Robert J Duperre
@robertjduperre.bsky.social
Part-time writer, some-time human, all-time supporter of the arts. He/Him
Hey @theringer.com.web.brid.gy, hows about you update your streaming wars section? Still stuck in 2024 over there!
December 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Hey @theringer.com.web.brid.gy, hows about you update your streaming wars section? Still stuck in 2024 over there!
I wonder if it bothers Tarrantino at all that he's basically a real-life grown-up version of Randal from Clerks?
December 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I wonder if it bothers Tarrantino at all that he's basically a real-life grown-up version of Randal from Clerks?
Watching Dangerous Animals.
I like it, though I keep wavering between wishing the cast was more diverse, and realizing how problematic I'd probably find it if the cast WAS diverse.
Not sure if this says more about me, or society at large.
I like it, though I keep wavering between wishing the cast was more diverse, and realizing how problematic I'd probably find it if the cast WAS diverse.
Not sure if this says more about me, or society at large.
November 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Watching Dangerous Animals.
I like it, though I keep wavering between wishing the cast was more diverse, and realizing how problematic I'd probably find it if the cast WAS diverse.
Not sure if this says more about me, or society at large.
I like it, though I keep wavering between wishing the cast was more diverse, and realizing how problematic I'd probably find it if the cast WAS diverse.
Not sure if this says more about me, or society at large.
James Remar and Jason Clarke have remarkably similar voices.
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
James Remar and Jason Clarke have remarkably similar voices.
This heaping pile of trash was filmed in the CT town I grew up in. Which is also, ironically enough, a pile of trash.
November 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This heaping pile of trash was filmed in the CT town I grew up in. Which is also, ironically enough, a pile of trash.
Women have made:
The best new rock (Warning)
The best new punk (Amyl & Sniffers)
The best new indie (Boygenius)
The best new death metal (Nervosa)
The best new fantasy sludge metal (Castle Rat)
The best new doom/punk hybrid (Die Spitz)
Women fuckin' rock.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB01...
The best new rock (Warning)
The best new punk (Amyl & Sniffers)
The best new indie (Boygenius)
The best new death metal (Nervosa)
The best new fantasy sludge metal (Castle Rat)
The best new doom/punk hybrid (Die Spitz)
Women fuckin' rock.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB01...
Die Spitz - "Throw Yourself to the Sword" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Die Spitz
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November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Women have made:
The best new rock (Warning)
The best new punk (Amyl & Sniffers)
The best new indie (Boygenius)
The best new death metal (Nervosa)
The best new fantasy sludge metal (Castle Rat)
The best new doom/punk hybrid (Die Spitz)
Women fuckin' rock.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB01...
The best new rock (Warning)
The best new punk (Amyl & Sniffers)
The best new indie (Boygenius)
The best new death metal (Nervosa)
The best new fantasy sludge metal (Castle Rat)
The best new doom/punk hybrid (Die Spitz)
Women fuckin' rock.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB01...
Watched House of Dynamite last night.
For me the most terrifying part of that flick was imagining what this scenario would be like under THIS administration, and not the pretend administration where most everyone is intelligent and capable.
For me the most terrifying part of that flick was imagining what this scenario would be like under THIS administration, and not the pretend administration where most everyone is intelligent and capable.
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Watched House of Dynamite last night.
For me the most terrifying part of that flick was imagining what this scenario would be like under THIS administration, and not the pretend administration where most everyone is intelligent and capable.
For me the most terrifying part of that flick was imagining what this scenario would be like under THIS administration, and not the pretend administration where most everyone is intelligent and capable.
I'm...I'm...
I actually want this.
It would amuse me greatly.
I actually want this.
It would amuse me greatly.
November 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm...I'm...
I actually want this.
It would amuse me greatly.
I actually want this.
It would amuse me greatly.
So proud of everyone today.
October 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
So proud of everyone today.
Okay, so I feel a bit weird doing this given the atmosphere out there, but I did something I've been putting off for 5 years and put all 5 Infinity Trials books (and a novella!) in a box set. It's my best work, and I love it dearly.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FW9G1W7Z
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FW9G1W7Z
The Infinity Trials: The Complete Series
Amazon.com: The Infinity Trials: The Complete Series eBook : Duperre, Robert J: Kindle Store
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October 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Okay, so I feel a bit weird doing this given the atmosphere out there, but I did something I've been putting off for 5 years and put all 5 Infinity Trials books (and a novella!) in a box set. It's my best work, and I love it dearly.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FW9G1W7Z
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FW9G1W7Z
I waited 6 years to watch Alita. I feel dumb.
October 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I waited 6 years to watch Alita. I feel dumb.
I'm always tickled by reviews that state a book/movie/show "doesn't aspire to be anything more than an amusing diversion." As if all art is required to be profound to be appreciated.
News flash, it doesn't.
News flash, it doesn't.
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I'm always tickled by reviews that state a book/movie/show "doesn't aspire to be anything more than an amusing diversion." As if all art is required to be profound to be appreciated.
News flash, it doesn't.
News flash, it doesn't.
