ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 24/05/2025An ad agency for McDonald’s France, calling it like they see it, is using graphics and design elements of a fictional meth-smuggling front company to sell “McDo”’s reformulated “McCrispy” fried chicken. 2181
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 13/05/2025My junk text life is so rich with poignant memories. 1400
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Or Moe Berg, major league catcher, graduate of Princeton and Columbia Law, quiz show champion, and OSS spy who was, at his discretion, literally licensed to kill Werner Heisenberg? 4333
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025No? How about Zeppo Marx, who played straight-man foil to his three older brothers in vaudeville and the first five Marx Bros. films (can’t have been that easy) AND invented the heating pad?#InternationalSurprisinglyVersatileHumansDay 2495
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Today is International Surprisingly Versatile Humans Day! Repost with a favorite Surprisingly Versatile Human. Mine is UK illustrator Chris Foss (b. 1946), known both for his eye-popping 1970s sf paperback-cover starships AND the nitty-gritty pencil illustrations for the original THE JOY OF SEX. 8696
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Two things that are wonderful: 1) John Fahey’s *The Voice of the Turtle* 2) The cover of John Fahey’s *The Voice of the Turtle* (by Patrick Finnerty) youtube.com/playlist?lis... 2250
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Seeing my grandparents’ hi-fi rig on eBay and realizing that my (engineer) grandfather must have built it himself. #solderingironman 3592
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 13/03/2025We may disagree on whether they represent Haman’s ears, hat, or pockets, but I think we can agree that @russanddaughters.bsky.social are perfection. (To answer your next question: poppy seed, always.) 4330
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025The set of all people who wanted this feature = ∅. 6291
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025In a great lyric by a great writer, one of my all-time favorite lines. So evocative. 2452
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Feiffer Intervention 2 came in 1996, in his eulogy for Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel. I’d been at work on TAAoK&C a bit more than a year. 1192
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025[Oh! And his treatment of his mentor Will Eisner as the first great genius of comic books, an opinion now c.w. but shared by no one, not even Will, in 1965 (Will came around).] 1192
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025The other passage took longer to find flower: Feiffer’s concise, vivid recreation of the world of young comic book artists and writers that, as a teen prodigy of the mid-1940s, he entered into and, obviously, adored. 2140
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025It was 2 passages in the afterword that altered reality for me: Feiffer’s wry & beguiling account of his self-penned, self-published efforts as a juvenile comic book creator, which sent me into immediate DIY action, & gave me the license and the chutzpah to think of myself, at seven, as a creator. 1170
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Feiffer obtained permissions to collect and reproduce facsimile images in high-quality art-book format of the first appearances and origin stories of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America, the Human Torch and even Captain Marvel, then snarled in a series of savage copyright battles. 1111
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025TGCBH was a unique blend of cultural criticism, personal history, insider memoir, & striking design. Aided by the neglect & disregard into which comic books—never highly esteemed—had fallen by ‘65… 2163
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025In 1969 my dad came home from the library with Jules Feiffer‘s The Great Comic Book Heroes (1965). “This book changed my life” is well-worn hyperbole but here there can be no doubt. 815217
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Just stumbled on this magical document, Billboard magazine’s 1972 holiday yearbook, and herewith propose that we redefine “time bomb.” For the variety of period typefaces, alone, it’s utterly transporting. www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-... 4361
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 25/12/2024“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits: 1350
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 25/12/2024This breathtaking establishing shot of Ancient Rome for *Gladiator II*—a phone snap can’t begin to do it justice—lasts maybe 2.3 seconds & if only this much obvious love, care, & attention had been paid to the storytelling, characters, and dialogue, Mr. Scott really might’ve had himself a movie. 3380
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 23/12/2024While doubtless immensely gratifying, it must also at times be a pain in the ass to have won one of these. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_... 3220
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 22/12/2024No deadpan deader than Wikipedia deadpan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques... 2220
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/12/2024In the throes of a big ol’ mindcrush on quantum computing/AI super-explainer Scott Aaronson, captured here summarizing (without necessarily endorsing) the arguments for pessimism about the fate of human beings in a world of true AIs. 1220
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 16/12/2024My first published poem!*† *Not counting college lit mag. †Also not counting a line from a villanelle I wrote to Ayelet on our 30th, later published on her left arm. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 2411
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 14/12/2024A passing reference to La Belle Otero in *In Search of Lost Time* vol. 2 sent me down this wikihole, and now I’m like the kid at the end of “Pictures of Lily.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bell... 4230
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 12/12/2024And you just know the butterflies aren’t making a dime. 0290
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Fun thing to ponder on a Sunday: “feminized Christianity” with a female messiah, a woman pope, and women in positions of sacred authority. Meet Saint Guglielma. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gugliel... 2262
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024What’s up, Berkeley! (Literally. Also note platform-related visual pun.) 3401
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Narrator: A tsunami was *not* coming to West Berkeley. #phew 3210
