Dexter Palmer
@dexterpalmer.bsky.social
Author of The Dream of Perpetual Motion (St. Martin's, 2010), Version Control (Pantheon, 2016), Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen (Pantheon, 2019), and a work in progress (Pantheon, when it's done).
I may be in a bubble, or this may be right-wing kayfabe, but I have no idea what Stephens could possibly talking about here. "He's had the better photo ops"? These past few days he looks like a bag of spoiling meat at the best of times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/o...
![BRET: My spidey sense is telling me that Trump will win. [highlighted]It feels like he has the momentum, which is hard to measure but matters, especially in the final days of a campaign. He's had the better photo ops.[/highlighted] And surveys show only 28 percent of Americans think America is on the right track, which historicaly means the incumbent party loses. And, as I've been saying here, I also think that Trump represents control, and peopel feel that too many things have spun out of control during the full arc of the Biden-Harris years: migration, prices, rent, financing costs, urban safety, overseas wars.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o7dfzad3tkcwr7a7jmksgt5k/bafkreihsigzxx7gxxxs4c55btru3zbd3j2d6sxvg6ajzmu66zludb4dexi@jpeg)
November 5, 2024 at 2:47 AM
I may be in a bubble, or this may be right-wing kayfabe, but I have no idea what Stephens could possibly talking about here. "He's had the better photo ops"? These past few days he looks like a bag of spoiling meat at the best of times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/o...
Along with 700 other writers I'm endorsing Kamala Harris for President—consider visiting go.kamalaharris.com for volunteering opportunities, and if you haven't yet made a plan to vote, check out vote.org.
October 30, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Along with 700 other writers I'm endorsing Kamala Harris for President—consider visiting go.kamalaharris.com for volunteering opportunities, and if you haven't yet made a plan to vote, check out vote.org.
Donations in my zip code—we're all wondering who those six people are
October 24, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Donations in my zip code—we're all wondering who those six people are
This, from The Atlantic's negative review, is just a blind guess—get a reviewer who knows at least *some* hip-hop www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
October 19, 2024 at 1:50 AM
This, from The Atlantic's negative review, is just a blind guess—get a reviewer who knows at least *some* hip-hop www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
Looking at available seats for Megalopolis in IMAX tomorrow night, and it's noticeable that (a) there are still plenty of seats and (b) many people are going to this alone. (I'm a regular solo moviegoer so for better or worse, these are my people, who I'll sit one or two seats away from if I go)
September 25, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Looking at available seats for Megalopolis in IMAX tomorrow night, and it's noticeable that (a) there are still plenty of seats and (b) many people are going to this alone. (I'm a regular solo moviegoer so for better or worse, these are my people, who I'll sit one or two seats away from if I go)
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #107,356, but I'm wondering what the cutoff is to get designated as a "Bluesky Elder" since I never thought of myself as one
September 16, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #107,356, but I'm wondering what the cutoff is to get designated as a "Bluesky Elder" since I never thought of myself as one
(Though Caro did sign my copy of The Power Broker, and that can't happen with a digital copy)
September 13, 2024 at 12:09 AM
(Though Caro did sign my copy of The Power Broker, and that can't happen with a digital copy)
TIL that the time period that Ripley spends in cryogenic suspension between Alien and Aliens (57 years) is an allusion to the life of Epimenides of Crete, as described in Diogenes's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers www.gutenberg.org/files/57342/...
August 18, 2024 at 9:43 PM
TIL that the time period that Ripley spends in cryogenic suspension between Alien and Aliens (57 years) is an allusion to the life of Epimenides of Crete, as described in Diogenes's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers www.gutenberg.org/files/57342/...
This is the most useless opt-out I've ever seen. (I'm willing to be that for these purposes an update to your browser counts as a "new" browser)
August 15, 2024 at 12:42 PM
This is the most useless opt-out I've ever seen. (I'm willing to be that for these purposes an update to your browser counts as a "new" browser)
Maybe it's because I hate myself, but I need to see this
August 5, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Maybe it's because I hate myself, but I need to see this
Dude got Twitter brainworms so bad that the Catholic Church declared him guilty of schism www.nbcnews.com/news/world/p...
July 9, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Dude got Twitter brainworms so bad that the Catholic Church declared him guilty of schism www.nbcnews.com/news/world/p...
