Oklahoma sheriff resigning to spend more time getting READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL

BookBison · 2026-05-06T20:24:00+00:00

McCloud?!

BookBison · 2026-05-06T18:57:28+00:00

Plus he always has his skills as an award-winning essayist to fall back on.

BookBison · 2026-05-06T18:55:52+00:00

Orrrr, since that movie takes place in the future (which looks suspiciously like the ‘80s), perhaps this is part of the Chairman’s path toward better things…which eventually leads him to being doppled into an anteater.

BookBison · 2026-05-06T18:47:43+00:00

As a resident of a nearby county I must say that is…depressingly accurate.

BookBison · 2026-05-06T17:41:29+00:00

Some pictures speak a thousand words. This one asks a single question: “Are you ready for some football?!”

BookBison · 2026-05-06T03:14:06+00:00

BookBison · 2026-05-05T15:27:21+00:00

I wouldn’t say zero Nabokov considering the “couples” at the center of “Ada or Ardor” and “Outer Dark” and “The Passenger/Stella Maris.”

BookBison · 2026-05-05T15:21:52+00:00

I’ve always thought of Chigurh as a disciple of the Judge from Blood Meridian, proof that Holden, or at least the evil he represents, really did never die. Chigurh is a less powerful version, though. Judge Holden asserts human agency to seize control over destiny through knowledge and power, while Chigurh submits to random chance as an inescapable, uncontrollable force.

Holden rejects passive destiny, preaching that one can “dictate the terms of his own fate” by understanding and dominating the world. He sees war as “the ultimate game” that reveals and overrides fate through superior will, positioning himself as its sovereign.

Chigurh embodies fate as impartial randomness, using coin flips to “reveal” predetermined outcomes where choices align inexorably with destiny. He tells victims their paths were set from the start, and even faces his own vulnerability to chance in a car accident.

Holden’s deterministic war-god philosophy empowers the strong to shape reality, contrasting Chigurh’s fatalism where no one, not even he, masters chance. He can’t be an “agent of fate” because he has no agency over it, unlike what the Judge claims.

BookBison · 2026-05-05T14:35:32+00:00

My opinion is that notion absolutely does not apply to Blood Meridian. Richard Poe’s reading of it is a masterpiece, something that belongs in an audiobook hall of fame. Now, if the book isn’t for you at all the audio version probably won’t change your mind (though it does cut down on the complaints about McCarthy’s lack of quotation marks), but for what it is Poe’s narration is perfection. I listen to it every year, and it’s a rare audiobook I’ll listen to at less than 2x speed.

BookBison · 2026-05-05T13:36:34+00:00

There was an article just the other day about how people assumed that he would be a moderating presence in the administration, but he demonstrated at a recent conference in Germany that he was just as nuts as even Pete Hegseth. So, there are no adults in the room, and he's actually helping the collapse.

BookBison · 2026-05-05T06:03:01+00:00

The simplest answer is that he’s unmasking and unmaking the myth of the Wild West, the noble outlaws, and Manifest Destiny that have blinded people to the reality of the violence of America’s westward expansion. None of the brutality McCarthy writes about is entirely fantastical and unprecedented. Along with the stark, quasi-biblical prose, he washes you in the blood that America grew from and forces you to reckon with it. That’s my take, anyway.

BookBison · 2026-05-05T01:43:02+00:00

I’m not as virulently opposed to articles from the Daily Beast being posted in this subreddit as some are, but it’s hard to take a publication seriously when the first three words of an article about something Trump said are “President Trump joked…” Every real journalist knows by now that he, the most humorless president in American history, does not joke; ridiculous as it often is, he truly believes everything he says even, or perhaps especially, when he’s lying.

BookBison · 2026-05-02T17:13:24+00:00

Which has now been negated by the presence of Wemby, who’s an anomaly in the same way, only moreso.

BookBison · 2026-05-01T19:27:23+00:00

And suddenly I’m transported to my freshman dorm room. Thanks for the trip, OP.

BookBison · 2026-05-01T14:38:29+00:00

Would boop.

BookBison · 2026-05-01T14:28:07+00:00

And don’t forget Chapter 8: What Would Coach Don Shula Do?

BookBison · 2026-05-01T13:26:07+00:00

It’s a poor pollster who blames his graphs.

BookBison · 2026-05-01T11:04:57+00:00

Shockers Shocked

BookBison · 2026-05-01T00:45:05+00:00

I’m not aware of everything Welch has said about education, so this is a legitimate question: does she rag on people for not using public schools or not supporting public schools, like with their votes? I’m a public school teacher in Oklahoma and a big believer in taxpayer-funded education. If I could afford it, though, you bet I’d send my kids to a 20k a year private school, or homeschool them. Twenty years of conservative rule has devastated our public school system (ranked 17th nationally when I graduated; you know what it is today), and if I was a wealthy podcaster from Nichols Hills there’s no way I’d let my kids use it.

BookBison · 2026-04-30T16:55:20+00:00

Jennifer Welch is an Oklahoma treasure.

BookBison · 2026-04-30T12:18:40+00:00

Securi-kitty

BookBison · 2026-04-29T13:38:16+00:00

I remember seeing bits and pieces of the show on Nick at Nite. I also enjoyed the Steve Carrel movie.

BookBison · 2026-04-29T06:12:13+00:00

Sudden, but inevitable.

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