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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some favorite (non-Trump) excerpts from my read through

Daniel Day-Lewis's Oscar-winning performance had him in a wheelchair. Al Pacino went blind for his. The latest in this illustrious lineage is the heretofore Oscar-free Bruce Willis, who went his forebears one better on the set of Striking Distance by endowing his character with a disability of his own devising. On the first day of filming, the balding box-office liability surprised co-workers by showing up wearing an unsightly knee brace and insisting, I've thought about it, and I've decided my character would wear a
Joel
knee brace. Director Rowdy Herrington and Columbia executives were
reportedly less than enthused with the previously unmethodical actor's script change and eventually prevailed on him to wear a less obtrusive, neoprene brace for filming. It wasn't until much later that someone close to the star raised the possibility that Willis actually had injured his knee and that rather than being an Academy-pleasing affectation, the brace was being worn on doctors' orders.”
From "Spy Magazine" June 1993

“Remember when peo-
ple were saying, "Well, there's no point in impeaching Reagan over this Iran-contra thing, because it'd just mean we'd get Bushại And now everyone prays nothing will take Bush out, because that'd leave us with Quayle. So when Quayle gets elected, who's going to be his cautionary number twẾẾAn infinite regression of diminishing Republicans stretches out ahead of us. Within 30 years, the vice president will be a parakeet.”
From "Three Dot Column" by Roy Blount Jr. (Spy Magazine, Sept. 1990)

“BARBRA STREISAND CHOOSES her projects very care-fully; it has been three years since her show-offy star turn as a nut in Nuts, and only now has she rededicated herself to film, this time as the pro-ducer-director-star-despot of The Prince of Tides, an adaptation of PAT CONROY's novel that her ex-boyfriend JON PETERS is paying her to make for Columbia Pictures. Streisand's on-the-set demeanor suggests that the Nuts magic has yet to wear off: Not too long ago she chewed out her staff because her trailer was inappropriately equipped.
The problem? The motor home's toilet featured an awkwardly placed flush handle that in the cramped trailer required its user to pivot around and risk experiencing a glimpse into the bowl.
Under Streisand's maniacal orders, plans were drawn up - at considerable expense - to remount the flushing mechanism so that she would be spared the apparent trauma of turning around.
Alas, even this proposed solution failed to satisfy Streisand, who as producer is nominally responsible for keeping the film within budget. She finally decreed that thenceforth her underlings find and rent her bouses near various shooting locations - the main criterion being the grandeur of the houses' bathrooms.”
From Spy Magazine, Oct. 1990

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Downloaded the run from the internet archive and the whole thing is worth a read through archive.org/details/SpyM...

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Spy Magazine 1986-1998

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Though @bookshop.org doesn’t carry Ghosts of East Baltimore…

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Quickest read-profile-to-book-order I’ve ever done

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Thanks For Sharing, Jerk @thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stop calling Musk a Nazi: the Nazis actually had a working rocket program

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

willy wonka? the slaveowner?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Petition for a writ of what in the sam hill is going on over there

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Instant *rental* That is a great deal that I might have to take up myself, but don’t lose sight of the fact that you are only paying for a license to watch it through Apple TV as long as they support it.

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also got a wonderful poem from DJ Leary at Baltimore Book Fest.

A booth with a man and a typewriter with a sign “Poetry & Prose on demand”

On demand poem from DJ Leary :

"NIGHT-BLOOM"
I know a place in the desert so loud
in its silence that it stills your heart'beat into a miracle. makes each a firework,
a noonday sun. Let me tell you story
chat starts with a gamble anc full tank of gas.
Driving through til morning
when the cactus
finally go to bed.
DJ Leary

Sep 19, 2026
Baltimore, MD

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

May have gone a bit overboard with things from the Baltimore Book Fest.

Two t-shirts that say “facts” and “science” on them. The book “End Times Fascism”. The book “Holding Change”. The book “Baltimore”. Two coloring books. And a Red Emma’s tote bag.

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You may remember it as great, but physical card catalogs were also a huge pain. Trust me, searching is 1000% better.

