Increasingly depressed by friends becoming reactionaries and disinformation victims. Would prefer a different zeitgeist.

Is it good when the electrician says “wow you weren’t kidding! This isn’t what I expected!”

Goodnight.

On Dilbert Death Day, I remember the first Kaleb Horton genius work I saw: kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-d-lbert-...

yeah

I got a fundraising call today asking for my father, who died in 1993. Good work, all.

Been tasting blood lately. Wonder if it’s mine?

be sure to start Temple of Love (1992) by 11:51 if you want to hear the whole thing by midnight

The recorded announcer on this plane sounds exactly like the Suburbs’ “Music for Boys”

Philly airport bar: bartender shows you pictures of her grandkids

And so does 2025 begins its own pilgrimage to the shadows of the dark, dank ossuary of yesteryears

It's the holiday perineum! Happy Baunchmas to all!

it’s “jingle rock bell” season motherfuckers

Fraid of straws

This latest Epstein image drop of 8,000+ files is super-awkward. Each image is wrapped in its own pdf for some reason. That makes browsing difficult. So I fixed that. epstein.junkdrawer.cc/

The feature journalists, science popularizers, creative nonfiction writers I loved in my youth have mostly turned out to be terrible fakes. I’m angry to have been fed all that bullshit and I now mistrust good storytellers.

@codzilla.bsky.social were you aware of this?

The French national library is such a treasure cave of incredible pics, like what the hell is this: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

Money has been trying to turn the internet into television for 30 years now, and it looks successful now.

Woke up to a mysteriously trashed right knee. Can barely make it around the house with a cane. How? Why?

We need more 3/4 and 6/8 in popular music.

Spending the 80s bus commuting with a Walkman has after effects. “Soul Survivor” came up on the mix and I was immediately on the 170 headed north from Hollywood at 8 am

my big issue with "enshittification" as a term is that it represents what it critiques: a general decline in facility with metaphor, overall literary cleverness, public intellectual culture itself. Compare with a term like Twain's "The Gilded Age"

Life gave me inner demons, so I made inner demonade.

RIP, man. Thanks for building a conference room sheathed in metal scales at my old gig; I got stuck between it and a support column once and wrecked a take of the BTS for Flags of Our Fathers getting free. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.

The Joker vs The Skipper Thanksgiving Dinner Showdown! Their fight over Anton is probably the most tragic aspect of what undoubtedly was a bitter feud, as I’m sure Anton used to play concertina at the Lobster Barrel before Cesar worked his charms to lure him away… “For you, my dear Anton - A PIANO!”

I didn't realize atomic bomb tests in Nevada were visible from Los Angeles. www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-...

Happy Birthday, George Eliot. Thank you for writing out your beautiful heart despite everything.

Nice rainbow today!

The coffeehouse has an automated pour over machine. The machine has WiFi. The WiFi is not secured. 🤡

THE DISCOVER TAB: 1. Already saw that! 2. Blue wave mom, follows sixty-five thousand people, posts AI memes 3. BIG GAY TORSO!! 4. Jesus H. Christ did you actually just post that? 5. Impenetrable entertainment fandom drama

DAD: Babe, I think the kid has Ovid MOM: What? Covid? CHILD: Rose darke and full of foggye mist. And now they were within A kenning of the upper earth, when Orphye did begin DAD: To dowt him lest shee followed not, and through an eager love Desyrous for to see her, he his eyes did backward move.

Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information! Silicon Valley, 2025:

Happy Armistice Day to all who like peace!

One of this last week’s many horrors is the thing that finally made me snap. Not sure yet which one.

- drive out to the desert to see the Dream Syndicate play - stay over a day and do desert stuff - find out they’re playing today at a house walking distance from my place - drive back home to see the Dream Syndicate play

The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn

Yow

He says let’s go for a ride, and he says it all the time 💀

Someone tweaked my side mirror in a parking lot. Worse things happen at sea etc but I tire of these moderate misfortunes.

For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin. Here's the video of it running.

Bluesky, the new public sphere

Halloween rerun.

A lot of my neighbors are evangelicals. A lot of them have over the top Halloween decorations. I wonder about the intersection of those things.

Welp there goes us-east-1 again

Wow, the premium increase for my covered California plan is very exciting!

I’m doing the 40th anniversary Orange County AIDS walk, and although you don’t know it yet, you’re supporting me! Just click below!