Gripe Soda 🍇
LightNews LightNews
banner
gripesoda.bsky.social
Gripe Soda 🍇
@gripesoda.bsky.social
130 followers 140 following 320 posts
Archivist. Librarian. Acrobat. Dweeb. Autist. Weekend worrier. Inept gardener. Bad hair + bad skin + bad attitude. Fix your hearts or die.
Posts Replies Media Videos
gripesoda.bsky.social
This is a correct opinion.
A bumper sticker that says, “My other car is a SUSPIRIA.”
November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
They dance on a freakin’ building. How is this a hard sell?
Six dancers from Blue Lapis Light wearing silver clothes, suspended from the side of a tall building with climbing harnesses. They are all facing and looking toward the sky.
September 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
gripesoda.bsky.social
For fuck’s sake.
A still from the WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2026) trailer of someone sticking their finger into the mouth of a whole fish suspended in aspic.
September 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
gripesoda.bsky.social
This is me. This is how I talk.
Slowly, laboriously and with a million little clanking and creaking noises that he had learned to simulate, Marvin turned round to answer the summons. "Come on over here," said Zaphod. "We've got a job for you." Marvin trudged toward them. "I won't enjoy it," he said. "Yes, you will," enthused Zaphod, "there's a whole new life stretching out ahead of you.” "Oh, not another one," groaned Marvin. "Will you shut up and listen!" hissed Za-phod. "This time there's going to be ex-icitement and adventure and really wild things." "Sounds awful," Marvin said.
August 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
I was just telling my boyfriend how I buy the cheap knockoff of this.
A bottle of Trader Joe’s aceto balsamico di Modena.
August 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
YouTube comment by @NicStage on the music video for “It Ain’t Over - Therapy Session”: “My favorite thing about Fever Ray is how it ain’t over and they’re not done.”
July 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
Good turnout at #nokings in Austin today. Here is my favorite sign.
A handwritten protest sign reading, “THE ONLY GOOD I.C.E. IS FROM SONIC!” The Texas State Capitol building from the front. Blue sky. Thousands of protestors spilling out the front gates and onto Congress Avenue.
June 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
gripesoda.bsky.social
There are foot-deep drifts of hail. It looks like it snowed.
A yard full of nickel-sized hailstones and busted-up leaves.
May 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
gripesoda.bsky.social
I grew up in Oklahoma. I’ve seen dozens of tornadoes. I’ve never been so scared during a storm.
May 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
gripesoda.bsky.social
I am 170 pages into Charlotte Brontë’s SHIRLEY. There is no one in the book named Shirley. No one has even mentioned a Shirley, and I still have no idea who or what Shirley is. (There are five million pages left, so Shirley she’ll show up at some point.)
A mock Penguin Classics book cover for Charlotte Brontë’s novel SHIRLEY. The picture on the cover is of Leslie Neilsen from the movie AIRPLANE! I stole this image from @laking86.bsky.social.
April 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
gripesoda.bsky.social
Amused that this is the poster that scared the absolute effing bejeezus out of me as a child.

(I am told this image is @gucky.bsky.social’s dad’s doing.)
Movie title: Monkey Shines. Tagline: An Experiment in Fear. The poster is a black background with a demonic-looking monkey doll holding cymbals and staring wide-eyed at the viewer. His teeth are exposed in a dead-eyed smile. He does look scary. But also he is clearly a doll.
April 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
gripesoda.bsky.social
😎
A Letterboxd screen of a user who has logged 2814 movies. There are virtually no movies rated .5, 1, 1.5, 2, or 2.5 stars. There are some 3s, more 3.5s, a LOT of 4S, with some tastefully given-out 4.5s and 5s.
March 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
gripesoda.bsky.social
"Before we assume our respective roles in this enduring drama, just let me say that when these frail shadows we inhabit now have quit the stage, we'll meet and raise a glass again together in Valhalla."
Judge Clinton Sternwood from the TV show Twin Peaks. He is a tall man with grey hair, wearing a western shirt and western blazer with an old-fashioned ribbon tie. He is sitting in a wood-paneled room in front of a chalkboard with a hand-drawn map of the town of Twin Peaks. He has a serious look on his face. He’s very cool.
