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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

@kenjennings.bsky.social A) yes I was outraged that no one knew Bloom County B) when the final Jeopardy question came up I immediately rattled off the words. Correctly. IMMEDIATELY. I can’t decide if I am proud of that or not.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

@kenjennings.bsky.social really upset that no one wanted to sing the Fiddler category!

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Showing US service members after reading an ad for SAudi Arabia is as tone deaf as anything I’ve ever watched. And this is on a game called by Joe Buck andTroy Aikman.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Kind of wish Fear Factor was on more often so I could not watch it multiple times.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Had Kirk Herbstreet (however you spell it I don’t fucking care) actually watched a Bears game this year or a Ben Johnson game ever? Why the fuck wouldn’t Williams want the most sought after offensive coach in the league? Moron.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Oh, Ravens. You might change your name, logos, and colors and move to a different city but you will ALWAYS have the stench of the Browns on you.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

@kenjennings.bsky.social I still say #jeopardy needs to do a tournament of five time champions from the time when five was the limit.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

@kenjennings.bsky.social @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social Jeopardy needs to have a tournament bringing back 5-time retired champions from the era of the 5 time limit. The winner gets to keep playing.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This is a great book. I waited far too long to read it. Don’t make my mistake. Buy it now!

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

@kenjennings.bsky.social a ‘42’ category and not one question about Hitchhiker’s Guide? I’m not mad just disappointed

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Yeah and Brock Turner got away with r@pe because they didn’t want to ruin his “bright future”

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Fuck your thoughts and prayers. In fact, shove them up your ass with those guns.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

It boggles my mind that someone in a decision making role in a major corporation actually thought this would in any way be an incentive for any human being to come out to the ballpark. I mean, what, you couldn’t make a deal for “free radial tire day”? www.mlb.com/cardinals/ti...

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Nikki Glaser Day Theme Ticket | St. Louis Cardinals

Celebrate one of STL's funniest – It's Nikki Glaser Day at Busch Stadium!

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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Since I'm writing book three in the trilogy, and it's really funny so far, can I tell you about the first two books? Would you share this with friends who like silly stuff? Anyone out there want to read novels narrated by a coffee machine robot who can't stop footnoting? www.amazon.com/dp/B08RB4S319

Publishers Weekly starred review
The Great American Deception
Scott Stein. Tiny Fox, $14.27 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-1-946501-21-9
Stein (Mean Martin Manning) delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity. Arjay, a sentient, top-of-the-line coffee machine with an excess of pep, tags along on the cases of old-school PI Frank Harken within the luxurious but dystopian confines of the Great American—a giant, autonomous, U.S.-coast-spanning shopping mall. Though the grumpy gumshoe is not always thrilled by Arjay’s presence, he can’t deny that the bot makes a “damn fine” cup of coffee. When one of the Great American’s inhabitants, Pretty Lovely, hires Harken to find her sister, kidnapped heiress Winsome Smiles, Harken and Arjay are plunged into Great American’s underbelly, where they encounter genre staples including mobsters and incompetent cops. Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming, juxtaposing the gritty mystery and dystopian setting with Arjay’s perky narration to excellent effect. Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight. (May)

screenshot of review of The Great American Betrayal in Vulture.com naming it one of The Best Comedy Books of 2022
full text at https://www.vulture.com/article/best-comedy-books-2022.html

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This is the funniest damn thing I’ve seen all week.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Oh shit add one more person to that number when dipshit hears this.

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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

A robot coffee machine narrator. A hardboiled private investigator. A mall that spans the continent. A missing woman. A star from Publishers Weekly and a "Get It" verdict from Kirkus Reviews. Comparisons to Douglas Adams. 154 footnotes. www.amazon.com/Great-Americ... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Private detective Frank Harken could really, really use a cup of coffee.
Can you blame him?
His new case features a missing woman, a flaky client, a cranky security officer, a mysterious assassin, an overbearing mob boss, an ice-cold enforcer, and the best mini-golf the world has ever seen. Did we mention the fate of millions is at stake?

“Stein delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity… Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming … Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Get ready for some super great fun! The Great American Deception is a hilarious (and deeply disturbing) voyage through a futuristic netherworld of caffeinated robots and diet pizza. Somewhere—possibly nowhere—Douglas Adams is sighing pleasurably with a combination of approval and afterlife indigestion.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure and Lake Success

“The Great American Deception is by far the most enjoyable novel told from the point of view of a futuristic coffee machine I have ever read!”
—Ben Schwartz, actor and writer

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

He’s been credibly accused of r*pe by dozens of women, convicted in a court of law. There are multiple pictures, videos, and letters connecting him to a known serial child sex trafficker. Remind me why we need to even see the Epstein files? Oh I know why - because no one listens to women. Why?

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

@kenjennings.bsky.social Theoretically would you ever compete in another Jeopardy tournament or do you think you would have an unfair advantage from being host? Not sure how it would be an advantage but still

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Pretty much every right wing asshole on the bird place, from DJT jr to Charlie Kirk to Lee fucking Greenwood have posted how sad they are that Hogan died Kind of tells you everything you need to know.

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Sami @samitron.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

In honor of that jabroni hulk hogan passing awagy, i wanna post my favorite iron sheik tweets about him hating his ass

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Masyn Winn is going to be a huge fucking star. #cardinals

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Was just talking to my wife about there being a new host of Match Game and she said “I like Martin Short but it would have been better if it was @pattonoswalt.bsky.social ” Gotta agree.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Holy shit. Marmol made a great managerial decision. Blind squirrel I guess.

