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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If anyone in Los Angeles is interested in seeing @garygulman.bsky.social ‘s show Grandiloquent at Largo. I have two tickets I sadly cannot use. Hit me up!

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Post a TV show nobody watched but you? I mean, where to begin!

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Guard your sniffer ports, everyone!

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I slept on this book for TOO LONG. It is SO GOOD! Beautifully written and intricate like a puzzle box. @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social knocked it out of the park with this one.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The mouth of the Scrub Daddy, that’s where knives go when you want to clean them, right? Or should I be discussing this with a mental health professional?

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve been a fan of @derfbackderf.bsky.social since I was Managing Editor of the PitchWeekly in KC and he was drawing The City (and alt-weeklies were still a thing). Was blown away by his last graphic novel KENT STATE. Just got this in the mail today and it’s beautiful. Can’t wait to dive in.

"Backderf brings to life an era when Americans forgot about our most important amendment."
-Ann Telnaes, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist
DERF BACKDERF
The
DISSIDENTS
AUTOCRATS! VIGILANTES! COMMUNISTS!...AND CARTOONISTS!
Author of
MY FRIEND DAHMER, TRASHED, and KENT STATE.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sorry, here’s the aforementioned RAGE CHECKLIST.

THE RAGE CHECKLIST
1. More than one Ellipsis in a single word bubble
2. McEldowney Ellipsis
3. Starting a word bubble with an ellipsis
4. Multiple ellipses in a single world bubble
5. So many periods, it's honestly ridiculous The back of someone's head talking to us
7. People talking to us, but we're looking at the back of a sofa
8. The person on the right speaking before the person on the left
9. Someone talking while walking off panel / Word bubbles coming from off panel
10. Hands that look like crab claws, or mangled by machines V 11. The height of booths, chairs, or sofas varying from panel to panel
12. Hair length or style changing from one panel to the next
13. Sex or foreplay happening in (or adjacent to) a body of water
14. Water levels changing panel to panel
15. Impossible feats of dexterity
16. Men being afraid of sex /17. Women being overly horny
18. Weird and/or rapey sex stuff
19. Women sexually attacking men while the men have surprised hands
20. Eyeglasses being thrown in the air as an indication of fucking
21. Closeups of hands indicating fucking
22. Fucking on a table or in some other public area / Voyeurism
23. Big words used for no good reason
24. Pop culture references from mid 20th century (or earlier)
25. More than 25 words in one word balloon
26. More than 50 words in one panel
27. Truly bizarre body proportions
28. Turtlenecks
29. Ben Franklin
30. Corn niblet teeth
31. Broken necks

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Finished another shortie. Couplets by Maggie Millner. Primarily written in verse. 128 pages. And really great.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Accidentally trained my dachshund puppies to come to me when I called out, “Ladieeeees!”

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And I’m currently reading (with my 10-year-old son) Lightfall by @timprobert.bsky.social. Reminds me a lot of the Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi, both in the epic nature of the adventure and in the beauty of the illustrations.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I also polished off two non-fiction books I had stalled in, both about two-thirds in. I recommend both Remember by Lisa Genova (an excellent book to help you understand how memory works) and The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin, which is just one great inspirational quote after another.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Finished another short novel: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham (1957). Spawned the 1960 film Village of the Damned that terrified me as a child.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Never forget…this poster I found at a Cher convention.

