Mark B.
@ambrose-mensch.bsky.social
Reader, frustrated scribbler, quondam drummer, comedy podcast addict.
mastodon: @ambrose_mensch@thelife.boats
mastodon: @ambrose_mensch@thelife.boats
Remember that brief clip of David Lynch cooking quinoa? [Chris Farley skit voice:] that was awesome
June 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Remember that brief clip of David Lynch cooking quinoa? [Chris Farley skit voice:] that was awesome
Do you ever just stare a word out of countenance while you're writing, like, 'that can't be how's it's spelled.' I just did that with "poignant".
June 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Do you ever just stare a word out of countenance while you're writing, like, 'that can't be how's it's spelled.' I just did that with "poignant".
@danagould.bsky.social Thank you for your performance last night at Atlanta Punchline. Big fan, good times! I was the guy front and center.
“Do you have a favorite horror movie?”
“Uhh, An American Werewolf in London?”
“I like ‘Pretty Woman’ You thought I said ‘horror’” 😆
“Do you have a favorite horror movie?”
“Uhh, An American Werewolf in London?”
“I like ‘Pretty Woman’ You thought I said ‘horror’” 😆
March 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
@danagould.bsky.social Thank you for your performance last night at Atlanta Punchline. Big fan, good times! I was the guy front and center.
“Do you have a favorite horror movie?”
“Uhh, An American Werewolf in London?”
“I like ‘Pretty Woman’ You thought I said ‘horror’” 😆
“Do you have a favorite horror movie?”
“Uhh, An American Werewolf in London?”
“I like ‘Pretty Woman’ You thought I said ‘horror’” 😆
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hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.
www.theverge.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
"Alexa, notifications."
"Good evening, Mark. Too Much of Life has arrived."
"Do I still have to go to work tomorrow?"
"Good evening, Mark. Too Much of Life has arrived."
"Do I still have to go to work tomorrow?"
February 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
"Alexa, notifications."
"Good evening, Mark. Too Much of Life has arrived."
"Do I still have to go to work tomorrow?"
"Good evening, Mark. Too Much of Life has arrived."
"Do I still have to go to work tomorrow?"
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social on fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"An insider’s account of life inside a band that left a legacy like no other, this is a book that hits as hard as its author did, and required reading for anyone with an interest in the band." #WhiteRabbit’s Lee Brackstone
Banshees & Creatures Drummer Budgie Memoir
https://buff.ly/4jRNI9X
Banshees & Creatures Drummer Budgie Memoir
https://buff.ly/4jRNI9X
February 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
One of my hobbies over the last like fifteen years is to keep updating the syntax of my 'John Barth' google alert to try to keep an Indianapolis politician out of the results
February 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
One of my hobbies over the last like fifteen years is to keep updating the syntax of my 'John Barth' google alert to try to keep an Indianapolis politician out of the results
Reposted by Mark B.
The day after David Lynch’s passing, Patrick Fischler answered all our questions about the diner scene in David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’: ‘The dread just came to me. I can feel it in my chest right now.’
Patrick Fischler Answers Every Question We Have About Mulholland Drive
The day after David Lynch’s passing, Patrick Fischler answered all our questions about the diner scene in David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’: ‘The dread just came to me. I can feel it in my chest right now.’
www.vulture.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The day after David Lynch’s passing, Patrick Fischler answered all our questions about the diner scene in David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’: ‘The dread just came to me. I can feel it in my chest right now.’
I'm about a 50/50 man when it comes to either yanking out stray threads from a shirt or sweater I'm wearing vs burning it off with a cigarette lighter
January 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I'm about a 50/50 man when it comes to either yanking out stray threads from a shirt or sweater I'm wearing vs burning it off with a cigarette lighter
Gonna start spelling "medieval" with the less common 'a' thrown in, just for s&g
January 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Gonna start spelling "medieval" with the less common 'a' thrown in, just for s&g
@benjaminbirdie.bsky.social
I just got hold of ‘The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest’ and didn’t realize you did the IG illustrations. Well done! I had seen the Gately one many years ago, but not the others
I just got hold of ‘The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest’ and didn’t realize you did the IG illustrations. Well done! I had seen the Gately one many years ago, but not the others
January 14, 2025 at 4:55 AM
@benjaminbirdie.bsky.social
I just got hold of ‘The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest’ and didn’t realize you did the IG illustrations. Well done! I had seen the Gately one many years ago, but not the others
I just got hold of ‘The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest’ and didn’t realize you did the IG illustrations. Well done! I had seen the Gately one many years ago, but not the others
Every time I use a cotton swab I always think of the 1970s Q-Tip commercial with Sid Caesar where he says at the end [roughly] "And remember! Never put anything in your ear, except of course your elbow."
