Jeff VanderMeer

More context, too, if you missed it. News is so fragmented right now. www.avclub.com/jeff-vanderm...

Thank *you*, and looking forward to season 4.

Google. It.

Dark Winds actors Jessica Matten and Zahn McClarnon in the front seat of a police car

Dark Winds has gone from strength to strength and takes on aspects of even grittier noir and even the metaphysical in a rough and tumble season 3 that is both intense and rollicking and emotional. Really first rate writing, acting, direction. Highly recommended.

Really thrilled to learn that due to a huge outpouring of public support, Argonaut Books in the Edinburgh area will not have to compete with a Waterstones planned for around the corner. Kudos to Waterstones for listening and everyone on insta for being vocal. One of my very favorite UK bookstores.

It's pretty funny that the first three men to claim to have reached the North Pole were all Americans and all of them are now generally believed to have fabricated their evidence.

electric green curled centipede tail mural

a fern in relief on a wall with words another before

purple and blue flowers and leaf and fish in relief on sculptural mural

a nice eugene ravine where we saw deer and coyotes and heard an owl

Around Eugene, Oregon, with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social yesterday.

roiling water of a turbulent rocky coast

No moment is the same no matter how similar. There will never be exactly this spray of water on these rocks in exactly this way ever again, and the white water churning through the extended fingers of rock will never flow in quite that way either.

A huge spout of water curls and curves through the rock in front of the sea wall.

Olivia Portlander in lovely red coat with nice interior design on lining stands to the left with a smile on her face as to the right the sea battles to erase the land and in the far distance a spit of earth with huddled trees provides some respite from the waves, although at some cost.

At Depoe Bay today, with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social. Aye, it was a feisty ocean beyond the sea wall and the waves were singing the song of rock slaughter, even if it takes a generation, or ten...

it's monday have another moment of calm weirdlings

sorry, it is a weedwacker strapped to a car roof

Last night in the garden.

oh cool thanks for letting me know

it was great, thanks!

another moment of calm?

car with a weed wacker strapped to the roof

another hunter bagged a trophy

your moment of calm

Fishing ships at harbor on a grey day.

Newport, Oregon. In search of coffee with @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

Hodgepodge is quickly becoming the de facto community-building space, in no small part because of the amazing staff culture. We're so happy to have it, and we were so happy to have you join us for a night of laughs and conversation.

I’m boarding an early Amtrak but let me just say, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social was a delight!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!

outsude of Hodgepodge, with ramp and flags abd white fence, two level.

bookshelves and taproom in middle

bookshelves

cocktails blackboard including The Tequila Mockingbird, The Parable of the Sour, The Gus McCrae, The Long, John Silver, and The Two Sours.

Around Hodgepodge Books & Taproom in Eugene, Oregon. This place is amazing!!!

James Elkins, Weak in Comparison To Dreams

Thanks Hodgepodge Books and Taproom for a great event at St Mary's Episcopal Church tonight here in Eugene, Oregon. And thanks to @lorraineberry.bsky.social for being a wonderful in conversation partner.

oooh you want chaos today

Pre dawn BIG LOON with Spruce Tree Center in the background

We got BIG LOON in my neighborhood

If you ordered personalized copies from Hodgepodge, I signed them all this afternoon, never fear.

Agreed. Absolutely ridiculous. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Notre Dame has benefitted from being insiders for a long time and gone to several bowl games they did not deserve to be in. So suck it up, show some class, and accept a bowl bid.

And it's called sportsmanship.

It did not get snubbed. Vandy got snubbed. But let's go. I can go all day on this subject.

Seriously, Oregon, support this bookstore. It's wonderful.