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YouTube video by F.D Signifier The Tyler Perry Video

If someone makes 4-hour YouTube video about me, I'm leaving the country. I'm not even watching the video first. I will watch it on the private jet that is taking me to a tropical resort in a country that has no extradition policy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF8z...

Black Panther on electric guitar, by John Romita. Detail from the back of the album jacket for Reflections of a Rock Superhero (1975).

Just one guitar, slung way down low
Was a one-way ticket, only one way to go

The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

Smilla's Sense of Snow is a great character novel, because Smilla is a great character. It also has an wonderful sense of place, occurring mostly in Copenhagen, Greenland, and at sea. The pacing is wonky but it holds its tension all the way to the end.

16/x

The YouTube algorithm really wants me to watch a hot lady eat pickled eggs.

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 6:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

hold on i gotta take this

I Want to Burn This Place Down by Maris Kreizman

I Want to Burn This Place Down by Maris Kreizman

This is the debut essay collection from book critic Maris Kreizman. She explores the rude political awakening so many of us have experienced in the Trump era along with her personal health issues. Good stuff.

15/x

(meaning the quiet intro part they had just started) for ten minutes. Sure enough the dickhead does it and the band played that intro for ten solid minutes. I'm not sure it won't anybody but me over, but I thought it was awesome. 2/2

I saw Joan of Arc at a tiny bar in New Orleans in 1999. Every time the music would get quiet some shit head would yell "Cap'n Jazz!" So they're starting a song with this gently picked guitar and cymbal washes and the guy does it again. Tim says Yell Cap'n Jazz again and we're playing this 1/2

aunt fritzi

Last Stand at Saber River by Elmore Leonard

Last Stand at Saber River by Elmore Leonard

A Confederate soldier returns home to Arizona to find Union men living in his house. This is a solid western, but something about it really caught my attention and I didn't want to put it down.

14/x

I find how dirty that house is very stressful.

Illustration of hedgehog stood upright with staff and basket of apples.

Well, Monday, off we go.
🖼️ Lily Seika Jones

I had a dream last night that Sammy Hagar was doing a show where he invited a bunch of guests to perform with him. I got an invite but he wanted to play chess with me onstage instead. I said, "Oh great, now I have to go lose a game of chess to Sammy Hagar..."

Art by • Todd Lockwood

birds from the marcel schurman company, n.d.

My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy, Prisoners of the Land, Brief Encounter

I watch three of these for the 2026 Criterion Challenge. I enjoyed all four but was particularly knocked out by My Own Private Idaho. #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched

Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite

Nobody's Baby by Olivia Waite

Murder By Memory & Nobody's Baby by Olivia Waite

These novellas are SF cozy mysteries set on a generation starship. The hooks for both books are very clever spins on sf-nal tropes. This series has a lot of potential.

12 & 13/x

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

I'm guessing what made this book so influential to readers in the 30's is the characters. Each one could be the protagonist of this story. It's a very impressive bit of writing. The plot however is borderline incomprehensible. I liked it.

11/x

Winter: The Story of a Season by Val McDermid

Winter: The Story of a Season by Val McDermid

This is a short memoir around the theme of winter. McDermid is great writer. This is a nice book you can read in one sitting.

10/x

skaters will not have this problem should they choose to skate with the universally beloved music of the Mountain Goats

Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki

Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki

This manga blends history with autobiography. The artwork alternates between beautifully detailed panels and minimalist cartoony figures. Is this a common technique in this kind of manga? I don't know. But it is an engaging style.

9/x

It's been a long time since I read it, but I remember Plainsong by Kent Haruf as an American novel that has a similar feel to it.

I read Housekeeping and liked it. This is a good excuse to explore further. Thanks!

Can you recommend something in the vein of Claire Keegan or Donal Ryan or Kevin Barry? It doesn't have to be Irish.

Half His Age by Jeanette McCurdy

Half His Age by Jeanette McCurdy

This novel is Jeanette McCurdy's follow-up to her memoir. It reads like a first novel, but there's a lot of promise here. I'm interested to see where she goes from here.

Note on the audiobook version: McCurdy reads this book *fast*.

8/x

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