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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Is there a Biscuitville in KC? Also:

Screenshot of KC Star byline for a story about a fast-food chain we don't have, showing it was written with AI.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Post something random or you'll have the exact same May as you will if you don't post anything.

Lobby of 11th Ave Hostel in Denver, featuring 10-foot mushroom

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

My high school might be the least likely home of an influencer.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I just finished this fabulous book by the fabulous @marjankamali.bsky.social!

Cover of the novel The Lion Women of Tehran, by Marjan Kamali. Green with gold trim and a pink-red-purple-gold mythical creature.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Define your agelessness with the greatest video game ever to exist.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Dark, cool adventure, great read

The cover of "Act of Oblivion," by Robert Harris. Parchment-colored background styled as an old sheet of paper. Ink drawing of a man fleeing on horseback at speed with a trail of red blood behind. "They killed the king. Now they must flee across America." Text is in Poor Richard or similar font.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Let's not forget @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, without whom no one would know about Jeffrey Epstein. She has never gotten the full credit she deserves. If you don't read her book, you don't know the story.

Cover of the audio edition of PERVERSION of JUSTICE: THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN STORY, by Julie K. Brown, the OG reporter.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Marfa Public Radio! Home of the greatest music show in the world Texas Music Hour of Power, 7 p.m. on Saturdays. Streamable! Listen once & you you might support it. I'm only 1 West Texas ex-pat in a blue district that has abortion! This station is in crisis. It's my social whole life! SOS!

Retro exterior of Marfa Public Radio, the greatest radio station of all time. Though obviously I could never have survived high college without XRock 80, Juarez.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

You underestimate yourself.

NY Times movie ballot: Roma, Moonlight, Winter's Bone, Slumdog Millionaire, Master & Commander, Ocean's 11, Gosford Park, Rachel Getting Married, Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

One of the others was Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream," right?

Cover of said album, green with a photo of a nice lady with brown hair, dressed in Whipped cream, putting her finger in her mouth to have a taste. All the dads had this! Rumor had it that it was shaving cream, though.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

What's a poster you had in your room growing up? Alas, his poster is mostly lost to time.

Bucky Dent of the 70s NY Yankees, dressed in a way that I guess we thought was alluring? Ripped baseball top, hairy belly, short-ish shorts. Bat over his shoulders. Was he any good? He must've been ok to get a poster.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Movie that takes place where you're from. Fandango (Kevin Costner) was filmed at Pecos Municipal Airport, Texas. This unsightly heap (They only roughed it up a little) was one of my babysitters. I sat in the office and was expected to update all the aviation maps every month.

A derelict airplane hangar labeled Parachute School. Three men in their underwear jump and cheer someone in the distance as a plane flies overhead and 25-yr-old Suzy Amis holds their clothes.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Taking a break from listening to his own music and basking in lack of self-awareness

Keith Carradine in Altman's "Nashville," playing guitar and looking remarkably handsome in leather vest, swoopy bangs, and '70s facial hair.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally?

A photo of the THIRD try at my daughter's birthday cake (red velvet), streaking out of the pan upside down on the floor

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We just read INTIMACIES. Two of us loved it (me), but most did not. It's the story of a translator alone in the world who starts a job at the International Criminal Court and considers a new life in The Hague. I recommend it.

The cover of Katie Kitamura's "Intimacies," a hot pink background with abstract-seeming black lines that actually depict a couple embracing.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

without downloading anything, show me what energy you’re bringing to 2025

Top photo: A translator (blonde woman, not her first rodeo) looks at DJT with disbelief when he says the U.S. and Italy have been allies since the Roman Empire. Of course, he doesn't know she's alive. Bottom photo: She looks at someone off screen for confirmation that she's not insane - she's simply encountering something as dusturbing as it is baffling. And she might lose her job for reacting. What career could she do after this? Can she retire? Trump's just waiting for the accolades that will surely come after she's translated his genius thoughts.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

KC-Saint Paul leg of holiday driving: This, by Anishinabe writer Marcie Rendon. The women of the Red Pine Reservation fight back against the erasure of the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, but they are flesh-and-blood and heart and brains. It's a character-driven suspense novel. Great! #booksky

The cover of Marcie R. Rendon's "Where They Last Saw Her," a gorgeous portrait of a beaten face backdropped by woods. Beside the cover is a bookmark with directions to Louise Erdrich's bookstore, Birchbark Books in Minneapolis.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (17/20)

The cover of TC Boyles's "Tortilla Curtain," a huge, magnificent, spiky succulent, pale green on a background of of pale yellow cloud and pale green sky.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (16/20)

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Oh no, I inadvertently revealed that I'm reading Treasure Island! If you don't know it, it's a kind of lesser epilogue to the great Starz show Black Sails, I'm serious.

Stolen photo of Zach McGowan as dread pirate Charles Vane in Black Sails. He is quite fit and come-hithery, but also dirty and sweaty and maybe grumpy. His body language suggests we had not better be wasting his time.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

How am I supposed to choose!

Screenshot of my Libby account, where the new Attica Locke (Guide Me Home) and the new Marcie Rendon (Where They Last Saw Her) have both achieved Ready to Borrow status today.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Standish knows all the ways around any kind of charm now.

Saskia Reeves as Standish in "Slow Horses playing chess

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20)

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20)

The cover of Paulette Jiles's "News of the World, a wide green hill with some brush. Near the horizon, a figure waits or walks toward a horse and cart. Behind is a vast blue sky with clouds.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (10/20)

The cover of Louise Erdrich's "Antelope Woman." A blue background with an antelope woman's face.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (8/20)

The cover of Larry McMurtry's "The Last Picture Show." Forest green ombre dark at the top and light at the bottom. Text in white. Drawing of a movie theater with an empty marqee in the center. In the front a blode girl with shoulder-lengh hair drive a convertible.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Scarlet tanager. It got away!!

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20)

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (6/20)

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20)

Cover of the García Marquez novel "100 Years of Solitude." It depicts forest and angels from above.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20)

The cover of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone, a gray snowscap with laundry hanging on a line stretched from a battered house, a slight figure in the foreground holding a rifle.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (3/20)

The cover of Kate Atkinson's "When Will There Be Good News?" , a photo of red-haired girl running with a red-haired dog.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I spend most of my bsky time saying this. I need more late-night Aaron, not less. There's not even a typo.

Aaron Rupar text from last night, bemoaning the mystery of how a convicted sex felon and failed ex-president could be reelected

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I couldn't find a mold for this. Any suggestions?

Fifties-era party with reverse in the background and a fish tank-size jello mold of am aquarium. It's a magazine ad for Hellman's Mayonaise.

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

The purple and yellow cover of Téa Obreht's novel INLAND

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Prickly @pmck.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Y'all, this the end of the hunger strike episode of *SayNothing.*

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