Christopher Farnsworth
@chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social
Writer. Author of THE PRESIDENT’S VAMPIRE, KILLFILE, FLASHMOB. Books, journalism, screenplays, comics. Married to @goldenpurl.bsky.social. ROBERT B. PARKER'S BURIED SECRETS out now: https://amzn.to/4hMjBz7
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Police Chief Jesse Stone finds himself in the crosshairs of a rich hedge fund manager dead set on making Paradise Jesse’s personal Hell, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved...
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Oh hey, what's this? The next Jesse Stone novel, you say? Coming Feb. 10, ROBERT B. PARKER'S BIG SHOT.
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What have been your LCS over the years?
San Diego:
Comickaze (both as a kid and when I moved back as an adult
Nuclear Comics North Park (now gone)
And sometimes Now or Never
Tucson:
Heroes & Villains
Fantasy Comics
And sometimes R-Galaxy
What should my LA shop(s) be?
San Diego:
Comickaze (both as a kid and when I moved back as an adult
Nuclear Comics North Park (now gone)
And sometimes Now or Never
Tucson:
Heroes & Villains
Fantasy Comics
And sometimes R-Galaxy
What should my LA shop(s) be?
What have been your LCS over the years?
Mine:
Toledo:
King’s Comics (RIP)
Cosmic Creations (RIP)
The Game Room
Columbus:
Laughing Ogre
Seattle (ish):
@arcanecomics.bsky.social /
Subspace Comics
Mine:
Toledo:
King’s Comics (RIP)
Cosmic Creations (RIP)
The Game Room
Columbus:
Laughing Ogre
Seattle (ish):
@arcanecomics.bsky.social /
Subspace Comics
What have been your #LCS local comic shops over the years? Mine:
Teenager. Cosmic Comics (defunct)- downtown Cleveland
College. Monkey's Retreat (defunct)- a few blocks north of Ohio State. This was the best one.
My 20s & 30s. Northcoast Comics (defunct)- Cleveland.
That's pretty much it.
Teenager. Cosmic Comics (defunct)- downtown Cleveland
College. Monkey's Retreat (defunct)- a few blocks north of Ohio State. This was the best one.
My 20s & 30s. Northcoast Comics (defunct)- Cleveland.
That's pretty much it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
What have been your LCS over the years?
San Diego:
Comickaze (both as a kid and when I moved back as an adult
Nuclear Comics North Park (now gone)
And sometimes Now or Never
Tucson:
Heroes & Villains
Fantasy Comics
And sometimes R-Galaxy
What should my LA shop(s) be?
San Diego:
Comickaze (both as a kid and when I moved back as an adult
Nuclear Comics North Park (now gone)
And sometimes Now or Never
Tucson:
Heroes & Villains
Fantasy Comics
And sometimes R-Galaxy
What should my LA shop(s) be?
Would have loved to try "Actually, the First Amendment prohibits you from giving me a bad grade" on my psych professors.
This won’t be a popular opinion, but I don’t think the instructor was right here. The assignment said that the goal was for students to demonstrate they completed the readings *and* they could do so by reflecting on, among other things, their personal experiences. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
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December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Would have loved to try "Actually, the First Amendment prohibits you from giving me a bad grade" on my psych professors.
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This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
August 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
ICYMI while you were recovering from Thanksgiving: cover reveal of my next novel and a gift guide for books, including my friend @todgoldberg.bsky.social's brilliant new one, ONLY WAY OUT, officially released TODAY.
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Cover Reveal: BIG SHOT and Gift Guide
The books you should be buying, or at least reading.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
ICYMI while you were recovering from Thanksgiving: cover reveal of my next novel and a gift guide for books, including my friend @todgoldberg.bsky.social's brilliant new one, ONLY WAY OUT, officially released TODAY.
chrisfarnsworth.beehiiv.com/p/cover-reve...
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Agreed, but “The case of the ‘medium-sized raid jacket’” is objectively funny. Like the worst case Encyclopedia Brown ever took.
I am old enough to remember when western journos pored over Tass and Pravda to figure out, via tone and context, who was 'in' and who was about to become an unperson. Kremlinology is now what we do when we read the US news media.
you can tell Republicans want Kash Patel out because this was published in the New York Post https://nypost.com/2025/11/30/opinion/damning-report-labels-fbi-rudderless-ship-under-kash-patel-with-he-and-dan-bongino-more-concerned-with-building-personal-resumes/
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Agreed, but “The case of the ‘medium-sized raid jacket’” is objectively funny. Like the worst case Encyclopedia Brown ever took.
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god bless us, every one
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
god bless us, every one
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Trump needs you to simultaneously believe that it's nuts to think the president of a country could actually be a drug trafficker, and that we are going to war with another country because its president is actually a drug trafficker.
Reporter: You have made so clear how you want to keep drugs out of the US—
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Trump needs you to simultaneously believe that it's nuts to think the president of a country could actually be a drug trafficker, and that we are going to war with another country because its president is actually a drug trafficker.
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It’s 2025 and David Byrne doing “Life During Wartime” live still whips youtu.be/PNmcF6eRE7w?...
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It’s 2025 and David Byrne doing “Life During Wartime” live still whips youtu.be/PNmcF6eRE7w?...
Actually, I would put it to YOU, Mother, that you CANNOT “steal the cookies from the cookie jar,” as you so blithely put it, for is that not the very PURPOSE of the jar, to store and provide cookies for ALL?
