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Jonathan Lang

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Jonathan Lang@gnalnoj.bsky.social · last wk.

5 Simpsons lines: 1. Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins & eskimos 2. I've come to collect my mail Ok, Mr. Burns. What's your first name? I don't know 3. Knife goes in, guts come out* 4. Oh, those poor monkeys 5. I stand corrected *I get the worst earworms!

Alasdair Beckett-King@misterabk.bsky.social · last wk.

Surely everyone uses: 1. Everything's coming up Milhouse 2. A little from column A... 3. You better run, egg! 4. Let's go to the old mill anyway 5. Monster Island is actually a peninsula

Anya Johanna DeNiro@adeniro.bsky.social · 3w ago

John Crowley has died--what a loss. Two books of his that really carried me through different parts of my life: Engine Summer for its audacity and pure emotionality and the Solitudes, for the uncanny that perfumes the pages like a cloud, that comes upon a person when they are utterly lost.

Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm sorry to hear that John Crowley has left the land of the living. Whenever we happened to meet, we talked about strange wonders and lost languages. He had a mind full of magical things, and was always delighted to discuss. May he travel to an interesting ever-afterlife.

Two authors at a panel discussion table, a microphone between them. One is me, in a gold brocade dress, smiling and looking down at a book, and the other is John Crowley, author of Little, Big among many other books. He's got glasses, white hair and a small white beard, and he's smiling and looking happy. This is 2018 at the Grolier Club, and we're talking about the history of fantasy literature, at the invitation of Henry Wessells.
Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

All cars should be no bigger than Smart cars and have a max speed of 25mph. I don't propose this out of environmental or safety concerns, I just think it would be funny and upset a lot of people I don't like.

Jonathan Lang@gnalnoj.bsky.social · 4mo ago

List 15 non-DC/Marvel/ABC/IPC comics that accord with your current vibe. Big Numbers Love & Rockets From Hell Luther Arkwright Providence Alec Escape The Cowboy Wally Show The Bojeffries Saga Puma Blues Taboo Strangehaven Miracleman Finder It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

I Read Comics!@ireadcomics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Name your top 15 non-DC/Marvel comics ever. Gut instinct only. (Memory…activate!) Invincible Concrete Bone Ms. Tree (Renegade!) Locke & Key Elfquest Noble Causes Grendel Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Project Superpowers Miracleman Rachel Rising Hearstopper Omaha the Cat Dancer Astro City

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I also attempted an authoritative list of British TV shows from the last decade, in which celebs travel around Italy. I got to 12 names, but feel like I must have missed some others? I was absolutely sure Gok Wan did one - it seems mathematically improbable that he hasn't - but can find no trace.

The phrase “cottage industry” is sometimes deployed for the type of TV show that clusters within a larger oeuvre. One might, for example, cite the current surge of travel shows about celebs going to Italy, which has so far seen Stanley Tucci, Gino D’Acampo, Francesco da Mosto, Clive Myrie, Giovanna Fletcher, Alex Polizzi – I’m not finished yet – Alan Carr and Amanda Holden, Andrew Graham-Dixon and James May all front programmes about Italy this decade alone. And then there are those individuals who have become not just a cottage industry but a genre unto themselves. In this bracket we would be forced to place Gordon Ramsay, whose new show, Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service (Channel 4, Monday), may seem strikingly familiar to fans of everything else he has ever done (one exception being the slightly more sedate travelogue he did with D’Acampo and Fred Sirieix, in which they travelled around, er, Italy).
Hal Duncan@halduncan.com · 4mo ago

Just in case anyone out there is thinking, man, that McSweeney and Labour Together really did a number on the Labour Party, all the problems of the Labour Party can be put down to that McSweeney and Labour Together, if it weren't for them... Aye naw. They're just the end point of the neoliberal rot.