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At a Boston Red Sox game in 1973, with Bill "Spaceman" Lee on the mound, Richard Nixon caught a foul ball. Barely able to mask his disgust, he threw the ball back onto the field, muttering that he "didn't want a souvenir that had been handled by a fucking communist." #trickydickpics

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Shay Stewart-Bouley

I recently had the chance to spend some time with US Senate candidate Troy Jackson of Maine and shared some thoughts as both a writer in Maine and a Maine voter. shaystewartbouley.substack.com/p/vote-like-...

shaystewartbouley.substack.comVote like your life depends on it and why I am supporting Troy JacksonAmerican politics in recent years has become unserious entertainment with very serious and life-changing consequences.

these refs are worse than the eagles, which is really saying something.

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2 Aug

caltopo.com/m/F1PDGQB my temagami canoe trip - 12 days solo, ~75 miles of map distance, including ~14 miles of portages (though i had to portage in 2 loads, so that 14 miles was actually 42 miles of walking, making an actual total of closer to 100 miles). image🧵 below

11 Aug

* ~14km of portages, not miles.

7 Aug

leave it to colonoscopy prep to make me pine for the halcyon days of the 2.5 decades i spent without health insurance.

off to Canada for a 12 day canoe trip in Temagami.

12 July

Satan: "Believe it or not, Lindsey, the reason you're here isn't the cocks, but for being an absolute cunt."

10 June

as always, my support for any candidate in any primary is a kiss of death.

22 May

like some bastard child of Sisyphus and Comic Book Guy, I am condemned to be forever wiping grease smudges off my glasses.

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11 May

i know #books and #literature aren't exactly everyone's foremost concern right now, but if you feel like supporting a non-profit indie publisher that has puts out some of my favorite books (and a slew of other really good books), give Dzanc Books a look. www.dzancbooks.org/membership

last night, i went to siphon some more ebooks and was SHOOK to find the website down. "Is Dzanc dead? Did I singlehandedly kill them by only paying $300 for what at this point must be at least 40 books?"

11 May

fortunately, this morning it came back up - and with expanded options for donations/support/purchases (that I quickly availed myself of, both out of relief and to assuage my panicked guilt). tl;dr - if books are your cup of tea, i think you'd like Dzanc.

a few years back they had an (absolutely mental) offer where for $100 you got access to their ebook catalogue in perpetuity. i bought it, and started tearing through their offerings. eventually, i started to feel bad about being some sort of literary labor vampire and gave them some more money.

my inner monologue is incapable of saying the name Nicolae Ceausescu in anything other than the "let's get ready to rumble" guy voice.

uninvited fiction recommendations for @bowulf.bsky.social. a thread of funny books, since the sense of humor is basically all I know of him.

'The Thought Gang' by Tibor Fischer What happens when philosophy meets bank robbery? My sell for it: just read the first page. I knew I was going to adore it immediately, and I think you'll be just as tickled by the first page (and the rest of them) as I was.

honorable mentions: 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' by Otessa Moshfegh 'Kamby Bolongo Mean River' by Robert Lopez 'All my Puny Sorrows' by Miriam Toews 'Dear Committee Members' by Julie Scumacher

uninvited fiction recommendations for @bowulf.bsky.social. a thread of funny books, since the sense of humor is basically all I know of him.

'The Archive of Alternate Endings' by Lindsey Drager I lied - this one isn't funny, and it's a bit experimental - but I know you'd appreciate the humanist messaging, it's beautifully written and cleverly constructed, and it's my favorite book ever. Her other books are terrific as well.

Literally anything (seriously) by Percival Everett. 'Percival Everett by Virgil Russel' is my favorite, but I'd start with 'Erasure' or 'The Trees' or 'Telephone'.

uninvited fiction recommendations for @bowulf.bsky.social. a thread of funny books, since the sense of humor is basically all I know of him.

'Everything is Illuminated' by Jonathan Safran Foer. This book is absolutely heartbreaking, but is equally hysterical. It tops my list for you based on your penchant for wordplay, as Foer manages to push the english language beyond its breaking point in hilarious fashion.

'Slumberland' by Paul Beatty A hallucinatory send up of hip hop, jazz, the end of the cold war, and race relations. I should recommend 'The Sellout' by the same author, as it is more widely read and I'm reasonably certain you'd like it, but 'Slumberland' is one of my favorites so it gets the nod.

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20 Jan 2025

can not stop listening to this band. also, go see them live if you have the chance.

31 Dec 2024

@bowulf.bsky.social - given your resolution to read more fiction, what are some of your favorite books/authors so I can (possibly) shoot you some recommended reads?

7 Dec 2024

the second best thing about Thanksgiving - turning the turkey carcass into stock for Daniel Gritzer's French onion soup.

Richard Nixon gives a rambling and largely incoherent speech to members of the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam. #trickydickpics

Speaking at length about scenes from the movie 'The Big Red One' without ever actually mentioning the film, Nixon repeatedly referred to how "Lee Marvin stabbed those fuckin' Krauts," to the bewilderment of the men around him. It was later revealed that he had contracted malaria. #trickydickpics

Richard Nixon appears in the ill-fated Army film 'So Betty Won't Bounce: A GI's Guide to Masturbation After Becoming a Casualty of War.' #trickydickpics

Though he spoke glowingly of Haile Selassie at the state dinner, Nixon's duplicitous nature was later revealed and recorded by the White House taping system. A portion of the recording was worked into a song by Propagandhi, and provided the title 'Haile Selassie, Up Your Ass.' #trickydickpics

Though some artistic license was taken, Richard Nixon's resignation speech was the inspiration for the closing scene of Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Said Nixon, "I now know why you cry. But it is something that I can never do. Goodbye." #trickydickpics

"You actually played a concert inside a prison? Goddamn. I'll never set foot in a prison, isn't that right, Gerald?" #trickydickpics

Richard Nixon gives the "steal" sign to G. Gordon Liddy on June 17, 1972. #trickydickpics

Among the many benefits that assuming the Presidency conveyed, Nixon believed that the ultimate was "not having to smoke that goddamn Mexican ditch weed anymore." #trickydickpics

Richard Nixon watches video of Chicago Police beating a young boy in Grant Park outside of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. #trickydickpics

As Sammy Davis Jr. watches, President RIchard Nixon signs legislation that bars discrimination against bisexual African-American Jewish little people. #trickydickpics

Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley seal their historic accord. The 4 hour summit resulted in an agreement that "pastrami is pretty alright," and a promise from the President that he would do his best to procure a microfiche of all the known ludes dealers in the greater Memphis area. #trickydickpics

But I'm a Committee for the Re-Election of the President I'm a weirdo What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here #trickydickpics

#BookSky, I'm looking for some book/author recommendations based on a list of some of my favorite authors. Novels, novellas, short stories, all welcome. Lindsey Drager Otessa Moshfegh Paul Beatty Percival Everett John Irving Jenny Offill Jason Ockert Ruth Ozeki Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.