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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

#191 on the only definitive list of the best songs of the 1960s…

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, wow. This is going later than they implied it would.

Much later

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · 4d

I'll be here tonight! At Badsons in Derby, CT. Come say hello if you like loud noises!

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Lugosi AND Zucco? Yeah, that's a snub!

Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Mama's moving up in her artillery…https://youtu.be/Z8Jd281xrAU

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · 8d

I know everyone has strong opinions about this one! Fight me!

The Ten Best Movies of 1944

My favorite year for cinema

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · 19d

Anyone interested in Piers Anthony studies should check out my new in-depth analysis...and tell all your friends!

What's up with Piers Anthony?

An analysis of his oeuvre, or rather poeurvre

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 27

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 27

It's happening now! The Conti Building in Shelton!

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 10

It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.
•The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

#rhps

A garland of quotations CXXXVII

Culled from the finest giggle-pusses in literary history, and re-woven every Wednesday

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

The ten best movies of 1994—FIGHT ME!
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The Ten Best Movies of 1994

(also, try my 99¢ books, on sale now)

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 7

Oh! Hey! My first novel is ALSO on sale for 99¢ as an ebook.
Here’s what people are saying about it:

“Too smart for its own good.” –Kirkus Reviews.
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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 7

Oh! Hey! My first novel is ALSO on sale for 99¢ as an ebook. Here’s what people are saying about it:

“Everyone should read it…a born classic.”
•E. C. Myers, author of The Silence of Six.

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 7

Oh! Hey! My first novel is ALSO on sale for 99¢ as an ebook. Here’s what people are saying about it:

“Perfectly wonderful and wonderfully perfect.”
•Cory Doctorow, author of The Lost Cause.

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 7

My novel Sudden Glory is only 99¢ as ebook for the next few days! Here’s what people are saying about it:

“There can be something in the book that's ridiculously absurd, and yet it feels like Johnson has captured the reality in which we live perfectly.”

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Sudden Glory - Kindle edition by Johnson, Hal. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sudden Glory.

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 7

My novel Sudden Glory is only 99¢ as ebook! Here’s what people are saying about it:

“This novel has perhaps the highest joke-to-paragraph ratio of anything I’ve ever read.”

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 7

My novel Sudden Glory is only 99¢ as ebook! Here’s what people are saying about it:

“A really funny, bonkers satirical philosophical novel about life in NYC in the early 2000s, American masculinity, sex, and the epistemological state of masking/closetedness.”

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

So the question is—did LL read Jack Vance?

I mean, probably. Seems like something they were all doing back in the day.

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Hal Johnson Books @haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

The "name" spells in the PH are mostly invented (researched and created) by PC wizards in the game. Leomund was Len Lakofka's character. (I can only remember this because LL for years wrote a column in Dragon called Leomund's Tiny Hut.)