Effortless Malaise
@gograh.bsky.social
culture junkie raconteur
#Finished OF MONSTERS AND MAINFRAMES by Barbara Truelove @barbaratruelove.bsky.social and it was wonderful. A fantastic cast of wacky but heartfelt characters navigating a fast-paced plot thrumming with action, humor, and genuine caring. A lovely, crazy-ass stunner!
#booksy 📚💙
#scifibooks 📚🪐
#booksy 📚💙
#scifibooks 📚🪐
January 27, 2026 at 2:31 PM
#Finished OF MONSTERS AND MAINFRAMES by Barbara Truelove @barbaratruelove.bsky.social and it was wonderful. A fantastic cast of wacky but heartfelt characters navigating a fast-paced plot thrumming with action, humor, and genuine caring. A lovely, crazy-ass stunner!
#booksy 📚💙
#scifibooks 📚🪐
#booksy 📚💙
#scifibooks 📚🪐
#Finished Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social and, as she said, it was a little different from her other books—in the best way. Infused with the warts-and-all realities of sisterhood and brimming with confident and intruiging world-building. Highly, highly recommend!
#booksky
#booksky
January 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM
#Finished Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social and, as she said, it was a little different from her other books—in the best way. Infused with the warts-and-all realities of sisterhood and brimming with confident and intruiging world-building. Highly, highly recommend!
#booksky
#booksky
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i have at least two questions
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
i have at least two questions
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Gen X is the "Gifted and Talented" generation.
If you look at anything talking about Gen X written in the 90s, it was all about promise and things to come. Expectations we so high for us, and we crashed and burned as a cultural force.
And now we just talk about that one time we drank from the hose.
If you look at anything talking about Gen X written in the 90s, it was all about promise and things to come. Expectations we so high for us, and we crashed and burned as a cultural force.
And now we just talk about that one time we drank from the hose.
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Gen X is the "Gifted and Talented" generation.
If you look at anything talking about Gen X written in the 90s, it was all about promise and things to come. Expectations we so high for us, and we crashed and burned as a cultural force.
And now we just talk about that one time we drank from the hose.
If you look at anything talking about Gen X written in the 90s, it was all about promise and things to come. Expectations we so high for us, and we crashed and burned as a cultural force.
And now we just talk about that one time we drank from the hose.
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Science fiction art by Larry Elmore for TSR’s Star Frontiers.
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Science fiction art by Larry Elmore for TSR’s Star Frontiers.
holiday watchlist, stage 1
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
holiday watchlist, stage 1
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this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
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“The best modern vampire story ever.”
Coffin Moon’s not even a tenth of what Salem’s Lot is, but holy shit THANK YOU. Wow.
Coffin Moon’s not even a tenth of what Salem’s Lot is, but holy shit THANK YOU. Wow.
October 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“The best modern vampire story ever.”
Coffin Moon’s not even a tenth of what Salem’s Lot is, but holy shit THANK YOU. Wow.
Coffin Moon’s not even a tenth of what Salem’s Lot is, but holy shit THANK YOU. Wow.
#NowWatching John Carpenter’s ridiculously preposterous yet endlessly watchable PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Come for the laughable exposition, stay for the moody soundtrack and Donald Pleasence Donald Pleasence-ing all over the place. Jameson Parker’s moustache is also worth the watch. WONDERFUL!
#filmsky
#filmsky
a blurry picture of a person walking in a dark alleyway
Alt: the titular Prince of Darkness walks among us at the doorway of Saint Goddard’s church, shot cinema vérité style through the white iron bars of a fence in the closing minutes of John Carpenter’s 1987 movie Prince of Darkness
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October 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
#NowWatching John Carpenter’s ridiculously preposterous yet endlessly watchable PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Come for the laughable exposition, stay for the moody soundtrack and Donald Pleasence Donald Pleasence-ing all over the place. Jameson Parker’s moustache is also worth the watch. WONDERFUL!
