LJ Pemberton

diet mountain dew + spicy doritos + nerd gummy clusters = elite combo

Sunday is a great day to catch up on Malarkey Public Radio.

In the Belly of the Beast Podcast Episode · Malarkey Public Radio · 10/25/2025 · 54m

Better late than never, @ljabouttown.bsky.social’s conversation with Boxcutters/Feast of the Pale Leviathan author @johnchrostek.com

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Hey, you can now listen to me yap with the wonderful writer @ljabouttown.bsky.social about life’s strange journey, being a picky mfer about craft and much more! If this is half as much fun to listen to as it was to record, it should be a hoot

Episodes 1-9 are up now!! Including two fabulous conversations with @johnchrostek.com and @yoadrianididit.bsky.social and the 10th episode should be up soon!

Maybe You Can Have Fun With It Podcast Episode · Malarkey Public Radio · 10/25/2025 · 55m

This episode of Malarkey Public Radio has been in the can for a while and we are excited and thankful to finally see it released today. @ljabouttown.bsky.social talks with @yoadrianididit.bsky.social about thinking about being dead and having fun with it! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Abolish ICE

One of the weirdest things about working at the Post Office is that sometimes your coworker will say something casual that accidentally reveals they know where you live and your brain goes, what? Followed by, oh yeah.

Episode 84 - Andrew Bertaina

ICYMI: the wonderful @tylercdempsey had me on his podcast to chat about Ethan Hawke & Me and various other life matters.

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space fantasies are to billionaires what apocalypse fantasies are to the rest of us: avoidance of our responsibilities to this planet and each other

@badguybirnie.bsky.social’s mom MADE it, a true queen

Mad Magazine, over 50 years ago

Posted by Block Club Chicago: "Cycling x Solidarity's latest mutual aid effort takes cyclists on group rides through Pilsen and other neighborhoods to buy out tamale vendors so they can stay home as ICE swarm the city. They pass out to food to people in need."

Forgive me, Chicago, I was not aware of your game

I just hate these lying fucks and their lies.

their paranoia reveals what they think of us

*cabbage patch, damn

malcolm mcdowell looks like if a cabbage kid grew up

so many ills of american political life have to do with people who don't have any direct experience thinking systems are far more rational than they are, and then judging the people who fail to accommodate those systems as though it were easy to do

immigration is another great example

the older i get the more the little things are the only things

bought meat from the local butcher and they wrapped it in butcher paper and wrote the ounces on it and it’s just so nice that way

I heard that @joeyhedger.bsky.social is gonna be keeping the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social AWP26 table on lock. Who else is going from Malarkey?

(I can’t make it this year but I’ll be back in 2027!)

Really puts the feudal in Neofeudal.

just heard janet jackson’s ‘would you mind’ and was immediately young again

Cover of Christian book entitled “The Well-Watered Woman.”

y’all this title 😂💦

next year i will have been in the workforce for 30 years

(have been employed since i was 14)

they’re gonna get another 20-25 years out of me too

being useful is a scam

people reading still alive

they’re gonna make humans extinct one way or another

me, in college

potent — the anxiety of the shrinking middle class

most fantasies about the past are fantasies about being ruling class