Found this gem of an album review on Reddit for Discharge’s 2016 End of Days.

My unpopular take is that it's weird to not realize that the movement in youth to get rid of sex scenes is also a fascist movement to stigmatize sexuality and kinks outside of the realm of heteronormativity.

How close were your seats for Wardruna, Penn? We were the outer edge of the (pointedly excessive) fog machine at one point.

I was Willie Nelson, a black leather jacket, and rose docs, which turned out to be a very accurate summary of the vibe.

And sure enough, NYT lawsuit tossed out on its ass, Kimmel is back, and everyone is trumpeting that Kennedy is full of shit on the Tylenol thing. Ls all around.

It’s funny; I’ve always been real picky about speakers/headphones, but it never occurred to me how polished my electric piano would sound if I used the synth amp on it, instead of the built in.

Happy rapture to the fundamentalist Christian boy who kissed me on the mouth when we were like 11 and then burst into tears because now we were both going to hell.

Wait… is Trent Reznor a Disney Princess now?

For those who missed it, here's my obituary for Charlie Kirk, a man who made the world worse every day he drew breath. www.patreon.com/posts/on-vio...

Tried to get a Covid vaccine yesterday, and United literally refuses cover it at a pharmacy, my doctor’s office simply doesn’t give them, so I get to drive out of town and see if insurance decides to be insurance there, or if I’m out $250 to be allowed to exist in public. This should not be hard.

How the fuck did we end up in the timeline where a Nazi shoots another Nazi, and suddenly the government stops pretending it’s not about to camp all the queers? What actual hell are we living in, here?

I have not seen a more serious threat to free speech in America in my lifetime than the crackdown on people making fun of Charlie Kirk. It's blatant, openly endorsed and driven by the state, and nearly universal. Truly chilling stuff.

I think I might live on a different planet than Cox. “[Utah Governor] Cox says Kirk being killed while championing freedom of expression makes it ‘more difficult for people to feel like they can share their ideas’ and speak freely.”

Shameful to see a creator fired off a book and the whole series immediately cancelled on the same day because she was glib about the murder of someone who famously said that people like her should be stoned to death.

Another 9/11, another installment of my annual blog series America a Prophecy. That’s now 10,000 words about the worst comic ever written.

Man, fuck DC. Hell, fuck comics. Diseased fucking industry. Alan Moore was right. www.cbr.com/batman-spino...

yeah I kinda just want to be cryptic on this one right now, but 🔥

“It’s wildly illegal, deeply troubling, and nobody asked for this” is such a perfect, nearly universally relevant quote for 2025.

Seeing Sheryl Crow at Outlaw was a particular joy, ‘cause I’m writing about that era of my life, and the hours I spent listening to her CDs is on my mind. We just got home, and I decided to listen to it on nice speakers for the first time in my life. This experience is what nice speakers are for.

I just got to watch my wife explain “that’s what she said” to her mother. This is great.

"What a shit take" he says, referring to a trans man feeling alienated by a giant American flag. OK bro, I guess? Come back and chat when you're not allowed to piss at gas stations.

An under-remarked upon aspect of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” is that the straw that breaks the camel’s back & drives the narrator to declare he can’t take it any more is the cola wars. AIDS? The hydrogen bomb? Thalidomide? These things are bearable. Coke vs Pepsi? Breakdown. Amazing character work.

Hyped for my evening.

I'm thinking, this morning, about how Nile Rodgers and David Bowie never quite wanted to make the same record at the same time. I kinda wonder what their "we both want to make art" and "we both want to make hits" records would have been like.

Thinking about the girl who got big mad at El for reclaiming a slur for herself, and then showed up with a new Harry Potter tattoo a couple months later. HP queers are a blight.

There's an unexamined and indeed outright suppressed premise in the "important to my childhood" argument (and nostalgia in general) whereby one is stuck in a perpetual childhood, never progressing beyond the person you were when you were eight. This should be horrifying.

Meet the Revelator, my electric metal body resonator guitar, named for this song.

Hey, look a neat pile of games (from single player to larps) and zines/essays from a queer leftist writer with style for days and a flair for introspection. There’s a good chance that if you like my work there’s something here that’ll interest you.

Donno what to tell you. Reeves Gabrels is, in fact, a legend. 🎸

Yes. This show was excellent, and so is this review of it.

I want to make an incredibly fatalist joke about the trans community still achieving new milestones, but alas this is the sort of bad where we all have to self-censor and play respectability politics now. So let’s just point out the share of mass shootings committed by right-wing white men.

Thinking about this again

The NIN Peel It Back tour is an unholy occult ritual dedicated to Rock. It goes hard, but like… artistically.

Meanwhile, my tactic is to be the most vibrant thing in a 50 mile radius in my red/holo pin stripe silk button down over the all black uniform.

"We will continuously support the well-being of our patients," says hospital system demonstrably working against the well-being of their patients.

To state the obvious, providing gender-affirming care to minors isn’t fucking illegal, and someone desperately needs to stand up to this genocidal lawfare and decisively establish that fact.

This is also a problem with voting. People seriously believe that there is a "they" who "wouldn't let" truly harmful options appear on ballot papers -- that their vote couldn't cause any serious harm. This is definitely a reason why Brexit got voted for, and I strongly suspect it was for Trump.

‘Cause he wasn’t in El’s photo.

I don’t only have hot musical takes.

I have part 2 of this at home. Honestly never expected to find part 1. 2 has literally the worst audio quality of any record I know, as if it was recorded from inside some guy’s coat. I love it. It has so much energy. I can’t wait to listen to this one.

Any score for David Bowie’s Tonight below a 4 out of 5 is indefensible. I like this hill just fine, thank you.

Doing a slow discography crawl of David Bowie, and man the Bowie Reddit community is shockingly harsh on Scary Monsters. 🤣

This was my daily draw yesterday. A few days ago they gave me Anomaly and Anticipation.

Look, you can either make an obnoxious pop up whining about my adblocker, or you can lock all your content behind a paywall, but you’re just being an asshole if you make me find the tiny grey “continue to site” text only to tell me you won’t show me the article unless I log in.

Just in time for dinner, if you live in the right time zone!

kinda love words that only rhyme in certain accents--see British comics fans reaction to learning that Squirrel Girl is an intended rhyme pair, or East coast North Carolina merging of hill and heel. Or the ironic? fact that I can't natively hear a distinction between pen and pin.

A giant slab of meat surveys its domain.

TFW your wife kinda summarizes the book you’re working on.