Neil Hellegers

Today's blend is Kiki's Chocolate Cake by Tea & Absinthe. I am using my Cake or Death mug in honor of Jeff the God of Biscuits. I am back to The Bad Guys with Back to One by Eric Ugland and expertly narrated by @neilhellegers.com. #booksky #teasky #iykyk 📚💙 🎧📚 🪐📚 ☕️ 🫖 🍵 #teaandcakeordeath

What did the Russian whisper in your ear?

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

paging @sjgochenour.bsky.social and @neolithicsheep.bsky.social: I might have found the perfect book for you 😂💖

Many thanks to the producers of this for proving that even with the cloned voice of an excellent actor, with amazing text, with four (!) producers avidly working it over, & a dozen other nicked voices (i.e. a more expensive project than with human narrators) The Odyssey still sounds utterly meh.

Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool

Remembering Gene Wilder, born on this day in 1933, with his unforgettable role as Jim (but most people call him... "Jim") in Mel Brooks's BLAZING SADDLES on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

Know Thy Enemy #ideasofmarch #shakespeare #rageagainstthemachine #originalpronunciation #BookSky

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house.

“Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power." ‐JC #ShakespeareSunday

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

"For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Whoa Nat 20 on Charisma!!

someone's gotta do something about all these quislings

[Exit Clown.]

just some documentation of our decidedly non-monarchial constitutional republic for no reason #originalpronunciation #usconstitution #nokings #narrator

It's the first Monday in October which means the Supreme Court is back in session. Here's my preview of all the cruelty and evil they will visit upon us this term. My *cover story* in @thenation.com :) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Be not afraid.

A live duet narration session this Saturday on Discord! This utterly original steampunk-y fantasy by @jackfields.bsky.social is one of the most beautiful series I've ever narrated, and it's been such a gift to do it alongside @neilhellegers.com 🎧 discord.gg/ReadMyLips

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

A Message from President Thomas Whitmore the V #independenceday #originalpronunciation @shakespeare.lol #henryV #stcrispinsday

Mad world, mad kings, mad composition! -KJ, Act II, scene 1

posting this for no reason

Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.

Really loving our new weekly national tradition of asking the Supreme Court "hey, are there laws?" and getting back "I guess," 7-2 with Alito and Thomas dissenting

Leo XIV? What about Bob?

The greatest trick the Emperor ever pulled was convincing the galaxy the Rebellion was the Empire

Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴

heckuva time to rewatch this treasure of an episode...!

“The Indestructibles is a thrilling and action-packed book featuring a group of young #superheroes. The audiobook, narrated by a talented cast, further elevates the story...” Listen to The Indestructibles by @matthewphillion.bsky.social. #audiobooks #fantasy #fullcastaudio #throwbackthursday

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind

Happy Birth and Death Day to @shakespeare.lol!

BREAKING: THE MUMMY (1999) is low key a perfect Passover movie: • explores all 10 Plagues • takes place in Egypt • themes of Supernatural Intercedence v. Oppression • lot of hot people in it

Sending people to foreign prisons isn’t a debate about immigration policy. Telling private universities who they must hire and what they must teach isn’t about antisemitism. Destroying the economy thru tariffs isn’t about revitalizing American industry. It’s all about power and domination.

The audiobook for The Scarlet Blade by @jackfields.bsky.social is out today! Jack joined myself and co-narrator @neilhellegers.com for a conversation on Discord about his wonderful series. Listen here: soundcloud.com/tess-irondal...

We’re fighting antisemitism on college campuses. That’s why we pulled Holocaust history from the library of the Naval Academy but left two copies of Mein Kampf.

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markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands