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Da Miata Man

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I can’t do blue checks anymore, this better work this time.

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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 20h
Wanted to read this since I’ll get comps to his drug writing in workshops, and this was on DFWs favorites list. Firstly, I do not think I really sound like Denis, we just share subjects. Second, this was clearly an influence to DFW, and the dialogue was great. Def adding him to my list for later.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I just pulled an ingrown hair out of my face that had to have been an inch and a half. My cheek deflated after finally grabbing it out.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s crazy to go on instagram and see in almost any thread, a statement that would’ve been 3 days of main character roasting on the old twitter.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
First book ever read on an ereader. Really weird and funny, basically just digging holes and going to the pub over and over and over. Like a desert island story crossed with Chicken Run. Will be checking out his other stuff.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Maybe too niche of a post but which is worse bookstagram content: soft boy posting the NYRB version of Stoner in hand and saying he can finally see in color now, or the unlit cigarette in mouth people pretending Bret Easton Ellis is good
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me reacting to another person insisting slop is actually valuable
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thought this was gonna be a nice simple read and I was wrong. Dense storytelling thru memory/ghosts/mental illness, take your pick. I can see myself studying this one for technical knowledge for a long time, and makes sense that GGM basically memorized it. Muy muy chingon wey.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
crappyoats.substack.com/p/insert-you... join me for book reviews and possibly even “musings” on my new substack
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Does having a small weenie make you a Nazi?
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
crappyoats.substack.com/p/insert-you... further thoughts in my brand new SUBSTACK where I will attempt to rebrand myself as a combo of Michael Tracy and Thomas Chatterton Williams
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Does having a small weenie make you a Nazi?
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Went into The Tunnel, unprepared and unexpecting. Might be THE novel of the midwest. Fascism is miserable people, having everything and making it all our problem. It’s fusing your foreskin to your dick. It’s bitching about your wife getting fat. Tremendous stuff, incredible prose, now I’m homesick.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just remembered this after watching the miniseries and actually can’t believe someone would think this
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In William Gass’ The Tunnel, the main character claims that driving made him a Nazi and it doesn’t feel much a stretch to hear him describe it
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’d heard that they actually were left to rot bc one Mr Van der Groov couldn’t endure to eat their flesh
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’ve got a Joe Rogan of the left here
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Excuse me
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I dunno where I just saw it, but whoever said Adorno should be heard out on Jazz, he actually wasn’t as bad as the meme, I read that stuff AND HES EVEN WORSE HOLY SHIT
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’ve been signing up for community classes, and in all of them we sit around at the start waiting for a late person. Sorry, fuck them! We are adults here!
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It says a lot about limits to “the computer” in terms of a machine designed for the administration of data, that even thru layers and layers of abstraction, the best that people can come up with for it is automating ourselves a mindless bureaucracy to be inserted into all social interactions
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It says a lot about limits to “the computer” in terms of a machine designed for the administration of data, that even thru layers and layers of abstraction, the best that people can come up with for it is automating ourselves a mindless bureaucracy to be inserted into all social interactions
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Every time we watch Interview with the Vampire, my wife gets mad when I say I would absolutely be Lestat and just love eating people and being cool instead of a moody bitch like Louis.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Now I have to endure this fucking shriveled old nutsack wax on 9/11 and racial justice
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Jess Pegula should be embarrassed that with all that money, she’s got her coaches sitting out there with goddamn dog food hats on
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Generating a lot of power from that front foot. This is what Ohio needs!
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Im going to sit in my seat at the Hayley Williams show tonight and performatively read Sally Rooney so the women around me feel safe
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I am an Eno boy now. I had the Mackinaw growing up, but didn’t know it that well unfortunately. I’ve been launched out my canoe a few times into the Eno tho.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Feeling like DFW right now: tennis on in the background, reading Gass, am an alcoholic
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Tight pussy's overrated," Mamadani told the crowd at the WTC memorial, many clapping softly. "You want something broken in like granddad's penny loafer." But not everyone co-signs the mayor's populist message. "Tight is, for want of a truer word, Right," argued Bret Stephens in a recent Times op-ed
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Look at all these evil people the American liberal benevolently saved from their own misuse of democracy
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
First DeLillo, kinda wish I’d just done Underworld even with this being very good. I just dunno how much of this ultimately holds up now, and definitely everything he does, there’s someone doing it better. Not quite Pynchon, not quite DFW, not quite Roth. Still liked it and will try others later.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Community trust in institutional responsibility are eroded every year we continue to hear John McEnroe show up to the US Open broadcast to do no prep work and offer no insight to a game he played professionally with a wooden racquet at one point
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I know the margin notes were written by a bsky poster
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My SIL introduced me to people at her wedding last night as “my brother in law who read infinite jest” so I guess I have a brand new
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Rise of The Machines (2024)
Fred Flintstone stands, hands on his hips, looking incredulously at Barney Rubble, who is at the corner of the panel barely visible. He appears to wearing tiny sunglasses.
"C'mon Barn, what's with the getup? and what is that on your head?" Fred asks.
"oh this, Fred?"
We now see Barney is also wearing a black trench coat and smoking a cigarette. A small bird is taped to the side of his head. "Just the latest in cybernetic enhancement technology- wired right into my brain."

The background dissolves and Barney stands next to a free floating diagram of a human body with several small birds going into it and says "we're entering a new age, Fred- the synthesis of man and machine as one flesh. This is the future. It's hack or be hacked."
Fred looks incredulous. 

The bird pecks Barney.

Barney puts his hands on his head and screams "the machines are turning against us! We have built God only for him to destroy us!" as the bird continues to peck at him.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I found this with the big Detroit haul not knowing the guy was a presumed Nobel winner before dying too soon. Interesting form to the novel, I should probably try more eastern bloc stuff out bc this was pretty wild. Good follow up to Capitalist Realism as it tackled Kafka themes but in the Comintern
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Got my first rejection, am I a real writer now?
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Joey @tomakeitfall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm imagining a 19 yr old leftist getting yelled at to read this book and then upon doing so they're like surprised at how much knowledge of British rave culture they have to know to be a Marxist.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Revisiting this, I’m never sure if this is supposed to be an introductory text because it is very simple and broad, but then also it requires a decent familiarity of post war Marxist theory. I dunno, maybe we need a better book for intros in 2026, I have no recollection of the show supernanny by now
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Revisiting this, I’m never sure if this is supposed to be an introductory text because it is very simple and broad, but then also it requires a decent familiarity of post war Marxist theory. I dunno, maybe we need a better book for intros in 2026, I have no recollection of the show supernanny by now
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Took my own advice to read this. Incredible author, might be my favorite modern writer. The Mexican Sound and Fury; an explosive, hateful, suffocating environment breaks those forced to survive it. She powerfully wields forces that destroy us misogyny, homophobia, and poverty with captivating prose.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Asking everyone here if they’ve read Infinite Jest
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote 1000 words today, please clap
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Really wasn’t expecting this direction for the keeping it too woke Dolly eulogy
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I-L-L
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Took my own advice to read this. Incredible author, might be my favorite modern writer. The Mexican Sound and Fury; an explosive, hateful, suffocating environment breaks those forced to survive it. She powerfully wields forces that destroy us misogyny, homophobia, and poverty with captivating prose.
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just in case you need a follow up to Everybody Poops
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Brother I’m happy you’re reading but come on
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113642 @justdanthistime.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
zohran [waving power broker in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh [audience going berserk]
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Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Brother I’m happy you’re reading but come on
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