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Mike Phillips
@phikemillips.bsky.social
From Beyond Press EIC, shitposter, reader, music listener, writer, in approximately that order. Human sized piñata stuffed with cheese and anxiety. he/him
I took myself to the opera.
March 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
First time eating Somali food. It was excellent.
February 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I took myself to the symphony for Valentine's Day.
February 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I bought a box of around a hundred 45s. Almost all songs I've never heard before. Every night, I sit in my comfy chair in the basement and listen to a handful while sipping whiskey. I swear it's the only thing holding me together lately.
February 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
My kid is playing in an outdoor hockey tournament. I am very cold.
January 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Rare photo of all three mammalian pets on the same bed.
January 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Happy birthday to me.
January 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I'm really enjoying this despite the previous owner's use of pen and two different highlighters to belabor every single point.
January 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
There once was a man from
January 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Minor league hockey! Maine Mariners vs. the Trois-Rivieres Lions.
December 31, 2024 at 6:21 PM
My 12 favorite reads of 2024. (1/2)

Theognis, Elegies (6th century BCE)
Olaf Stapledon, Odd John (1935)
David Goodis, Shoot the Piano Player (1956)
Kathleen Sully, Skrine (1960)
Charlotte Armstrong, The Protege (1970)
Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood (1979)
December 30, 2024 at 3:39 PM
My family gets me.
December 25, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Stripey agrees that this is better than Raymond Chandler, better than Dashiell Hammett. Better than most things.
December 19, 2024 at 6:46 PM
I'm sorry that project is late. I'm trapped here for the foreseeable future.
December 13, 2024 at 6:16 PM
On sick days we read absurdist Egyptian drama.
December 11, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Mmmmmm Elmore Leonard.
December 8, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Seems legit.
December 5, 2024 at 1:15 PM
It's 1991. We're in the van coming back from a debate meet. The theater girls are playing Phantom again. Against my will, I'm starting to like it.
December 4, 2024 at 12:45 AM
November 30, 2024 at 2:57 PM
You want to hook me right away? Tell me your book is a found manuscript.
November 27, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Youth hockey practice is where we read incredibly weird and funny classic fantasy/horror novels.
November 27, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Finally going in. It's astounding from page 1.
November 25, 2024 at 2:35 PM
November 24, 2024 at 4:53 AM
When you're mean to me, this is who you're being mean to
November 23, 2024 at 9:10 PM
November 22, 2024 at 6:45 PM