boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 4hAlso, scorpions are arachnids and not insects. Writing "venomous arthropods" would just cause too much head-scratching, I suppose. 010
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I read to my nephew when he was three and going to bed, but he didn't care for it. I would say, "Time for Proust!" When he started yelling, I would tell him it would have a really funny bit in 50 or so pages. 010
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I have already moved to Council Grove, Kansas to begin centuries of building Roko's Basilica. 150
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don't know what they're talking about. I follow you almost exclusively for the TV Land content. 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I mean, a powerful Hollywood rapist got sentenced umpteen years in prison. It is nice to see some accountability. 022
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The guy who wrote the unfilmed Gladiator 2 script is also a rock singer? 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You jest, but Tolkien named his dragon Smaug, which is pretty damn close to the Polish word for dragon, smok. 140
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Detective Drogon arrived on the scene, saw Daenerys was stabbed, saw the stabby chair, and melted it in a moment of instant justice. 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Same! First I saw Cross, then I thought, "Cross is not an A-lister; that must be Billy Bob Thornton." Then I finished reading the post. 021
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Damn, this is true. Someone (or something) just messaged me on this platform, and my first thought was to ask whether they are human. 090
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Me, having a heated argument with my wife: MacGyver would never engineer a weapon! He uses his skills to get out of scrapes. YOU DON'T KNOW MACGYVER LIKE I DO! 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Also, her personal subtitle "award-winning storyteller" puts me in mind of "Garth Marenghi ... Dreamweaver." 020
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Let's not kid ourselves; it would have made $1.6 TRI-llion but for trans, black and woke. 010
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Foraging today, and Aleks found a red-capped boletus! Very excited to cook this one! 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Like a Winnie the Pooh, but he's not wearing pants? You have sold me on AI! 020
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Are cities going to start releasing red balloons from storm drains in honor of Curry? 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Why let all these other beloved 80-year-olds hog the spotlight? 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Justin Bieber in a statement on Dolly Parton: "She was truly inspiring. Were she alive, she would have been a belieber." 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"Hop on the worm, Agent Coop. Wyndom Earl isn't far ahead!" 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026He was very particular about how they were messed around in translation, hence Bilbo Beutlin, Bilbo Sacquet, Bilbo Torbar. Seems like they could have made a non-Slavic dragon name for Polish. 010
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Visiting my wife's family in Poland, and, because I wanted to know, I looked up how Smaug is named in their copy of Lord of the Rings to find out it's still Smaug. It's written out "smok Smaug." That's as if a fantasy writer decided to name their dragon Drogon or something similarly stupid. 110
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I remember that for the longest time, this movie was NOT being released on DVD. Then not on Blu-ray. Now it's got the 4K Treatment, which is just fantastic. 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I thought about this, and then ten other important thoughts left my brain when I did. 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Avengers: Doomsday homework: 1. The King of New York 2. The Color of Money 3. The Aviator 4. Gangs of New York 5. Silence 6. The Last Temptation of Christ 7. The Age of Innocence 8. Kundun 9. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 10. Hugo 11. Casino 12. The Departed 13. Raging Bull 14. Bringing Out the De 001
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I don my herring-bone jacket with leather elbow pads, enter the study and shut the oaken door leading thereto. My family hears faintly Bach's Goldberg Variations accompanied by my occasional chuckle and exclamation, "Oh, Calvin! Heavens, such fresh impudence!" 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I used to have both. My wife on a book-abolishing binge said I could keep one and not duplicates. Now I have this stately three-tome collection seated between my two-volume Far Side collection and my Shakespeare first folio facsimile. 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I too am a fan of hurling infants into Neptune's volatile care. 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Outlast did their part. Everyone else must step it up. youtu.be/ZIFuxVM3wPk?... 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I read this after listening to Charlotte Brontë on audiobook, and couldn't help but read your last sentence in a Yorkshire accent, "Don't blame me, ay wuz jest a babby!" 010
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026So, are they going to Ender's Game the new set of traffic controllers? "Yeah, kids, this is also the simulation you're playing now." 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Take a break from online; staying informed is important but not so much to neglect the here and now around you. Since you are here online anyway, use @mishellbaker.bsky.social 's prompt to focus on what matters. Then set your phone aside, read a book, go walking, cook a dish, the like. 010
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Gathering berries and mushrooms, stealing the affection of our neighbors' cats, swimming in the sea, visiting the grandeur of the natural world, hiking, reading a clever turn (or even turn of phrase) in a story, and, more than anything else, spending time with my wife. 040
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I trust the Ghost of Christmas Past has the prequel material covered to my liking. 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026People (myself included) laughed out loud when Collette comes running out of the house to meet him at the car and he just keeps driving and muttering. 010
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026He does a lot of walk-and-talk scenes, but it would be too on the nose for one of his character's devastating retorts to take place while he or she descends a staircase. 010
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Sorkin writes like someone perpetually haunting himself with the words, "I should have said this!" 110
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Pretty sure you just need a small girl to eat food from his banquet table to wake McConnell up. 000
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Angle of Repose has as one of its two main characters a historian with an amputation, and, until the controversy and still somewhat afterward, it was highly esteemed. 010
boring @bwestleg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Free book at Project Gutenberg: The spoon : with upwards of one hundred illustrations, primitive, Egyptian,… www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79020gutenberg.orgThe spoon : with upwards of one hundred illustrations, primitive, Egyptian,…Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers. 000
