Tom Breen

I have a lot of books, but no one comes to my house. So to share my books with the world, I fired up a flatbed scanner and got to work. I’ll post the results sporadically in this thread. This one kind of speaks for itself

Rolling Stone fired me from my job as Contentious Listicles Editor when the initial top 10 on here was just the track listing for “Lowest of the Low” by Terror. Hey, your problem isn’t with me, it’s with empirical data

Salute to the two houses on Pine Street who are clearly engaged in an out-of-control Halloween decoration arms race

I’m the guy who decided every Microsoft Office app needs to be like 3 GB. I actually don’t think they’re big enough

People in Belgrade celebrated following Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic speech conceding defeat to a student-led protest movement in a historic election that ends his long grip on power and heralds a new political era in the Balkan country. reut.rs/4zkXvww

In "Peanuts," Linus first mentioned the Great Pumpkin on October 26, 1959, creating what would go on to become an indelible cultural icon. Here’s that strip, followed by the rest of that week’s dailies:

This is the equivalent of posting “It’s just a game, everyone” the morning after your team loses the World Series

I think this becomes quite understandable in the context of an international fascist movement that has swept much of the planet in a decade, with horrifying and very extreme consequences for the entire species

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Ministers keep saying things like “get ready for war in 1,000 days” and journalists keep not saying things like “what do you mean” and “can you be more specific” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Listen, if you ever get the chance to visit the Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum in beautiful Plainville, Connecticut, you should seize it

I love hearing an ad for something described as a “sleep system” and it’s just a mattress topper

Kudos, unknown weirdo in Eagleville. This startled me and I doubled back to make sure I had seen something

Harsh reviews from a previous owner of this anthology

If they didn’t have shirts for sale with the slogan “Moshington Monument,” someone left money on the table

I heard there were some special boys they’re back in town and they’re making noise but you don’t really care for fighting do ya

Found in the wild on fb 💀

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

Imagine you pour your heart out to your therapist and you find out he wojaked you

Richard Dawkins is fighting elitism (TM). So is Julie Bindel.

It took longer than I expected, but the Knicks organization is regressing to the mean

try this handy mnemonic, it’s so simple

Bobby Brown’s theme song for “Ghostbusters II” is a better song than Ray Parker Jr.’s theme song for the original movie

Mortifying enough that this soggy mop darkened the doorstep of a fine restaurant right here in the City of Village Charm, but if any of his online freaks tell him about Willington Pizza I am going to destroy the internet

"the elite aren't the people with money, status, power or influence. They are people who I disagree with."

Well, that’s one way for AI to generate revenue

Another day, another couple of guys on the pickleball for seniors Facebook group threatening to kill each other

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

"It's in the trees! It's coming!" One week from tonight, we'll be screening a very good movie on a very appropriate date at the Stray Cat Film Center!

you ever see something and realise you're just too old and tired to really dig into it any further

Recently had a plumber come to the house to fix something. This guy was really chatty, and as he worked he was telling me a lot of stories about his job and the weirdest houses he's visited. At one point, deadly serious, he said more people get stuck in washing machines than you'd expect.

No Denny, we’re running on a platform of Giant Skeleton for all. A Giant Skeleton in every yard. This is how we win the War on Christmas decoration creep.

Incredible branding here

I forget how genuinely weird Heathcliff is

19 Oct 2026