@keenanvil.bsky.social
Oh, yes, those noted rebels Slotkin, Kelly and Goodlander. 🙄
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Oh, yes, those noted rebels Slotkin, Kelly and Goodlander. 🙄
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
RIP, B (Bruce)
RIP, B (Bruce)
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
RIP, B (Bruce)
RIP, B (Bruce)
All signs point to yes.
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
All signs point to yes.
If you said, “pick out the one weirdo in the House who voted against releasing the Epstein files,” I’d probably pick this guy.
I’d be right.
I’d be right.
November 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If you said, “pick out the one weirdo in the House who voted against releasing the Epstein files,” I’d probably pick this guy.
I’d be right.
I’d be right.
Didn’t he tell us that himself?
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Didn’t he tell us that himself?
Look what came in the post today. New @dessadarling.bsky.social makes for a great start to the weekend. You should listen, too. lnk.to/ToughCallCam...
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Look what came in the post today. New @dessadarling.bsky.social makes for a great start to the weekend. You should listen, too. lnk.to/ToughCallCam...
Patton Oswalt’s #ghostbox2025 for Hingston & Olsen ends with Bok’s “The Extremophiles” - the natural world can be just as strange as the supernatural.
An unkillable organism deserves a drink to match - a Zombie cocktail in a Cthulhu mug with extreme garnishment was my best attempt. Happy Halloween!
An unkillable organism deserves a drink to match - a Zombie cocktail in a Cthulhu mug with extreme garnishment was my best attempt. Happy Halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Patton Oswalt’s #ghostbox2025 for Hingston & Olsen ends with Bok’s “The Extremophiles” - the natural world can be just as strange as the supernatural.
An unkillable organism deserves a drink to match - a Zombie cocktail in a Cthulhu mug with extreme garnishment was my best attempt. Happy Halloween!
An unkillable organism deserves a drink to match - a Zombie cocktail in a Cthulhu mug with extreme garnishment was my best attempt. Happy Halloween!
The penulimate tale chosen by Patton Oswalt for #ghostbox2025 is the classic “Unseen - Unfeared” from the originator of weird, dark fantasy herself, Gertrude Barrows Bennett. Love it!
Ander’s Erickson’s new Black Lantern is also a weird, dark fantasy - mohawk and all. Happy Devil’s Night everyone.
Ander’s Erickson’s new Black Lantern is also a weird, dark fantasy - mohawk and all. Happy Devil’s Night everyone.
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The penulimate tale chosen by Patton Oswalt for #ghostbox2025 is the classic “Unseen - Unfeared” from the originator of weird, dark fantasy herself, Gertrude Barrows Bennett. Love it!
Ander’s Erickson’s new Black Lantern is also a weird, dark fantasy - mohawk and all. Happy Devil’s Night everyone.
Ander’s Erickson’s new Black Lantern is also a weird, dark fantasy - mohawk and all. Happy Devil’s Night everyone.
Story 9 in Patton Oswalt’s #ghostbox2025 is Gahan Wilson’s “The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be,” a darkly ironic, horror-tinged retelling of Carroll’s classic poem. The critique certainly could be applied to our current oligarchical nightmare
A Black Pearl Diver in rememberance of all the oysters lost
A Black Pearl Diver in rememberance of all the oysters lost
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Story 9 in Patton Oswalt’s #ghostbox2025 is Gahan Wilson’s “The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be,” a darkly ironic, horror-tinged retelling of Carroll’s classic poem. The critique certainly could be applied to our current oligarchical nightmare
A Black Pearl Diver in rememberance of all the oysters lost
A Black Pearl Diver in rememberance of all the oysters lost
Edith Wharton’s “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” is everything a gothic Victorian ghost story should be, showing the living are scarier than the dead. Nice inclusion for #ghostbox2025, Mr. Oswalt!
With the longer story, I chose Jeremy Oertel’s Haunted House to start and the classic White Lady to finish up
With the longer story, I chose Jeremy Oertel’s Haunted House to start and the classic White Lady to finish up
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Edith Wharton’s “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” is everything a gothic Victorian ghost story should be, showing the living are scarier than the dead. Nice inclusion for #ghostbox2025, Mr. Oswalt!