January 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Every time I use a cotton swab I always think of the 1970s Q-Tip commercial with Sid Caesar where he says at the end [roughly] "And remember! Never put anything in your ear, except of course your elbow."
I'm a little ashamed at how many books I bought in 2024 and how few I read. I try to console myself with "Ayyy!, I'm a collector! It's aspirational and fun!" etc, but it's clearly become another addiction/distraction to reel in this year. *sigh*
January 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I'm a little ashamed at how many books I bought in 2024 and how few I read. I try to console myself with "Ayyy!, I'm a collector! It's aspirational and fun!" etc, but it's clearly become another addiction/distraction to reel in this year. *sigh*
I just bought another first edition of John Barth's LETTERS mainly for the dust jacket, because I lost the jacket for mine which he signed for me in 2001 (the book, not the jacket). Yeah. I'm that guy.
Simultaneously delighted and a little bummed at how inexpensive it was
Simultaneously delighted and a little bummed at how inexpensive it was
January 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I just bought another first edition of John Barth's LETTERS mainly for the dust jacket, because I lost the jacket for mine which he signed for me in 2001 (the book, not the jacket). Yeah. I'm that guy.
Simultaneously delighted and a little bummed at how inexpensive it was
Simultaneously delighted and a little bummed at how inexpensive it was
I’m starting to get a fair amount of bot-follows on here. [Peanuts skyward-looking “AAUGH!!”]
December 22, 2024 at 2:00 AM
I’m starting to get a fair amount of bot-follows on here. [Peanuts skyward-looking “AAUGH!!”]
My granite countertop at the bar section facing back into the kitchen frequently becomes this weird Rorschach collage when look away from the book or laptop and go into a brief reverie. It's freaky-deaky
December 6, 2024 at 10:01 PM
My granite countertop at the bar section facing back into the kitchen frequently becomes this weird Rorschach collage when look away from the book or laptop and go into a brief reverie. It's freaky-deaky
A light clanging outside my window (what *is* that? I still don't know) has been mesmerizing me all day. Now I just realized it's this saudade-y recollection of walking or bicycling to school a bit early before class in grades 3-5 to get in a round of tetherball. The snaphook hitting the pole...
December 5, 2024 at 10:15 PM
A light clanging outside my window (what *is* that? I still don't know) has been mesmerizing me all day. Now I just realized it's this saudade-y recollection of walking or bicycling to school a bit early before class in grades 3-5 to get in a round of tetherball. The snaphook hitting the pole...
Is there a poem that says something like "then you will shew [or shew to yourself / yourselves] that you are still alive" ?
My a-googlin' is turning up donut
My a-googlin' is turning up donut
November 30, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Is there a poem that says something like "then you will shew [or shew to yourself / yourselves] that you are still alive" ?
My a-googlin' is turning up donut
My a-googlin' is turning up donut
About time for another “who sorts the mother-loving parcel room?!” rant to hapless apartment complex front office person after searching fruitlessly yet again for a book delivered a week ago
November 30, 2024 at 11:02 PM
About time for another “who sorts the mother-loving parcel room?!” rant to hapless apartment complex front office person after searching fruitlessly yet again for a book delivered a week ago
Watched ‘Planes, Trains…’ with Mom. She hadn’t seen it. She either enjoyed it or humored me. I’ll take either
November 29, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Watched ‘Planes, Trains…’ with Mom. She hadn’t seen it. She either enjoyed it or humored me. I’ll take either
I wonder if people still write monographs titled like 'Of [obscure polysyllabic noun]'
November 28, 2024 at 4:39 AM
I wonder if people still write monographs titled like 'Of [obscure polysyllabic noun]'
In the kitchen, I feel like there’s something almost magical about a good simple sharp plastic bench scraper
November 24, 2024 at 1:19 AM
In the kitchen, I feel like there’s something almost magical about a good simple sharp plastic bench scraper
Sometimes while lying awake at 0300, I recall that Bill Burr took an English class taught by David Foster Wallace at Emerson
November 20, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Sometimes while lying awake at 0300, I recall that Bill Burr took an English class taught by David Foster Wallace at Emerson