@donni oo, edgy.

She asked where they keep the poetry. Little did she know... #mirthfulhijinks

@Klepsis your publisher accepts handwritten manuscripts? Cool.

@tvaziri digital lens flare.

Trying to watch The Green Knight but like other A24 productions it mistakes tediously long shots for directorial vision and gravitas. Maybe if I play it at 1.5 speed it will have better pacing. Also, Gawain is kind of stupid.

#movies

Barbie is a weird little movie that dares to question the patriarchy. True it's kind of a toothless and tepid condemnation, but still. It's perfectly on point in any case that the two women most responsible for its success get shut out by the Oscar nominations. Way to prove the point, Hollywood.
#oscars
#oscarnoms
#barbie
#margotgotrobbed

Mirthful Hijinks for Jan. 16: Perun, Slavic god of thunder.

Perun was master of thunder and more,
Of fire and lightning and war
He carried an ax
To whack through the backs
Of people who thought he was Thor
#perun
#thor
#notthor
#limerick
#mythologymonday
#mirthfulhijinks

Mirthful Hijinks for January. Secret origins #5: Hands-on-wrong-arms Man! The artwork may get better but I make no promises.

#mirthfulhijinks
#comics

Happy Packers eliminated from the Playoffs day, if you celebrate.

#nflplayoffs

Capitalism: absolutely spectacular at laying off workers.

[The Washington Post] Sports Illustrated lays off most of its staff, threatening iconic brand’s future
Sports Illustrated lays off most of its staff, threatening iconic brand’s future

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/01/19/sports-illustrated-layoffs/

Biden cures cancer, ends all wars: why this hurts his reelection chances.

@codinghorror imagine sinking your life into a sound system and then imagine everyone's face when you play music and they're like, Yeah, cool dude, that's music.

Mirthful Hijinks presents: Frank's pity party goes askew.

#comics
#mirthfulhijinks
#wolfman

@hupfen I'm not sure which hoity-toity weirdo first decided adverbs hit his palatte the wrong way, but my gosh this 'advice' has always irrationally irritated me.

@charlotteclymer It's fine for God to ban surrogacy now, he had his kid, doesn't plan to have any more.

Don't worry, they will find someone worse...
[The Washington Post] NRA chief Wayne LaPierre announces resignation
NRA chief Wayne LaPierre announces resignation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/05/nra-wayne-lapierre-resigning/

If you ever need a rip in the space-time continuum that leads to the infinite despair of nihilistic doom, spend a few minutes looking for a decent place to try and get your stories published. Boom.
#amwriting
#publishing

@kottke It'll be Skynet, but the good Skynet, without all the killing!

I read 44 books last year. As usual, it's an eclectic mix of whatever I felt like at the time. Looking back it's mostly crime and mystery, with a lot of classics.

Highlights include:
The Winter Soldier, Daniel Mason
The Pale Horse, Agatha Christie
Bright Orange for the Shroud, John D MacDonald
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

My full year in books on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2023/2409730

#bookstodon
#2023recap

Flash Gordon learns the hard way why you keep your entropic anomalies in the proper protective case. Now the new year will be ridiculously entropic.
#flashgordon
#entropy