J. Ichabod Whateley
@divershands.bsky.social
Purveyor of Perverse and Pulchritudinous Prevarications
Whisky Gremlin
Very Funny Clown
Whisky Gremlin
Very Funny Clown
Today’s break from biking around town is Mark Jaskowski’s ‘Beneath the Swimming Pools, the Teeth!’ (courtesy of the fine editors of @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social ). Will this be the body horror that drives me to give up mood altering substances? No. But my flesh has been a mutant menace for years.
September 16, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Today’s break from biking around town is Mark Jaskowski’s ‘Beneath the Swimming Pools, the Teeth!’ (courtesy of the fine editors of @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social ). Will this be the body horror that drives me to give up mood altering substances? No. But my flesh has been a mutant menace for years.
Today’s Labor Day reading is the growingly appropriate’Dehiscent’ by Ashley Deng (via @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ). A story about acknowledging privilege in a broken world, and the cost that accompanies that knowledge. Excited to see how it ends.
September 8, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Today’s Labor Day reading is the growingly appropriate’Dehiscent’ by Ashley Deng (via @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ). A story about acknowledging privilege in a broken world, and the cost that accompanies that knowledge. Excited to see how it ends.
Today’s reading when I should be writing is Jacy Morris’ novella ‘It’s Under the Deck’. A character study in aging curmudgeonly, the lonely horror of the suburbs, and the worst case scenario for the newest PNW Saint: Jimothy. (Look, as the self-proclaimed Bishop of Cathedral Park I can pick saints.)
August 19, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Today’s reading when I should be writing is Jacy Morris’ novella ‘It’s Under the Deck’. A character study in aging curmudgeonly, the lonely horror of the suburbs, and the worst case scenario for the newest PNW Saint: Jimothy. (Look, as the self-proclaimed Bishop of Cathedral Park I can pick saints.)
Tonight’s post shift reading is ‘The Adventures of Horus & Motherfucker’ by e rathke. While technically Sword & Sorcery, watching the character of Motherfucker self-radicalize herself into a prophet/martyr for a god they invented has been fascinating reading.
August 13, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Tonight’s post shift reading is ‘The Adventures of Horus & Motherfucker’ by e rathke. While technically Sword & Sorcery, watching the character of Motherfucker self-radicalize herself into a prophet/martyr for a god they invented has been fascinating reading.
Tonight’s post shift reading is ‘Cuckoo’ by the delightfully perverse @scumbelievable.bsky.social . A truly terrible premise (conversion therapy camps are a form of torture, and the people who operate them should be put to death in horrible fashion) handled with beautifully crafted prose.
July 30, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Tonight’s post shift reading is ‘Cuckoo’ by the delightfully perverse @scumbelievable.bsky.social . A truly terrible premise (conversion therapy camps are a form of torture, and the people who operate them should be put to death in horrible fashion) handled with beautifully crafted prose.
Tonight’s (early!) post shift reading is @joshrountree.bsky.social ‘The Unkillable Frank Lightning’. I’m a sucker for both weird westerns and a Frankenstein retelling, but have been delighted by the narrative choices made within both tropes.
July 26, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Tonight’s (early!) post shift reading is @joshrountree.bsky.social ‘The Unkillable Frank Lightning’. I’m a sucker for both weird westerns and a Frankenstein retelling, but have been delighted by the narrative choices made within both tropes.
The much anticipated (and not at all late) summer cocktail menu is live! Thanks to Tom Spanbauer, @casskhaw.bsky.social , @kellylink.bsky.social , Thomas Pynchon, Brian Francis Slattery, & @steveaylett.bsky.social for the wonderful words to conjure these enlightened spirits.
June 12, 2026 at 11:36 PM
The much anticipated (and not at all late) summer cocktail menu is live! Thanks to Tom Spanbauer, @casskhaw.bsky.social , @kellylink.bsky.social , Thomas Pynchon, Brian Francis Slattery, & @steveaylett.bsky.social for the wonderful words to conjure these enlightened spirits.
This afternoon’s cardio/escape is brought to us by @markzdanielewski.bsky.social ‘s ‘Tom’s Crossing’ - which is roughly the same dimensions and weight as my dog. It is also an utter masterpiece of storytelling and use of dialect. Those people who tell you there are rules for writing? Fuck them.
