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gargantula tarantula
@sharrell.bsky.social
Writer, songer, forgetter of names.
Sounds suspiciously like he hallucinated the whole thing
September 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
which is also what they say about abusive jazz boyfriend mooch losers
September 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Gargantula Tarantula @sharrell.bsky.social features new Rosy Nolan single "How It Feels to Fall in Love," writing that it's a "zydeco-infused single... a tight, poppy-yet-rootsy little swamp-folk number that’ll get you stomping the porchboards."

gargantulatarantula.substack.com/p/slush-jams...
August 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Your semi-regular reminder that they're always doing what they accuse "the other side" of doing (via AP)
August 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Like, if your company name sounds like an evil company from a dystopian video game or Gibson novel, maybe you should not embrace that vibe. Black and White Zebra sounds like it's based in Raccoon City and outsources its PR to Blue Ant
August 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
So I was using my Pee Spot around the corner of the house and a baby bird in the shrub startled me and then the mom came out of nowhere for the dive bomb and I had to hose off my legs
August 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"Federalization of police force in the nation's capital" is not-very-clever code for "there's a new palace guard"
August 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A small platter of mini Cubans from Publix costs $15.99 and can last three days for one person oh you "can't eat the same thing every day" and "try to eat healthy" and "want to live" well maybe you shouldn't have gotten your degree in FOREIGN LITERATURE from WOKE UNIVERSITY you dei peasant
August 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Slush Jams review kung fu is unbeatable, y'all #music #musicreviews
Slush Jams #11: Week of August 3, 2025
Kesha returns, Dizzy Reed goes solo and gets F'd, and, uh, some metal.
gargantulatarantula.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Currently taking odds on whether Texas or California secedes first
August 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
FINALLY
August 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
They don't care about you. Not the cool indies, not the progressive Digital Generation companies, not the old-school "we're a family" corporations. None of them. Work for whoever you want/can, but just understand the dynamic.
Philz founders serve their loyal workers a steaming cup of betrayal with notes of greed
Private equity firm buys Philz Coffee for $145M, leaving employee stockholders empty-handed. Workers who invested thousands see shares "extinguished."
boingboing.net
August 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Nobody:

Florida: *flies flags at half staff for dead racist professional wrestler*
August 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
An abandoned great Dane is granted humanlike consciousness by visiting aliens, passes the Florida Bar and learns to play jazz saxophone. Watch as he lives, loves, works and struggles to navigate personhood in a man eat man world in CHARLIE BARKER: ATTORNEY AT PAW
August 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
If you don't know, Celsius is like the unofficial beverage of 12-steppers under 40
August 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
New Poll: 4 of 5 Americans Would Reveal Social Security Number in Exchange for Free Double Cheeseburger with "Those Crispy Onion Thingies"
August 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
So not because he raped children, then
July 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
According to our quadriplegic 19-year-old dachshund, these new treats are bed-shittingly delicious
July 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If I can't be Poplar Bluff High athlete Scott Harrell, at least I can have his sweet, unblemished, dewy-fresh credit report
July 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Slush Jams #9 is rocking in an increasingly freedom-uncertain world #music #musicreviews
Slush Jams #9: Week of July 7, 2025
Jams gonna jam.
open.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
everybody gradually quiet quit Food Network after lockdown until Guy Fieri came to work one day and it was just gear and camera operators
July 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
a Food Network show about someone who can tell which emotion any dish was prepared with by tasting it

"these are clearly rage potatoes, Guy"
July 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I'm pretty sure all the Hot Topics closed bc the staffers graduated to hairstyling and shift management at Starbucks
July 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
people bitching about "performative reading" in public spaces like their whole online presence doesn't boil down to look at me
July 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Slush Jams #8 has breached containment. #music #indiemusic #musicreviews
Slush Jams #8: Week of June 29, 2025
The very definition of "a mixed bag."
gargantulatarantula.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM