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Darrell Z. Grizzle

@dzgrizzle.bsky.social

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Queer Writer of Horror, Dark Fantasy, Crime Fiction. Gay Bear. Episcopalian. Meditation practitioner. Deadhead. Democratic Socialist. Fan of cats, coffeehouses, comics, Star Trek, Godzilla, DragonCon. 🌈 🐻 📚☕️🐱💙 https://linktr.ee/dzgrizzle

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 6h

Matt shows remarkable restraint by waiting till the second sentence of the story to refer to limbs being snapped and skulls being split. Matt’s rippling triceps as he wields a bone tomahawk (photo lifted from Matt’s Facebook page) makes me wonder how many evil sorcerers Matt has slain in real life.

Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 6h

Congrats to @matthewjohnauthor.bsky.social whose story “A Simple Errand” appears in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, released today. It’s an action packed sword-and-planet tale that reads like it was written in the golden age of pulp fiction and Weird Tales.

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 2d

Carmilla the Bookstore Kitten is very curious about Michael. At the Lavender Bookshop in Marietta GA.
@otterwondering.bsky.social

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 2d

What Protesters Should Know About Counter-Protesters and Infiltrators
By Blake Kremer

A Lesson from History

In the 1970s, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) discovered that FBI agents had infiltrated their movement under COINTELPRO. These agents spread disinformation and even urged violent acts to discredit the movement. After a 15-year legal fight, the SWP won in federal court. The court confirmed the FBI had violated their constitutional rights, and the SWP received damages — rare proof that infiltration and provocation are real.

Why It Matters Today

• Provocateurs are real and may push violence to delegitimize a movement.
• Counter-protesters may bait participants, often trying to provoke a reaction for cameras.
• Media clips can distort. A few seconds of chaos can erase hours of peaceful protest.

Practical Guidance for Protesters

I. Stay Nonviolent
Nonviolence is both a principle and a shield. It denies provocateurs the excuse to criminalize your cause.
2. Use De-Escalation Teams
Assign trusted people to watch for strangers pushing violence. Calmly separate agitators and document behavior if safe.
3. Communicate Clearly
Let the public and media know when someone is not part of your group. Reaffirm your nonviolent commitment often.
4. Protect Each Other
Watch carefully who joins your actions. Do not let outsiders steer the group into dangerous behavior.
Bottom Line
Discipline and organization are the strongest defense. History shows that provocateurs lose power when movements stay true to their nonviolent principles and make them visible to the public.
The lesson of the SWP case is simple: infiltration is real, but nonviolence and discipline are stronger.

Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 2d

Andrew Garfield, British GQ September 2025, photo by Charlotte Rutherford

Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 2d

“The Bookworm” painting by German artist Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885)

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 3d

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."

Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 4d

For over 20 years I’ve thought Bruce Hornsby was singing “blood all over my face” when in fact he was singing “mud all over my face” in his song Resting Place. What else have I been wrong about?

And the storm clouds are flying high
Mud all over my face
And I’m a long, long way from my resting place

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 4d

That’s what it reminds me of.

Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 4d

I’m slowly reading the new Witcher novel (slowly because I don’t want it to end). Crossroads of Ravens by Andrzej Sapkowski is a prequel about Geralt’s early days as a witcher. It reads like a bunch of interconnected adventures instead of a continuous narrative. I’m enjoying it.

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 4d

While they were close friends, their relationship was not always described as “warm” due to their differing views. Eliot was more conservative and religious, while Woolf was a feminist and atheist. Despite this, they maintained a dynamic dialogue & saw each other regularly til Woolf's death in 1941.

Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 4d

Literary Connection: Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard Woolf, published some of Eliot's work, including his poem “The Waste Land,” through their Hogarth Press.

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 4d

T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

Photo June 1924
By Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938)

Woolf and Eliot were friends and contemporaries for over two decades, meeting around 1918. They were both readers and critics of each other's work, and they respected each other's literary judgments.

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Today's $2.99 Kindle deal is not to be missed! Karl Edward Wagner's IN A LONELY PLACE (1983) is one of the best modern horror collections, featuring some of this master storyteller's best work. Grab it at a bargain price today online on Kindle worldwide! www.amazon.com/Lonely-Place...

Book cover, IN A LONELY PLACE by Karl Edward Wagner

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 4d

Barbie’s Malibu Dream Marxist Internet Archive

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 5d

A not talked about but weird part of being a writer is how often you’re in a group talking books and you virtually smile and nod when a recommendation comes up for someone you dislike for a petty reason like they were rude to a friend at a once, but saying so would veer on unnecessary gossip.

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 5d

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
- Kurt Vonnegut

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 5d

I’m kinda starting to feel this way about Haruki Murakami.

Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 5d

LÁSZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI — When I am not reading Kafka I am thinking about Kafka. When I am not thinking about Kafka I miss thinking about him. Having missed thinking about him for a while, I take him out and read him again. That's how it works.

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 5d

Today the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, pictured here in Venice with Patti Smith.

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 5d

Pedro Pascal visits a bookstore in Paris

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 6d

Top 8 songs by The Monkees:

Me & Magdalena
Birth of an Accidental Hipster
Pleasant Valley Sunday
Shades of Gray
Listen to the Band
Last Train to Clarksville
I'm a Believer
Daydream Believer

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 6d

Procession of Souls (1890) by Louis Welden Hawkins (1849-1910)

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 6d

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

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