June 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
This afternoon’s cardio/escape is brought to us by @markzdanielewski.bsky.social ‘s ‘Tom’s Crossing’ - which is roughly the same dimensions and weight as my dog. It is also an utter masterpiece of storytelling and use of dialect. Those people who tell you there are rules for writing? Fuck them.
Tonight’s post shift reading is by @spookhouse.bsky.social . Technically, I started reading ‘Darkvoid Deathship’ on my lunch break serving as a juror, which meant I got to explain the plot to ‘Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization’ to 13 people who were unprepared for my enthusiasm.
May 22, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Tonight’s post shift reading is by @spookhouse.bsky.social . Technically, I started reading ‘Darkvoid Deathship’ on my lunch break serving as a juror, which meant I got to explain the plot to ‘Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization’ to 13 people who were unprepared for my enthusiasm.
Tonight’s post shift weirdness is ‘Olyoke’ by @endwellian.bsky.social (and the fine folk @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ). Fragmented storytelling anchored by slow (candle) burning high strangeness - AND it has a cursed theme park. Fuck yeah!
May 15, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Tonight’s post shift weirdness is ‘Olyoke’ by @endwellian.bsky.social (and the fine folk @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ). Fragmented storytelling anchored by slow (candle) burning high strangeness - AND it has a cursed theme park. Fuck yeah!
Finally pulled @keithrosson.bsky.social ‘s ‘Coffin Moon’ off the TBR bookcase, and fuck did I do myself a disservice by waiting this long. While Rosson can write messy, complex characters well, he fucking slays at writing monstrous dirtbags - quite literally in this case.
May 6, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Finally pulled @keithrosson.bsky.social ‘s ‘Coffin Moon’ off the TBR bookcase, and fuck did I do myself a disservice by waiting this long. While Rosson can write messy, complex characters well, he fucking slays at writing monstrous dirtbags - quite literally in this case.
Today’s high weirdness is brought to us by the dashing @jacymorris.bsky.social . Glad I could finally pay for one of your books.
April 27, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Today’s high weirdness is brought to us by the dashing @jacymorris.bsky.social . Glad I could finally pay for one of your books.
Tonight’s post shift escapism comes to us from Edwin Callihan’s ‘Baculum’. A reliable source for weird occult fuckery. Much thanks to @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social for continuing to release strange ass shit.
April 26, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Tonight’s post shift escapism comes to us from Edwin Callihan’s ‘Baculum’. A reliable source for weird occult fuckery. Much thanks to @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social for continuing to release strange ass shit.
Just finished a short story for submission (they’d be absolutely insane to actually buy it) for the first time since COVID, and am celebrating by reading significantly better short fiction courtesy of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
April 21, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Just finished a short story for submission (they’d be absolutely insane to actually buy it) for the first time since COVID, and am celebrating by reading significantly better short fiction courtesy of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Tonight’s after shift reading is brought to us by @carsonwinter.bsky.social ‘The Corpse Priest’. Have only read short fiction by Winter, so excited to see what he does with an extended format. So far: a guard puking up the entirety of his organs, and giant feline mounts. Coming out swinging.
April 16, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Tonight’s after shift reading is brought to us by @carsonwinter.bsky.social ‘The Corpse Priest’. Have only read short fiction by Winter, so excited to see what he does with an extended format. So far: a guard puking up the entirety of his organs, and giant feline mounts. Coming out swinging.
Tonight’s post shift reading is the ever entertaining @texascthulhu.bsky.social splatter western ‘For a Few Souls More’. Was told it’s better than its preceding volume - which was pretty fucking great. So far we are not disappointed.
April 2, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Tonight’s post shift reading is the ever entertaining @texascthulhu.bsky.social splatter western ‘For a Few Souls More’. Was told it’s better than its preceding volume - which was pretty fucking great. So far we are not disappointed.
This evening’s escape from reality brought to us by Edwin Callihan and @filthyloot.bsky.social . Small town dirt bags, over-the-top violence, and pervasive entropic decay by cosmic forces beyond mortal ken are absolutely my jam!
