Erin Keane

paperback copy of Iris Murdoch's The Unicorn on a wooden table. The book has unique rounded edges and the cover shows an illustration of a woman lying in an elaborate blue & purple canopied bed.

October book #1: The Unicorn is Iris Murdoch's take on the 1960s dimestore gothic romance. This is a book about about a bunch of weirdos trapped in a stately home between a sea cliff & a deadly bog. If that isn't enough to sell you, everyone is secretly gay & constantly chugging whisky 5/5

He really commits.

Yes! Scrooge expresses doubt that Jacob Marley's ghost is real and in front of him, and when Marley asks him why he doesn't trust his senses, he blames his dinner for possibly affecting him. Scrooge isn't really a knee-slapper, but he does have a long-suppressed sense of humor that re-emerges.

Chuck Dickens, Victorian Punmeister

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

Oh this is bad bad

If you have at any point participated in the age-old argument of Where Are the Boundaries of the Midwest, this anthology is also for you. (drops bait, scurries away)

The Louisville Anthology A book that looks to stir emotions. It holds a lot of anger.--LEO Weekly. Part of Belt's City Anthology Series.What is Louisville's identity in the twenty-first century? Is it the southernmost midwest...

LOUISVILLE: The Louisville Anthology, edited by me, is ON SALE for $15 through the publisher! An entire book's worth of Louisville-centric essays and poems, in time for you to get a jump on your holiday shopping. Many other city anthologies available, too!

www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

this makes me sad for some reason

imagining a dad proudly handing a BuzzBallz Lafufu to their kid on a weekend visit

"a goddamn hologram of the late Gatewood Galbraith"

I feel like a million years old getting this

Is Carl Benson:

- A kid who needs to show up for court
- The world’s greatest process server (before child labor laws ruined everything)

Congratulations!!!

Some things I've learned in my first few weeks:

1) There is a grey market candy swapping racket between janitors, TSA agents, CSRs, and everyone else who has to stand someplace all day at the airport.

Hi-chews, sour candies, and gummy anything are in highest demand.

Mars was the Roman god of war.
That’s why we say ‘martial arts,' ‘martial law,' and 'court martial.'

Marshall was the Roman god of designer fashion at discount prices.
That’s why we have Marshall’s.

Omg Helen Mirren just did this in the middle of a family dinner

I may be overstating his culpability in the matter but I saw him in the EPs and decided who to blame

Dude I’m on like episode 7, I’m all in (if disgusted with myself)

I am hooked in a truck stop snack kind of way. These shows are the Buccees Beaver Nuggets of streaming.

Paddy Considine is too good for this show. They all are!

*Tom Hardy Grunt*

Froggatt is working So Hard to make something of this. Hardy’s grunting like he can’t believe it either.

Paramount is a jobs scheme for charming actors who aren’t too picky these days. Paddy Considine is too good for this. Tom Hardy!

No way! There’s a payoff to this mess?

They have this diabolical deal with Paramount to show only like 3 episodes of a trash soap so I can’t leave like, Tulsa King or Mayor of Kingstown or assorted other kings on the plane where it belongs.

Just a giant pile of garbage I can’t stop watching because apparently my sickness is watching Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren humiliate themselves.

Every time I take a Delta flight longer than 2 hours, I get sucked into yet another preposterous old-man soap opera from Paramount+. I believe I have hit rock bottom with Guy Ritchie’s incoherent money pit “Mobland.”

also obsessed with the picardigan

When General Zod forgets to wear pants.

I NEEDED SOME GOOD NEWS

Well, this sucks. Also since you and Marcus are pair-bonded like pugs at this point I hope your next outlet knows they need to make him a good offer too.