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Actually, I would put it to YOU, Mother, that you CANNOT “steal the cookies from the cookie jar,” as you so blithely put it, for is that not the very PURPOSE of the jar, to store and provide cookies for ALL?
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Gift article of the NYT Woodrell obit: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
In the early 2010s, Esquire described him as “one of American literature’s best-kept secrets,” and The New York Times said that he “writes about violence and dark deeds better than almost anyone in America today.”
In the early 2010s, Esquire described him as “one of American literature’s best-kept secrets,” and The New York Times said that he “writes about violence and dark deeds better than almost anyone in America today.”
Daniel Woodrell, ‘Country Noir’ Novelist of ‘Winter’s Bone,’ Dies at 72
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December 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Gift article of the NYT Woodrell obit: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
In the early 2010s, Esquire described him as “one of American literature’s best-kept secrets,” and The New York Times said that he “writes about violence and dark deeds better than almost anyone in America today.”
In the early 2010s, Esquire described him as “one of American literature’s best-kept secrets,” and The New York Times said that he “writes about violence and dark deeds better than almost anyone in America today.”
#giftlink
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
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November 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
#giftlink
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
BEHOLD FROSTILICUS.
November 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
BEHOLD FROSTILICUS.
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Give the gift of discounted Starks Stuff this year!
20% off my store for the holidays! Use code KS20! at checkout!
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Lots of new stuff, sticker packs, clearance items and commissions are open for the holidays!
#blackfriday #shoplocal #supportyourartist #sale #holidaysale #comics #comicbook #peacemaker #commissionsopen
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Lots of new stuff, sticker packs, clearance items and commissions are open for the holidays!
#blackfriday #shoplocal #supportyourartist #sale #holidaysale #comics #comicbook #peacemaker #commissionsopen
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Give the gift of discounted Starks Stuff this year!
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the verse (2026, blumhouse)
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
the verse (2026, blumhouse)
I just saw a white-haired, white-bearded old hippie get into an aging jeep festooned with national park stickers, environmental stickers, FIGHT HATE — and TRUMP/VANCE.
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I just saw a white-haired, white-bearded old hippie get into an aging jeep festooned with national park stickers, environmental stickers, FIGHT HATE — and TRUMP/VANCE.
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
#giftlink
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
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November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#giftlink
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
36. Every now and then I remember: oh yeah, I *did* ride an elephant.
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
36. Every now and then I remember: oh yeah, I *did* ride an elephant.
Bring back weird gadgets.
Casio QL-10 (1981)
You’ve heard it a million times growing up; don’t play with matches. Well folks, the Calcu-Lighter ain’t no match.
You’ve heard it a million times growing up; don’t play with matches. Well folks, the Calcu-Lighter ain’t no match.
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Bring back weird gadgets.
These are great. Been thoroughly enjoying Tchaikovsky’s post-dystopian worlds.
For those who haven't come across the Terrible Worlds series - these are standalone novellas, entirely separate to one another in setting and plot, but loosely grouped in conceptual trios...
Next year, a new TERRIBLE WORLDS novella is coming your way from @aptshadow.bsky.social !
Preorder PREACHING TO THE CHOIR now: https://geni.us/preachtc
And dive into the rest of the thematically linked series whilst you wait. Each novella is a standalone but 1-6 are available in bind ups too!
Preorder PREACHING TO THE CHOIR now: https://geni.us/preachtc
And dive into the rest of the thematically linked series whilst you wait. Each novella is a standalone but 1-6 are available in bind ups too!
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
These are great. Been thoroughly enjoying Tchaikovsky’s post-dystopian worlds.
Seems low.
@chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social has swears! They've used 87 profanities in their last 2,425 posts.
🥇 "damn" (20 times)
🥈 "hell" (18 times)
🥉 "fuck" (6 times)
🥇 "damn" (20 times)
🥈 "hell" (18 times)
🥉 "fuck" (6 times)
November 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Seems low.
Put another way: it turns out Louis CK was never joking.
Yeah. Before the fall, CK's act—and his fandom—rested on the premise that his worst self wasn't his true self. Now it's the opposite, and that's just not interesting as comedy.
He is just generally an alt-right, unrepentantly racist and transphobic piece of shit. He is also a genuinely bad comedian, much in the way that thin-skinned assholes often are 🤷♀️
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November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Put another way: it turns out Louis CK was never joking.
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“Part. Of. A. Team.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“Part. Of. A. Team.”
#giftlink
“President Donald Trump said airlines should consider the airspace above and around Venezuela to be closed as his administration continues to threaten more aggressive steps against President Nicolas Maduro’s government.”
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“President Donald Trump said airlines should consider the airspace above and around Venezuela to be closed as his administration continues to threaten more aggressive steps against President Nicolas Maduro’s government.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed as Attack Fears Mount
President Donald Trump said airlines should consider the airspace above and around Venezuela to be closed as his administration continues to threaten more aggressive steps against President Nicolas Ma...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#giftlink
“President Donald Trump said airlines should consider the airspace above and around Venezuela to be closed as his administration continues to threaten more aggressive steps against President Nicolas Maduro’s government.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“President Donald Trump said airlines should consider the airspace above and around Venezuela to be closed as his administration continues to threaten more aggressive steps against President Nicolas Maduro’s government.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...