With the longer story, I chose Jeremy Oertel’s Haunted House to start and the classic White Lady to finish up
With the longer story, I chose Jeremy Oertel’s Haunted House to start and the classic White Lady to finish up
“Every story is a ghost story.”’
So says Sonia in “Don’t Go into the Woods Alone” by @gabino.bsky.social, a tale of intergenerational trauma that serves as story #7 in Patton Oswalt’s collection of frights for #ghostbox2025.
I decided on Jason Alexander’s Doomsayer’s Grog to guide me through.
So says Sonia in “Don’t Go into the Woods Alone” by @gabino.bsky.social, a tale of intergenerational trauma that serves as story #7 in Patton Oswalt’s collection of frights for #ghostbox2025.
I decided on Jason Alexander’s Doomsayer’s Grog to guide me through.
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“Every story is a ghost story.”’
So says Sonia in “Don’t Go into the Woods Alone” by @gabino.bsky.social, a tale of intergenerational trauma that serves as story #7 in Patton Oswalt’s collection of frights for #ghostbox2025.
I decided on Jason Alexander’s Doomsayer’s Grog to guide me through.
So says Sonia in “Don’t Go into the Woods Alone” by @gabino.bsky.social, a tale of intergenerational trauma that serves as story #7 in Patton Oswalt’s collection of frights for #ghostbox2025.
I decided on Jason Alexander’s Doomsayer’s Grog to guide me through.
Contagion as creation? Creation as contagion? Who’s to say? I enjoyed “Brief Scenes from a Noxious Nativity” by Michael Shea, story 6 from Patton Oswalt’s #GhostBox2025, but I did go wash my hands.
A spooky mai tai with a dark rum float and fiery overproof rum garnish seemed fitting…and tasty.
A spooky mai tai with a dark rum float and fiery overproof rum garnish seemed fitting…and tasty.
October 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Contagion as creation? Creation as contagion? Who’s to say? I enjoyed “Brief Scenes from a Noxious Nativity” by Michael Shea, story 6 from Patton Oswalt’s #GhostBox2025, but I did go wash my hands.
A spooky mai tai with a dark rum float and fiery overproof rum garnish seemed fitting…and tasty.
A spooky mai tai with a dark rum float and fiery overproof rum garnish seemed fitting…and tasty.
Story 5 from @pattonoswalt.bsky.social’s
#Ghostbox2025 is Lord Dunsany’s “The Three Infernal Jokes.”
I drink a prohibition-era Satan’s Whiskers (the curly version with dry curacao) and contemplate Mr. Watkyns-Jones, the trade of his “surpassing virtue” and his “bowed and broken” fate.
#Ghostbox2025 is Lord Dunsany’s “The Three Infernal Jokes.”
I drink a prohibition-era Satan’s Whiskers (the curly version with dry curacao) and contemplate Mr. Watkyns-Jones, the trade of his “surpassing virtue” and his “bowed and broken” fate.
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Story 5 from @pattonoswalt.bsky.social’s
#Ghostbox2025 is Lord Dunsany’s “The Three Infernal Jokes.”
I drink a prohibition-era Satan’s Whiskers (the curly version with dry curacao) and contemplate Mr. Watkyns-Jones, the trade of his “surpassing virtue” and his “bowed and broken” fate.
#Ghostbox2025 is Lord Dunsany’s “The Three Infernal Jokes.”
I drink a prohibition-era Satan’s Whiskers (the curly version with dry curacao) and contemplate Mr. Watkyns-Jones, the trade of his “surpassing virtue” and his “bowed and broken” fate.
Time seems to be up in “Flicker” by @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app, the next Ghost Box IV story selected by @pattonoswalt.bsky.social.
Given the current state of things, it might not be so bad if the simulation ended. I’ll be having the similarly-monikered Wibble cocktail should the lights go out.
Given the current state of things, it might not be so bad if the simulation ended. I’ll be having the similarly-monikered Wibble cocktail should the lights go out.
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Time seems to be up in “Flicker” by @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app, the next Ghost Box IV story selected by @pattonoswalt.bsky.social.
Given the current state of things, it might not be so bad if the simulation ended. I’ll be having the similarly-monikered Wibble cocktail should the lights go out.
