

Theo Olson
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@Hotspvrre
https://t.co/kRJ6vjuqYx. As a fiction writer, “I am my own legislator and king; no one is above me, not even God.” Rilke, Ewald Tragy, 1898.








What’s a book you read too young to fully appreciate…then reread later and realized it was brilliant? 📚 👀


Here’s my latest chapter of The Waffle Iron. Hope you enjoy it. It’s getting larger and tougher than mere exposition itself to make meaning, to make meaning matter, yet not lose the story of the story. Also, you can see illustration is not my strong suit, but does that stop me? No! hotspvrre.substack.com/p/the-nothing-…

📍Moore St, Dublin A shopper from Lidl nearly had his bike stolen by a local scumbag, and for some reason a Somalian jumped in to try help him steal it from the looks of the footage. Dublin is a cesspit of non stop crime.

K-tel Record Selector commercial. (‘72)



Jonny Quest was unique in many ways, and it's truly one of a kind in Saturday morning TV. It was twice the budget of The Flintstones, and every other cartoon, full orchestra, characters died violently, the art was more nuanced. Sponsors hated it, and it lost money.


Fewer than half of US adults read a book last year. Even fewer read an actual novel, and the trend is looking worse still for teenagers. Why is nobody talking about this??

New chapter coming tomorrow. Pretty excited.