Benjamin Russell
@benrussell.bsky.social
Librarian. Putting New Hampshire back into aNHedonia. Podcasts at FarcedPerspective.com
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Benjamin Russell
@benrussell.bsky.social
· Jun 26
Just a reminder that all panthers are leopards. Which means all goths are secretly wearing leopard print at all times.
If you see this, post a spider man.
December 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If you see this, post a spider man.
My Taskmaster Contestants I’ve Seen Live standings:
s1 = 0
s2 = 0
s3 = 0
s4 = 1
s5 = 1
s6 = 1
s7 = 1
s8 = 0
s9 = 0
s10= 0
s11 = 0
s12 = 1
s13 = 0
s14 = 3
s15 = 0 (But will be 1 in Apr.)
s16 = 0
s17 = 0
s18 = 1
s19 = 1
s20 = 0
10 out of 100 contestants. Not bad for an American.
s1 = 0
s2 = 0
s3 = 0
s4 = 1
s5 = 1
s6 = 1
s7 = 1
s8 = 0
s9 = 0
s10= 0
s11 = 0
s12 = 1
s13 = 0
s14 = 3
s15 = 0 (But will be 1 in Apr.)
s16 = 0
s17 = 0
s18 = 1
s19 = 1
s20 = 0
10 out of 100 contestants. Not bad for an American.
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
My Taskmaster Contestants I’ve Seen Live standings:
s1 = 0
s2 = 0
s3 = 0
s4 = 1
s5 = 1
s6 = 1
s7 = 1
s8 = 0
s9 = 0
s10= 0
s11 = 0
s12 = 1
s13 = 0
s14 = 3
s15 = 0 (But will be 1 in Apr.)
s16 = 0
s17 = 0
s18 = 1
s19 = 1
s20 = 0
10 out of 100 contestants. Not bad for an American.
s1 = 0
s2 = 0
s3 = 0
s4 = 1
s5 = 1
s6 = 1
s7 = 1
s8 = 0
s9 = 0
s10= 0
s11 = 0
s12 = 1
s13 = 0
s14 = 3
s15 = 0 (But will be 1 in Apr.)
s16 = 0
s17 = 0
s18 = 1
s19 = 1
s20 = 0
10 out of 100 contestants. Not bad for an American.
Quote with your favorite film and album from the year you were born.
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Quote with your favorite film and album from the year you were born.
All y’all could have gotten me to watch The Residence much sooner if you’d told me the creators referenced Charade in it.
I mean, sure, it’s just a remix of the Mancini soundtrack, and it’s in episode seven, but it’s still an homage to one of The Greats, and one must respect a showing of respect.
I mean, sure, it’s just a remix of the Mancini soundtrack, and it’s in episode seven, but it’s still an homage to one of The Greats, and one must respect a showing of respect.
November 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
All y’all could have gotten me to watch The Residence much sooner if you’d told me the creators referenced Charade in it.
I mean, sure, it’s just a remix of the Mancini soundtrack, and it’s in episode seven, but it’s still an homage to one of The Greats, and one must respect a showing of respect.
I mean, sure, it’s just a remix of the Mancini soundtrack, and it’s in episode seven, but it’s still an homage to one of The Greats, and one must respect a showing of respect.
Alan Alda and Michael Caine should slap an injunction on Jane to make sure no one interviews her about any fond recollections of making California Suite. Or they could try it and see what happens to Bill Cosby.
October 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Alan Alda and Michael Caine should slap an injunction on Jane to make sure no one interviews her about any fond recollections of making California Suite. Or they could try it and see what happens to Bill Cosby.
This stayed with me, not because it’s a useful quote, but because it combined a pretty great comic escalation with the spirit of how my family played backyard badminton: steadfastly refusing to admit when the shuttlecock was way, way out of bounds.
October 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This stayed with me, not because it’s a useful quote, but because it combined a pretty great comic escalation with the spirit of how my family played backyard badminton: steadfastly refusing to admit when the shuttlecock was way, way out of bounds.
Ohmigoodness, only an hour left of Wallace Shawn Wednesday!
August 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Ohmigoodness, only an hour left of Wallace Shawn Wednesday!
After having read an umpteenth article about how great Krypto is in Superman because he’s both a good boy AND a little stinker and that dogs aren’t portrayed enough in movies as precious little jerks, I was finally moved to remind everyone that Streaky the Supercat is already best at doing all that.