A drawing depicts the twin towers with a giant Cher standing next to them holding a shovel. Cher also wears an Uncle Sam hat and a T-shit that reads Chas hearts NY. CHER IS SAYING, “we will build them back even greater!” The statement ends with seven exclamation marks.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Gingerbread & Jaws (r to l), by request.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That war we won months ago and again a month ago and again a week ago is going great. We’ll probably win it again before Monday.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Finished another book. The Satsuma Complex, a fun, light mystery by the hilarious British comedian Bob Mortimer. Almost 300 pages! On the long side for my Short Book Binge.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Coyote vs ACME was really great. Very funny, sure, but also about how it’s important to fight the big guys even if you lose again and again. And then it has a real heartfelt twist in it that works! Also: there’s like 100 high quality throw-away jokes filling every frame.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Read a LOT of sci-fi growing up but had never heard of Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick until my 15-year-old son called it one of his all-time favorites. Do yourself a favor and do NOT read the back of the book first. Just dive in and hang on tight. It’s a wild ride.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Don’t follow for me. Follow for them… (Gingerbread & Jaws)

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Pedro the Vast (2026) by Simón López Trujillo, translated by Robin Meyers is a little like the beginning of The Last of Us if that wasn’t a video game but a poem. A little fact, a little supernatural weirdness, some hallucinatory imagery.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder (2026) by Nina McConigley is such a fresh an interesting story. And the solution posed by the title ends up being quite a surprise. Not that the murder is the point of the novel. Because it’s about way more than that.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

First off was Vigil by George Saunders (2026). Man, nobody loves the liminal space between life and death like Saunders. A great companion to Lincoln in the Bardo (2017).

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Oh no! Rock is dying? This is the fourth or fifth time since the ‘80s that it’s died!

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Is it “wings?” Feels like the answer is wings.

Article with a picture of a crocodile and a bird. Headline above reads “Crocodiles can’t fly. Birds can. Scientists have finally figured out why.”

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Oh, we should DEFINITELY rescue him then! I mean, what message does it send if we’re not helping our millionaires?

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sorry, had it wrong the first time. The Dodgers are 4-8 since visiting Trump. The Trump Sports Curse is real.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Thought I might pop down the street to pick up a book or two while I was in London and grabbed this new book by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social. Might crack it open on the plane ride home.

Picture of the book Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Cox.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is being passed around a lot today, so I’ll share it too. Whether or not Graham changed his tune because of dirt they had on him or because it just seemed more lucrative to do so, the outcome is the same. He was the worst kind of politician and most of his decisions hurt people.

A Tweet of Lindsey Graham’s from 2016 where he said, “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…and we will deserve it.”

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Seven things I *need* to know? Why, that’s seven more things than I WANT to know!

The Guardian @theguardian.com
Is it time to enter the Tillyverse?
Seven things you need to know about Al 'actor' Tilly Norwood

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Daddy’s home! And he’s not sure where home is or who all these people are!

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Do you love Lavash and Schwarma? Just call 1-813-BOB-BOOB!

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I guess they’d better work harder to create a product people (billions of them) want to buy then, right?

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Not sure what this guy is bringing to the World Cup conversation. Probably would’ve been better to have a soccer player.

Picture of the album cover from the Alexi Lalas album Ginger.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This chyron is on point. This is how we should talk about the “imminent Iran deal.” Like, “Oh, we are 95% there? Again? Just like the last thirty times you told us that?”

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

License plate frames make incredible lower back tattoos.

A license plate frame that reads: “May thy knife chip and shatter.”

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I changed my mind! I think the fans at MSG should all do this when Trump shows up.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Is another one of his kids getting married that weekend?

Picture of Trump with the headline “Trump to headline Great American State Fair after music acts cancel.”

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Are they building a Stargate On the White House lawn?

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This feels like a job for Don Martin.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We said goodbye to our 18-year-old champion earlier this month. Hildegaard, Hildy to most, was the very best. Such a big part of our family’s life for so long. How lucky for us. How lucky for her.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

YouTube’s captions are both racist… 1/2

A still frame of Kumail Nanjiani with the caption reading Romesh Ranganathan.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The aspirational bike racks at the Burbank REI.

A picture of a long line of wall mounted bike racks on the exterior of the REI store. All of the racks, as per usual, are empty.

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Said goodbye to this fucking legend this morning. 18 years at the top! Have fun with Petunia, Ginger, Andy & Beverly, sweet kitty. I will miss you forever.

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