Steve is now running a drama channel

I'd stay and write a longer, more thoughtful comment, but I must rush off and get busy with my creative endeavors now. All the best to you...

Steve cackling to himself was the best part of my day 🤣🤣🤣🤣

“The empress of bailing”😂

I don’t understand this phenomenon, but there is a large portion of 50-year-old American women walking around with faded Donald Duck tattoos on their ankles.

When a Steve video doesn't even end in "thank you, Booktube" you know you've just witnessed a classic!

Hi Steve . This video really made me laugh on a really tough day. Thank you

Are you saying my Skippy tattoo is ugly?! I beg to differ! 🐶❤️ I still think you and Mark from RichardsonReads need to do your own Variety Hour. You could call it Two Grumpy Gabbers. 🤣😝😜😁 With regards to the Empress of Bailing, I say this: like a good cup of coffee, sometimes you have to wait for things to "percolate", otherwise you just get instant coffee.

"I'll sleep when I'm dead," sang Warren Zevon, and now he is.

Only recently have I enjoyed the scent of dopamine in the morning. In the past a hit before bed made me look forward to the next day and a new title. Should I ever experience two bails a day I’ll quit- cold turkey. I can stop anytime I want. Loved your video ♥️

I agree with you about tattoos. I have a friend who got a tat on her chest when she was in her teens, and now that she is in 50's it is about four inches lower then it was then, surrounded by a lot more wrinkles. Great discussion Steve you always put into words what a lot of us are thinking.

Well that was fun and inspiring. Bless you, Steve!

Proudly tattoo free since 1967. Many of us went through a Vonnegut phase in our 20s. Shouldn't be memorialized with a tattoo though. Enjoyed the pre-middle aged man rant.

Thank you for the pep talk- I'd better get back to writing for the night since you've warned me so efficiently about taking breaks from it :)

Maybe your channel's name should be Momento Mori.

I has tickets to go see a movie. I happily stayed home to watch this video instead.

I should have known better than watch this whilst trying to escape the grim reality of life I see everyday as a nurse. Leave it to Steve to bring up mortality in the most grim and dark way possible. Why do I do this to myself? 😩

I don't know what it says about me that I enjoyed this so much. Am I a petty person to enjoy ranting or are you JUST SO ENTERTAINING!

Freida is hiding somewhere until the rant ends. This begins as an example of how the well read scream "Get off my lawn!' The end is a BookTube Ted Talk. Steve, you are highly entertaining and motivational. Thanks for kicking my ass!

I also had the misfortune of being recommended that video about bookstores. He was just ogling the stores for the whole video, not actually reading or exploring what it means to be a reader. Readers use libraries, second hand bookstores, ebooks, and come from all over the world. There's no need to fly to Portugal to find the meaning of reading. I think some of the interviews were alright, because those people did read, and understood what it brings to one's life. I just wish that foolish guy with the camera wouldn't frame it so condescendingly. Maybe someone watching the video legitimately is going through a dilemma and could use some guidance, and all they get is condescension. And "golden age of content?" Maybe I'm a curmudgeon before my time, but have they SEEN what trash is published online? Reading makes you more discerning, which I think is much needed for some folks... Julie Andrews throwing books. 😂 I was just battling with that thought of my mortality and how fear shouldn't hold me back to create stuff. My writing is by no means great, but on my death bed, I won't be glad that self-doubt got in the way. I'll be kicking myself for not creating when I had the chance.

Always entertaining Steve. Good subject for a rant 😃 Also congrats on 6k!! I've just added my question to said video

You always make me think and re-evaluate my life... ok, not in a dramatic way, but in a stop-being-so-damn-lazy-and-start-doing-what-you-want-to-do way.... so thank you, Steve! :)

LMAO - Gee Steve, it turns out if I read more books, I can read more!

But sometimes taking a break is great for creative endeavours. When you take a break, you refresh your mind, and come back better, usually - at least for me. My ‘creative endeavour’ is philosophical/theological thinking/reading (my hobby), and my best ideas come to me not when I’m actively working and brainstorming, but usually when I’m doing nothing, just wandering about and thinking. It’s the same case when reading - when I take a break, I feel like I come back absorbing the words off a page more easily. Whereas if I’m continually reading book after book, at some point I reach a point where my brain becomes jammed, and my efficiency in understanding really low. Sometimes a break is necessary FOR your creative endeavours - in my opinion. But, I suppose everyone functions differently.

I bailed on a salad last weekend and I stand by my decision.

"...he's waiting to bail, for the dopamine hit..." LOL! I never thought of DNFing a book quite that way.

To your point about being dead in 10 minutes: as you are the most literate man I know you will of course recognize the man who said that "It is no more a miracle to be born twice than to be born once." Love your channel, its slightly changed my life, thanks.

Glad that my cat’s appearance in my video didn’t make your black list! 😜

Hello Steve. I haven’t DNF’d a book in a while. Even if I’m not enjoying a book I finish it because I want to know how it ends. If a book hasn’t grabbed me on the first page I know I won’t enjoy reading it.

I don't know if I should yell at you for hating tattoos or hating Vonnegut? I agree with you that you change as you get older. I have tattoos from like 22 years ago that don't mean the same to me as they did. I like to think of it as a timeline of my life. I can trace things that have happened. Where I was, what I thought... etc. I am getting a Vonnegut tattoo as well. I'm getting an a-hole from breakfast of champions (one of my favs of all time) on my middle finger. I'll show it to you when its done! LOL.

