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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 3h

This is the first time I have ever seen anyone reading on the subway past page 12 or so.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 14h

They have those in the Harrah’s vending machine?

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 18h

Photo aside, we’re due for a serious reckoning with Jacobsen.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fascinating centerfold in this issue.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had to sprinkle snake repellent around my house due to seeing a snake (lesson: never stop renting) and it smells really good. Put a dish of this stuff in your powder room and your guests will love it unless they’re snakes.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Life gets better when you finally block that guy who does nothing but post Trump photos and clips. Turns out I don’t need to know when he falls asleep or how weird his hair looks every hour of every day.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I used to work for James "The Amazing" Randi, who squandered all of his MacArthur money fending off lawsuits from Uri Geller that he pointlessly kept provoking.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just sold a short story about Art Bell to a serious literary journal.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

While I have yet to investigate the headline posted below, I have just released an episode of my program Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's? marking its 10th anniversary: open.spotify.com/episode/1hZ6...

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377 - 10th Anniversary Breakthrough

Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's · Episode

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it is weird and bad that out of (I think) 5 DCU projects so far, only two of them are softer than an R rating (Superman, Supergirl) and only two of them are any good (Superman, Lanterns).

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Last Samurai had the misfortune of coming out from a crappy publisher the same year as both Kavalier & Clay and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. DeWitt’s book is the best of the three, but, as the new author’s afterword suggests, she herself is a bit of a screwball (complimentary).

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masterbather.bsky.social @masterbather.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Great new books to look at and consider buying for yourself, including an excellent "Nicely Nepotistic" mention of an excellent new memoir from an old friend... Warning: This is a "Bring Your Own Theme Song" episode of the bathtub! youtu.be/uMpU9dxfeh0

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New-Bop-A-Lula–New Books for September 2026: RGBIB 2.11

YouTube video by Scott Bradfield

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I relate to Wolverine as I, too, take a second to start running after being told to.

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Jordan Hoffman @jhoffman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

He’s still got it.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jacoby and Meyers better keep a line open.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think it’s very likely he’s simply a dolt who understands nothing about his own aesthetic obsessions.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It is impossible to Google the band Live.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That‘s it, I’m selling my Macklemore/Sheeran tickets. Does anyone have any suggestions for an even shittier double bill?

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For my money I'm not sure there's a more cathartic or awesome line in fiction than Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit" shouting, "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch," just before he charges at Lucky Ned Pepper and three bandits with his horse's reins in his teeth

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"My friend is obviously Chinese." Happy 60th, Star Trek. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSJ0...

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Star Trek - Blending In

YouTube video by Star Trek

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Audience pretty evenly divided between laughs and groans when Kirk explains Spock's ears to a 20th century policeman by saying Spock is Chinese and got his ears caught in a rice picker. Proust man, however, was silent.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Why has everyone reading in public only just started their book? Last night, I went to the Star Trek IV / City on the Edge of Forever double feature. The man sitting in front of me was reading a thick French edition of Proust's In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, but he was only on page 10.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Really interesting how AI discourse so effectively rips the masks off of the world’s dimwits and numbskulls.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

By writing 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez was a symbol of great novel writing. But today, upon completion of my manuscript 200 Years of Solitude, I'm the greatest of all time. Thank you.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

He's kind of stupid and so contrarian he's bad, but he's also, sadly, pretty funny.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What an odd turn of events that being unreasonably angry about Disney decanonizing the Star Wars EU is now right wing coded. If you‘re obsessed with Ulic Qel-Droma, it’s a dogwhistle.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

To be clear, I believe Mr. Vance should be in prison for writing a book called Communion without a Gray alien on the cover. But I'll be darned if I'm going to chastise someone for joking about 9/11.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The only time this kind of thing has ever been acceptable is when I went to a screening of Willow and asked Ron Howard if he’d direct my screenplay for a Willow / Beastmaster crossover called Willow 2: Through the Portal of Time.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The only filmmaker who could successfully adapt Ulysses is Tyler Perry.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Strange how so many of the world’s most irritating podcasters came from UC Santa Cruz.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Missing but not forgotten - We WILL find you 🙏👼🏻🥹✊🦑✝️ #RememberTheTitan

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A man at Starbucks has been staring at me for 3.5 hours.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m negotiating with my 11-month-old to let me go to this.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have seen this film roughly 7000 times because as a teenager I helped build a Cinemark multiplex and we used a print of Knock Off to calibrate the projector and sound in each theater.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Famously the theater where I walked out of the film Madame Web. Not because of the film but because when I got up to buy some popcorn they had closed the nearest concession stand and I didn’t want to go upstairs.

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Jordan Hoffman @jhoffman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The worst thing was using C-3PO as the model and not Data!

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Re: the C-3PO guy, it’s become very difficult for me to tell whether these people are stupid or profoundly insane.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So happy to see one of my favorite children's book characters, the Green Lantern, in a violent True Detective ripoff instead of something my child can watch.

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Brian Thompson @brianthompy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026