Tobias Carroll

This whole time I was wondering where this was going and...it ended in a much worse place than I had expected.

I'm so sorry, Maura.

As a crypto skeptic, I'm pleased to see that the thing some crypto advocates were touting as a goal — easier international transactions — is happening with, apparently, zero crypto involved.

I'd put Twin Peaks: The Return on that list for sure.

Feels like isolation is probably the worst possible thing for conspiratorial thinking.

Thanks for the info! I am not surprised to see him getting criticized for it; I was a little surprised there wasn't more said about this side of him when the bio came out earlier this year, tbh.

Walkin’ the Streets with R. Crumb: PW Talks with Dan Nadel Pioneering counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb finally gets his due in Crumb (Pantheon, Apr.), a new biography from the Picturebox Comics founder and former Comics Journal editor.

I see that there's some R. Crumb vaccine discourse happening on here. Is there anything new that's come to light? The Dan Nadel bio published earlier this year touched on Crumb's opinions on vaccines, and it came up when I spoke to Nadel earlier this year... www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

My initial reaction to this was "I knew wild deer were getting more prevalent in Jersey, but I had no idea about the boars."

I have some travel coming up, and by god, I'm doing it. I'm actually going to read A Glastonbury Romance.

am I doing fiction wrong? "this tale of eldritch horror originated as tony/happy slash."

Ah, blipverts.

Been waiting to read Infante's reporting and analysis here, and it does not disappoint.

The Christmas party Jens Lekman sings about in "A Higher Power."

And this, ladies & gentlemen, is why large language models are totally beside the point.

But good luck.

This was my exact thought.

I'm very angry at my past self for not opting to try to go to Brazil in 2014, as friends of mine did. Strangely, I think trying to attend a game near me — and there are two venues within a two-hour drive of my apartment — would end up costing almost as much as they paid for a month in Brazil.

Has The Zodiac Killer Mystery Been Solved (Again)? - LAmag For more than 50 years, his identity has remained as maddening a riddle as the ciphers he once sent police. but now an L.A. novelist-turned-amateur sleuth may have finally cracked the case

Now reading this, and my jaw is dropping even more. lamag.com/news/zodiac-...

Just finished Jarett Kobek's How to Find Zodiac, and...fucking hell.

Charles Norman Shay, Tribal Elder and World War II Hero, Dies at 101

“Charles Norman Shay, who as a 19-year-old medic on D-Day repeatedly saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach, turning them on their backs, dragging them ashore and binding their wounds, died on Wednesday at his home in Thue et Mue, France, near the site of the Normandy invasion. He was 101.”

Ebook Deals: Less than $4 Checkout out this list on Bookshop

1 of my ALL TIME fave books on sale at @bookshop.org -- Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. ONLY $1.99!! 110% recommend & @clairewillett.bsky.social needs to know that it has a Space Jesuit (yr welcome). ALSO on sale: @maris.bsky.social fab I Want To Burn This Place Down bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

Of course the first word in his bio is "Christian." Pretty sure there was not an "except guys in boats" exemption for the "thou shalt not kill" commandment, but hey.

It has been over twenty years since I last heard a squirrel hiss, and the memory of it still unnerves me.

Danke!

w/r/t the previous post....

Fucked Up's Pink Eyes Becomes Fox News Commentator "It's just so bizarre."

Ah, here we go. I remember thinking, "This is weird" then and it's only gotten weirder in the years since then. pitchfork.com/news/35451-f...

Weird punk- and politics-adjacent question: was Fucked Up the band that Greg Gutfield used to have on his show on Fox several shows ago? (This was, I believe, more than a decade ago, when his screen persona was...not what it is now.)

The Wandering Fascist On the New Translation of Maurizio Serra’s ‘Malaparte: A Biography’

This one is a particular favorite. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-wander...

Great to see Superhero, the new novel by Dec. 8 Franklin Park Reading Series star Tim Blake Nelson, among @tobiascarroll.bsky.social’s
wide-ranging book recs at @insidehook.bsky.social!

Lost cassette tape connects N.J. girl to her mom's punk legacy. She's got the whole country looking for it. The South Jersey teen sparked a nationwide search for a tape her mom recorded 30 years ago

Big credit to @oldmcdougall.bsky.social’s story here in @nj.com yesterday, one of the best pieces of music journalism this year in its final month. The missing tape is the hook but this is much more about moms and daughters, art across generations and finding new spaces in older styles.

it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.