July 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
After having read an umpteenth article about how great Krypto is in Superman because he’s both a good boy AND a little stinker and that dogs aren’t portrayed enough in movies as precious little jerks, I was finally moved to remind everyone that Streaky the Supercat is already best at doing all that.
We definitely had this in the communal pile of family comics. I can’t swear it was purchased in April 1978, but it was certainly beaten up enough that it could have been when we filed it alongside Adventures of Superman #432 and 433 in a gifted comp box of all of DC’s output from Sept/Oct of 1987.
July 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
We definitely had this in the communal pile of family comics. I can’t swear it was purchased in April 1978, but it was certainly beaten up enough that it could have been when we filed it alongside Adventures of Superman #432 and 433 in a gifted comp box of all of DC’s output from Sept/Oct of 1987.
I listened to Mal Blum introduce Springsteen as the musical avatar for being trans before singing “Dancing in the Dark”, and the simple truth of it has stayed with me. I hope this story and the Boss’ music continue to help other people, other eggs, as much as a shared musical cri de coeur ever can.
In an exclusive edited extract from Niko Stratis’s new book The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, the award-winning Canadian writer explores trans identity, the music of the American heartlands and how the Boss changed her life for good
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July 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I listened to Mal Blum introduce Springsteen as the musical avatar for being trans before singing “Dancing in the Dark”, and the simple truth of it has stayed with me. I hope this story and the Boss’ music continue to help other people, other eggs, as much as a shared musical cri de coeur ever can.
Happy July 4th to the US drop of the final episode of s̶e̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ — ahem! — season 19 of Taskmaster featuring the first American contestant. A well-deserved 1776 likes to the “original colonizer”. Hashtag Blinkered Jingoism, baybeeee!
July 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Happy July 4th to the US drop of the final episode of s̶e̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ — ahem! — season 19 of Taskmaster featuring the first American contestant. A well-deserved 1776 likes to the “original colonizer”. Hashtag Blinkered Jingoism, baybeeee!
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See you tonight at MYNOCKS FROM SPACE: A Live Staged Reading of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!
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Livestream tickets still available: swliveread.com
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May 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
See you tonight at MYNOCKS FROM SPACE: A Live Staged Reading of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!
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Livestream tickets still available: swliveread.com
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@jameswaterman.bsky.social @aurekfonts.bsky.social @patrickcotnoir.bsky.social @petetheretailer.bsky.social @alexrobinson.bsky.social
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Livestream tickets still available: swliveread.com
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@jameswaterman.bsky.social @aurekfonts.bsky.social @patrickcotnoir.bsky.social @petetheretailer.bsky.social @alexrobinson.bsky.social
In honor of tonight’s live read of Empire Strikes Back, the wonderful MYNOCKS FROM SPACE, I offer my favorite reinterpretation of Empire: a book created especially for me by the son of my first boss and who loved that I also liked Star Wars. Cam is now… 33? — older than I was when he drew it for me.
May 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In honor of tonight’s live read of Empire Strikes Back, the wonderful MYNOCKS FROM SPACE, I offer my favorite reinterpretation of Empire: a book created especially for me by the son of my first boss and who loved that I also liked Star Wars. Cam is now… 33? — older than I was when he drew it for me.
Seven-inches that play at thirty-three and a third will never cease to confuse me. That said, listening to a chipmunk version of Olivia Rodrigo singing the first thirty seconds of “Stick Season” was pretty entertaining.
May 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Seven-inches that play at thirty-three and a third will never cease to confuse me. That said, listening to a chipmunk version of Olivia Rodrigo singing the first thirty seconds of “Stick Season” was pretty entertaining.
Happy 100th anniversary to Mrs Dalloway, which was published on this day in 1925. Of slightly less renown is the 1992 Penguin edition of the text, which contains the stupidest footnote I’ve even encountered: an explanatory note for something Woolf has the character figure out a mere sentence later.
May 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Happy 100th anniversary to Mrs Dalloway, which was published on this day in 1925. Of slightly less renown is the 1992 Penguin edition of the text, which contains the stupidest footnote I’ve even encountered: an explanatory note for something Woolf has the character figure out a mere sentence later.
Happy Star Wars Day from my college self, who hung this flier on the ride-share board at the end of his first year, with his actual dorm room extension on the flier.
He even changed the outgoing message on his answering machine. I don’t recall what it was, only that it wasn’t, “Hello there.”
