Went to Reckless Records looking for some Mod stuff. They had no idea what I was talking about. I out-hipstered the hipsters. youtu.be/RDKQcdSqRHc?...
The James Coburn Cool - Juicer
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B. Chris (B.C.) Bell
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Author of the Tales of the Bagman series and some dozen pulp novellas. Bluespunk musician. Pulp, punk rock, cult movies, comics and books. History, fun facts, weird research, Taoism, politics, and brain farts. No DM's w/out request.
Republicans: congrats, we did it. Took 2,000 tries over 10 years but orphan crushing is now legal. Democrats: we just don't have the votes to ban orphan crushing and anyway the parliamentarian wouldn't allow it even if we did. Next year we'll do it IF we gain a supermajority and the stars align
There is no such thing as 12 PM. If 12 is the meridian it cannot be Post Meridian.
Everybody knows the diner scene, but this is what Five Easy Pieces is about. That Nicholson guy's pretty good. youtu.be/NZN0WWgQwf0?...
Five Easy Pieces Bobby's Monologue [HD]
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I dunno if we have any fans here of the multi-award-winning #sff author (Hugos and Nebulas), Robert Silverberg. Here's a new collection of some of his novellas with a foreword by some guy, John something...John Shirley, I think.
The same generation ripped off by Reagan Revolution is about to reach retirement age with little savings or pension, and the cost of living has gone up 30% in the last six years. Thanks republicans!
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
Not one reporter at the correspondents dinner could even spring a few bucks for some itching powder? Failures all.
B. Chris (B.C.) Bell@bc30000.bsky.social · 2w agoGiven the occassion somebody should let some mice loose, hit the president with a pie, and sabotage the food for laughs. Pull out all the old slapstick gags for the Pres.
Tickets are now on sale for NOIR CITY: CHICAGO 2026! September 4th-10th - Hosted by Eddie Mueller & Alan K. Rode @noirfoundation.bsky.social Full Schedule & More Info: musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...
Seems like a good time to reread this. I feel like a lot of our representatives failed to understand they won't get away with the money or the girl.
Mitch McConnell would have replaced Mitch McConnell a month ago. Why can’t the Dems get their shit together?
Sometime in the nineties our news media became reality TV.
DATA CENTERS: THE TRUTH "A big employer who uses the water of 50,000 people - which only hires about ten people - is not an employer. They are an extraction."
When things get weird, I read Jimmy Olsen comics. Jimmy would have to go from time travel ("Jimmius" in ancient Rome) to an alien to a freak to a reporter on the mob's hit list every issue. All in a day's work.
"Rome wasn't built in a day." "I wasn't on that job."
"Immaculate Concussion" is in my notes. I don't know why.
I feel like the wheels have fallen off and I'm just waiting for everybody else to look out the window and figure it out, again.
companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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"Mister Kurts, he's dead," a messenger said. "Party time!" Everybody yelled. There was singing, dancing, and laughter in the jungle that night.
Miaganga@miaganga.bsky.social · 2w ago
On July 30th, we hit Pulpfest in Pittsburgh with 13 titles available for purchase. 7 Frenzi 2 Lash 2 Bartender 1 Mercy 1 *REDACTED* Holy crap. We gonna need a bigger bag to house all your buys at the nation's biggest and best pulp fiction convention! 😲 pulpfest.com
PulpFest – Join us July 30 – August 2, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA!
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Remember that time we went to the park, and I threw rocks at Superman?
So weird,we are waiting for a Presidential address that we already know is going to be nothing but paranoid lies to facilitate the Administration's interference with the mid terms and online bots are the only ones acting like it's not a scam. Feels like Kafka outlined it.
I accepted an invitation to play an outdoor harmonica gig. Forest fire smoke enveloped the city. [Makes wheezy train sound, *cough*]