I try to keep to my $2.99 limit but there are some things I'll happily go up to $3.99 for.

Could be my album of the year. A shame the year is 1968...

Podcasts with less than 100 views/listens, Bluesky posts with neither comments nor likes — these are my people, sayeth the Lord... or more likely me.

Healthcare? Doctors? Why waste your money when you can buy your own scalpel, gauze and a big bottle of horse dewormer?

Imagine a TV show like Saturday Night Live but funny.

It's like one of those HP Lovecraft stories where the narrator manages to write down his last words as the eldritch things gets him.

I was right, wasn't I?

Disturbed to find an error in Shadow Ticket.The FBI was not called the FBI until 1935, Tom. Not sure that I can go on...

Rewatching LOST for the first time since it was broadcast and impressed at how well it holds up: it certainly shows how lugubrious "prestige" TV currently is. An episode like "The Shape of Things to Come" from Season 4 has more going on on every level than an entire season of most HBO or FX product.

Today's update;

It's a bit of a dilemma when one thinks creators should be paid for their work but can't bring oneself to pay $10 a month for less than half a dozen Substack posts. I mean, I could get a secondhand copy of Anna Karenina for that.

"I can't be the only one confusing Russ Vought with Brock Vond," as Zoyd Wheeler said to Bob Ferguson.

Possibly the most late-60s-pop-thing ever.

I'm so old I remember a decade going by thinking Gravity's Rainbow would be Thomas Pynchon's last novel.

SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYINGS EMMY'S ARE A DEMOCRAT HOAX BECAUSE "BEST" PRESIDENT EVER WAS "ROBBED" OF AWARD FOR "MOST WARS STOPPED BY A HANDSOME FOX NEWS GUEST NOT IN ANY EPSTEIN BOOK."

Now playing on X*: "I was a Marxist leader of Antifa until yesterday when I heard that someone had heard someone say something slightly disrespectful of St. Charlie of Kirk so I immediately sent all my money to Elon Musk." *And possibly the NYT Opinion pages.

Now that it looks like Kirk's assassin may have come from the Groyper contingency (or even deeper in the 8chan world) we're likely to see the blabbermouths on the right switch from "ALL LEFTISTS MUST DIE FOR THIS!!!" rhetoric to "The left should be ashamed of politicising this tragic incident."

Starting to see this on the precious things I need to see me through the Great Discontinuity.

Wait until Trump discovers there isn't a Nobel War Prize.

America has concerns...

As a crime-loving 90 year old white communist hippy, I quake at the sight of these prime specimens of the master race.

Once again, AI has nothing to fear when humans churn out mulch like this. (And remember, when writing about books always show a shot from a film.)

A bit half- nay, quarter-arsed. Lacking... youtu.be/o7MwHGHWgLk

Search "Epstein" in X right now and I challenge you to find a single tweet taking Trump's side.

Only seems like yesterday when he set up Verrit to blast anyone who didn't worship Hillary Clinton...

My quarterly meanspirited dip into LinkedIn to see how the good have been rewarded and the bad stuck in B2B hell. Still feel vindicated that the one of the only two people I was ever trusted to mentor (ie show how to switch their computers on and then back away) is now the CEO of a non-profit.

Not the wildest prediction but...

Post a banger that's not in English (1/398,632).

Has Trump locked himself in a cupboard or something? The stock market has gone up two days in a row.

Funny how all the economic geniuses on X with names like ratjism4734 and elonluva9978765 are bleating "market correction" and "healthy fluctuation" when what they really mean is BETTER EVERYONE LOSE THEIR 401KS THAN ONE TRANS KID BE HAPPY.

Is he still going? There's never a runaway dung cart when one is needed the most.

Imagine waking up in the morning and realising that it wasn't a bad dream you really are JD Vance.

Presidents' Day, you say? Shouldn't it have been renamed Musk Day by now?

Imagine waking up in the morning and realising that you are Mike Johnson. Every day.

Ahead of its time and then some.

Cur the Colonel Bogey March: Elon has only got one ball, Bezos has two but they are small, Zucker— Everybody sing!

Has anyone verified that really is Melania in the creepy outfit?

Unfollowed about 80% of the people my reckless use of starter packs had accumulated. I'm really not feeling the BlueSky vibe.

This exists.

"We're now gonna give you our a cappella renditioning of "Hallelujah" but we've tweaked the lyrics a little to make them more relevant to the vanity publishing sphere."

Coming to the end of THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton and the mirth factor is still extremely low. Will skip the sequel, THE GARAGE OF CUSTARD PIES.

The Grateful Dead Kennedys.

"The horror...the horror..."