I never thought anyone could come close to playing the Grinch as well as Jim Carrey did. ... Steve makes me reconsider lol

as far as Entertainment goes, I think you can bail. My time is more valuable to me now. I will walk out of movies, tv shows, music and books. Not people or addictive substances. LOL.

😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭 You know who seems like he needs a break? ...🤔🤔🤔 It might be you, sir!

There, there, Grandpa. I’m glad you got all that off your chest. You’ll feel better tomorrow. The rest of us feel better now that we’ve had the chance to watch your new Friday Night Rants. And hey! Save some of that Boston Cream Pie for me, Buddy.

I get your point here Steve but "wowing the eye-balls out of the back of my head" is the new standard for me. There's nothing else anymore.

I'm going to get a tattoo soon, my father's been trying to get me to get one with him since I was a kid. As soon as I turned 16 he was ready lmao. He's moving soon so I may not see him for years and he's talked me into it finally. Tattoos can be beautiful and meaningful but also as you said quite ugly. Maybe I'll get more than one just to spite Steve down the line!

Adam’s body being found in a bordello sounds like the beginning of Haruki Murakami’s next novel. Just think about that.

You are really a mess today!!!!!! To funny. Really I want to say thank you for nudging me to get back on writing my history for my kids and grandkids. I really want to do it but just keep putting it off. Good butt kick.

LOVE Alice Munro. Lighting all my LEDs for her!

I'm pretty sure future generations will thank me for not writing more poetry.

Got around to watching that Max Joseph video and actually liked it. Liked the people he talked to especially. Do agree with you though that it seems unlikely he will read much more than he has in the past.

I seldom 'bail' unless a book is boring and badly written. However, I recognise that some books have a time in your life when they catch you, but others are immediately important to you. At my age I'm more patient with authors.

I have stopped reading plenty of books, because I have a finite amount of time. I don't want to waste it reading books that bore me or that I dislike after about 30-40 pages. I'm a fairly patient reader, though. What's wrong with tattoos? Some are very cool!

Excellent advice! My only worry is how many inches off my nose I'll lose if I jam it as resolutely as you would wish against the grindstone. But as always a necessary reminder about some of the grimmer facts of life from which we consistently attempt to distract ourselves.

Boston Cream Pie and a book for everyone!

There are 5 channels, including yours, that seldom annoy me, but there are plenty that grate on the nerves than my younger self.

Steve, you are hilarious. Also very inspiring. Thanks for this.

So my idea for a tattoo of Holden Caulfield's hat is probably a bad idea?

Of course you remember what you loved in your 20s, you're only 28. Remember?

Steve two Tolkien references in one video awesome!

It's the cat. ... I vote: Cat Made you Yell at KZfaq. Total evidence is at 1.05 in said video. 😂

🙀Goodness, the energy.....😹

I need a break after this video.

I actually enjoyed the brussells video because I am shallow and love to oogle at all the pretty book shops we do not have here in Donegal 😢😭😢

I have one tattoo, that I don’t at all regret. And there is just one other I’d like to get (a Flannery O’Connor quote)...if only Kelly would let me. Alice Munro is a goddess. 😛

Superb rant!

I've seen enough women in their forties with the Lion and the Lamb quote from Twilight tattooed on their wrists or ankles to last me a lifetime. It's never Heine or Pepys... "I know not how to abstain from reading." If I remember correctly, Max Joseph used the time he gained from being enlightened that he needed to read more books in order to read more books to read Infinite Jest of all things...

I got request for a video. As I want to read more non fiction and you by happenstance are the authority on biographies. I would very much like a recommendation video about said books. I don't really care so much who they are about lol but just as long as they are good :)

When you said Vonnegut is terrible...my love for you skyrocketed. I will never be able to process how (and why) so many people love his shit writing. I could put 525,600 letters in a Boggle cube and come up with something better. I hate to speak poorly of the dead, but dude couldn't write his way out of a bloated corpse colon.

It's Grandpa Simpson hour! Ok half hour. I can't back you on condemning Shawn's bails...I think he knows his mind and knows where he values his time. We've all got limited time...your words...so why not bail away on all the crap!!!

Habitual bailing is just exploiting books for shtick. There are movie, and music, critics who do this too. It gets tired fast.

I agree with you about tattoos Steve. I think they're awful, especially on women. But you cant say anything because you get shot down!

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It was fun to see all those book stores though.

David Foster Wallace was being interviewed, and in the particular interview I'm thinking of he sighted Alice Monroe as one of the great writers of the short story form, so I checked out some of her work. Steve, I share your opinion of what she's done. Dull, dull, dull. Vonnegut does nothing for me either.

That quirky, twee style that Max Joseph and however many other people affect has tragically infected public radio and made it almost unbearable for me anymore. (I still like "Whattya Know" if that is still on the air.)

Dissing Kurt Vonnegut... How dare you... Unsubscribe... Just kidding 🤣. Btw, I had to Google how to spell his name even though I've read a couple of his books. I did enjoy them at the time but I can't remember anything about them.

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Damn dude, relax! Focus on anything you want to improve in your personal life or this channel. Who the hell cares about channels with vapid people that are self absorbed.