Robert Daeley
@celsius1414.bsky.social
Writer from California. Easily distracted.
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Everything didn’t start falling apart when he passed (it’s been doing that for much longer), but it sure feels like it sometimes. 10 years ago today, on his birthday, he released ★, which feels like an appropriate listen while the falling apart continues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszL...
David Bowie - Blackstar (Official Video) [HD]
YouTube video by David Bowie
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January 8, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Everything didn’t start falling apart when he passed (it’s been doing that for much longer), but it sure feels like it sometimes. 10 years ago today, on his birthday, he released ★, which feels like an appropriate listen while the falling apart continues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszL...
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
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Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki discussing Studio Ghibli's plans for 2026 ♡
www.ghibli.jp/info/014035/
www.ghibli.jp/info/014035/
January 1, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki discussing Studio Ghibli's plans for 2026 ♡
www.ghibli.jp/info/014035/
www.ghibli.jp/info/014035/
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Great cover on this new Hayakawa edition. Does Case look almost but not quite Keanu-esque to you?
January 2, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Great cover on this new Hayakawa edition. Does Case look almost but not quite Keanu-esque to you?
Sometimes you see a title + cover, then everything goes blurry, and then you wake up seconds later having preordered the book. 🤩
Hey, @barnesandnoble.com has a 25% off sale on preorders for their members from 12/30 to 1/1. Preorder _The Subtle Art of Folding Space_ at a discount. Debugging physics! A family reckoning! A status report in the form of an egg tart!
#BNPreorder
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#BNPreorder
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The Subtle Art of Folding Space|Hardcover
The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of r...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sometimes you see a title + cover, then everything goes blurry, and then you wake up seconds later having preordered the book. 🤩
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Check out some of @realgdt.bsky.social great (mobile) Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ 🖤
THE RED SHOES
BLACK NARCISSUS
SALESMAN
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS.
THE RED SHOES
BLACK NARCISSUS
SALESMAN
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS.
Guillermo del Toro's Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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December 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Check out some of @realgdt.bsky.social great (mobile) Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ 🖤
THE RED SHOES
BLACK NARCISSUS
SALESMAN
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS.
THE RED SHOES
BLACK NARCISSUS
SALESMAN
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS.
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This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
December 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Esgaroth, Lake, and Bowman
*pained* A Lord of the Rings cover band called Orcestral Manoeuvres In the Dark
A lord of the rings cover band called Rivendel Amitri
December 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Esgaroth, Lake, and Bowman
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December 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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This does sound like the first line of a Raymond Chandler noir, so if I go missing you know where to find my fossilized bones in 10,000 years.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This does sound like the first line of a Raymond Chandler noir, so if I go missing you know where to find my fossilized bones in 10,000 years.
Happiest of 250th birthdays to Miss Austen, for whose literary talents I must express my affection and esteem most highly.
I wrote a birthday card to Jane Austen for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ...
Happy Birthday, Jane! | Los Angeles Review of Books
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Stephanie Insley Hershinow offers a survey of recent Austen-related books and artworks.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Happiest of 250th birthdays to Miss Austen, for whose literary talents I must express my affection and esteem most highly.
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My university paid a marketing company a lot of money to tell us that, give the global recognition of #Dublin as a brand, we should call ourselves ‘UCD Dublin’. So we are now University College Dublin Dublin. 🫠 #UCD #TrueStory
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
My university paid a marketing company a lot of money to tell us that, give the global recognition of #Dublin as a brand, we should call ourselves ‘UCD Dublin’. So we are now University College Dublin Dublin. 🫠 #UCD #TrueStory
Counterpoint: how to stop interrupting people’s work with unnecessary phone calls and then come to grips with time being an illusion.
Gen Z office survival guide: how to overcome telephobia and get up early
Gen Z office survival guide: how to overcome telephobia and get up early
Experts advise younger workers to practice phone calls with friends and embrace adventure of small talk
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Counterpoint: how to stop interrupting people’s work with unnecessary phone calls and then come to grips with time being an illusion.
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The Getty community grieves the death of Frank Gehry, a true legend of architecture whose designs and brilliance have shaped Los Angeles and the world.
Through Gehry's archive, Getty will share his legacy for many years to come. Read our full message: gty.art/4awWKqD
Through Gehry's archive, Getty will share his legacy for many years to come. Read our full message: gty.art/4awWKqD
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The Getty community grieves the death of Frank Gehry, a true legend of architecture whose designs and brilliance have shaped Los Angeles and the world.
Through Gehry's archive, Getty will share his legacy for many years to come. Read our full message: gty.art/4awWKqD
Through Gehry's archive, Getty will share his legacy for many years to come. Read our full message: gty.art/4awWKqD
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Never not thinking about Octavia E. Butler's XENOGENESIS series and how explosively that first book blew my mind and how badly I wish I had read it when I was younger (I was in my 20s)
I wonder how different my writing would look today if I had
I wonder how different my writing would look today if I had
November 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Never not thinking about Octavia E. Butler's XENOGENESIS series and how explosively that first book blew my mind and how badly I wish I had read it when I was younger (I was in my 20s)
I wonder how different my writing would look today if I had
I wonder how different my writing would look today if I had
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88