He even changed the outgoing message on his answering machine. I don’t recall what it was, only that it wasn’t, “Hello there.”
May 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Happy Star Wars Day from my college self, who hung this flier on the ride-share board at the end of his first year, with his actual dorm room extension on the flier.
He even changed the outgoing message on his answering machine. I don’t recall what it was, only that it wasn’t, “Hello there.”
He even changed the outgoing message on his answering machine. I don’t recall what it was, only that it wasn’t, “Hello there.”
Jill Sobule was a huge part of my journey into 90s indie-folk, in part because she was, by necessity, accessible, leading the way in crowdfunding — before it was a term — to keep her career alive through fan support. She was my first outing after pandemic shutdowns, because she was worth it. #MHMBAB
May 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Jill Sobule was a huge part of my journey into 90s indie-folk, in part because she was, by necessity, accessible, leading the way in crowdfunding — before it was a term — to keep her career alive through fan support. She was my first outing after pandemic shutdowns, because she was worth it. #MHMBAB
April 19th is Irwin Schwab’s birthday, so happy #AmbushBug Day to everyone!
April 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
April 19th is Irwin Schwab’s birthday, so happy #AmbushBug Day to everyone!
At that awkward age where I’m too old to meet and marry a 19 year-old Betty Bacall, but not quite old enough to play the romantic lead opposite a 25 year-old Audrey Hepburn.
March 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
At that awkward age where I’m too old to meet and marry a 19 year-old Betty Bacall, but not quite old enough to play the romantic lead opposite a 25 year-old Audrey Hepburn.
Leaving instructions to have “Felt Cute; Might Delete Later.” carved on my gravestone.
March 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Leaving instructions to have “Felt Cute; Might Delete Later.” carved on my gravestone.
Holeeeee hannah, it finally happened. Thank you, @thebugle.bsky.social, I will [treasure it always/put it on a shelf and have it gather dust]!*
ǝʇɐᴉɹdoɹddɐ sɐ ǝʇǝlǝp *
ǝʇɐᴉɹdoɹddɐ sɐ ǝʇǝlǝp *
March 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Holeeeee hannah, it finally happened. Thank you, @thebugle.bsky.social, I will [treasure it always/put it on a shelf and have it gather dust]!*
ǝʇɐᴉɹdoɹddɐ sɐ ǝʇǝlǝp *
ǝʇɐᴉɹdoɹddɐ sɐ ǝʇǝlǝp *
While it’s not that I don’t appreciate these articles that list where to stream movies in memoriam, it’s just that I tend to be ready to mount my own little film festivals, often with films listed as “unavailable” to stream.
www.vulture.com/article/gene...
That said, search out The Package on MGM+
www.vulture.com/article/gene...
That said, search out The Package on MGM+
March 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
While it’s not that I don’t appreciate these articles that list where to stream movies in memoriam, it’s just that I tend to be ready to mount my own little film festivals, often with films listed as “unavailable” to stream.
www.vulture.com/article/gene...
That said, search out The Package on MGM+
www.vulture.com/article/gene...
That said, search out The Package on MGM+
So many jokes about a sequel to Conclave are built on the premise that such a thing is unwarranted. All of these social media wags are missing the fact that the movie poster prominently tells us this is “Conclave 1”.
February 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
So many jokes about a sequel to Conclave are built on the premise that such a thing is unwarranted. All of these social media wags are missing the fact that the movie poster prominently tells us this is “Conclave 1”.
It was an accident, but I've found that a pretentious college-aged affectation for UK spelling but a dislike of the UK default male Siri voice has kept me from needing to uninstall or deactivate Apple Intelligence with every update.
February 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It was an accident, but I've found that a pretentious college-aged affectation for UK spelling but a dislike of the UK default male Siri voice has kept me from needing to uninstall or deactivate Apple Intelligence with every update.
Really enjoyed Sherry Cola’s appearance on @fter Midnight and went to social media to see what else she’s been in that I might want to check out. This NOB DOY WANTS THIS show looks fun. Thanks, official Netflix Asian representation IG account! Can’t wait to learn what the eponymous Mr/Ms Doy wants!
February 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Really enjoyed Sherry Cola’s appearance on @fter Midnight and went to social media to see what else she’s been in that I might want to check out. This NOB DOY WANTS THIS show looks fun. Thanks, official Netflix Asian representation IG account! Can’t wait to learn what the eponymous Mr/Ms Doy wants!