Two times in my life, I've heard someone who was former military say that "Aliens" was the movie that inspired them to be a soldier.
I've never been able to wrap my head around that.
I've never been able to wrap my head around that.
September 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Two times in my life, I've heard someone who was former military say that "Aliens" was the movie that inspired them to be a soldier.
I've never been able to wrap my head around that.
I've never been able to wrap my head around that.
Just watched Thunderbolts and Superman last night. 5-word review of each.
Thunderbolts - Likable bunch of depressed antiheroes
Superman - No subtlety, I like it
Thunderbolts - Likable bunch of depressed antiheroes
Superman - No subtlety, I like it
August 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just watched Thunderbolts and Superman last night. 5-word review of each.
Thunderbolts - Likable bunch of depressed antiheroes
Superman - No subtlety, I like it
Thunderbolts - Likable bunch of depressed antiheroes
Superman - No subtlety, I like it
School shootings are horrific and sad and entirely preventable by a culture that just doesn't feel like doing so.
And this kind of maddening coverage is absolutely part of the problem. The fetishization is fucking disgusting.
And this kind of maddening coverage is absolutely part of the problem. The fetishization is fucking disgusting.
August 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
School shootings are horrific and sad and entirely preventable by a culture that just doesn't feel like doing so.
And this kind of maddening coverage is absolutely part of the problem. The fetishization is fucking disgusting.
And this kind of maddening coverage is absolutely part of the problem. The fetishization is fucking disgusting.
Let's try doing this again. Today's snipped of WIP:
She stared down at her former mentor. Death hadn’t done anything to relax the weathered crags lining Anansi’s face. For the thousandth time in the past five minutes, she found herself astonished by just how old he looked. /1
She stared down at her former mentor. Death hadn’t done anything to relax the weathered crags lining Anansi’s face. For the thousandth time in the past five minutes, she found herself astonished by just how old he looked. /1
July 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Let's try doing this again. Today's snipped of WIP:
She stared down at her former mentor. Death hadn’t done anything to relax the weathered crags lining Anansi’s face. For the thousandth time in the past five minutes, she found herself astonished by just how old he looked. /1
She stared down at her former mentor. Death hadn’t done anything to relax the weathered crags lining Anansi’s face. For the thousandth time in the past five minutes, she found herself astonished by just how old he looked. /1
Somewhere out there, a fanfic author is right now writing a shipping fantasy where the universal truth of Epstein's death is engaged in a passionate sexual relationship with the embodiment of the concept of trying to pretend Epstein never existed.
July 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Somewhere out there, a fanfic author is right now writing a shipping fantasy where the universal truth of Epstein's death is engaged in a passionate sexual relationship with the embodiment of the concept of trying to pretend Epstein never existed.
Right now, the "create something important" and "create something good" ideologies are warring in my head. I don't think they realize they're on the same side and should, I dunno, cooperate?
July 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Right now, the "create something important" and "create something good" ideologies are warring in my head. I don't think they realize they're on the same side and should, I dunno, cooperate?
The Lord of the Buttholes: The Fellowship of the Butthole
Ruin a book's title by replacing one word with butthole:
Butthole
Butthole
Ruin a book's title by replacing one word with butthole:
Through the Butt-Hole and What Alice Found There
Through the Butt-Hole and What Alice Found There
June 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The Lord of the Buttholes: The Fellowship of the Butthole
Finally watching John Wick 4.
How many assassins are in Paris at any given time, anyway? This seems excessive.
How many assassins are in Paris at any given time, anyway? This seems excessive.
May 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Finally watching John Wick 4.
How many assassins are in Paris at any given time, anyway? This seems excessive.
How many assassins are in Paris at any given time, anyway? This seems excessive.
Part of me wants to wonder about what's gonna happen in the off-season, but the larger part just wants to wallow in sadness.
I'm just sitting here doom scrolling and waiting for the Shams tweet.
At least misery loves company, because I know thousands of Celtics fans are doing the exact same thing.
At least misery loves company, because I know thousands of Celtics fans are doing the exact same thing.
May 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Part of me wants to wonder about what's gonna happen in the off-season, but the larger part just wants to wallow in sadness.
For embarrassingly obvious reasons, mine was Mathilda May as the queen space vampire in Lifeforce.
April 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
For embarrassingly obvious reasons, mine was Mathilda May as the queen space vampire in Lifeforce.
And so today begins the celebration of the Abrahamic god not killing kids whose parents were fans, but killing the neighbors' kids instead, because the neighbors weren't fans.
April 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
And so today begins the celebration of the Abrahamic god not killing kids whose parents were fans, but killing the neighbors' kids instead, because the neighbors weren't fans.
"We're not serving justice here, we're babysitting chaos."
Great line.
Great line.
April 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"We're not serving justice here, we're babysitting chaos."
Great line.
Great line.
A day of dealing with numerous layoffs ends with the news that Michelle Trachtenberg died.
I'm going to bed.
I'm going to bed.
February 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A day of dealing with numerous layoffs ends with the news that Michelle Trachtenberg died.
I'm going to bed.
I'm going to bed.