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Margaret Atwood had them pinned. (From “The Blind Assassin”)

“But not here; not in this gentle, tedious backwater; not in Port Ticonderoga, despite a druggie or two in the parks, despite the occasional break-in, despite the occasional body found floating around in the eddies. We hunker down here, drinking our bedtime drinks, nibbling our bedtime snacks, peering at the world as if through a secret window, and when we've had enough of it we turn it off. So much for the twentieth century, we say, as we make our way upstairs. But there's a far-off roaring, like a tidal wave racing inshore. Here comes the twenty-first century, sweeping overhead like a spaceship filled with ruthless lizard-eyed aliens or a metal pterodactyl. Sooner or later it will sniff us out, it will tear the roofs off our flimsy little burrows with its iron claws, and then we will be just as naked and shivering and starving and diseased and hopeless as the rest.
Excuse this digression. At my age you indulge in these apocalyptic visions. You say, The end of the world is at hand. You lie to yourself - I'm glad I won't be around to see it - when in fact you'd like nothing better, as long as you can watch it through the little secret window, as long as you won't be involved.
But why bother about the end of the world? It's the end of the world every day, for someone. Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.”

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

From the poem “Too Strong” collected in “Holy Moly Carry Me” by Erika Meitner

“The next morning's
paper sports a photo of LeBron embracing power forward Kevin Love, next to headlines about Venezuelan food riots, triple-digit temperatures in the West, vigils for victims of the Orlando massacre, and the Colorado woman who fought off a mountain lion attacking her five-year-old son-literally reached into the animal's mouth and wrested his head from its jaws.
Too strong. In the belly of fear and rust
and shame there is no such thing.
To pry open something with your bare hands, look into the gaping maw of the beast that eats your sons-the lion, the bullets, the streets, racist cops, heroin, despair, whatever is most predatory and say, Enough-we will triumph, motherfuckers”

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Let me fight Reacher. I can beat him. I’m taller.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

wait. these instructions are terrible

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My high school AP US History teacher used “Washington Bullets” to teach us about US imperialism in the Americas.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 13/06/2023

You either die a hero, or you die in some other way.

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Every Simpsons Character Ever: Vol 1 is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Back now to get a hardcover book drawing and documenting over 200 characters from The Simpsons! www.kickstarter.com/projects/eve...

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Every Simpsons Character Ever Vol 1 - a book!

A hardcover book documenting every speaking character from season 1 of The Simpsons. Every character is drawn and many get write-ups!

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There are no wrong ways to experience a museum, but this is pretty close to one. As Antonin Artaud writes: If our life lacks a constant magic, it is because we chose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force

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vineyille @vineyille.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Instead of talking to chat gpt all day, kids should be learning about the original A.I. - Albert Inestein

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Had this one and the Felix the Cat cartoon studio as well - both weird

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phil @philjamesson.com · 14/08/2026

kids today be like “i love rock and roll, so put another song in the playlist baby” 🤣🤣🤣 they also have a lot of trauma from the things that are happening

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Seriously - your kids and grandkids probably would like you to put down your phone once in a while.

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Honestly all you need to know about this chode - does he have a job besides posting?

BlueSky badges of Tom Nichols showing he made over 100 post 100 replies yesterday and average over 20 replies a day.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

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Trudd Studdlerucker @trudd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Now why don't you make like a House and Of Leave

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Echoes of Charles Bowden, from “Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America”

“To make readers snap alert to things they have never imagined or wanted to know. I am an exile from newspapers because of the most grievous sin of all—I have lost my belief. I no longer believe that the front page, the business page, the sports page, the arts page can tell a story that matters. The editorial page? No one ever believed that the editorial page could forecast anything, that page was just a place for publishers to wipe their asses and call it thought. I now think that things are occurring so far beneath the daily patter of our civilization that we can both feel the tremors and at the same time ignore them. I think we are dying, and what we are dying from is from what we are. What I fear is not the decline and fall of this culture that raised me up, nor the lack of ease I now feel in filing for a newspaper. What I fear is paralysis, my own paralysis. I cannot imagine a life without an act or an act without the support of belief. I must believe... in order to be.
I am not cut out to brood nor is my eye on the goddamn sparrow—Christ! Look at that woman crossing the street, the way she walks, oh, ain't she fine.”

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sometimes people are like anyone can fall into a cult but like, I’m pretty sure I’m not gonna. Watch this space

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Surprisingly the children on this 1992 episode of Nick Arcade could not name “Misery” - the terrifying R rated horror film that came out two years before - as the answer.

Host of Nick Arcade reading a question:
“All right, put down that sledgehammer and name the movie in which James Caan

Question continued:
“…played a novelist terrorized by his number one fan.”

The children contestants who are baffled

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Get thee to a fun-ery @joedacey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In the middle of watching Tatiana Maslany’s “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed” and kept wondering why the detective in that show was so familiar - turns out we had watched him basically play the same role for 7 seasons in Elementary

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