Any comic fan who hasn't read Theo Ellsworth's THE UNDERSTANDING MONSTER series should get right on it. (I have a quote on one of the books!)

"The Christian Brothers had an oversized role in the church's industrial-scale abuse of children. A staggering 22% of its brothers were alleged perpetrators."

A24 is defending their embrace of AI – without mentioning that it's just stealing from other artists.

Did you buy any of these Studio Canal films on PlayStation? Now, no you didn't. (No refunds.)

A liminal space is one in which everything tastes like lime.

i don't know how much explicit joey ramone can be about not wanting to be buried in a pet sematary. he's been very clear

"It is also alleged officers laughed and appeared to enjoy themselves as they shone bright flashlights in the faces of patrons, some of whom reported being told to 'f*** off' and 'if you don't like it, move to Melbourne'."

I have never wanted anything as badly as Instagram wants access to my camera and microphone.

It's funny that Marvel is doing AVENGERS VS ALIENS when it already has its own alien knock-offs at home. The self-esteem of the Brood must be at an all-time low.

Celebrating a new Phoebe Bridgers song with these old lyrics that always make me a little teary.

As people seem to have been enjoying my piece on resistance porn for Shelfdust this week, here's another one I wrote for them: why did Marvel release an uncredited and purposefully generic comic book?

When I'm cryogenically frozen I want them to keep everything *except* my head. I figure we'll have more heads than we know what to do with! But bodies? Rare as hen's teeth!

Australia should have a football team of werewolves: the Soccerawoos!

A perfect day to read my story 'I, Kurt Russell, Have Been The Thing Since 1982'.

I'm a soup spoon! I'm slightly wider than a regular spoon! You need a whole bunch of me in your kitchen even if you barely ever eat soup!

No one – not even the far-right – seems to hate the left like centrists do.

I began a new screenplay yesterday! Always feels momentus to choose the first INT. or EXT. This will be pretty small – with an eye to direct as well as write.

This has been a topic I've thought a lot about over the past year or so with this title. Glad someone with Martyn's skill wrote about it.

"I'm on the fence about joining your centrist party" is a perfect joke, no notes.

I know that David Mamet has rightwing brainworms, but this is is undeniably a perfect line: "Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money."

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

This 30 ROCK joke made me feel seen. Milton Greene: We have to call an ambulance. Listen to me, damn it, I'm a doctor! Jack Donaghy: Of history! In what emergency would you be necessary? If someone wanted to know whether the '60s were awesome or not? Milton Greene: They were!

In case you missed it, here's me working through some of the weirdness in Disney funding resistance porn!

Do you need an elaborate scheme to fake your own death or can you just... leave?

Great line: "This passage, like many others in 'Communion,' scans syntactically but collapses as thought."

Don't worry, AI will not completely replace humans, only the few things that humans find enjoyable. The awful drudgery will remain.

The best thing about calling your party "Community Strong" is that you can't help but hear it in the Hulk's voice.

*bursts into Hollywood pitch meeting* *writes JANE AUSTEN POWERS on whiteboard* *waits*

"On Tuesday, Elizabeth was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison; Ines's sentencing is set for 1 July. All because, as she put it: 'They didn't like my book club.' Her laugh doesn't quite reach her eyes."

I've been feeling a bit burnt-out by my mental health work lately, but yesterday had some interactions that could've been designed in a lab to make me like my job.

I wrote about massive corporations funding "resistance art" and how awkward that relationship can be: "Somehow we’re left holding a Marvel comic – and Disney product – calling for violent revolution."

Imagine the levels of self-loathing involved in a cartoon sun wearing sunglasses.

Me: "Who's your favourite composer?" Jan from the Brady Bunch, looking around the kitchen: "Philip... Glass!"

"While Australians die in poorly cooled homes, the federal government spends $14.5 billion every year subsidising coal, oil and gas companies. That works out to around $27,000 per minute, which is more than the entire budget for the Australian Army."

I saw someone who looked a lot like Stephen Miller today and I thought "that must feel so unfair..."

from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism

I'm no believer in tortured artist tropes – but if I can manage to write, write almost anything, it does make me feel less depressed.

Be kind, because everyone is fighting a battle you can't see. THIS SUMMER: INVISIWAR!

In my BACKROOMS spinoff, FRONTSPACE, everything is welcoming and exactly as it appears.

Maybe there is a whole Reflecting Pool of Dorian Gray thing going on.

"One of the many failings of reactionary centrism is its utter unfalsifiability: if you lose an election you have to move to the right on social issues to win next time. If you win an election you have to move to the right to govern."

Random band I just discovered: Trooper Salute! (The exclamation mark is me, not them.)

The ph in my PhD stands for "phwor!"

"In the 00s, Marvel struck a unique product placement deal with the U.S. military to put Army Strong ads into the narratives themselves, with t-shirts and billboards in the background of canon Marvel adventures featuring awkwardly Photoshopped logos."

In the era of "we're selling all the Pokemon Go data collected by children to the US military", both Dante's SMALL SOLDIERS and Levinson's TOYS are probably worth a revisit.

Here's a six-word horror story: "More aggressive cops are less restrained."

In honour of the world's first trillionaire, here's my own take on a "guillotine" story. If you have one, post it too!

I've become so anti-AI that every time I think of Wall-E I think of that old tweet about "beating ET to death with hammers".

A24 decides storyboard artists shouldn't be able to pay rent.