James F. Thomas
@jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social
author of IDLEWILD, boyfriend to all men (one in particular)
today’s fun puzzle for NYT readers: can you find the Vows column that very discreetly reveals that both members of the couple left their spouses for each other?
May 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
today’s fun puzzle for NYT readers: can you find the Vows column that very discreetly reveals that both members of the couple left their spouses for each other?
it actually sort of undermines the poem for me to learn that this is the man "Having a Coke With You" is about (ballet dancer Vincent Warren). this guy actually IS hotter than all art
April 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
it actually sort of undermines the poem for me to learn that this is the man "Having a Coke With You" is about (ballet dancer Vincent Warren). this guy actually IS hotter than all art
will it be birds in spring or harakiri?
April 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
will it be birds in spring or harakiri?
also did you guys know that Hemingway's final wife, Mary, liked to "be a boy" during sex with him, and played erotic games where she made him "be the girl," and wrote in her diary about the two of them goofing around and conducting this pretend interview:
February 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
also did you guys know that Hemingway's final wife, Mary, liked to "be a boy" during sex with him, and played erotic games where she made him "be the girl," and wrote in her diary about the two of them goofing around and conducting this pretend interview:
researching Hemingway's life is so funny, I don't know how I'm going to cull it down for my class lecture. did you know about the time he was working as a war reporter and running a side hustle as a French Resistance warlord and was charged with violating the Geneva Convention
February 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
researching Hemingway's life is so funny, I don't know how I'm going to cull it down for my class lecture. did you know about the time he was working as a war reporter and running a side hustle as a French Resistance warlord and was charged with violating the Geneva Convention
everyone knows about Virginia Woolf saying "on or about 1910 human character changed" but I feel like it's less known that she immediately follows this up with a relatable example: have you ever noticed that your cook has gotten so overfamiliar with you these days?
February 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
everyone knows about Virginia Woolf saying "on or about 1910 human character changed" but I feel like it's less known that she immediately follows this up with a relatable example: have you ever noticed that your cook has gotten so overfamiliar with you these days?
Peter Walsh in Mrs Dalloway is such a lesbian
January 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Peter Walsh in Mrs Dalloway is such a lesbian
now I'm revisiting James Joyce's letters to Nora. I think he's referring to the g-spot here? once again in awe of this genius mind
January 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
now I'm revisiting James Joyce's letters to Nora. I think he's referring to the g-spot here? once again in awe of this genius mind
I'm teaching chapter 4 of Ulysses next week so I just re-read it for the first time in a DECADE and I cannot fucking believe how fucking good Ulysses is. it blew my mind the first time around and it continues to blow my mind now. what a miracle. I'm so happy
January 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I'm teaching chapter 4 of Ulysses next week so I just re-read it for the first time in a DECADE and I cannot fucking believe how fucking good Ulysses is. it blew my mind the first time around and it continues to blow my mind now. what a miracle. I'm so happy
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hey ishmael. could you maybe stop talking for a while
January 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
hey ishmael. could you maybe stop talking for a while
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Idlewild by @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social published by The Overlook Press is filmmaker Todd Stephens’ #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview
January 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Idlewild by @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social published by The Overlook Press is filmmaker Todd Stephens’ #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview
a thing that ACTUALLY JUST HAPPENED: I went to Dunkin and the young barista handed me my coffee and said “I’m an ally to the LGBT community.”
“What?”
“I’m an ally to the LGBT community. Ever since high school”
“What?”
“I’m an ally to the LGBT community. Ever since high school”
December 31, 2024 at 8:55 PM
a thing that ACTUALLY JUST HAPPENED: I went to Dunkin and the young barista handed me my coffee and said “I’m an ally to the LGBT community.”
“What?”
“I’m an ally to the LGBT community. Ever since high school”
“What?”
“I’m an ally to the LGBT community. Ever since high school”
last night I was going through photos my ex-husband took of me at the Central Park Zoo in 2018, and LOOK WHAT I FOUND. I completely forgot this photo existed (because at the time the owl wasn't famous)
December 31, 2024 at 3:13 PM
last night I was going through photos my ex-husband took of me at the Central Park Zoo in 2018, and LOOK WHAT I FOUND. I completely forgot this photo existed (because at the time the owl wasn't famous)
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I think this is the clearest analysis of Mangione and the response to him I've thus far read
"This may be the most significant lesson of the UnitedHealthcare assassination. The cloud isn’t real. Νor is corporate messaging. Human beings & the things we create are what’s real, & the source of true change comes from flesh and bone, breath&spirit" beiner.substack.com/p/best-serve...
Best Served Cold: Luigi Mangione and The Age of Breach
Technofeudalism, accountability porn and the new counterculture
beiner.substack.com
December 30, 2024 at 4:14 PM
I think this is the clearest analysis of Mangione and the response to him I've thus far read
it's funny that skywriting technology hasn't improved in the 100 years since it was invented. you'd think we'd have photorealistic sky drawings now, but we're still just like those Mrs Dalloway characters staring at the sky going "is that an....A?...or maybe an R?"
