Thing, Citrinitas, Bridge Burner + INFO machinemusic.net/2026/06/07/r...

Neill Jameson (Krieg) on his family’s struggles in the past year, which are darker and more challenging than anything hinted at on a black metal recording, and the support from the heavy metal community they inspired. www.decibelmagazine.com/2026/06/03/t...

we were talking about this this AM and my husband was like, so, you want to give 'the people' 50% of all of our collective stolen IP? are you also going to give us 50% of what plumbers earn next year? no? then this is just nationalizing theft

Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist.

Yesterday De Niro's Tribeca, today Scorsese. The AI oligarchy buys them like chips in a casino. An unprecedented shame.

in which i talk about the psychological architecture of liminal spaces. figured out how to use substack and uploaded my essay on liminal space, existentialism, and depression there! (originally published in nightmare magazine)