Klaus Kinski as Fitzcarraldo blasting his gramaphone. He sees grotesque possibilities
Strait of Hormuz, eh? More like...skill issue
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Klaus Kinski as Fitzcarraldo blasting his gramaphone. He sees grotesque possibilities
Strait of Hormuz, eh? More like...skill issue
A pigeon roosts atop booth 028 at the international rights center
Hot young literary agents eagerly awaits the new FP titles
Met with some cool international literary agents today #londonbookfair #LBF2026
Update: I fell asleep and don't know how ROADHOUSE ends but woke up to an intense profile of a guy who owns a race horse people are excited about right now.
He also owns a football team and compared his mean horse to one of his football players; bbc showed side by side mean photos of horse and man
For some reason bbc is playing the amazing 1989 Patrick Swayze hit ROADHOUSE. It augurs well for the book fair tomorrow??
My heart always leaps a little bit when the Lyft to JFK passes conduit boulevard. A place where the city's iron control over the land starts to slip, a little. Stunted wild trees start to spring
In this picture and I don't like it
Asuka saying "erste" after murdering a mass production Eva. Her controls work fine
Tfw finished w therapy session
I remember a few years ago trying to explain to my therapist what an Evangelion was so as to explain the scenes where shinji and asuka pull control levers to ineffectual clicks, unable to force their units to move any more. Will my current therapist know more about Evangelion? Do I want that?
In six hours I must hie me to the airport again
I have like 14 hours before I have to go to the airport to go to London for the book fair and I wish I could do anything but lie catatonic on this couch thinking of the laundry I will soon have to fold into my suitcase. The cat happily swishes her tail thinking I'm back from a trip she knows nothing
YES Ishmael is the best third person narrator for this reason
I like the maniac Bleak House narrator! A third person narrator should be a maniac (I guess true of Trollope)
"I told him that he addressed my interest or what he supposed to be my interest quite as unsuccessfully as he addressed my inclination, and he would now understand that I requested him, if he pleased, to go away immediately."
Filing away this line for later use on Grindr 🔒
Ok ok top 5 chronological order:
Journal of the Plague Year (yes it's a novel that's why it's experimental)
The Dunciad (if Pale fire is a novel the dunciad is a novel also see above)
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
D'Alembert's Dream
Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
In which we learn about John Jarndyce 's weird old friend Boythorn, who yells at everyone and only speaks in hyperbole and superlatives
Hot take: the structure of Bleak House so far is kind of similar to the structure of classic Godzilla movies, in that Dickens seems to be structuring most chapters around introducing 1-2 new weird monster people for us to contemplate 🔒
For you long 18th counts!
(these skeets brought to you by this first-person Victorian goodness simulator 🔒)
Oh, you like first person POV? Name five eighteenth century experimental novels
Drive by discourse: first person seems easy is by far the hardest POV; it has no outside. All Ancient Mariner stopping someone to say insane shit. Why do we trust him? Where do we fit into a monologue; what affordances does an author give us? If you don't see the problem here, I see yr Skill Issue
<3 I am very glad to hear!!
I'm always telling @ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social we need to collab on a comic about queer art students in 1990s Boston. The other day she showed me a pic of legendary bar RATHSKELLAR circa 1992, so I drew this one page as a sort of "proof of concept":
Happy international women's day youtu.be/PTi1d1x9Mlk?...
Happy international women's day youtu.be/bBQGK0C8PFo?...
Im back (back!) back in the New York groove (i.e. hobbling home from the freeway on ramp where I had to park my car, heels destroyed by days of writing conference) / with a fistful of dollars, and baby, you'd better believe
A LIST OF WORDS FOR COOL.
A DUDE THINKING SOME SERIOUSLY DEEP THOUGHTS.
THE BEST HOODIE OF ALL TIME
MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MACHINE. A "CUTE CATBOY" AND BEANS.
SO THIS SHIT RULES. youraislopbores.me
Tomorrow or Sunday I'm going to drive back to New York do all my laundry and get ready to fly to London. I have to remember to do my weird travel authorization. What is real
Percentage graph of the writer convention hotel lobby of those (1) drinking (2) excitedly talking (3) grimly writing alone (4) playing video chess (5) slowly, slowly drinking a diet Dr pepper (narrator)
I imagine it as the Victorian version of a McMansion Hell with a super weird and jagged roofline?
Mr Skimpole tries to talk the debt cops into accepting him signing the poppets into some kind of debt slavery in order to keep himself out of jail, or Coavins (an 'ouse)
Mr. Skimpole calculating the Kalshi odds on the poppets winning it all in Jarndyce and Jarndyce :( I'm so upset by how immediately they roll in with a speculative market value, and how many people are already thinking of buying their hair, goodwill, expectations 🔒
