Gabriel Pilot

"His stage is nice. His music is nice. Most of all, his fans are nice. They can't be any other way, because even at full amplification Peter has all the impact of a Valium getdown...able to make 'Jumping Jack Flash' sound like a friendly song" Lester Bangs on Peter Frampton, Village Voice, 25 Oct 76

I‘d love for Last War in Albion v2 to add “#1 Best-Selling comics criticism book” to its list of astonishingly niche accomplishments like “lost a minor Hugo Award.” So if you’re considering getting it, there’s no better time than now. www.amazon.com/Last-War-Alb...

Weddings are engagement bait

Question for folks with a slightly more exhaustive grasp of SFF history than me: are there any distinct moments post-New Wave rooted in a Hard SF revivalism? Not looking for individual authors but semi-coherent movements where multiple notable authors are all pulling in similar directions.

It’s the 29th anniversary of the night the on-set caterers on Titanic served a clam chowder so good that several cast crew members went back for multiple helpings. Unfortunately, the soup had been laced with Phenylcyclohexyl piperidine, aka Phencyclidine (and, indeed, aka angel dust)

L’extrême-droite à l’affiche dans les gares, ça fait pas super démocratique ça ? agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/ga...

as i've said many times, you can't fully understand young David Bowie if you haven't seen "The Strange World of Gurney Slade"

If any artists or critics would like to know what (if any) mild criticism I’ll make in the course of contextualizing their accomplishments when they die, hmu and I’ll happily provide ahead of time so nobody has to be surprised.

If « Libraries aren’t places to teach about sexuality » then a) what exactly are they except places to learn about whatever you want/need and b) where are you going to teach about sexuality, clearly you don’t want schools to do it ?

Levi Stubbs was born on this date 90 years ago. here he is in France in 1967, singing one of his masterpieces: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKtX...

The battle of Rancid Ableism #Doctorwho

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

I dunno. Maybe because that's a stupid thing to want?

its essential performance, 1979: www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNe...

I was remarking to Dad that even though I think fans of Prince don't take his abusiveness seriously enough, most of them are fine loving him as a complicated figure unlike with MJ's fans. Dad pointed out to me that that's because Prince's core fanbase was older teens and adults, and MJ's was kids

Theres no sentenced bluesky so Im posting this here. Lmk if you know someone slightly more famous than you

And of course, as in Doctor Who, 4 and 10 are the most popular

we all know I have no life, so:

Ecstasy is like a prescription pill but you remember taking it

I’ve now reached the age where I can no longer keep track of which pills I’ve already taken today

"To an extent rivalled only by the Beatles, the Beach Boys have become the tales told about them, the ever expanding archive, the cornucopia of box sets, the shelves of books": www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We are trying to wrap up our big MrBeast video. MrBeast, famously, starts with title and thumbnail. Ironically these have been difficult for us because MrBeast at a surface level is uninteresting. He's blunt, obvious. How do you convince someone scrolling by that you have something new to say?

Women

"you should be willing to get shot" yeah but willing to get shot DOING WHAT, fam? what overthrows a power like the US? I'm sure there's an answer, but I don't know it, and neither do you.

Terry Cox as the foundation of "Space Oddity," told by Bowie to play whatever he liked, just make it fit. The isolated track shows how adventurous he got: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pud...

Sometimes you've got to write it down. #dreamtweet

we used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Mike Pensions, Gary Literacy, Pete Socialsafetynet,

« But I, Pinocchio sobbed, I wanna hit on minors like real A-listers do »

The most illustrative reply I’ve ever seen.

So, like, you gotta buy this Like I don’t even know what to tell you, you just have to

“Seeing Sideways” the sequel to “Rat Girl” is now available at kristinhersh.com

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

This is an extremely good overview of the subject, and I'd say that even if it didn't quote me.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

The One @kristinhersh.bsky.social is bringing the @throwingmuses.bsky.social to play @racketnewyork.bsky.social on November 8th Life is Chaos, we are lucky to have these opportunities, who knows if they'll be repeated kristinhersh.com/tour 🎥ElRat Designs 🎶 "Sunray Venus" Manchester UK May 2025

The Fables tour was one of their best

Repost for the evening: lots of Tops for the long weekend

i'm selling tickets to travis kelce and taylor swift's wedding! buy them now before they're all gone events.voxmedia.com/sbscorigami/...

I do enjoy a good story of haunted films, and was happy to write about @scumbelievable.bsky.social's entry in this canon for @reactorsff.bsky.social. reactormag.com/book-review-...

New York Times: KILL MAMDANI

This literally, physically, forced me to retreat into foetal position for a couple of minutes. So, you know, I think it’s pretty good