Posted late last night, Worth a read ;) x

If you lot are very lucky I might do some streaming later. Some festive skaven nonsense on Total War..but only if you are very lucky and I get some writing done! www.twitch.tv/theverytired...

Some thoughts on some books 📚 open.substack.com/pub/thewaste...

Look, there's a steam sale on and I'm in the mood to write about games so if you have a game you think I'd find interesting let me know.

As a Christmas treat to myself I've finished two new scripts for YouTube videos.

Haven't reshared a lot of my stuff this year but I think this is one of the best things I've written this year 👇

"Yes, it ended one way – yet it could have been otherwise and the implication is, as true as this was for that time and that place, it remains equally true for us today." thehaunt.blog/2025/11/10/t...

read thehaunt.blog plz

Merry Christmas comrades. Remember the true reason for the season: defiant abundance in cold and austere times, sherry; and of course, communism.

Merry Christmas comrades from the @horrorvanguard.bsky.social crypt: share.google/JTT0xdSXafUH...

Here’s to 2026; may the fascists finally fall back into their pit, and may I crawl my way back out of mine.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

Nearly 900 copies given away so far 😌🫶

Is buying us a coffee a thing you're inclined to do? Sure would be cool! If you enjoy the show, throwing a few bucks our way to say, "thanks" would mean a lot. And if not, no sweat, we appreciate you anyway!

It's my birthday in about a week If you wanted to do something to celebrate, think about checking out the two short stories I had published this year. Thanks!

Almost furious with just how good this book is, the best thing I've read from this year.

"the novel has all of this technology we don’t use anymore. there has been a wholesale deaccessioning of narrative technology from the novel as a form" instead: scale, mediation, Lukacs, 3rd person, full Dickens, full Morrison - all the IMMEDIACY keywords countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

On Hegel's mixed metaphors, the mismatch of word and image, and making the best of abstraction. tinyurl.com/3s4y2s48

sorry, I'm talking to no one over Christmas

"refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already decided" Dr. McMillan Cottom, 1:01 minute mark (and listen to every word) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwwn...

waking up to check the #Ashes news

a subscription to McMansion Hell is literally a dollar a month and in exchange you get some of my best and most thorough essays (the regional car dealership rococo one, the one about gray floors, this one)

Four: thehaunt.blog/2025/12/15/t...

Three: thehaunt.blog/2025/12/12/t...

the haunted house film: an ongoing series.

BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 12 “WHAT DOES THE FOREST SAY?” w/ DR. FLORIN POENARU I spoke to Florin about his essay on Romania’s cancelled 2024 Presidential elections and what happens when a country’s civilian sphere becomes permeated by a large and unruly intelligence apparatus.

An episode which includes: - RENT slander - @rosegardenofeyes.bsky.social repeatedly accusing me of being an accelerationist - evil particle physics AND MUCH MORE soundcloud.com/user-3179105...

Althusserian Santa simply yells “hey you, nice person!” and gives gifts to whoever turns around.

New PB in the gym let's goooo 💪

“Mary Todd Lincoln is real and the government knows about it”

Remembering how I managed to blast 80 movies into my brain for a single podcast episode soundcloud.com/user-3179105...

are blogs still a thing? who knows, but I am trying to find out!!

the haunted house film: an ongoing series.

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, im joined by by @pyramidmaster.bsky.social from @deathsentencepod.bsky.social for a discussion about Sayaka Murata's books Earthlings and Convenience Store Woman. We talk biopolitics, cannibalism both literal and figurative, trauma and living in a society.

NEW WRITING: "Maureen is a whirl of motion, an invisible worker of both professional and domestic labour -- a boundary that is easy to cross given that the maintenance and projection of glamour depends upon an appearance of effortlessness." www.patreon.com/posts/145840...

NEW WRITING: "Maureen is a whirl of motion, an invisible worker of both professional and domestic labour -- a boundary that is easy to cross given that the maintenance and projection of glamour depends upon an appearance of effortlessness." www.patreon.com/posts/145840...

In my last essay of the year, I discuss Frankenstein, fiction, authorship, responsibility, the art that we owe to ourselves, and the art we owe to the things we create.

latest thing on the haunt is on the shock of finding there's a good Ti West movie: thehaunt.blog/2025/12/12/t...

i wrote about my lifelong obsession with the mirror-self, the self-who-is-not-myself, as it materializes in fantasies ranging from the imaginary friend to the soul mate, from the lost family to the severed twin, and finally, to the self for whom one writes www.late-review.com/p/the-mirror...

Made a pilgrimage of sorts today.

Almost 500 copies given away so far this week 😌🫶 You can get my entire body of work for free on Smashwords until January 1st

NEW WRITING: "What’s striking about the film is the degree to which it understand the haunted house post-recession as being emptied of the domestic. After all, between 2007-2012, around 5% of American adults lost their homes - around ten million people." www.patreon.com/posts/145379...

You know what, maybe the best suits Daniel Craig has gotten to wear this far. Plus I realized I sort of wrote about this kind of detective movie earlier this year thehaunt.blog/2024/02/29/c...

Now watching

🏘️👻THE HAUNTED HOUSE POSTING WILL CONTINUE UNTILL FURTHER NOTICE 🏘️👻

NEW WRITING: "What’s striking about the film is the degree to which it understand the haunted house post-recession as being emptied of the domestic. After all, between 2007-2012, around 5% of American adults lost their homes - around ten million people." www.patreon.com/posts/145379...

Up next in my series on the haunted house!

Now UNLOCKED from the @horrorvanguard.bsky.social vaults -- eels, eels, eels, and, of course, Mary Todd Lincoln soundcloud.com/user-3179105...

A new essay on Gillian Rose’s final poetic works, unhappy consciousness, and the Pearl poet’s representations of the absolute. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I love a Christmas movie!!