Given the current state of things, it might not be so bad if the simulation ended. I’ll be having the similarly-monikered Wibble cocktail should the lights go out.
Because it was a short one, I followed “Eliminate Toxins and Increase Blood Flow” with Cowling’s outsider tale “Odam on Till,” which was included in H&O’s 2022 Short Story Advent Calendar.
October 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Because it was a short one, I followed “Eliminate Toxins and Increase Blood Flow” with Cowling’s outsider tale “Odam on Till,” which was included in H&O’s 2022 Short Story Advent Calendar.
On night 3 of H&O’s Ghost Box IV, Mr. Oswalt selected a story from @rubycowling.bsky.social that’s pulpy in more ways than one. The Corpse Reviver #2 cocktail was a perfect partner for “Eliminate Toxins and Increase Blood Flow,” though I don’t think it’ll help the lecherous, blubberous Mr. Smeed.
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
On night 3 of H&O’s Ghost Box IV, Mr. Oswalt selected a story from @rubycowling.bsky.social that’s pulpy in more ways than one. The Corpse Reviver #2 cocktail was a perfect partner for “Eliminate Toxins and Increase Blood Flow,” though I don’t think it’ll help the lecherous, blubberous Mr. Smeed.
Story 2 of H&O’s and @pattonoswalt.bsky.social’s Ghost Box IV is @mathildazeller.bsky.social’s Kushtuka, a story in which supernatural horror is matched by very real colonial violence. The quotidian monster is more horrifying. Brilliant storytelling. A biting Blood Moon cocktail was a good pairing.
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Story 2 of H&O’s and @pattonoswalt.bsky.social’s Ghost Box IV is @mathildazeller.bsky.social’s Kushtuka, a story in which supernatural horror is matched by very real colonial violence. The quotidian monster is more horrifying. Brilliant storytelling. A biting Blood Moon cocktail was a good pairing.
10/21 is the first of 11 spooky stories from Hingston & Olsen’s Ghost Box IV as edited by @pattonoswalt.bsky.social. I saw Bill Pullman’s episode of Night Visions that adapted Leman’s “Window” many moons ago. The story is better. Paired with the Shrunken Skull, evoking the remains of poor Reeves.
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
10/21 is the first of 11 spooky stories from Hingston & Olsen’s Ghost Box IV as edited by @pattonoswalt.bsky.social. I saw Bill Pullman’s episode of Night Visions that adapted Leman’s “Window” many moons ago. The story is better. Paired with the Shrunken Skull, evoking the remains of poor Reeves.
Day 24: The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing -Thomas Hardy
A fun final story from the humanist poet and novelist
He wrote in Christmas 1924:
'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it,
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass
We've got as far as poison-gas.
#ssac2024
A fun final story from the humanist poet and novelist
He wrote in Christmas 1924:
'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it,
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass
We've got as far as poison-gas.
#ssac2024
December 25, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Day 24: The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing -Thomas Hardy
A fun final story from the humanist poet and novelist
He wrote in Christmas 1924:
'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it,
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass
We've got as far as poison-gas.
#ssac2024
A fun final story from the humanist poet and novelist
He wrote in Christmas 1924:
'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it,
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass
We've got as far as poison-gas.
#ssac2024
Day 23: Anaheim by Jennifer Croft
“The year came to an end as it always did, a deafening train blowing your hat off as it sped past your station…He was forty-two, and he felt like everything that was going to happen in his life had happened now, and the rest would just be waiting.”
Oof…
#ssac2024
“The year came to an end as it always did, a deafening train blowing your hat off as it sped past your station…He was forty-two, and he felt like everything that was going to happen in his life had happened now, and the rest would just be waiting.”
Oof…
#ssac2024
December 24, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Day 23: Anaheim by Jennifer Croft
“The year came to an end as it always did, a deafening train blowing your hat off as it sped past your station…He was forty-two, and he felt like everything that was going to happen in his life had happened now, and the rest would just be waiting.”
Oof…
#ssac2024
“The year came to an end as it always did, a deafening train blowing your hat off as it sped past your station…He was forty-two, and he felt like everything that was going to happen in his life had happened now, and the rest would just be waiting.”
Oof…
#ssac2024
