Howard A. Rodman

Masked paramilitaries marching in front of a hanging Trump banner on the DoJ

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FOR THE FIRST TIME [images of the covers of Destiny Express, with an image of the False Maria from Lang/von Harbou's Metropolis; The Great Eastern, with an image of Isambard Kingdom Brunel et. al. at the launch of Brunel's ship The Great Eastern] WHEREVER GOOD BOOKS ARE SOLD MAY 19

"Daringly imagined and darkly romantic — a moral thriller." —Thomas Pynchon

Image of the author, black and white, by Brice Portolano. He's wearing a bleu de travail jacket, a striped shirt, think black glasses, and looks like an editor of Cahiers du Cinema circa 1962.

"Complex, unforgettable characters… a kind of return to what adventurous literature used to be." —Brian Evenson, Los Angeles Review of Books

Thrilled today to be able to join with the wondrous folk at @rarebirdlit.bsky.social and @unnamedpress.bsky.social to announce the reissue of my novels DESTINY EXPRESS and THE GREAT EASTERN, coming this May 19.

DX:
#fritzlang
#theavonharbou

TGE:
#captainnemo
#captainahab
#isambardkingdombrunel

Free Press: WHY IS NO ONE HAVING SEX? Photo of RFK and Kid Rock working out shirtless

The timeline is undefeated

Salvador Dalí is an anagram for Avidas Dollar…

André Breton with tinted glasses.

Tomb of André Breton, inscribed JE CHERCHE L'OR DU TEMPS

Collage for Breton's novel NADJA

Breton, older.

Marking the 130th birthday of André Breton: poet, insurrectionist, searcher for the gold of time.

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

The French writer and poet André Breton #botd was known as a principal theorist and co-founder of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924.

"When you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion, that you are also showing something about our contemporary world..."

Umberto Eco
January 5, 1932 – February 19, 2016

“Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one...”

Len Deighton #botd

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

A headline in Far Out Magazine that says: "Wendel: How Steely Dan invented a drum machine"

"Is there a technology that the left is excited about???"

They faked attentionslop. The one way these guys really are innovating is in finding new reasons to hate their guts

Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

Not every supervillain is named Lex. This guy’s name is Les.

A post by someone named Noah Revoy: Women need the boundaries of the patriarchy and a mission in life which is usually a husband, children and home. Absence such structures they malfunction and destroy civilizations.

Is there a dating app to meet these women because malfunctioning civilization destroyers is kind of my type.

The books that made me want to write books were most of them five to ten decades older than I was when I read them.

an elon musk tweet comparing answers to the question "is the US on stolen land"

three answers suggesting you might want to think about the question a little bit and one releasing you from ever thinking about anything again

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Rev. Jesse Jackson built the Rainbow Coalition as a political home rooted in dignity and solidarity. That struggle continues here in New York City, in every fight for housing, justice, and equality.

Today, we lower our flags in his honor — and recommit to the movement he called us to build.

WISH TREE FOR YOKO ONO
www.wishtreeforyokoono.com
For Yoko from Sean with love.
Happy Birthday Yoko!
Make a wish and let it come true for you.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧

The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement.

May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.

I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.

That we would end up following the fate of Athens and Rome was the single most obsessive fear of America's founders.

Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world.

From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. 

May his memory be a blessing.

Great performance. And his film WHAT HAPPENED WAS is one of the great under appreciated indies.