January 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
I know it just looks like a cookie but it is so good, I swearrrrr. It’s like a sticky toffee pudding disc.
December 8, 2024 at 11:15 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
I easily took care of the last six-pound box of beans but now there are six more pounds of beans.
An open cardboard box with the quote, “Beans are a roof over your stomach,” by John Steinbeck written on one flap. Inside the box is a Rancho Gordo paper newsletter with recipes and seven clear one-pound bags with Rancho Gordo labels. The bags contain black beans, white beans, red beans, extra large red and white beans, black-eyed peas, yellow split peas, and red popcorn.
November 26, 2024 at 11:44 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
At a hospital for a routine scan. I hope people besides Cat and Jess step the fuck up for the taco soup party.
A signup sheet posted above a black electronic device mounted on a beige wall. There are 20 blank spaces for items (beef, beans, cheese, chips, drinks, etc.) Only Cat and Jess have signed up to bring items (2 each).
November 19, 2024 at 10:21 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
‪As if I spake a spell, I was admitted to the Leguminati shortly after I posted this.‬
September 8, 2024 at 1:56 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
I will keep alternating orange and purple movies until my demands are met.
Screen grab of the last four movies I watched on Letterboxd: I SAW THE TV GLOW (purple and black poster of a person in front of a TV), THE NIGHT COMES FOR US (orange poster of cast), THE LOVELESS (purple and black poster of Willem Dafoe in a black leather biker outfit looking hotter than Hell), and MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (orange poster of cast).
July 11, 2024 at 4:29 AM
gripesoda.bsky.social
It’s 6:38 p.m. and I haven’t been outside all day because of the heat. I always get depressed from being cooped up in the summer, but it’s extra bad this year. I just want to go outside.
Now: 98 degrees. Feels like: 106 degrees.
July 4, 2024 at 11:39 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
Guy next to me on a plane watching DUNE: PART TWO on one phone while using a second phone as a phone.
June 15, 2024 at 10:26 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
I didn’t expect anything in Blood Meridian to ever make me emotional, but:
Blood Meridian, Chapter 23: In the late winter of eighteen seventy-eight he was on the plains of north Texas. He crossed the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River on a morning when skim ice lay along the sandy shore and he rode through a dark dwarf forest of black and twisted mesquite trees. He made his camp that night on a piece of high ground where there was a windbreak formed of a tree felled by lightning. He'd no sooner got his fire to burn than he saw across the prairie in the darkness another fire. Like his it twisted in the wind, like his it warmed one man alone. It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and the stands he'd made against them . . . The ragged sparks blew down the wind. The prairie about them lay silent. Beyond the fire it was cold and the night was clear and the stars were falling. The old hunter pulled his blanket about him. I wonder if there's other worlds like this, he said. Or if this is the only one.
April 4, 2024 at 2:30 AM
gripesoda.bsky.social
I have acquired the bisexual Oreos.
A package of “space dunk” “cosmic creme” Oreo cookies. They have pink and blue filling with pop rocks. The Oreo on the front of the package has a rocket ship printed/baked on it. The Oreo has a sparkle and looks like it is flying through outer space with stars.
February 10, 2024 at 10:46 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
A track listing of the Jane Eyre playlist linked above, with info about which character and what chapter each song refers to. (Purely subjective by me. Happy to share full text upon request.)
February 1, 2024 at 5:38 PM
gripesoda.bsky.social
The problem with this recital is they put me on the poster. I AM THE FUCKING POSTER.
A poster for an aerial show. A giant guitar is the background, and I am the foreground, hanging upside-down in a goddang American flag leotard.
December 15, 2023 at 2:14 AM
gripesoda.bsky.social
Once again, I have a dance recital.
The Dude’s landlord from THE BIG LEBOWSKI. He’s in a skin-tight flesh-colored catsuit wrapped in faux green vines. He’s on a stage in a spotlight, lifting one leg.
December 15, 2023 at 2:05 AM