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Sean Bugg
@seanbugg.bsky.social
Writer at The Back Half (backhalfbugg.com). Realtor. Love reading, playing video games, watching cool stuff, baking cakes, and collecting typewriters. Former editor of Metro Weekly, author of Boy Does World. White, gay GenXer, but not evil. Mostly.
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Books & Bakes is live—my summer read-a-thon for Cake4Kids! Pledge per book, every dollar goes to kids who need to feel special. Plus you get a 6-month subscription to The Back Half + my ebook. #booksky #indieauthor
I almost gave up on The Blood of Dawnwalker because of its parry system (I suck at parrying). Then something clicked. A Gen X gamer's review of the new vampire RPG from the Witcher III creators — and a small victory for aging reflexes. #BloodOfDawnwalker #Witcher #gaming #RPG #vampires
The first time I saw someone die was on a tennis court. Reading Joan Didion’s memoir of her grief at the sudden death of her husband, John Dunne, sent me back to that teenage moment when I tried to comfort a woman who was losing her husband. #JoanDidion #grief #memoir #BookSky 💙📚
Books & Bakes 2026 is a wrap. Twenty books, 6,867 pages, and $2,180 raised for Cake4Kids, way more than my first-year goal. Plus, I accidentally fell into a four-book rabbit hole of Dungeon Crawler Carl and I think you should join me there. #DungeonCrawlerCarl #BookSky 💙📚
I suspect reading Reinhold Niebuhr won't set my search stats on fire but I'm glad I did — even if his willful blindness to America's race history is infuriating. Led me straight to James Baldwin though, so win-win. Plus a halftime Books & Bakes report. #JamesBaldwin #AmericanHistory #BookSky 💙📚
Find out more about Books & Bakes and make your pledge supporting Cake4Kids here:
Just absolute racist fucking bullshit. I’d like to say I can’t believe we’ve gotten to this pathetic point but, yeah, we’ve been on this trajectory for a while now.
Twenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc
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Mike Flanagan's Carrie is already getting grief from some fans because the actress isn't "fat" or "ugly." I reread Stephen King's first novel for Books & Bakes. The actual text is more complicated than the criticism suggests. #StephenKing #horrorfiction #Carrie #BookSky 💙📚
Books & Bakes is my summer read-a-thon benefiting Cake4Kids, which provides birthday cakes to at-risk and underserved kids. Find out more here: seanbuggrealtor.com/books-and-bakes
Like every real estate agent, I have horror stories. But none quite like the one in Marisa Kashino’s dark comedy about the Washington real estate market, Best Offer Wins. It’s been called Gone Girl for real estate and that ain’t wrong. My latest review for Books & Bakes. #BookSky #realestate 💙📚
Like every real estate agent, I have horror stories. But none quite like the one in Marisa Kashino’s dark comedy about the D.C. real estate market, Best Offer Wins. It’s been called Gone Girl for real estate and that ain’t wrong. My latest for Books & Bakes. #BookSky #GoneGirl #realestate 💙📚
A partial list of nasty things that happened during my youth in rural Kentucky: My elementary school friend's father was murdered, shot to death in the cab of his truck. There were 30 kids in my class.
I left rural Kentucky as a closeted 17-year-old. I can still tell you a lot about what rural America is actually like and it ain't all pretty fields. Especially when it comes to crime, those folks really need to paying attention to their own backyards, not blue cities that scare them.
A partial list of nasty things that happened during my youth in rural Kentucky: My elementary school friend's father was murdered, shot to death in the cab of his truck. There were 30 kids in my class.
I left rural Kentucky as a closeted 17-year-old. I can still tell you a lot about what rural America is actually like and it ain't all pretty fields. Especially when it comes to crime, those folks really need to paying attention to their own backyards, not blue cities that scare them.
A partial list of nasty things that happened during my youth in rural Kentucky: My elementary school friend's father was murdered, shot to death in the cab of his truck. There were 30 kids in my class.
I left rural Kentucky as a closeted 17-year-old. I can still tell you a lot about what rural America is actually like and it ain't all pretty fields. Especially when it comes to crime, those folks really need to paying attention to their own backyards, not blue cities that scare them.
A partial list of nasty things that happened during my youth in rural Kentucky: My elementary school friend's father was murdered, shot to death in the cab of his truck. There were 30 kids in my class.
I left rural Kentucky as a closeted 17-year-old. I can still tell you a lot about what rural America is actually like and it ain't all pretty fields. Especially when it comes to crime, those folks really need to paying attention to their own backyards, not blue cities that scare them.
