Jim Thomsen
@jimthomsen.bsky.social
Kingston, Washington. Editor, writer, photographic noirgasmist, Seventiesologist. A Quinn Martin Production. Act One ….
“I’m starting to think Thoreau might have been full of shit. If we aren’t living for others, maybe we aren’t really living.”
June 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“I’m starting to think Thoreau might have been full of shit. If we aren’t living for others, maybe we aren’t really living.”
This feels like the first chapter of a Stephen King novel.
June 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This feels like the first chapter of a Stephen King novel.
“There was a time I wouldn’t have gotten pleasure from being undesirable, but now I saw it as a superpower.”
May 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“There was a time I wouldn’t have gotten pleasure from being undesirable, but now I saw it as a superpower.”
“If you’re a woman sitting alone in a bar, it’s always best to look occupied, even if you’re faking it. Most men think they’re doing you a favor, keeping you company, curing you of the shame of being alone in public.”
May 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“If you’re a woman sitting alone in a bar, it’s always best to look occupied, even if you’re faking it. Most men think they’re doing you a favor, keeping you company, curing you of the shame of being alone in public.”
“I made a very strong mental note to start behaving normally.”
May 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
“I made a very strong mental note to start behaving normally.”
Shoulder-wound waiver granted.
“He didn’t step back. I could see him thinking of ways out of this, and I didn’t need him thinking, so I shot him in the shoulder. He stepped back then.”
“He didn’t step back. I could see him thinking of ways out of this, and I didn’t need him thinking, so I shot him in the shoulder. He stepped back then.”
May 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Shoulder-wound waiver granted.
“He didn’t step back. I could see him thinking of ways out of this, and I didn’t need him thinking, so I shot him in the shoulder. He stepped back then.”
“He didn’t step back. I could see him thinking of ways out of this, and I didn’t need him thinking, so I shot him in the shoulder. He stepped back then.”
“I’m not a man, and when a man isn’t a man he’s nobody. And the only way not to be nobody is to do something. So I can either kill myself or kill someone else. Get it?”
May 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“I’m not a man, and when a man isn’t a man he’s nobody. And the only way not to be nobody is to do something. So I can either kill myself or kill someone else. Get it?”
Use postal metaphors, like postal materials, carefully. More carefully than this.
“Thomas dispatched the two Negronis with the relief of a man chucking a couple of overdue thank-you letters through the slit of a postbox.”
“Thomas dispatched the two Negronis with the relief of a man chucking a couple of overdue thank-you letters through the slit of a postbox.”
May 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Use postal metaphors, like postal materials, carefully. More carefully than this.
“Thomas dispatched the two Negronis with the relief of a man chucking a couple of overdue thank-you letters through the slit of a postbox.”
“Thomas dispatched the two Negronis with the relief of a man chucking a couple of overdue thank-you letters through the slit of a postbox.”
Raymondcarverville.
(Port Angeles, Washington)
(Port Angeles, Washington)
May 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Raymondcarverville.
(Port Angeles, Washington)
(Port Angeles, Washington)
Jack Reacher, copy editor.
“In general Reacher didn’t care for the corruption of written language. U for you, EZ for easy, hi for high, lo for low. He had spent many years in school learning to read and spell and he wanted to feel that there had been some point to it.”
“In general Reacher didn’t care for the corruption of written language. U for you, EZ for easy, hi for high, lo for low. He had spent many years in school learning to read and spell and he wanted to feel that there had been some point to it.”
May 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Jack Reacher, copy editor.
“In general Reacher didn’t care for the corruption of written language. U for you, EZ for easy, hi for high, lo for low. He had spent many years in school learning to read and spell and he wanted to feel that there had been some point to it.”
“In general Reacher didn’t care for the corruption of written language. U for you, EZ for easy, hi for high, lo for low. He had spent many years in school learning to read and spell and he wanted to feel that there had been some point to it.”
The ideal crime fiction hero.
“I am definitely not someone suited to handle this situation. I have no special skills or talents, and nobody, ever, has put me in charge of anything.”
“I am definitely not someone suited to handle this situation. I have no special skills or talents, and nobody, ever, has put me in charge of anything.”
May 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The ideal crime fiction hero.
“I am definitely not someone suited to handle this situation. I have no special skills or talents, and nobody, ever, has put me in charge of anything.”
“I am definitely not someone suited to handle this situation. I have no special skills or talents, and nobody, ever, has put me in charge of anything.”
“It must be exhausting to have so many strong opinions. I only have mild preferences, and usually not even that.”
May 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“It must be exhausting to have so many strong opinions. I only have mild preferences, and usually not even that.”
“Everyone’s life needed an organizing principle, and relentless forward motion was Reacher’s.”
May 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“Everyone’s life needed an organizing principle, and relentless forward motion was Reacher’s.”
“Let me ask you something,” said the president. “We may have a need for substantial cash for a, uh, personal purpose. Do you know how much is around?”
May 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Let me ask you something,” said the president. “We may have a need for substantial cash for a, uh, personal purpose. Do you know how much is around?”
We’re running out of beer-and-a-shot towns in Western Washington. This place has been closed for more than a decade.
May 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We’re running out of beer-and-a-shot towns in Western Washington. This place has been closed for more than a decade.
Today’s audiobook on my mail route.
@louberney.bsky.social
@louberney.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Today’s audiobook on my mail route.
@louberney.bsky.social
@louberney.bsky.social
“Adultery, like full-court basketball, was a younger man’s sport, and engaging in it these last few years had made Sully feel a little foolish and undignified.”
May 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“Adultery, like full-court basketball, was a younger man’s sport, and engaging in it these last few years had made Sully feel a little foolish and undignified.”
Dorm of the Damned.
(Bainbridge Island, Washington)
(Bainbridge Island, Washington)
May 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Dorm of the Damned.
(Bainbridge Island, Washington)
(Bainbridge Island, Washington)
The Hustler of Money.
May 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Hustler of Money.
“Massacre is obscene. Torture is obscene. Three million dead is obscene. Masturbation, even with an admittedly nonconsensual squid? Not so much. I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word ‘murder’ made us mumble as much as the word ‘masturbation.’”
May 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“Massacre is obscene. Torture is obscene. Three million dead is obscene. Masturbation, even with an admittedly nonconsensual squid? Not so much. I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word ‘murder’ made us mumble as much as the word ‘masturbation.’”
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Ever feel like a TV show was created with you in mind?
People make fun of me for my 1970s fetish, but Max bet tens of millions of dollars that I’m not alone. Best show set in 1972 since QUARRY.
#Duster
People make fun of me for my 1970s fetish, but Max bet tens of millions of dollars that I’m not alone. Best show set in 1972 since QUARRY.
#Duster
May 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Ever feel like a TV show was created with you in mind?
People make fun of me for my 1970s fetish, but Max bet tens of millions of dollars that I’m not alone. Best show set in 1972 since QUARRY.
#Duster
People make fun of me for my 1970s fetish, but Max bet tens of millions of dollars that I’m not alone. Best show set in 1972 since QUARRY.
#Duster