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Ok…sold! It looks beautiful, and great lineup of writers, and this time of year I need to read fictional terror to distract from the mundane terrors. 🤣
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Ok…sold! It looks beautiful, and great lineup of writers, and this time of year I need to read fictional terror to distract from the mundane terrors. 🤣
We can be nuanced. We can fully support this AND …we can feel very bad for the random person who’s doing a home project and just needs to exchange the pipe for a different size. 🥹🤣🤣
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
We can be nuanced. We can fully support this AND …we can feel very bad for the random person who’s doing a home project and just needs to exchange the pipe for a different size. 🥹🤣🤣
Blame it on the small town. Big Dan and Little Ann were just too progressive for ‘em. 🤣🤣🤣
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Blame it on the small town. Big Dan and Little Ann were just too progressive for ‘em. 🤣🤣🤣
Hello fellow ozarkian! We did read Where the Red Fern Grows! And I’ve never read Across Five Aprils. Curious if you’re in a different gen or smaller/bigger town than me, but I won’t make you out your location or tier of decrepitude 🤣 (41, Springfield here)
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Hello fellow ozarkian! We did read Where the Red Fern Grows! And I’ve never read Across Five Aprils. Curious if you’re in a different gen or smaller/bigger town than me, but I won’t make you out your location or tier of decrepitude 🤣 (41, Springfield here)
The store owner is a hero. It was really brave to stand up to them. Many of us would be inwardly hating them but too afraid to refuse service.
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The store owner is a hero. It was really brave to stand up to them. Many of us would be inwardly hating them but too afraid to refuse service.
Samin Nosrat skitters across the ceiling, Mary Berry’s dismembered head spins, spewing borscht. Are we close, Jordan? Tell us if we’re close!
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Samin Nosrat skitters across the ceiling, Mary Berry’s dismembered head spins, spewing borscht. Are we close, Jordan? Tell us if we’re close!
I’m pretty sure in 1956 the average salary was about $900 and a donkey, and grocery stores paid YOU to take a gallon of milk, so just churn out a couple of short stories for Boys Life and call it good (you know, in this hypothetical time traveling story in which Lee’s friends pay you instead of her)
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I’m pretty sure in 1956 the average salary was about $900 and a donkey, and grocery stores paid YOU to take a gallon of milk, so just churn out a couple of short stories for Boys Life and call it good (you know, in this hypothetical time traveling story in which Lee’s friends pay you instead of her)
Hermit Crab In Human Suit 2028!!!
November 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Hermit Crab In Human Suit 2028!!!
Steamed hams but it’s Hegseth as Skinner and instead of dinner burning in the oven it’s democracy.
March 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Steamed hams but it’s Hegseth as Skinner and instead of dinner burning in the oven it’s democracy.
NAILED that final “f*ck”!!!
March 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
NAILED that final “f*ck”!!!
That’s beautiful!
March 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
That’s beautiful!
Yeah! Something about kid lit. The dreamy, surreal illustrations of David McPhail in The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon, for example. It’s like somehow those images have been more influential to me than whole loads of English major canon stuff (though that, too, of course).
March 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Yeah! Something about kid lit. The dreamy, surreal illustrations of David McPhail in The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon, for example. It’s like somehow those images have been more influential to me than whole loads of English major canon stuff (though that, too, of course).
Tove Jansson
Maurice Sendak
Edward Gorey
George Saunders
Kelly Link 😌
All of the writers other people mentioned are also ones I love (Octavia Butler too) but if I’m being honest, my aesthetic is 3/5 weird children’s lit, 2/5 you and George. You have a middle aged acolyte in MO. NO PRESSURE
Maurice Sendak
Edward Gorey
George Saunders
Kelly Link 😌
All of the writers other people mentioned are also ones I love (Octavia Butler too) but if I’m being honest, my aesthetic is 3/5 weird children’s lit, 2/5 you and George. You have a middle aged acolyte in MO. NO PRESSURE
March 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Tove Jansson
Maurice Sendak
Edward Gorey
George Saunders
Kelly Link 😌
All of the writers other people mentioned are also ones I love (Octavia Butler too) but if I’m being honest, my aesthetic is 3/5 weird children’s lit, 2/5 you and George. You have a middle aged acolyte in MO. NO PRESSURE
Maurice Sendak
Edward Gorey
George Saunders
Kelly Link 😌
All of the writers other people mentioned are also ones I love (Octavia Butler too) but if I’m being honest, my aesthetic is 3/5 weird children’s lit, 2/5 you and George. You have a middle aged acolyte in MO. NO PRESSURE
I feel bad for some people driving Teslas (not the cybertruck…they knew what they were doing). Some people have to have just been swept up in the initial intrigue. And now they own this car they probably can’t get rid of. Someone should make a bumper sticker so Tesla owners can denounce Nazism.
March 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I feel bad for some people driving Teslas (not the cybertruck…they knew what they were doing). Some people have to have just been swept up in the initial intrigue. And now they own this car they probably can’t get rid of. Someone should make a bumper sticker so Tesla owners can denounce Nazism.
So f***ing awful to watch. I feel helpless as he inverts every one of our country’s values (well, supposed values).
March 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
So f***ing awful to watch. I feel helpless as he inverts every one of our country’s values (well, supposed values).
Oh the memoirs that child will write in 30 years!
March 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Oh the memoirs that child will write in 30 years!
THIS was their takeaway? 🤦♀️ Goddess help us.
March 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
THIS was their takeaway? 🤦♀️ Goddess help us.