Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
"This heaven gives me migraine."
Old enough to know better at the ends of the earth (New Zealand). I am large and contain multitudes, all of them intensely irritating. (Same-sex) married. Catholic. Conservative-ish. Cis-male. Jane Austen cultist.
Old enough to know better at the ends of the earth (New Zealand). I am large and contain multitudes, all of them intensely irritating. (Same-sex) married. Catholic. Conservative-ish. Cis-male. Jane Austen cultist.
'Tis the season to be sad that "no kink at Thanksgiving" snowflakes have ruined everything. EVERYTHING.
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
'Tis the season to be sad that "no kink at Thanksgiving" snowflakes have ruined everything. EVERYTHING.
Hardly a glittering biographical anecdote, but Knox was frightfully nice about it when he gently woke me up after I fell asleep and started snoring during a near empty mid-afternoonfilm fest screening of David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE.
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hardly a glittering biographical anecdote, but Knox was frightfully nice about it when he gently woke me up after I fell asleep and started snoring during a near empty mid-afternoonfilm fest screening of David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE.
Be careful what you ask for, Secretary Duffy. It's been a long time since I got out the baby oil and poured myself into my festive assless canary yellow lace bodysuit.
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Be careful what you ask for, Secretary Duffy. It's been a long time since I got out the baby oil and poured myself into my festive assless canary yellow lace bodysuit.
Be careful what you ask for, Duffy... because I *will* serve Prince realness.
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Be careful what you ask for, Duffy... because I *will* serve Prince realness.
All hail Tor for bringing Susan Palwick's fantastic THE NECESSARY BEGGAR back into print (with an introduction by @bluejo), but still chuffed to snag a fine copy of the 2007 mass market paperback for a dollar over the weekend. #CurrentlyReading #BookSky
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
All hail Tor for bringing Susan Palwick's fantastic THE NECESSARY BEGGAR back into print (with an introduction by @bluejo), but still chuffed to snag a fine copy of the 2007 mass market paperback for a dollar over the weekend. #CurrentlyReading #BookSky
Way back in my baby gay day, I never thought I'd be happily monogamously married to a man I'd been with for thirty years and shaking my white-haired head at the decadence and perversity of the heterosexual lifestyle.
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Way back in my baby gay day, I never thought I'd be happily monogamously married to a man I'd been with for thirty years and shaking my white-haired head at the decadence and perversity of the heterosexual lifestyle.
THIS is what happens when you kinda watch THE PERIPHERAL and don't quite understand that is a dystopian hell scape infested with toxic tech oligarchs.
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
THIS is what happens when you kinda watch THE PERIPHERAL and don't quite understand that is a dystopian hell scape infested with toxic tech oligarchs.
Chain smoking optional?
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Chain smoking optional?
It's all fun and games until you're kept awake all night by Britt Ekland's bum double getting freaky with the party wall, then awake to an enigmatic but curiously insistent invitation to the local knock-off of Burning Man.
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
It's all fun and games until you're kept awake all night by Britt Ekland's bum double getting freaky with the party wall, then awake to an enigmatic but curiously insistent invitation to the local knock-off of Burning Man.
"Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians."
Belated happy birthday to political philosopher HANNAH ARENDT, born on this yesterday (October 14) in 1906
Belated happy birthday to political philosopher HANNAH ARENDT, born on this yesterday (October 14) in 1906
October 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians."
Belated happy birthday to political philosopher HANNAH ARENDT, born on this yesterday (October 14) in 1906
Belated happy birthday to political philosopher HANNAH ARENDT, born on this yesterday (October 14) in 1906
Fair point - Practical politics being what it is, you can find yourself getting both credit and blame for things that had nowt to do with you and not a word of thanks for the things you busted your hump not to screw up. You want fair, go to the salon and get a blonde dye job!
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Fair point - Practical politics being what it is, you can find yourself getting both credit and blame for things that had nowt to do with you and not a word of thanks for the things you busted your hump not to screw up. You want fair, go to the salon and get a blonde dye job!
