Matt Bogen

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking? - - -INVICTA GAMES, LTD. Packaging Team — Official Minutes Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice Presi...

SALES DIRECTOR: Why no kitchen table?

DESIGN LEAD: Because kitchen tables are for fucking Candyland. We’re selling a political mode of thinking: deduction as power. Think less “family night,” and more “I will find the hidden structure of your choices, and then I will destroy you.”

Harold pulling an arrow from his eye from the bayeux tapestry

Harold will return in Avengers: Domesday

Opening of Carl Berkhout’s essay “The Case of the Seventh Signature in the Folger Shakespeare Library “

This was so interesting and exciting to work on with @heatherwolfe.bsky.social and Jeremy Lopez. Carl Berkhout spent about 40 years, off and on, investigating this book, and we edited this posthumously published text from his annotated drafts.

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You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

“Against the power of Mordor’s new AI archival assistant there can be no victory. We must integrate it into our archival work, Gandalf. We must digitize the archives with Sauron. It would be wise, my friend.”

Multiple laptops on a desk

Welcome to the Boxing Day morning relatives tech lab.

26 December is the #seconddayofChristmas, and the Feast of #StStephen.
This detail from a #15thCentury #Antiphonal commissioned for the monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza in 1475, shows a song for #StStephensDay.
Boston Public LIbrary

#earlymusic #renaissance #renaissancesky #otd #onthisday

The soles of the damned return!

Well, we already have a Q Magic card.

YEAH!!!!!!!!! So stoked for this.

Someone in Seoul has to be thinking: "we spent billions building a plant so our customers could get a tax credit that no longer exists just to be treated like _this_?"

this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.

A happy book says: I'm so proud you chose me as your holiday read! I can't wait to start entertaining you! A smiling drink says: And I'm right here! Ready to keep you cool and refreshed while you read! A gleeful phone adds: Yay! So great! How about we kick things off with a load of the same old rubbish you always look at, plus some gloomy news and mavbe a few emails from work!! Hours later... The drink and book lie untouched. The phone is out of view but a bubble reads: Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll The book says “I hate that guy.”

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books
#holiday #vacation #reading

Okay Bluesky, it's clear to me that a lot of you are falling for scams so I've decided to crack out the slides I use to educate high school students on identifying and protecting themselves from scams

Take a few moments as we go over a few types, methods, and how to express CAUTION towards scams

CNN article- Trump says he wasnt aware 'shylock' viewed as antisemitic after using it at rally

"Shakespeare, never heard of him. Now Kit Marlowe, there's a playwright. They treated Doctor Faustus very badly- Lucifer and Belzebub, they were very unfair to the doc, who did NOTHING WRONG"

Go, go, go!! Well done!

70% for me. I erred on the side of being more skeptical (I got all the fakes but called 3 real ones fake).

That’s why you’re still here.

‘You should be worried': Small town NH library has funds pulled by federal government A rollback in humanities funding is threatening years of progress to expand a small library in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire.

"The NEH’s entire budget is about $200 million — less than what the Department of Defense spends every six hours. And yet its reach touches towns that rarely see federal investment in education and culture."

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hall and Oates ACT II, SCENE II Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, HALL, OATES, and Attendants. KING CLAUDIUS Welcome, gentlemen; our...

QUEEN GERTRUDE
(places her hand on HALL’s chest)
Stay, you lion-maned pair, tell me
Of your distant City of Brotherly Love,
That we may, as they say, get to know
The heft and measure of each other’s thoughts.

HALL
I can’t go for that.

OATES
No can do.

It is fine to feel melancholy every once in a while (I do it myself) but all of us have within ourselves the capacity to act out our beliefs and work, even in piecemeal, towards a different world

Book giveaway for Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay Apr 01-Apr 30, 2025 Enter to win one of 12 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 01-Apr 30, 2025. A masterpiece.—JM MiroEnter for a chance to win a copy of Writ...

The team at Ace Books in NY are now giving away 12 copies of Written on the Dark, the actual book, not an advance reading copy, ahead of publication date. It is on Goodreads — for American readers.

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Well, I have successfully made it in (and now, thank god, out) of the United States.

Idk if/when I will be back—which is sad, because I love US folks.

Once again, they did not make it easy. I will explain.

The most obvious thing about this is it is evil and sociopathic. But there’s another element: speaking as someone who has both prosecuted fraudsters and defended people very wrongfully accused of being fraudsters, it’s absolute bullshit.

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Exit, pursued by infamy: The rise and decline of a ShakesBear I sat on a stool next to Growly McFurryPaws at the bar nearest his home. He frequents the bar, he said, because his depression has become too much to handle.

A tremendously funny "interview" with the bear who does the pursuing in “The Winter’s Tale,” Growly McFurryPaws.

How could you possibly vote for a funding bill that the Vice President is telling you will be overruled by the executive?
www.politico.com/live-updates...

Thank you for the compliment! It was an amazing story to help tell, and never have I seen audiences more rapt with what was before them. Humbling and gratifying!