I came to "Blood River Witch," T. J. Martinson's new occult-tinged thriller, because I wanted to read the rare story that's set in the western Kentucky I grew up in. While some things feel familiar, what I found was that I'm no longer fluent in the language of my home. #BookSky 💙📚
Books & Bakes update: With "Blood River Witch," T. J. Martinson's new thriller, I wanted to read the rare story that's set in the western Kentucky I grew up in. While some things feel familiar what I found was that I'm no longer fluent in the language of my home. #BookSky #Kentucky 💙📚
PLUS: How much Books & Bakes is raising for Cake4Kids so far. See how you can become a supporter! seanbuggrealtor.com/books-and-bakes
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Straight boys in 1983 had the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. I had Friday Night Videos and "Total Eclipse of the Heart." My love for Bonnie Tyler's unexpected gift to young queer boys of the time (and what it shared with French gay erotica, of all things). #BonnieTyler #LGBTQhistory #queer
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Viet Thanh Nguyen's memoir A Man of Two Faces blew me away. I married into a Vietnamese refugee family, so I see the people I love in it. But there's a difference between empathy and experience -- I write about that tension at The Back Half. @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social #BookSky 💙📚
Viet Thanh Nguyen's memoir A Man of Two Faces blew me away. I married into a Vietnamese refugee family, so I see the people I love in it. But there's a difference between empathy and experience -- I write about that tension at The Back Half. @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social #BookSky 💙📚
Straight boys in 1983 had the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. I had Friday Night Videos and "Total Eclipse of the Heart." My love for Bonnie Tyler's unexpected gift to young queer boys of the time (and what it shared with French gay erotica, of all things). #BonnieTyler #LGBTQhistory #queer
Paid subscribers to The Back Half can now download a free copy of Boy Does World through Substack's new Perks feature. Books & Bakes read-a-thon supporters, that means you too. #LGBTQbooks #memoir #BookSky 💙📚
Make your pledge to my Books & Bakes read-a-thon benefitting Cake4Kids and receive a six-month free subscription to The Back Half, perks and all! seanbuggrealtor.com/books-and-bakes
Week One of Books & Bakes: Richard Stark's The Hunter. Razor-sharp sentences, an amoral anti-hero, and one of the most heterosexual things I've ever read. Also: we've already blown past my Cake4Kids fundraising goal! #crimefiction #noir #hardboiled #BookSky 💙📚
Join me for the Books & Bakes read-a-thon, from now through Labor Day, where every book I read raises money for Cake4Kids, an organization that provides birthday cakes and smiles for children who need them most. Sign up and make your pledge at seanbuggrealtor.com/books-and-bakes
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Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.
The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
I was going to write today about rejecting Doomerism, then the Supreme Court interjected itself, legitimizing attacks on trans athletes and barely upholding birthright citizenship. So today, it's okay to feel some despair. #transrights #SCOTUS
@kenwhite.bsky.social I get it. I just think this place will get better with you in it rather than out. No one person bring place up or down, but it does add up.
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Books & Bakes, my summer read-a-thon benefiting Cake4Kids, starts soon. New video preview: Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters and Viet Thanh Nguyen's memoir A Man of Two Faces. Read along with me this summer! #booksky #indieauthor
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I've lived in Virginia for most of my life. But if you ask me where I'm from, I'm going to say Kentucky. You don't often find Western Kentucky in literature, so I'm eager to dive into Blood River Witch by T.J. Martinson, set in the rural world I came from. #booksandbakes #Kentucky #BookSky 💙📚
Learn more about Books & Bakes, my read-a-thon fundraiser for Cake4Kids, and make a pledge. It starts in just nine days, running July 1 through Labor Day.
Books & Bakes supporters will receive a free six-month paid-level subscription to The Back Half, where I'll post weekly reviews and updates of what I'm reading, preview upcoming books, and chat with you about what we're reading together!
I’ve been cheering for a heart attack or clot to take out Trump, but I’m rooting for Bessent to trip and fall into a fucking wood chipper.
Guardian: Trump Treasury chief Bessent called Ukrainian leader fighting existential war against Russians "a 'little f**ker', a 'special-needs child' and 'Mr Bean on crack.'"
Books & Bakes, my summer read-a-thon benefiting Cake4Kids, starts soon. New video preview: Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters and Viet Thanh Nguyen's memoir A Man of Two Faces. Read along with me this summer! #booksky #indieauthor
Learn all the details about Books & Bakes and Cake4Kids here: www.seanbuggrealtor.com/books-and-ba...
Let’s cheer the Reaper I'm guest posting today at Bil Browning's Tummy Ache Nation, on why it is perfectly acceptable in a country gone mad to cross your fingers and wish for a Trump heart attack, preferably on live television. Bonus: I share the playlist I have ready to go for When It Happens.
Let’s cheer the Reaper I'm guest posting today at Bil Browning's Tummy Ache Nation, on why it is perfectly acceptable in a country gone mad to cross your fingers and wish for a Trump heart attack, preferably on live television. Bonus: I share the playlist I have ready to go for When It Happens.