Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
"This heaven gives me migraine."
Old enough to know better at the ends of the earth (New Zealand). I am large and contain multitudes, all of them intensely irritating. (Same-sex) married. Catholic. Conservative-ish. Cis-male. Jane Austen cultist.
Old enough to know better at the ends of the earth (New Zealand). I am large and contain multitudes, all of them intensely irritating. (Same-sex) married. Catholic. Conservative-ish. Cis-male. Jane Austen cultist.
THIS is what happens when you kinda watch THE PERIPHERAL and don't quite understand that is a dystopian hell scape infested with toxic tech oligarchs.
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
THIS is what happens when you kinda watch THE PERIPHERAL and don't quite understand that is a dystopian hell scape infested with toxic tech oligarchs.
Chain smoking optional?
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Chain smoking optional?
It's all fun and games until you're kept awake all night by Britt Ekland's bum double getting freaky with the party wall, then awake to an enigmatic but curiously insistent invitation to the local knock-off of Burning Man.
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
It's all fun and games until you're kept awake all night by Britt Ekland's bum double getting freaky with the party wall, then awake to an enigmatic but curiously insistent invitation to the local knock-off of Burning Man.
"Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians."
Belated happy birthday to political philosopher HANNAH ARENDT, born on this yesterday (October 14) in 1906
Belated happy birthday to political philosopher HANNAH ARENDT, born on this yesterday (October 14) in 1906
October 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians."
Belated happy birthday to political philosopher HANNAH ARENDT, born on this yesterday (October 14) in 1906
Belated happy birthday to political philosopher HANNAH ARENDT, born on this yesterday (October 14) in 1906
Fair point - Practical politics being what it is, you can find yourself getting both credit and blame for things that had nowt to do with you and not a word of thanks for the things you busted your hump not to screw up. You want fair, go to the salon and get a blonde dye job!
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Fair point - Practical politics being what it is, you can find yourself getting both credit and blame for things that had nowt to do with you and not a word of thanks for the things you busted your hump not to screw up. You want fair, go to the salon and get a blonde dye job!
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
October 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Because libraries are magic (and a little bit spooky), guess what I'm #CurrentlyReading on Elmore Leonard's centennial? Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard (C. M. Kushins)
It really did just end up top of the library book pile this morning!
#BookSky #pukapuka
It really did just end up top of the library book pile this morning!
#BookSky #pukapuka
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Because libraries are magic (and a little bit spooky), guess what I'm #CurrentlyReading on Elmore Leonard's centennial? Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard (C. M. Kushins)
It really did just end up top of the library book pile this morning!
#BookSky #pukapuka
It really did just end up top of the library book pile this morning!
#BookSky #pukapuka
Found secret imagines of the girlfriends and the founder of ANTIFA (New Zealand Cell)
[Warning: This post contains a gag that will be utterly inscrutable to anyone who isn't a New Zealander who watched a lot of television in the early to mid-1980s.)
[Warning: This post contains a gag that will be utterly inscrutable to anyone who isn't a New Zealander who watched a lot of television in the early to mid-1980s.)
October 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Found secret imagines of the girlfriends and the founder of ANTIFA (New Zealand Cell)
[Warning: This post contains a gag that will be utterly inscrutable to anyone who isn't a New Zealander who watched a lot of television in the early to mid-1980s.)
[Warning: This post contains a gag that will be utterly inscrutable to anyone who isn't a New Zealander who watched a lot of television in the early to mid-1980s.)
“girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
October 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
If you're inclined to be snotty about "media tie-in" books, I do hope you're not of the bookishly middlbrow vintage where every well-dressed bookshelf had at least one volume of John Mortimer's Rumpole stories - all made over from his scripts for the TV drama Rumpole of the Bailey. #BookSky
September 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If you're inclined to be snotty about "media tie-in" books, I do hope you're not of the bookishly middlbrow vintage where every well-dressed bookshelf had at least one volume of John Mortimer's Rumpole stories - all made over from his scripts for the TV drama Rumpole of the Bailey. #BookSky
Wonder how long its going to take The Guardian to have to retract another fairy tale about magic bullets engraved with mystic runes in the Mines of Antifa?
September 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Wonder how long its going to take The Guardian to have to retract another fairy tale about magic bullets engraved with mystic runes in the Mines of Antifa?
