Tzeentch mental health poster

rian johnson's recent film WAKE UP DEAD MAN speaks, with unexpected sincerity and gentleness, to the same feeling that animates this little story. both are worth hearing.

in 2014 a friend of mine passed. today i'm missing him, and it's good to remember. the magic words came true: his memory has been a blessing. anyway here's what i wrote about sinclair jennings jr. about 12 years ago. waxbanks.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/s...

any poor sap arriving late to the Delroy Lindo party should seek out david mamet's brutal comic caper HEIST, in which DL delivers a monologue about the power of prayer that will never, ever leave me.

after they wheeled me into the operating room today, the sf-nerd anesthesiologist asked what i was reading, and can i tell you, Reader(s)? -- i talked the entire surgical team's ear off about @adamroberts.bsky.social's LAKE OF DARKNESS until they knocked me out to shut me up. assholes!!

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Fun fact about Minnesota: It is the largest state in which Trump lost the 2016 primary and all three general elections.

let your friday flag fly! here's something i wrote a couple years ago about Prince and his passing: waxbanks.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/p...

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

one mark of a humane tale, maybe: you can read it twice, once sympathetically, as a story about the protagonist's struggle with others' Error, once empathetically, as a story about other characters' struggle with the protagonist's Error, madness, myopia, selfishness, etc.

CALVIN & HOBBES doesn't feel dated at all -- one of Watterson's several miracles, born of deliberation. MY SO-CALLED LIFE feels *extremely* dated, tragically so. but they have this in common: stories about kids which see adults in full complexity & humanity. they strive for empathy & give grace.

rest in peace bobby weir. in his music he was brave and strange, proud and supportive and full of energy and idiosyncrasy. he sang like it was all a good joke that mattered. wrote some great tunes and lifted people up. learning to really hear him like old heads do helped me grow. thanks bobby.

will no one rid me of this meddlesome world

'"normal" is an illusion. what is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly'

Enki Bilal. From Outer States, Catalan Communications, 1990. #EnkiBilal

The redeemer you need most was born the moment you were

The ‘DIE HARD is a Christmas movie’ tryhards should be beaten with rocks until they realign their shit brains around GREMLINS, whose chimney monologue is the true spirit of Christmas. Do I jest? No. Must we be cruel? We must. Happy horrordays, you once-bestial husks. You crumbled latrine-walls.

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Loose Ends in 60 Seconds 🩷

‘A heavenwide blast of light.’ Merry Christmas, however eventful and decoherent, to you and yours.

Some of you will believe any horrific allegation about our president merely because it's fully consistent with who he is

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

5. "Don't worry, we made a microfilm copy way back in the day." 6. There's no microfilm reader, everything's digital here, nerd 7. No you can't check it out, this is Special Collections material, are you insane? 8. [an absurd hunt ensues] 9. We accept your donation of a flea-market microfilm reader

an embarrassment of riches, this

My friend Jeremy, a brilliant and humane hospitalist, puts it this way: “All health decisions are public health decisions.”

one of the cruelest pieces of art-as-critical-activism yet conceived in the broken heart of the spreadsheet-ape

This is my favorite example of the form - the beloved and over a decade old (!) fake trailer for The Shining www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkV...

i'd probably be a great Influencer because on the one hand i'm smarter and more sexually charismatic than you guys, and on the other hand i don't make you feel bad about it

perfect

if i post my W's, i gotta post my L's. or indeed my LLMs

the greatest of all customizable card games, the emperor of the genre, is of course ANDROID: NETRUNNER, lukas litzinger's overhaul of richard garfield's magnificent original design. the most *visually gorgeous* such game is FFG's version of LEGEND OF THE FIVE RINGS. have a look.

hi! it's christmas very nearly! please buy two copies of one of my books, keep one for yourself, and give the other one to someone you're fruitlessly trying to impress/sleep with! if your brain is small my writing will enlarge it. same for dicks

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

just coined the term 'mildlife preserve.' carry on all of you.

meh.

bluesky is a mildlife preserve for innumerates w/useless degrees to wring their hands, gossip, yell about nonissues. there is very nearly zero useful or interesting conversation about actual 'AI' tech here; it is all theology and fashion and the fun powerlessness of the kettled mob. rubbish.

I should have recognized this as soon as I started saying "the site is good once you get on the right block lists." That's an absurd concept.

Staff Sgt. Johnny Cash, manning the morse code station, being the very first American to learn that Stalin had died is my favourite of these factoids.

I was today years old when I discovered Olivia Newton-John's father took Rudolf Hess into custody during World War II.

last time i was this excited to get mail, it was pristine DAUD-1 tapes of the july 97 amsterdam shows that'd been played just a couple weeks prior. friends, i'm floating right now -- mostly because the cover (a tribute to anthony burgess's reduction of That Rather Difficult Book) came out *perfect*

Peter Goodfellow

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

make beautiful things and tell people how you did it and be proud of yourself. you are something more than the universe's entropic runoff

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

trying to remember who was president in 1996. drawing a blank