Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever

Another nice interview by the AP's Mark Kennedy with me, @jdryznar.bsky.social and @gprice11.bsky.social about YACHT ROCK: A DOCKUMENTARY, premiering tonight on HBO at 9 pm Eastern and available for streaming afterwards
apnews.com/article/yach...

Continuing my post-election-day healing process by providing a staycation for a dog I fostered earlier this year. I’m anticipating joyful chaos and I can’t wait!

I set up this account in July 2023. I had a feeling we’d all meet back here. Hello, again.

oh is it monday

This hits me. I'm eternally grateful my parents never forbade me reading anything. If they thought it was inappropriate, they'd say "I'd rather you waited..." but they never said no.

Using an image, show a movie you are sure you have watched more than ten times.

How very.

In case folx in here are on the Instagram, I'm doing an IG Live with author Kim Johnson on 8/30 at 6pm ET! My handle is jbakernyc on the Gram. We'll be talking #criminaljustice, #writing for Young Readers, and #publishing in these wacky times.

Did you say it’s National Dog Day?
Thanks to Trigger and every other doggo for making our lives better. 🐾❤️🐾

I'd just like to point out that @marthabee.bsky.social published UNPRESIDENTED: A BIOGRAPHY OF DONALD TRUMP in 2018, and that cover is looking mighty prescient right about now. (Also, if you want well-researched context for his history of crimes, it's a necessary read)

A movie that wears liberal feminism on its sleeve made a billion dollars and a musician who does same is a Beatles-level phenomenon, anyway here’s why people who think Amelia Bedelia is too sexual for school libraries speak for the mainstream of America

There are a lot of us.

Here goes:
introducing myself with:
📖One book: A Wrinkle in Time
🎶One album: Lyle Lovett’s Step Inside this House
🎥One movie: A Room with a View
📺 One show: Deadwood