#filmsky
#filmsky
Define your music taste in 8 artists:
1. AC/DC (Bon Scott era)
2. James Brown
3. Minutemen
4. Funkadelic
5. Hüsker Dü
6. Little Feat
7. R.E.M. (I.R.S. era)
8. Beastie Boys (specifically Paul’s Boutique)
1. AC/DC (Bon Scott era)
2. James Brown
3. Minutemen
4. Funkadelic
5. Hüsker Dü
6. Little Feat
7. R.E.M. (I.R.S. era)
8. Beastie Boys (specifically Paul’s Boutique)
Define your music taste in 8 artists:
1. Prince
2. Martha Argerich
3. Miles Davis
4. They Might Be Giants
5. Brooke Annibale
6. Whodini
7. Joe Hisaishi
8. Cirith Ungol
I feel like I need another 8
1. Prince
2. Martha Argerich
3. Miles Davis
4. They Might Be Giants
5. Brooke Annibale
6. Whodini
7. Joe Hisaishi
8. Cirith Ungol
I feel like I need another 8
Define your music taste in 8 artists:
1 The Beatles
2 AC/DC
3 Joe Satriani
4 Journey
5 Rush
6 Sarah McLachlan
7 Lamb Of God
8 ...and Tom Petty
1 The Beatles
2 AC/DC
3 Joe Satriani
4 Journey
5 Rush
6 Sarah McLachlan
7 Lamb Of God
8 ...and Tom Petty
October 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Define your music taste in 8 artists:
1. AC/DC (Bon Scott era)
2. James Brown
3. Minutemen
4. Funkadelic
5. Hüsker Dü
6. Little Feat
7. R.E.M. (I.R.S. era)
8. Beastie Boys (specifically Paul’s Boutique)
1. AC/DC (Bon Scott era)
2. James Brown
3. Minutemen
4. Funkadelic
5. Hüsker Dü
6. Little Feat
7. R.E.M. (I.R.S. era)
8. Beastie Boys (specifically Paul’s Boutique)
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JUST A REMINDER THAT VAMPIRE NOVELS ARE AS GOOD AS CANDY WHEN IT COMES TO TRICK OR TREATERS THEY LOVE THAT STUFF!
COFFIN MOON available now, everywhere. Thanks!
COFFIN MOON available now, everywhere. Thanks!
October 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
JUST A REMINDER THAT VAMPIRE NOVELS ARE AS GOOD AS CANDY WHEN IT COMES TO TRICK OR TREATERS THEY LOVE THAT STUFF!
COFFIN MOON available now, everywhere. Thanks!
COFFIN MOON available now, everywhere. Thanks!
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honestly, this is the only way to go with another X-Men movie youtu.be/UngE0qn3VRY?...
What if Wes Anderson Directed X-Men?
YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems
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October 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
honestly, this is the only way to go with another X-Men movie youtu.be/UngE0qn3VRY?...
Almost 3 years ago, I decided to get back into reading on a regular basis and resolved to read every day for a month. I just cracked 1,000 consecutive days and more than 270 books and novellas read since that resolution.
I don’t normally make a fuss but I am really proud of myself!
#booksky
#goals
I don’t normally make a fuss but I am really proud of myself!
#booksky
#goals
October 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Me when Rene Auberjonois is in tonight's murder she wrote
October 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Me when Rene Auberjonois is in tonight's murder she wrote
#Finished Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social and you’ve gotta drop whatever you’re doing and give this an October read. A high-test, real-deal, unrelenting grinder that evokes the best of the mass-market paperbacks of my ill-spent youth. FANTASTIC!
#booksky
#horrorsky
#booksky
#horrorsky
September 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#Finished Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social and you’ve gotta drop whatever you’re doing and give this an October read. A high-test, real-deal, unrelenting grinder that evokes the best of the mass-market paperbacks of my ill-spent youth. FANTASTIC!
#booksky
#horrorsky
#booksky
#horrorsky
Bond would have lost a generation of viewers without the constant repeat of unedited versions For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy on HBO circa 1983-1986
What is your most controversial James Bond opinion?
(These may be discussed in a future podcast)
(These may be discussed in a future podcast)
September 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Bond would have lost a generation of viewers without the constant repeat of unedited versions For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy on HBO circa 1983-1986
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post a meme made by you
August 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
post a meme made by you
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Some of the greatest and craziest films ever made are finally coming back into circulation. I wrote about the golden age of Hong Kong action cinema. www.vulture.com/article/when...
When Hong Kong Cinema Ruled the World
An entire generation of classics from this golden age of action cinema is finally being restored and rereleased in the U.S.
www.vulture.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Some of the greatest and craziest films ever made are finally coming back into circulation. I wrote about the golden age of Hong Kong action cinema. www.vulture.com/article/when...
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the scenario we all feared
August 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the scenario we all feared
Absolutely need to know there is a new T R Napper @trnapper.bsky.social novel in the offing. Like, a huge degree of my overall mental stability hinges on another dose of his high-octane, cyber-noir, glitchy future with the formica countertops and unadvised implants. Cruel to leave a guy hanging.
July 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Absolutely need to know there is a new T R Napper @trnapper.bsky.social novel in the offing. Like, a huge degree of my overall mental stability hinges on another dose of his high-octane, cyber-noir, glitchy future with the formica countertops and unadvised implants. Cruel to leave a guy hanging.
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I Have Forgotten What You Did Last Summer But I Definitely Have A Negative Association With You And Last Summer
July 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I Have Forgotten What You Did Last Summer But I Definitely Have A Negative Association With You And Last Summer
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