Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with em dashes that do not cease, I am the master of my fate: I am the thought leader behind the piece. 001
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I'm glad the New York Times is here to explain that a total solar eclipse works the same way in Europe that it does in other places 010
Reposted by Daren ChapinPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Well, at least America has better beer. 6834418
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026My guess is that 1/3 of DFW would be amused by this, 1/3 would be mortified that his book was famous enough to be parodied this way, and the remaining third would be seriously irked that this is for sure a countably finite number of Jeffs 110
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026In which the NYT commits the biggest act of gaslighting in the history of the crossword: the Sunday puzzle in the Magazine has clues that don't fit the grid. Or maybe you just aren't getting it because the title is about "Fusion". Then the next day they are not even sorry, it's just "Enjoy!" 000
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026In which I miss The Awl and specifically Balk's annual prognostications about men wearing shorts 120
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Happy to report that Project Hail Mary is as good as everyone is saying, taking some justifiable deviations from the book that make sense for film, but I'll allow it. The upside surprise is Sandra Hüller, whose character is not explored enough in the novel and knocks it out of the park in the film. 020
Reposted by Daren ChapinAlan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026and he would have got away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling kids 342773485
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026This is something I tell to everyone on the East Coast that I can. If you have never gone out and physically stood in front of The West before but just seen it in photos, you absolutely must. You think you have an idea, but you have no idea: it is stupendously, ridiculously bigger than you think 106913
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026It helps that I am a diehard WWDTM listener but the man has the voice of a generation, so head and shoulders above the others and still somehow only nipping at the heels of James Earl Jones for The Voice 000
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026We saw this yesterday and I was too stunned to compose a post about how remarkable it is. Tickets had gotten very scarce but the show was recently extended through early April. 010
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I didn't think these were particularly difficult to classify tbh 000
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed. 000
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026This is wild, it sort of reads like Whitman but if you ran it in reverse gear. Song of My Self-Loathing. 🌿 050
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Watching the Men's FreeSki Big Air Qualifiers and the NBC commentator just said, "You know, skiing takes place on snow" 210
Reposted by Daren Chapinsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Birnam Wood has come to Dunsinane 401462197
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Uncle Walt knows he's sitting on a giant metaphor but he's not about to allow you to get all reductive with it 🌿 160
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026[Starting Song of Myself] "Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat" well that seems idyllic, sitting around talking about stuff (5 lines later) "parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stripped heart" Good god man, we're only on stanza 5 🌿 1101
Reposted by Daren Chapinmcc @dryad.technology · 31/01/2026So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume 9063851452
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026- Ahab has "friends at home?!" Like they show up on Saturdays for Tea with Captain Ahab? - Ahab, the character most associated with the word 'monomaniacal' in all of English Literature, is pausing here to consider "what will my friends think?" 🐋 3121
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026This is the first footnote that I have highlighted, because, wut? Norton Critical is recognized as the gold standard for researchers, so now I really need to know if this actually happened & what the RFP was. "Subjects will row with whaling knives in their mouths to determine if this is unwise" 🐋 2140
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026For just a second you're like, wow, I guess Melville is going with Fedallah's pronouns as it/its, that is indeed kind of badass. (Also, totally need to bring back 'swart' as a thing people say) 🐋 030
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Little-known fact: "how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the forecastle" was a slogan under consideration for RFK Jr.'s new inverted food pyramid 🐋 180
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I'm playing catch-up so this is news from a couple days ago's reading but "'Slid! Such a phiz!" is just an amazing way to react to a person's face 🐋 160
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Getting really strong Whitman-Leaves-of-Grassy vibes from Melville's quick departure from obsessive Starbuck specifics to Big Ideas about the dignity of the arm that drives the spike, and the noble and sparkling soul. Contemporaneous texts although LoG is published 4 years after MD 🐋 280
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Leaning in hard to all the shipping at the start of Chapter 19 like 🐋 170
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Furtively taking notes on good sailoring in Father Mapple's church: - grasp the oriental knobs of the man-ropes - hand over hand - mount steps as if ascending the main-top 🐋 #md 020
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Well that was a very satisfying day 2 read but it's getting late and I'd better be turning flukes #MD 🐋 050
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026A Month of Dick has begun. I read chapters 1 & 2 yesterday on the train back to our beloved city of the Manhattoes. Friends, it's not too late to get on this ship before it sails. (A decent online version with annotations can be found at powermobydick.com, if you do not have a paper copy handy.) 010
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Ah well, not realizing the import of what one is saying and not consuming much news is probably par for the course for a chief executive, and is totally understandable if you are *checks notes* president of a think tank 010
Reposted by Daren ChapinThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork 860238544347
Reposted by Daren ChapinDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Hope to see a Portland band calling themselves Unusual Noise and playing outside the ICE hq soon 14812
Reposted by Daren ChapinAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025"there's a new serif in town" 1004146832489
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025🎵It must be nice It must be niiiiice To have Washington as A.I. 🎵 000
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025The Ozymandias reply thread is proof that we could turn Bsky into what was great about Twitter 1.0 if we wanted to 140
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025The Brian Lehrer Show just did a call-in segment on listeners' morning routines and it's a humbling exercise in selection bias. Every caller is like, well my alarm goes off at 4am, then I do some Tai Chi, read for 20 min, then hit the gym for an hour so I get back in time to walk the dog before work 000
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Is it time to post that Neal Brennan video? I think it is. youtu.be/WOSqCjMRXWA?...youtu.beNeal Brennan Has a Plan to Test the 2nd Amendment | NetflixYouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke 010
Reposted by Daren ChapinGlen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Well don't I feel stupid 283258236759
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025It's finally happening youtu.be/59s5bzLCngQ?...youtu.beFletch Mattress PoliceYouTube video by thefutureisnow 010
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Mirror in the bathroom recompense For all my crimes of self defense 010
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Oh sure mister I-have-8-arms-and-no-internet-access, do tell 010
Daren Chapin @dchapin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Wordle 1,535 2/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Finally they use one of my starter words as a clue and today I used a different starter words. So close to having 1'd, and yet so far 000
Reposted by Daren ChapinRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it 12384520411358