BTW, if this has stimulated a craving for the more bizarro shores of noir pulp may I warmly recomment William Hjortsberg's FALLING ANGEL. Which also has a stylish but utterly nonsensical and loose as perished knicker elastic film adaptation...
September 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
BTW, if this has stimulated a craving for the more bizarro shores of noir pulp may I warmly recomment William Hjortsberg's FALLING ANGEL. Which also has a stylish but utterly nonsensical and loose as perished knicker elastic film adaptation...
Oooh! My turn - does Donald Trump 'know these people'? Are they from his wonderfully managed ancestral homeland of Germany?
September 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Oooh! My turn - does Donald Trump 'know these people'? Are they from his wonderfully managed ancestral homeland of Germany?
If radical right-wing trash goblins read books instead of trying to ban them all, they might be familiar with the ending of The Tale of The Little Shepherd Boy Who Cried Wolf. And consider that little Presidents who cry "terrorist" too often might find themselves short of friends when they're needed
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
If radical right-wing trash goblins read books instead of trying to ban them all, they might be familiar with the ending of The Tale of The Little Shepherd Boy Who Cried Wolf. And consider that little Presidents who cry "terrorist" too often might find themselves short of friends when they're needed
If you're not a British politics/media obsessive, and wondering why the hell Boris Johnson is attention-thirsty hot taking on a death thousands of miles from the UK his desperation to distract from this may explain everything
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
September 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
If you're not a British politics/media obsessive, and wondering why the hell Boris Johnson is attention-thirsty hot taking on a death thousands of miles from the UK his desperation to distract from this may explain everything
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#CurrentlyReading (and disturbingly cheered by, the world being what it is) THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: NEW TALES OF STEPHEN KING'S THE STAND (ed. Christopher Golden & Brian Keene). Only 3/34 stories in, and no B-grade fan-fic so far. #BookSky
September 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
#CurrentlyReading (and disturbingly cheered by, the world being what it is) THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: NEW TALES OF STEPHEN KING'S THE STAND (ed. Christopher Golden & Brian Keene). Only 3/34 stories in, and no B-grade fan-fic so far. #BookSky
I don't want to make @foxylustygrover.bsky.social jealous (such a liar...), but guess what's waiting for me at the library? #BookSky
September 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I don't want to make @foxylustygrover.bsky.social jealous (such a liar...), but guess what's waiting for me at the library? #BookSky
Does anyone else want to get a nice hefty hardcover of Kay Thompson's Eloise books and smack some sense upside Chris Bishop's empty little head?
September 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Does anyone else want to get a nice hefty hardcover of Kay Thompson's Eloise books and smack some sense upside Chris Bishop's empty little head?
Sure. OK. Whatever.
I'd like Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling and Paul Mescal to take turns sitting on my face. That ain't going to happen either. And it isn't newsworthy.
I'd like Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling and Paul Mescal to take turns sitting on my face. That ain't going to happen either. And it isn't newsworthy.
August 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Sure. OK. Whatever.
I'd like Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling and Paul Mescal to take turns sitting on my face. That ain't going to happen either. And it isn't newsworthy.
I'd like Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling and Paul Mescal to take turns sitting on my face. That ain't going to happen either. And it isn't newsworthy.
Co-signing this. My treasured charity shop find copy of Diane Duane's unforgivably long out of print (AFAIK) SPOCK'S WORLD is dog-eared, turning brown and brittle, held together with rubber bands... Sure, it canonically unsound but so what? Still fantastic! #BookSky #StarTrek
August 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I won't begrudge anyone a living in this toxic waste dump of an economy, but every time I see a bookseller offering "books by the foot" to interior decorators and stylists something in me dies a little.
August 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I won't begrudge anyone a living in this toxic waste dump of an economy, but every time I see a bookseller offering "books by the foot" to interior decorators and stylists something in me dies a little.
It's been far too long since we spent a fantastic week in Vancouver, but MacLeod's Books on West Pender St. was (and I hope still is) exactly that kind of book-store. Not for the claustrophobic or dust sensitive. :)
August 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
It's been far too long since we spent a fantastic week in Vancouver, but MacLeod's Books on West Pender St. was (and I hope still is) exactly that kind of book-store. Not for the claustrophobic or dust sensitive. :)