December 30, 2024 at 4:16 PM
it's funny that skywriting technology hasn't improved in the 100 years since it was invented. you'd think we'd have photorealistic sky drawings now, but we're still just like those Mrs Dalloway characters staring at the sky going "is that an....A?...or maybe an R?"
just realized I'm approaching the 23rd anniversary of the last time I threw up. January 2002 I had a stomach flu and missed a week of ninth grade. I haven't thrown up since then, even though I've tried. maybe I should try again. maybe this should be my New Year's Resolution
December 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
just realized I'm approaching the 23rd anniversary of the last time I threw up. January 2002 I had a stomach flu and missed a week of ninth grade. I haven't thrown up since then, even though I've tried. maybe I should try again. maybe this should be my New Year's Resolution
personally I think an inch is a gorgeous thing to have
December 24, 2024 at 3:54 PM
personally I think an inch is a gorgeous thing to have
my mouth herpes outbreaks have recently been taking an interesting new form -- larger clusters, smaller sores, lip edge only -- and I suspect it's triggered by abrasions from kissing someone with stubble. but unfortunately "cold sores from kissing?" is an ungoogleable question
December 22, 2024 at 4:29 PM
my mouth herpes outbreaks have recently been taking an interesting new form -- larger clusters, smaller sores, lip edge only -- and I suspect it's triggered by abrasions from kissing someone with stubble. but unfortunately "cold sores from kissing?" is an ungoogleable question
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mayor of whoville: ive had it with that grinch
wife: isn’t he good now?
mayor: i don’t buy it
wife: he wrote us an original christmas song. he is making an effort
mayor: sure but he called it “fuck city: born to die”
wife: yeah and that rules
mayor:
wife: why are you being such a little bitch
wife: isn’t he good now?
mayor: i don’t buy it
wife: he wrote us an original christmas song. he is making an effort
mayor: sure but he called it “fuck city: born to die”
wife: yeah and that rules
mayor:
wife: why are you being such a little bitch
December 22, 2024 at 1:36 AM
mayor of whoville: ive had it with that grinch
wife: isn’t he good now?
mayor: i don’t buy it
wife: he wrote us an original christmas song. he is making an effort
mayor: sure but he called it “fuck city: born to die”
wife: yeah and that rules
mayor:
wife: why are you being such a little bitch
wife: isn’t he good now?
mayor: i don’t buy it
wife: he wrote us an original christmas song. he is making an effort
mayor: sure but he called it “fuck city: born to die”
wife: yeah and that rules
mayor:
wife: why are you being such a little bitch
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A huge barred owl flew down a Virginia family’s chimney, knocked over the star on top of their Christmas tree, and perched himself on top www.wusa9.com/article/life...
December 21, 2024 at 9:14 PM
A huge barred owl flew down a Virginia family’s chimney, knocked over the star on top of their Christmas tree, and perched himself on top www.wusa9.com/article/life...
putting the duvet in the duvet cover is usually a 20-minute ordeal for me, and tonight was no exception, but this time I stumbled upon a fun if not particularly labor-saving trick: simply climb into the duvet cover and crawl around inside it like a kid in a blanket fort
December 20, 2024 at 4:30 AM
putting the duvet in the duvet cover is usually a 20-minute ordeal for me, and tonight was no exception, but this time I stumbled upon a fun if not particularly labor-saving trick: simply climb into the duvet cover and crawl around inside it like a kid in a blanket fort
I recently rewatched The Wizard of Oz and was really surprised to notice for the first time that the Wizard humorously implies that all war veterans are cowards. I feel like 1939 was the last possible year Hollywood could get away with a joke like that
December 20, 2024 at 2:04 AM
I recently rewatched The Wizard of Oz and was really surprised to notice for the first time that the Wizard humorously implies that all war veterans are cowards. I feel like 1939 was the last possible year Hollywood could get away with a joke like that
"we tell ourselves stories in order to live" has an air of profundity but tbh I'm not sure it actually rises to the level of a thought
December 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM
"we tell ourselves stories in order to live" has an air of profundity but tbh I'm not sure it actually rises to the level of a thought
stray Gypsy thought: it's funny that Miss Mazeppa's gimmick (playing the bugle) has nothing to do with being a gladiator. she just happens to be dressed as a gladiator that day but it's not her whole thing
December 18, 2024 at 7:32 PM
stray Gypsy thought: it's funny that Miss Mazeppa's gimmick (playing the bugle) has nothing to do with being a gladiator. she just happens to be dressed as a gladiator that day but it's not her whole thing
just remembered a few years ago I went on a date with a guy who asked me what my favorite musical was, and I said Gypsy. "Aw," he said, "you're so wholesome!"
I was like "??? it's about a stripper?" and he admitted he'd never seen it. his favorite musical was Cats
I was like "??? it's about a stripper?" and he admitted he'd never seen it. his favorite musical was Cats
December 18, 2024 at 3:22 PM
just remembered a few years ago I went on a date with a guy who asked me what my favorite musical was, and I said Gypsy. "Aw," he said, "you're so wholesome!"
I was like "??? it's about a stripper?" and he admitted he'd never seen it. his favorite musical was Cats
I was like "??? it's about a stripper?" and he admitted he'd never seen it. his favorite musical was Cats