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
October 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Because libraries are magic (and a little bit spooky), guess what I'm #CurrentlyReading on Elmore Leonard's centennial? Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard (C. M. Kushins)
It really did just end up top of the library book pile this morning!
#BookSky #pukapuka
It really did just end up top of the library book pile this morning!
#BookSky #pukapuka
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Because libraries are magic (and a little bit spooky), guess what I'm #CurrentlyReading on Elmore Leonard's centennial? Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard (C. M. Kushins)
It really did just end up top of the library book pile this morning!
#BookSky #pukapuka
It really did just end up top of the library book pile this morning!
#BookSky #pukapuka
Found secret imagines of the girlfriends and the founder of ANTIFA (New Zealand Cell)
[Warning: This post contains a gag that will be utterly inscrutable to anyone who isn't a New Zealander who watched a lot of television in the early to mid-1980s.)
[Warning: This post contains a gag that will be utterly inscrutable to anyone who isn't a New Zealander who watched a lot of television in the early to mid-1980s.)
October 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Found secret imagines of the girlfriends and the founder of ANTIFA (New Zealand Cell)
[Warning: This post contains a gag that will be utterly inscrutable to anyone who isn't a New Zealander who watched a lot of television in the early to mid-1980s.)
[Warning: This post contains a gag that will be utterly inscrutable to anyone who isn't a New Zealander who watched a lot of television in the early to mid-1980s.)
“girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
October 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
If you're inclined to be snotty about "media tie-in" books, I do hope you're not of the bookishly middlbrow vintage where every well-dressed bookshelf had at least one volume of John Mortimer's Rumpole stories - all made over from his scripts for the TV drama Rumpole of the Bailey. #BookSky
September 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If you're inclined to be snotty about "media tie-in" books, I do hope you're not of the bookishly middlbrow vintage where every well-dressed bookshelf had at least one volume of John Mortimer's Rumpole stories - all made over from his scripts for the TV drama Rumpole of the Bailey. #BookSky
Wonder how long its going to take The Guardian to have to retract another fairy tale about magic bullets engraved with mystic runes in the Mines of Antifa?
September 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Wonder how long its going to take The Guardian to have to retract another fairy tale about magic bullets engraved with mystic runes in the Mines of Antifa?
BTW, if this has stimulated a craving for the more bizarro shores of noir pulp may I warmly recomment William Hjortsberg's FALLING ANGEL. Which also has a stylish but utterly nonsensical and loose as perished knicker elastic film adaptation...
September 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
BTW, if this has stimulated a craving for the more bizarro shores of noir pulp may I warmly recomment William Hjortsberg's FALLING ANGEL. Which also has a stylish but utterly nonsensical and loose as perished knicker elastic film adaptation...
Oooh! My turn - does Donald Trump 'know these people'? Are they from his wonderfully managed ancestral homeland of Germany?
September 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Oooh! My turn - does Donald Trump 'know these people'? Are they from his wonderfully managed ancestral homeland of Germany?
If radical right-wing trash goblins read books instead of trying to ban them all, they might be familiar with the ending of The Tale of The Little Shepherd Boy Who Cried Wolf. And consider that little Presidents who cry "terrorist" too often might find themselves short of friends when they're needed
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
If radical right-wing trash goblins read books instead of trying to ban them all, they might be familiar with the ending of The Tale of The Little Shepherd Boy Who Cried Wolf. And consider that little Presidents who cry "terrorist" too often might find themselves short of friends when they're needed
If you're not a British politics/media obsessive, and wondering why the hell Boris Johnson is attention-thirsty hot taking on a death thousands of miles from the UK his desperation to distract from this may explain everything
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
September 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
If you're not a British politics/media obsessive, and wondering why the hell Boris Johnson is attention-thirsty hot taking on a death thousands of miles from the UK his desperation to distract from this may explain everything
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...