Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol
@yoadrianididit.bsky.social
Poet / Polski kurczak w amerykańskim stylu. / Chicago. Buy: HAIR SHIRT https://malarkeybooks.com/store/hairshirt Buy: The Life of the Party is Harder to Find Until You're the Last One Around (Malarkey Books): https://bit.ly/3cTeXxH
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Hell yeah baby it's Tomahawk with Melvins night.
Which Chicago mayoral candidate would build more protected bike lanes?
Wait Bluesky isn’t a Chicago group chat?
This is a good litmus test for what people consider "bad" because the replies and QTs suggest "bad" can be anything from killing people to saying "questionable things on a podcast that raise red flags."
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterdayalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
It's bleak out there if ENTOURAGE is Gen Z's nostalgia du jour.
Las Vegas, let me read poems at the sphere, you cowards!
This title appears at the start of the Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis
Michael Kupperman@mkupperman.bsky.social · 2d ago
Free band name (for a stomp/clap folk punk septet polycule):
Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · yesterdayNope, nice try. Not doing this to myself. You'll have to kill my ass
Do you want to read a strange novella about a woman and the strange visitor who moves into her house and never leaves? Sure you do! So read this one:
I hope I like Camp Miasma more than I Saw the TV Glow, because I did not much like it!
Tip: You can make a ring of salt around your toilet to trap the vengeful ghosts of your old meals.
I rewatched A History of Violence yesterday and thought about this again.
Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol@yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 8mo agoCronenberg deleted a dream sequence from A History of Violence because it was too similar to his other work. That's an artist making a choice to not repeat himself, to subvert the expected. AI wouldn't do that. AI would do the thing Cronenberg had done before because it was most probable.
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Hair Shirt, poems by Adrian Sobol — Malarkey
Published April 1, 2025 Get a free sample here HAIR SHIRT, Adrian Sobol’s second full-length poetry collection, continues his particular take on poetry. Filled with trademark black humor and...
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Shotspotter and Flock bullshittery mentioned here. Someone tell Alexi Giannoulias to watch this piece.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver@lastweektonight.com · 2d agoThis week’s main story is about how police use surveillance tools like cameras, microphones, license plate readers, “cell site simulators,” and the practice of “predictive policing,” to create a world that has been lovingly described as “Big Brother on steroids.” Full segment at the link in our bio.
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I love waking up in bed with my dog curled up next to me, using my legs as a pillow. It's the best.
I want to know how they decided to make Justin Theroux look like that in Devil Wears Prada 2. It's the most unsettling makeup work I've seen in a while.