What Ho…A Rat!!
@WhatHoARat
A podcast about Shakespeare by Rey and Mikey. / Writer Michael Robert Liska-first novel Alice, or The Wild Girl Sept. 2025 Heresy/Skyhorse
Coming September 9th, 2025 from Skyhorse Publishing. Contact for ARC.
I don't really read news stories, I just scroll over them without reading more than a few scattered lines. I remember hearing once about zen monks who never read their core texts - they had them all on a spinning rack and would just spin it once and say good enough.
Listenin to sister rosetta with a black dog sleeping at my feet.
some of you probably think this isn’t that big of a deal but it is. trust me, you don’t want to live in a world where everything you see is fake. it’s gonna damage us in ways we probably can’t even predict. push back against this shit with everything you’ve got.
Vogue’s August issue has begun to use “AI models” instead of human models for some of their photoshoots.
It's tough nowadays for a dystopia to distinguish itself from all the other dystopias.
That teen sounds italian to me.
this is from a story i wrote when i was 11
#11
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (1/20) Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke I got roped into doing another book challenge 😂.
Did this on a first date once.
Watching Blue Velvet with the wife for the first time.
C'mon gang don't let me down. Everybody go john on this or i'm going to do self-harm.
Who wins. Everything is riding on this one poll.
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You know...i see ducks and turtles mating all the time and i gotta admit - nature is not always kind to the ladies.
Video footage captured a lady freaking out over a duck trying to mate with another duck
Also coming very soon Michael Clune speaking about his new novel Pan.
#10
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (1/20) Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke I got roped into doing another book challenge 😂.
Wrote about Pan by Michael Clune today for @compactmag_ and went to see him speak tonight, discussing his unique method of a realist invocation of altered states of consciousness, among other things. Bringing in the magical and the sacred. compactmag.com/article/a-ques…
The algorithm is working well for me. X the everything app seems like it's populated by about 200 nice people who're all pretty smart and funny and interested in the same things as me.
This was me at a party the other night.
sorry im quiet im thinking about the immortality of the crab
Do exactly the same thing, but have it all be lies.
does anyone have advice for writing fiction when you are used to writing essays / non-fiction?
#9
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (1/20) Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke I got roped into doing another book challenge 😂.