Getting baked to watch Fantastic 4: First Steps

Realizing one of my highlights of this year was watching all of The Trip movies back to back in a fugue state while recovering from COVID.

You should be able to drink a high quality shrimp cocktail

Telling people I’ve been grinding (repetitively completing minor tasks in a desperate search for dopamine and self-defined progress)

Good chance 2026 is the year I get really into MASH.

If the finale was “Harvest Festival,” you’d never hear me talk about it again.

I feel like astrology was the gateway to AI and chatGPT. Like I learned to politely just be quiet as an otherwise intelligent friend was like, “Well, it *is* Virgo season!” and now you hear someone go, “I asked ChatGPT how to hammer a nail” and I’m like, I should have called you an idiot sooner.

Chocolate and cigarettes as a sign of homey glamour and accessible excess really intrigued me in the days before I could drive. Made a lot of sense. Hot people in movies and so on. Can you imagine lighting up while eating a butterfinger? I cannot imagine the sinus situation happening in the 1960s.

Hearing Andrew Cuomo moan “I can’t control this!” as he transitions into his Dark Phoenix form

Do you think the other folks in the Thieves Guild ever told Gambit he didn’t have to talk like that

Being told that I’ve been cast as part of the rebooted Vanderpump Rules.

Is there anything more despicable than the incompetence of those who want only to sell and haven't enough talent to do even that? (1968)

Watching 18 minutes of video posted to Twitter to see who is being more honest in a social interaction.

Read the NYT’s Cheney obit and coming away with the idea that Ol Dick was somehow involved in an awful lot of America’s biggest 20th Century Whoopsies, a lot of “nobody could have saw that coming.” Ah well.

Learned the names of two (2) current SNL cast members this weekend

this is the wildest way to communicate your vision for the game design and what's hilarious is he actually did make it happen

Being told they’re putting the Dilbert guy in a human centipede. Thrilled to see him finally get what he wants.

Gotta be so great to sharpen the totality of your psychic might into a blade.

Fighting Ex Layer boldly asked the question “what if fighting games had prestige classes”

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Trying to do Kazuya’s FF4 on my standing desk.

Checking how old a blogger is before screenshotting the worst mixed metaphor I’ve seen in years

Lol

Rewatch podcast that climaxes with series finale and real life mass extinction event.

Still crazy that the bastards got away with this one

This has been my weekly gaming group’s Halloween game all October long. It is the only Vampire game you need.

Here’s my second King essay of the week. Particularly proud of this one, so please check it out!

Didn’t listen to as many horror radio plays as I have in past Octobers but I could attempt to make up for it today.

Getting a grant to study the BlueSky Simp in its natural environment.

Feel like we’re ever closer to snuffing the cake pop/cake ball from circulation.

Remembered It, half a bad movie people expected to see a good sequel of

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50 years ago, Howard the Duck #1 burst off the stands and became the big hit of the Bronze Age. Here's the color guide, posted by Steve Leialoha, the inker on Howard. Except it didn't burst off the stands... or even make it to the stands. Dealers bought up all the copies & jacked the price to $20!

Heads up, Snake. A new contract is coming through, looks like Mother Base will be hosting the 1987 MTV Spring Break Party Jam. Lots of friendlies to impress, eh, old man? Gotta get the tunes ready.

Finally saw Weapons over the weekend and getting mad at months old articles.

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Important questions of our time happening here. Do your part.

One of the funniest things you can do on here is transition into becoming a scold.

[STAND BY ME] And maybe you wonder how moviemakers who had the spirit to stage this stupendous gross-out could have made such a vain, effete, self-coddling movie. (1986)

If Windows 11 Outlook had a face, I would never stop making it bleed.

By Don Rosa

Tactically reloading as I tell all of the other operators how I earned the nickname “Bridget Jones”

People on my work twitter (authors, culture writers, remora freaks) kept referring to “the gooning piece” and I refuse to learn what it is. I’m assuming a McGuffin in an erotic Dan Brown novel, now available in galleys.

Biggest “hell yeah” in human existence

It’s going to be a maze.

Tetsuo Shima from Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA

Did a second annual “favorite scary book” roundup with coworkers at the press this year only to discover that I am the only one of us that likes horror novels.

Remember this time last year when every two-penny shithead like Mark Cuban and a pack of slobbering Rasputin-looking-coders was yukking it up about how they were getting the best, smartest, most provocative DMs available, a veritable salon a click away. This was where real decisions were made.