John Birmingham

Sc sign: No weapons allowed

This fried chicken and beer joint is super strict

Nope. Random House, NYC

Ha. Cruel Stars finale was written and submitted two years ago. You need to pester the publisher!

Yes indeed

Whatever works for you

BOOYAH

JB’s dangerously tasty cocktail rests in a massive balloon of a glass. It’s early in the night. The bar is quiet. This won’t last.

A cocktail maker pours a stream of blue and fire from one copper pot into another

Tonight’s cocktail is a beautiful creation by Tott in Mapo-gu, Seoul. An homage to Korea’s beloved Chico Pie, it warms you all over. Possibly because they set it fire first. On a subzero night it is perfect. I may have another. Everybody goes to Zest, but they should have come here.

I’m traveling for work atm and haven’t read US or Auspol news in a week. Honestly feels like I’m recovering from a breakdown.

World War 3.3... The continuing story goes on! Okay, screw the big tease.

I see that that John Birmingham bloke @birmo.bsky.social has written another “Axis of Time” novel. cheeseburgergothic.substack.com/p/world-war-...

I’m planning a whole franchise

This is why you’re my favourite. For once the Beast of Bezos is way ahead of everyone else. Still waiting on Kobo and Apple to drop before I can promo it

Sleeper Agent: Nemesis by John Birmingham Genetically engineered to be the perfect weapon, Cooper Fox must now use those abilities to stop ...

Curse you @birmo.bsky.social and your endlessly riveting cliffhangers and plots. Moving onto book 3 now. Rupert Degas was a top-notch narrator of book 2 - glad he’s back for book 3. app.thestorygraph.com/books/000f4b... #booksky #audiobooks

I love him so much

Lulz. The reason I do paper is because I’m locked out of MyGov

I was just doing my quarterly BAS for the tax office when I realized, as I was putting the form into the envelope, that it’s not even reply paid anymore. They make us pay for the stamp. For some reason, I’m angrier about this than I am about the massive amount of tax I owe them.

I like the way he smacks his fist into his hand before he punches the troll/bigot. That’s like a superhero origin story move.

Oh man I thought I got that one.

The cop riot So, first things first, a big congrats to Angus Taylor.

Because I grew up in QLD in the ‘80s, I’m more often surprised when police *don’t* attack demonstrators. So I’ve had that familiar feeling this week of watching people come to a difficult truth: when you see a demo turn ugly, it’s almost always because the cops decided that’s how it was gonna go.

Really want to finish this book, but really have to write this column.

He could, if you would like him to!

Been doing final edits and checks of World War 3.3. Should drop next week. It’s really fucking good.

Is it on?

Down here in the off world colonies I had not even heard of Ponies. But I’m getting very John Le Carre vibes from this

Perhaps if the Herzog protesters had turned up dressed as Nazis the cops would have left them alone

Just once I’d like to go to a protest where the protesters had all the batons and pepper spray and the cops weren’t allowed to do anything but suck it up when half a dozen punters dog piled them

Ooh deep cut!

I’m trying to write it i from the PoV and in the voice of William Burroughs… as a fitness influencer

I’m very sad about Kudelka. It fucking sucks.

Decided to add an epilogue