There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” Philip K. Dick

Things: Damn the Mail www.needcoffee.com/2026/01/23/t...

The Kouncil of Reeds www.needcoffee.com/2026/01/14/c...

James Hoffmann and an anthropomorphic coffee bean take a voyage through the human body to answer the mystery of why coffee makes you really want to visit the throne room. www.needcoffee.com/2026/01/13/c...

“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will – either by having nothing happen at all, or by having everything happen at once.” Paulo Coelho

What’s the Best Music of 2025? www.needcoffee.com/2026/01/05/b...

Stephen Miller has no shadow because he is merely the part of a bollock of Nyarlathotep visible in our dimension.

Here's an idea: Rob Reiner's daughters should sue Trump for $20 billion dollars (evidently Trump's favorite number) for slander, defamation, inciting violence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Goodnight. www.instagram.com/owillow_waly...

Rubro: Rooibos Iced Tea – Review www.needcoffee.com/2025/12/02/r...

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

"The materials you authored from sixth through eighth grade are now free and available to the populace (everyone) for adaptation, publication, or general enjoyment."

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

Too many news outlets & pols framing Tuesday as affordability *Instead Of* "woke"/"DEI"/whatever the fuck when Mamdani & Sherrill both *explicitly* embraced trans & other LGBTQ+ rights, VA solidly rejected Republicans' virulent anti-trans attack adz, & a PA elected their 1st trans mayor. Be serious.

Today on Louder Than War Radio! Widge’s Sonic Emporium episode 114 is the perfect jumping on point. I explain to the best of my abilities what the show is and how it (barely) operates. Listen 5pm-7pm ET, 10pm-Midnight UK time at needcoffee.com/listenlive Full archives at mixcloud.com/widgett

this is one of those wonderful sentences that takes on vastly different character depending on what word you emphasize.

Folks. You get sick less (COVID, flu, & all their buddies). If you happen to have something you’re less likely to pass it on. And they come in black so you can look more like a ninja. NO DOWNSIDES.

The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line. 1/

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

Congrats to @christosgage.bsky.social for reminding everyone that Disney owns Crossgen. (Maybe it happened before now, but if so, I didn't catch it.) Damn, I miss Crossgen.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

"Apparently, in PC America, a 'safe space' is one in which you aren’t stoned to death in the town square in order to increase the harvest yield. Well, count me out."

Putting human civilization on the top shelf so the rich can’t get to it

Surreal animation from 1930, a kinda forgotten Vincent Price/Peter Lorre TV pilot, and a horror western! 32 Days of Halloween--something for the whole family!

Implant a device with electrodes in the brain? Merge someone with a computer? WHAT could possibly go wrong? Well, it's 32 Days of Halloween, so safe to say SOMETHING did...

Meanwhile, at Amazon Web Services HQ...

Tonight: Lovecraft, a surreal beach scene, and a cursed reptilian! Sounds like the punchline to a very, very strange joke.

Morgan Freeman as a vampire? Cosmic horror where the Dayball turns off? Oh yes...plus THE SKULL! Hooray for 32 Days of Halloween XVIII Day 19!

Joe Dante, Tubular Bells, and The Haunted Palace. Nothing but a party for Day 18 of 32 Days of Halloween XVIII.

32 Days of Halloween XVIII, Day 17 brings horror history, Karloff, and DREAM NO EVIL!

32 Days of Halloween XVIII hits its halfway point. And hits it with a log splitter. Not that anyone will ever be able to prove ANYTHING.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love. But it also needs a show that’s “a police procedural based in Wakanda and starring the Dora Milaje.” I would watch that for at least eleven seasons.

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Authoritarians are unimaginative. They understand the world through the lens of complete control. Because they make top-down decisions in a small group, they imagine there is an equivalent (i.e., “Antifa”) leading the opposition. They can’t fathom it being just everyday people doing random shit.

Flavored Seltzer: What If Bubbly Water Had Just Enough Of A Shadow Of Flavor To Annoy You?™️

32 Days of Halloween XVIII marches on with Day 15!

Coffee enough to stay awake and watch the show? Check. Coffee enough to format this into a coherent review? Lacking.

Mash up bands: Alien Ant Filter

What I want to know is: why hasn't someone shown Trump the original “Land of the Lost” so our military would instead be trying to rescue the Marshall Family and secure the natural resources the Land is no doubt hiding?

The first 2025 #Halloween episode of the Sonic Emporium is now live, having broken out of the mausoleum over at Louder Than War Radio. Come enjoy the mayhem with music from Primus, The Kac-Ties, Demon Fuzz, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Lord Kitchener and more! www.mixcloud.com/louderthanwa...

"Every day I use the dialect of lunatic hurricanes. I speak the madness of clashing winds. Every evening I use the patois of furious rains. I speak the fury of waters in flood" Frankétienne (Haitian writer, poet, playwright, and painter) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%C...