Biff Thuringer
@biffthuringer.bsky.social
Novelist. Publisher. Journalist. Closet Philosopher. Old School Jazz/Rock Funkster. Heading off extinction, one screed at a time.
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Good luck with that. Meanwhile, in other news, people in nearly all-white Maine are busy making “good trouble.” It’s goddamned thrilling.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Good luck with that. Meanwhile, in other news, people in nearly all-white Maine are busy making “good trouble.” It’s goddamned thrilling.
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Jack Maeby, Carol Tanzman and co. are busy making “good trouble” in Portland, Maine. It’s goddamned thrilling.
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The World is a Ghetto
Handel’s ‘Messiah’ makes way more sense as a gospel-tastic refugee story
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November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Jack Maeby, Carol Tanzman and co. are busy making “good trouble” in Portland, Maine. It’s goddamned thrilling.
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Another very sad day. Jack DeJohnette was one of the masters. I first thrilled to his playing when he was the drummer in Miles Davis’s band. That Bitches Brew concert was probably the best live music I ever heard. RIP, Jack.
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October 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Another very sad day. Jack DeJohnette was one of the masters. I first thrilled to his playing when he was the drummer in Miles Davis’s band. That Bitches Brew concert was probably the best live music I ever heard. RIP, Jack.
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A deep-fake AI imitating Michio Kaku just told me that 3I/Atlas is “steadily slowing down, as if on purpose,” adding to my creeping sense that I’d better get going with what remains of that music “career” before the End Times start hogging the news cycle:
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He is Risen
“Creepin’ Jesus” emerges from the vault that time almost forgot
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October 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A deep-fake AI imitating Michio Kaku just told me that 3I/Atlas is “steadily slowing down, as if on purpose,” adding to my creeping sense that I’d better get going with what remains of that music “career” before the End Times start hogging the news cycle:
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It was my birthday. August 29, 2001. I gave myself a present, giving my boss at a shitty magazine job in Manhattan three weeks notice. 13 days later I watched the towers fall from my bicycle seat. A week later I was in Rhinecliff, writing this. Chapter 1:
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Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic Chapter 1
Emergency 911
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September 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
It was my birthday. August 29, 2001. I gave myself a present, giving my boss at a shitty magazine job in Manhattan three weeks notice. 13 days later I watched the towers fall from my bicycle seat. A week later I was in Rhinecliff, writing this. Chapter 1:
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September 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Here’s a link to get you started on “Death Takes No Holiday,” a philosophical memoir. I invite any armchair psychoanalysts to read the whole thing before trying to pigeonhole me. Go ahead. Make my birthday (I’ll be 73 tomorrow at noon).
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Death Takes No Holiday | Biffogram | Biff Thuringer | Substack
A philosophical memoir chronicling the life, times and existential musings of Biff Thuringer, nee Stephen MacLean Hopkins. Click to read Biffogram, by Biff Thuringer, a Substack publication with hundr...
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August 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here’s a link to get you started on “Death Takes No Holiday,” a philosophical memoir. I invite any armchair psychoanalysts to read the whole thing before trying to pigeonhole me. Go ahead. Make my birthday (I’ll be 73 tomorrow at noon).
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Death Takes No Holiday, Chapter 14
Boarding the Soul Train
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August 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This fine piece triggered me to buy “The Wayback Machine” as a Father’s Day present to myself. As a misanthrope who uncharitably dismisses the work of most “writers” I’m looking forward to proving to myself that not everything produced in these hellish times has to suck.
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Happy Father’s Day
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June 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This fine piece triggered me to buy “The Wayback Machine” as a Father’s Day present to myself. As a misanthrope who uncharitably dismisses the work of most “writers” I’m looking forward to proving to myself that not everything produced in these hellish times has to suck.
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If anyone who ever lived on this godforsaken planet has a sliver of a chance at some sort of immortality, one of them has to be Sly Stone.
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June 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
If anyone who ever lived on this godforsaken planet has a sliver of a chance at some sort of immortality, one of them has to be Sly Stone.