Read this because I'm hyped for Furiosa—crazy to realize that the fate that befell the David Lynch Dune came within a hair of happening to this (studio suits panicking about a director spending their money on an extravagant set in the desert and cutting off funding before the film was really done)
May 15, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Read this because I'm hyped for Furiosa—crazy to realize that the fate that befell the David Lynch Dune came within a hair of happening to this (studio suits panicking about a director spending their money on an extravagant set in the desert and cutting off funding before the film was really done)
The 4K (and presumably Blu-ray) releases of Civil War will have a making-of documentary by Charles de Lauzirika—his making-of docs for the first four Alien movies are some of the best you'll ever see (especially Wreckage and Rage: The Making of Alien 3)
May 8, 2024 at 9:31 PM
The 4K (and presumably Blu-ray) releases of Civil War will have a making-of documentary by Charles de Lauzirika—his making-of docs for the first four Alien movies are some of the best you'll ever see (especially Wreckage and Rage: The Making of Alien 3)
Superman with that getting-ready-to-commute-to-work-on-a-Thursday look on his face—at last we're getting a Supes that regular people can identify with
May 6, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Superman with that getting-ready-to-commute-to-work-on-a-Thursday look on his face—at last we're getting a Supes that regular people can identify with
People of a certain age will remember Whitley Strieber's Communion hanging out on the NYT nonfiction bestseller list for *months*—same vibe
April 4, 2024 at 3:39 PM
People of a certain age will remember Whitley Strieber's Communion hanging out on the NYT nonfiction bestseller list for *months*—same vibe
Realized that I got one of these stealth-POD books from Amazon (which was the only place that I could find it, despite the book being published by St. Martin's). Leafed through it and this is one of the page margins
March 24, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Realized that I got one of these stealth-POD books from Amazon (which was the only place that I could find it, despite the book being published by St. Martin's). Leafed through it and this is one of the page margins
Having a good run with short novels from small presses lately. This one, about the turbulent friendship between two art critics obsessed with the same painting, is spectacular—smart about criticism and very funny. It'll reward a second reading, I think.
March 22, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Having a good run with short novels from small presses lately. This one, about the turbulent friendship between two art critics obsessed with the same painting, is spectacular—smart about criticism and very funny. It'll reward a second reading, I think.
But what if the inclusion of all three of these features puts a gleeful smile on your face? Yes... YES!
March 20, 2024 at 4:16 PM
But what if the inclusion of all three of these features puts a gleeful smile on your face? Yes... YES!
Read this short novel (175 pp.) in one sitting tonight. Goes to some dark places; acute characterization. Recommended if you're in the mood for something that doesn't advertise itself as psychological horror but is more unsettling than many books that do.
March 19, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Read this short novel (175 pp.) in one sitting tonight. Goes to some dark places; acute characterization. Recommended if you're in the mood for something that doesn't advertise itself as psychological horror but is more unsettling than many books that do.
Picked this up today--good cover design
February 29, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Picked this up today--good cover design
I ordered a kitchen scale online and this is the packaging it came in
February 27, 2024 at 11:23 PM
I ordered a kitchen scale online and this is the packaging it came in
Based on this screenshot teasing Folio Society's upcoming spring collection, it looks like they're hinting about an unlimited edition of the Gormenghast trilogy illustrated by Dave McKean. (I have the limited edition, and the maze pattern is the same as that on its case)
February 4, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Based on this screenshot teasing Folio Society's upcoming spring collection, it looks like they're hinting about an unlimited edition of the Gormenghast trilogy illustrated by Dave McKean. (I have the limited edition, and the maze pattern is the same as that on its case)
Now that I've finished reading Stephen King's The Shining and rewatched the Kubrick adaptation, I'm reading The Making of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (J.W. Rinzler/Lee Unkrich). 900 pages; very interesting so far (first chapter has photos of galley pages of King's novel with Kubrick's notes, e.g.)
January 31, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Now that I've finished reading Stephen King's The Shining and rewatched the Kubrick adaptation, I'm reading The Making of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (J.W. Rinzler/Lee Unkrich). 900 pages; very interesting so far (first chapter has photos of galley pages of King's novel with Kubrick's notes, e.g.)