Someone tell me a more morally and intellectually bankrupt philosophy than Gay MAGA. I’m waiting. I’ll never understand. It’s literally the neck voting for the guillotine.

They think their ascendancy is proof of God’s power. I think their power is proof there is no fucking God.

Now he wants to appoint a special counsel to investigate the 2020 election. So once his Justice Department completes the nation’s gaslighting, I assume he’ll employ Palantir’s national database to see who voted for Biden and charge us with Election Interference.

I’m about an hour from finishing Ivy Grimes beautifully deranged novel “The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion” and it is 100% destined to join “The Fisherman” at the top of my end-of-year list. @ivygrimes.bsky.social

If it’s true that the orange motherfucker’s approval rating have surged, despite literally everything being on fire, I don’t know how I’m going to keep living.

So now fucking tariffs on Foreign films. Unless I’m reading this wrong Trump is now trying to dictate our taste and the films we should reasonably be able to have access to. But no. Totally not a fascist.

I just saw that LIHEAP is on the chopping block in Budget 2026. The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. People ARE going to die. Let’s hope when the dying starts—as a DIRECT result of this administration’s policies—people are ready to do what needs to be done. There are more of us than them.

Having less choice at higher cost. Really sounds like an administration that is making the economy strong to me.

I’m 5’11” and weigh 210 pounds—in the worst shape of my life. There is NO. FUCKING. WAY. the Putrefying Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man only weighs 15 pounds more than me. Not a fucking chance in heaven or hell.

It’s extremely depressing watching the worst people in the country intentionally ruin the lives of hard-working, honest people in their anarcho-capitalist quest to destroy the government.

Well, we have been waiting for a store in Tokyo to reopen because Richard was supposed to start selling there again and we just got an email advising that.. (drumroll).. they are not going to be buying from any American designers this season because TRUMP’S TRADE WAR.

Hey LGB for Trump: Jagoff Dingus Vance is making the elimination (of another fucking country’s) anti-LGBTQ Hate-Speech laws a condition of a trade deal between the US and the UK. Let that REALLY sink in. Take all the time you need.

I’ve taken to calling my intrusive thoughts “my intrudies” because maybe they will be less scary if I give them a cute name.

I think it’s pretty cool how a bunch of people were so mad about pronouns, gender-binary, and a bunch of other shit that is—frankly—none of their business that they decided to let a cartoon Bond villain plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Nicely done, fuckwits.

FOREST ALTAR “Ladrones de Tumbas” Part of the Slasher Collection series. An homage to horror films. Dank, murky violence to raise devils. Like a half-destroyed microcassette found underneath a sacrificial pyre after Walpurgisnacht reveries. richardramirez.bandcamp.com/album/ladron...

Anyone remaining MAGA after this past two months is either evil, stupid, or both. There is no other option.

A dear friend was just called by his boss at the Addiction facility where he works. As of 4-1 ALL federal funds to recovery New Jersey have been eliminated. Immediately. 55% of their operation hinges on that funding. He is likely out of a job and New Jersey is out of recovery. Is America great yet?

Well, I just got the surprise revelation that even though I am paying more than $700 PER MONTH out of my paycheck for our health insurance as of January 31st 2025 MOST routine labs/bloodwork are no longer covered. Let that sink in. America is a scam.

Dogs are my favorite people. That’s all.

I looked at what $150 was getting me at the grocery store tonight and some speech about “groceries”— being said like it was some weird thing to be concerned about—and I all the sudden got so mad I felt like I was going to have a stroke. We great yet?

I’m wallowing in my pettiness, but I’m taking comfort in the idea that in the future (what a quaint idea, right) the children and grandchildren of MAGA will have to reckon with history remembering their parents as the bad guys.

I agree, but I’d definitely support a substitution for the word “tax…”

Very preliminary thoughts on my weird 2025 decision to explore the mostly new-to-me Mogwai discography in studio-order: I like-to-love it, but the two weakest links so far are their big albums, “Happy Songs…” and “Mr. Beast.” Halfway through “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will” now.

I’m still suffering from a pretty serious bout of depression but to be fair, there is some pretty seriously depressing shit going on.

I just looked at myself deeply in the mirror and I noticed that I finally have more than one or two grey hairs in my mustache and (scraggly-ass) beard and I’m really, really happy about that.

The only good thing about the other platforms is that my feed is MOSTLY shit like this.

My depression and anxiety has been finding weird solace in Post-Rock lately, as if it were the late ‘90s again..

The White House website just doubled down on Trump’s idiotic “transgender mice” lie. The official government website. This pathetic joke of a country just isn’t funny anymore. I’m going to have to go back into therapy and get my meds adjusted. Both. Because I’m not coping.

At minute 15 of 92 and nowhere near full bloom… #thinmountain #itswallnoise

I’m working on the next long-(de)form THIN MOUNTAIN tape today, but just a reminder that the first of the new format Progressive Wall THIN MOUNTAIN releases is still up for sale and listening. richardramirez.bandcamp.com/album/not-on...

I’ve decided to stop wishing I would die and start hoping they do.

All Meta platforms can suck it but sometimes I really let it all hang out there

I’ve officially started calling my hernia Belial.

I posted my 2025 Reading List (so far) the other day. But what were my favorite books I read in 2024? Here are the four strongest contenders. #2024readinglist

A good chunk of the 2022 WXXT Program Guide(s) from @mattmbartlett.bsky.social #supportindiehorror #longlivephysicalmedia (Somehow the picture didn’t post yesterday.)

There is me trying to shut up the politically nihilistic voices in my head but then there is this…

Loved watching Nava Mau win her Independent Spirit Award for Supporting Performance in “Baby Reindeer.” We will never abandon or underplay our trans family. Solidarity.

Last night as we were approaching home after a evening out I wondered aloud “Where is Bigfoot when you need him.” But not a minute later we drove into a cloud of near otherworldly stink and I realized maybe Bigfoot has been right there with us all the time. You just need call to him.

Know what? I want to change my approach. I’m angry. We all are. I think we can agree. So here are the books I’ve read so far this year. More to come.

Dear Canada- I know things look pretty shitty on this side of the border, but would you consider two political asylum seekers? Richard and I could be two unique additions to your Queer underground art scene, and I can do pretty much any (non-specialized) day-job you throw at me. Viva Canada!

I am far from perfect, and I’m not always nice. But I’m good hearted, I strive to be kind, and fairness is extremely important to me. That’s what makes watching decency be dismantled day by day so hard. My Cymbalta is starting to fail to make a dent in this anxiety…

The free exercise of religion is now the most important right in this country, correct? So it should be no problem for me to consort with mountain devils and sic them on Christian communities just like they sic Sky Daddy on mine, right? Tit for tat.

Members of my family have already lost Medicaid. A dear friend’s permanently disabled child has already lost Medicaid. And President Musk retweets about “the Parasite Class.”

There is nothing in this world like waking up in the middle of the night to your two fluffy doggo-lumps pressed tightly against you in sleep, unless it is reaching down to give them scritches on their warm little bellies.

I struggle not to be alarmist, but isn’t this the start point of dozens of Sci-Fi novels?

FEETS!!!

I really didn’t mean for this to be the place I come to vent my fear, anger, and negativity but here we are.

I already enjoy a very, very fragile peace with my body. I don’t think I can actually survive four years of being as angry and upset as I’ve been this week.

I seriously disliked “Climax” a few years back when I first watched it—except for the mesmerizing dance sequences. But I rewatched it on a whim recently and I LOVED it. I don’t know how I’m becoming much less Noé skeptical, but I am. youtu.be/ZMGu-rJdAIU?...