Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 20hWanted 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. 020
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I 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. 030
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’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. 050
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026First 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. 030
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Maybe 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 130
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Me reacting to another person insisting slop is actually valuable 050
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Thought 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. 010
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026crappyoats.substack.com/p/insert-you... join me for book reviews and possibly even “musings” on my new substackcrappyoats.substack.comInsert Your Choice of Tunnel Based Pun HereDoes having a small weenie make you a Nazi? 010
Reposted by Da Miata ManDa Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026crappyoats.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 Williamscrappyoats.substack.comInsert Your Choice of Tunnel Based Pun HereDoes having a small weenie make you a Nazi? 001
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Went 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. 130
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I just remembered this after watching the miniseries and actually can’t believe someone would think this 150
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In 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 060
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’d heard that they actually were left to rot bc one Mr Van der Groov couldn’t endure to eat their flesh 110
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I 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 120
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I’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! 050
Reposted by Da Miata ManDa Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It 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 131
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It 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 131
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Every 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. 030
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Now I have to endure this fucking shriveled old nutsack wax on 9/11 and racial justice 020
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Jess Pegula should be embarrassed that with all that money, she’s got her coaches sitting out there with goddamn dog food hats on 020
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Generating a lot of power from that front foot. This is what Ohio needs! 020
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Im going to sit in my seat at the Hayley Williams show tonight and performatively read Sally Rooney so the women around me feel safe 050
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I 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. 020
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Feeling like DFW right now: tennis on in the background, reading Gass, am an alcoholic 040
Reposted by Da Miata Manrob @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 161125118
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Look at all these evil people the American liberal benevolently saved from their own misuse of democracy 380
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026First 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. 130
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Community 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 161
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I know the margin notes were written by a bsky poster 010
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My 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 150
Reposted by Da Miata ManRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Rise of The Machines (2024) 81478405
Reposted by Da Miata ManUser with this avatar just got blocked @avijustgotblocked.bsky.social · 06/09/2026An account with this avatar was just blocked. 05112
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I 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 020
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Got my first rejection, am I a real writer now? 1110
Reposted by Da Miata ManJoey @tomakeitfall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I'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. 121
Reposted by Da Miata ManDa Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Revisiting 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 121
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Revisiting 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 121
Reposted by Da Miata ManDa Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Took 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. 031
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Asking everyone here if they’ve read Infinite Jest 050
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Really wasn’t expecting this direction for the keeping it too woke Dolly eulogy 140
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Took 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. 031
Da Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Just in case you need a follow up to Everybody Poops 020
Reposted by Da Miata ManDa Miata Man @crappyoats.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Brother I’m happy you’re reading but come on 041
Reposted by Da Miata Man113642 @justdanthistime.bsky.social · 24/08/2026zohran [waving power broker in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh [audience going berserk] 147062