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

If you were cool with this, you can shove your "Happy 4th of July" up your ass.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

@kevinhearne.bsky.social just a note. Finally read Hounded and really loved it. As many others I assume I was looking for “another Dresden files” and Iron Druid is so much better. I will be starting Hexed this weekend and the rest have definitely been added to my TBR. Thought you’d like to know. 👍🏻

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is just a post to say that I love @qi.com and Sandi Toksvig is a wonderful treasure. Stephen is awesome too actually. Thanks to the Elves for such a tremendous show.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Hopefully they treat Kristi Noem the same as she treats her dogs.

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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Today is my birthday. Please share this so more people can hear about my novels The Great American Deception and The Great American Betrayal. I'm working on book 3 of the trilogy. Thanks! www.amazon.com/Great-Americ... bookshop.org/p/books/the-... scottsteinonline.com

Publishers Weekly starred review of The Great American Deception

Stein (Mean Martin Manning) delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity. Arjay, a sentient, top-of-the-line coffee machine with an excess of pep, tags along on the cases of old-school PI Frank Harken within the luxurious but dystopian confines of the Great American—a giant, autonomous, U.S.-coast-spanning shopping mall. Though the grumpy gumshoe is not always thrilled by Arjay’s presence, he can’t deny that the bot makes a “damn fine” cup of coffee. When one of the Great American’s inhabitants, Pretty Lovely, hires Harken to find her sister, kidnapped heiress Winsome Smiles, Harken and Arjay are plunged into Great American’s underbelly, where they encounter genre staples including mobsters and incompetent cops. Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming, juxtaposing the gritty mystery and dystopian setting with Arjay’s perky narration to excellent effect. Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight. (May)

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-946501-21-9

Kirkus Review of The Great American Deception
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/scott-stein/the-great-american-deception/
THE GREAT AMERICAN DECEPTION
by Scott Stein ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2020

An amusing SF private eye/coffee spoof chock-full of silicon circuits and served with laughs.

In a giant, futuristic mall, a coffee machine with artificial intelligence excitedly narrates the exploits of its new owner, a retro-style, hard-boiled gumshoe.

Stein’s (Lost, 2019) satirical SF detective yarn at least initially owes much to Douglas Adams before the material finds its own humorous tone. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans may recall Adams’ ancillary detail of robotic home appliances with “Real People Personalities,” often annoying, single-minded entities. And coffee machines were among those conveniences so accessorized. Arjay, the first-person (or first-gadget?) narrator here, is such a device, an ever upbeat, persistent, and talkative “top of the line” coffee maker. Arjay gets delivered to Frank Harken, a private eye of the old school, whose beat is the Great American, a fortresslike, coast-to-coast shopping/dining/entertainment/residential mall (shades of Somtow Sucharitkul’s Mallworld). The mall is a consumer paradise and haven for the elite in an otherwise ill-described (but doubtlessly unpleasant) future United States. Because of a prime directive to serve coffee in any circumstance, Arjay is mobile, resourceful, multilimbed, and filled with extra goodies such as laser cutters. The AI becomes sidekick to bemused tough-guy Harken. The chipper appliance recounts their initial case together, a missing custom-dentistry heiress named Winsome Smiles, connected to shady characters and now apparently kidnapped. Arjay’s enthusiastic narration takes readers through not only the standard private investigator clichés (mobsters, clueless authorities, duplicitous dames), but also bizarre boutiques and services (“legstentions”), literary references encompass…

Trope-heavy genres like science fiction and detective mysteries offer a lot of easy targets for parodists, but it takes a deft hand to fully exploit them for their humor — to gently and lovingly tease those familiar formats while also telling a new and original story that has something to say about the human condition. Scott Stein’s The Great American Betrayal does just that as it follows a continentwide shopping mall’s house detective, Frank Harken, and his pet robot–assistant–coffee machine, Arjay, as they try to determine who is blackmailing a popular influencer — and why. This is a clever novel that just consistently dances on the edge of absurdity; it’s a great and witty time.
https://www.vulture.com/article/best-comedy-books-2022.html

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Oh you’re not comfortable sharing a public restroom with trans people? Well I’m just not comfortable sharing a public restroom with bigoted creeps who are constantly thinking about other people’s genitals, including children’s.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Peter is my favorite comic book writer of all time (Garth Ennis is the only one even close). I know I’m making this about me, but I’m thankful that he was always accessible to fans, I told him many times. He had a rep as a bit of a jerk but I absolutely never saw that. I think he was a great guy.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

“I can’t believe a chronic liar would lie to me!” Say the biggest fucking morons alive

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Congratulations Karis Wilde for the stupidest pop culture article I’ve read in a very long time. So many idiotic mistakes in the title alone. screenrant.com/the-long-wal...

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New Stephen King Movie Is Basically His Version Of Hunger Games, & The Film Isn't Even Trying To Avoid The Comparisons

The new thriller invites surprising comparisons.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Having fireworks on the same day as the “bring your dog to the ballpark” day is a war crime in my mind

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

So sad to hear about the end of Colston Loveland’s promising football career

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

If you have HBO Max, watch Companion today. Don’t watch the trailer, don’t even read the description because you need to go into it knowing nothing and they spoil the twist. All you need to know is it’s a creepy relationship “cabin in the woods” drama (with some violence). Go see it. Its great.

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I DON’T GIVE A WET FUCK ABOUT THE CHILD ABUSE PROTECTING POPE. I HOPE HE IS IN HELL ALONG WITH THE KIDDIE DIDDLERS HE HELPED

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Mike DeGeorge @miked42.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

You need to buy this book. And all of Rob’s other books for that matter.

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