Trying to talk the 14-yr-old into watching some gunslinger films before his summer D&D campaign, pushing a Buster Keaton short:
I know you don't like silents, but there's this short called "Go West"
Like a minute & a half? 2?
No, longer, babe.
5 minutes?
If we ever get to 2004 I am going to DC for Nouvelle Vague's album of bossa nova covers of punk classics
Gender Queer by @redgoldsparks.bsky.social remains on the top 10 (11, this year) most challenged books list
This is year five, if my math is right
Maia's book is also the *only comic* on the list this year
#libcomix #GraphicMedicine
Only one? Damn!
I like it very much, maybe the best surprise so far for me.
I would get it for the cover alone
I hope they bought you dinner first
Crazification factor is 27%, so sink it still can.
The Onion wants to make us submissive slaves to the New world order.
Correct.
Our thoughts and prayers to the bull, who could hardly be expected to deal with rectums in his workplace.
They are pure vibes now. And things that bbbbbrrrrryhme with vibes.
So we can "fly around the astrodome" after
We are hosting a screening tonight and I am the main dude for the Q & A after. Wish me luck, weirdos.
a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror
found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page
Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series
Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness
we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help
We've been spying on you. Sorry for your loss.
#Satire
Cartoon image of a chef cutting Shawarma with the words“unknown pleasures” underneath
And The Road was only published in 2006. Quick arrival in curricula.
But serious talk Mother Night is much better than Slaughterhouse Five.
Maybe I should read Laughing Boy or A Hero Ain’t Nothing But A Sandwich, maybe those Island Trees librarians were on to more than Kurt Vonnegut.
That is the spirit of a lot of the other books in the original Pico lawsuit, which originated with a parents group with a list of bad books. It is a grab bag of concerns: Lots of black authors but also anthropology, drug scare books, moral panic stories. Things that make white parents anxious.
What felt great to 1988 me was that this allegedly dirty book was pretty funny, but also that the obscenity wasn’t zoo sex but the fire-bombing of cities.
1988 me was sure that old ass book was a classic and the courts had justly recognized that. Who would do that now for—I don’t know—2020’s All Boys Aren’t Blue or 2019’s Gender Queer? Those feel very recent to old me.
I think a lot about Vonnegut being in the thick of the Pico vs Island Trees School District, which won the fight for diverse books in libraries in 1982 with a case going back to 1975 claims of having the right to read Slaughterhouse Five in the school library. What contemporary is there to that?
It's like a blank check forever
Holy shit dude
Honeysuckle time
Other duties as assigned: sort and bag up 1100 donations for 50 Head Start kids. A starter set for kids who will receive a beautiful bookcase of their own this week.