April 1, 2026 at 2:01 AM
This evening’s escape from reality brought to us by Edwin Callihan and @filthyloot.bsky.social . Small town dirt bags, over-the-top violence, and pervasive entropic decay by cosmic forces beyond mortal ken are absolutely my jam!
Post shift reading is @cstross.bsky.social ‘The Regicide Report’. Would have gotten here sooner, but spent the last month rereading the previous 9 novels and 2 novellas in the Laundry Files. Also appreciate the Portland, OR shoutout; but, alas, the 24 Hour Church of Elvis is no longer with us.
March 26, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Post shift reading is @cstross.bsky.social ‘The Regicide Report’. Would have gotten here sooner, but spent the last month rereading the previous 9 novels and 2 novellas in the Laundry Files. Also appreciate the Portland, OR shoutout; but, alas, the 24 Hour Church of Elvis is no longer with us.
Spending St. Patrick’s Day in America, proper like: re-reading Irish horror literature in verse, set in a post Fenian uprising in Ulster. Thanks as always to the fine folk at @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and the ever talented @goresorcerer.bsky.social
March 17, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Spending St. Patrick’s Day in America, proper like: re-reading Irish horror literature in verse, set in a post Fenian uprising in Ulster. Thanks as always to the fine folk at @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and the ever talented @goresorcerer.bsky.social
Tonight’s post shift reading is @alexwoodroe.com ‘The Night Ship’, in anticipation of her gracing Portland with her presence. Strong, strange start. Looking forward to where it goes.
February 22, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Tonight’s post shift reading is @alexwoodroe.com ‘The Night Ship’, in anticipation of her gracing Portland with her presence. Strong, strange start. Looking forward to where it goes.
Tonight’s post shift reading provided by the ever enlightening* @nmamatas.bsky.social and his most recent work ‘Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest’.
*Enlightening in that every damned piece of his work sends me down a rabbit hole of reading up on weird heresies, forgotten philosophies, or Greek history.
*Enlightening in that every damned piece of his work sends me down a rabbit hole of reading up on weird heresies, forgotten philosophies, or Greek history.
February 7, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Tonight’s post shift reading provided by the ever enlightening* @nmamatas.bsky.social and his most recent work ‘Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest’.
*Enlightening in that every damned piece of his work sends me down a rabbit hole of reading up on weird heresies, forgotten philosophies, or Greek history.
*Enlightening in that every damned piece of his work sends me down a rabbit hole of reading up on weird heresies, forgotten philosophies, or Greek history.
Tonight’s post shift bar read is @tvayyyy.bsky.social ‘The El’. Sadly, I’ve never seen an Old Style for sale in Oregon, so I settled for a local lager that embraces its trash roots. And Larceny. Obviously.
January 18, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Tonight’s post shift bar read is @tvayyyy.bsky.social ‘The El’. Sadly, I’ve never seen an Old Style for sale in Oregon, so I settled for a local lager that embraces its trash roots. And Larceny. Obviously.
Finally cracking open the latest by Thomas Pynchon - an author whose body of work consumed most of my collegiate education. Still spend more time than is probably healthy thinking about bad jokes and dumb song lyrics after all these years…
December 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Finally cracking open the latest by Thomas Pynchon - an author whose body of work consumed most of my collegiate education. Still spend more time than is probably healthy thinking about bad jokes and dumb song lyrics after all these years…
Tonight’s break from reality is brought to us by @wnwagner.bsky.social ‘Girl In the Creek’. Sorry to take so long to get to this one Wendy, the TBR pile is an ever growing monster of awesome.
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Tonight’s break from reality is brought to us by @wnwagner.bsky.social ‘Girl In the Creek’. Sorry to take so long to get to this one Wendy, the TBR pile is an ever growing monster of awesome.
Finished @kashana.blacksky.app “The Payback” tonight, which keeps being billed as a heist novel. But it’s not really that. It’s a brilliant character study on aging black women, and their relationships, their hangups, and their blindspots. It’s a book about learning how to grow, and knowing anger.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Finished @kashana.blacksky.app “The Payback” tonight, which keeps being billed as a heist novel. But it’s not really that. It’s a brilliant character study on aging black women, and their relationships, their hangups, and their blindspots. It’s a book about learning how to grow, and knowing anger.