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Something to chew on, care of the great expat iconoclast, CJ Hopkins.
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The Eve of Destruction !? …
Something has indeed gotten too big and unwieldy and seems headed for a totalitarian abyss, but what the fuck is it, really?
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May 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Something to chew on, care of the great expat iconoclast, CJ Hopkins.
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I’m writing a time-traveling back-and-forth “humorous” philosophical memoir, my first stab at book-length non-fiction. It’s a series of stand-alone essays. Here’s the one I finished today, still half drugged from a biopsy yesterday:
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Death Takes No Holiday, Chapter 13
I Had a Dream Last Night …
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April 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I’m writing a time-traveling back-and-forth “humorous” philosophical memoir, my first stab at book-length non-fiction. It’s a series of stand-alone essays. Here’s the one I finished today, still half drugged from a biopsy yesterday:
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The very last chapter of “Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic” is now live on Substack. Includes a heartfelt author’s note, so don’t miss it!
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Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic, Chapter 24
Anonymous
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April 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The very last chapter of “Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic” is now live on Substack. Includes a heartfelt author’s note, so don’t miss it!
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The second-to-last chapter, when all hell breaks loose. No one really wins, just like in real life.
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Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic, Chapter 23
Old Man River
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April 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The second-to-last chapter, when all hell breaks loose. No one really wins, just like in real life.
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This is the part you were warned about. The protagonist pulls a Luigi Mangione stunt on steroids, holding a banquet full of crony capitalists, mobsters and corrupt politicians hostage, saving the author from ever considering doing the same.
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Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic, Chapter 22
The Last Supper
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April 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This is the part you were warned about. The protagonist pulls a Luigi Mangione stunt on steroids, holding a banquet full of crony capitalists, mobsters and corrupt politicians hostage, saving the author from ever considering doing the same.
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A gift from a brilliant English anarchist. Thank you, Paul.
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Paul Cudenec on Substack
Beneath the idyllic green rolling hills of a well-off rural area lurks the stench of mafia-dumped toxic waste, polluting the air, the water supply and the food chain, killing off the wildlife and givi...
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April 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A gift from a brilliant English anarchist. Thank you, Paul.
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I’m funny how? I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?
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Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic, Chapter 21
Book of Revelation
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March 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I’m funny how? I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?
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What a strange, bizarro world. Everything you can possibly imagine, actually exists. I’m going to go watch “Brazil” again. This time as a documentary.
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“Trump letting a trans woman “groom / rape” his underage granddaughter.”
Ok this is very funny.
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March 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What a strange, bizarro world. Everything you can possibly imagine, actually exists. I’m going to go watch “Brazil” again. This time as a documentary.
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Hey, I wonder what’s going on down at the airport?
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Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic, Chapter 20
Con Air
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March 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Hey, I wonder what’s going on down at the airport?
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I STAND WITH NO POLITICIAN, NATION, MOVEMENT OR GOVERNMENT ANYWHERE. Sorry. Too busy helping people and dicing with entropy and DEATH.
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Anarchy 101: Death Takes No Holiday, Chapter 10
Coming of age in the golden era of cultural bullshit
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March 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I STAND WITH NO POLITICIAN, NATION, MOVEMENT OR GOVERNMENT ANYWHERE. Sorry. Too busy helping people and dicing with entropy and DEATH.
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“Of course by now Rocco is a dead river rat and Lindros has compromised his testimony by co-murdering his mistress and shooting his chin off. This put a big hole in our case, which was why Costello got off so easy.”
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Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic, Chapter 19
More Moving and Storage
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March 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“Of course by now Rocco is a dead river rat and Lindros has compromised his testimony by co-murdering his mistress and shooting his chin off. This put a big hole in our case, which was why Costello got off so easy.”
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Into the belly of the beast:
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Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic, Chapter 18
Forgive Me, Father, for I Have Sinned
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March 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Into the belly of the beast:
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