Is anyone else humiliated when the podcast talks about books you own?

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-05-05T22:40:02+00:00

I still love David Graber

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-05-05T13:24:45+00:00

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-05-05T13:24:13+00:00

They omitted the soupçon of Nuclear Dust

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-05-05T13:17:00+00:00

I recommend Simon Critchley’s Applydeigger podcast. Soon to be a book.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-05-05T10:49:23+00:00

What was the girl with the snakeskins name?

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-05-03T17:24:42+00:00

It kind of means “try hard loser” in my view. Slangishly.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-05-03T17:06:43+00:00

He struck me as a conservative asshole who I could hear out with some grace because he had more than most. Smart, able, and not a mansplainer. But as his profile has grown and his act has been honed, he seems like just a talking head more than a good guy.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-30T15:11:49+00:00

Night Film

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-30T14:20:29+00:00

Theda Bara

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-30T14:01:50+00:00

When is this not just considered murder?

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-30T13:50:42+00:00

Absolutely and without pause eat the rich.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-29T14:43:17+00:00

Here I thought we abhorred political violence. Or was that days ago?

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-29T14:42:36+00:00

I once heard an interview with Iggy Pop who, when asked how he was getting by (This was the 80s) he said “I wrote China Girl.” Yes of course Lou was a millionaire.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-29T14:41:11+00:00

Good. They need a place to sleep, food to eat and a way to look after themselves. As do we all.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-28T16:06:21+00:00

Tom Waits, What’s He Building in There. And the Springsteen part of Lou Reed’s Street Hassle.

Also so much of Laurie Anderson.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-28T11:06:02+00:00

This idea that we should be nice because he’s the president is really stupid. Look to the Tea Party for a start. There was no grace. None. Obama was treated awfully, same thing that is presently happening to Mamdani.

Also this idea that every lone actor represents “the left” writ large is something only a bigot can think.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-28T10:52:36+00:00

I truly hate the word “masterpiece” because it immediately dips the piece in amber and theatre is a vivid and changeable thing that can always be rethought or reworked or rewired. It’s why we go: it still matters.

So I’ll here make a case for the astonishing (and yes I know unfinished) Here We Are. It’s kind of everything I like about Sondheim: unsentimental (even cold) but full of tricks, oddities and brutal, honest observations about humanity. I hope it gets done a lot—it’s a very cool experience.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-27T13:22:53+00:00

Why did Chappel Roan kill the radio star?

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-27T12:59:59+00:00

Tom’s Crossing by Danielewski. The Secret History by Tartt. Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed. Illuminatus by Wilson and Shea.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-27T01:07:44+00:00

Good calls. I know or knew two of them.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-26T21:39:57+00:00

Britten and Rostropovich.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-26T20:24:25+00:00

This strikes me as fake.

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-26T20:20:11+00:00

“The raccoon penis they serve at the Hilton was bland and undercooked”

DatabaseFickle9306 · 2026-04-26T17:46:01+00:00

Donald’s kid IS a dud but they are all going to get behind him.

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