I'm at a friend's house and people keep showing up, more and more and more, more than the house can possibly hold—they're all here to see the "Rat Reverend", who may be an actual rat or a rat man or a man with ratlike features or maybe just a man with a cool nickname—

I, too, have been asked if I use LLMs in my writing, and have had hundreds of my essays fed into the cybermaw in order to regurgitate me-flavored slop—as a professional I find both deeply insulting. The plagiarism machine is teaching people that no one can possibly write well without it.

I’m on a reality TV game show, and the other contestants keep talking about impregnation pits, second smiles, and eruption dates—that’s when I realize the show isn’t for people, it’s for parasites. #dreams

Gas stations and convenience stores start selling "cannibal kits" in that sweet, sweet window between product availability and changes in the law—it's a corpse packaged in a vacuform tray, with the severed head stowed beneath the torso, limbs folded and pressed into the envy of Yogis everywhere.

Kara Walker's stunning "Unmanned Drone," a deconstructed & reassembled statue of Stonewall Jackson that was originally located in Charlottesville, Virginia until its 2021 removal. A fascinating & complex artwork, now on view at LA art space The Brick as part of "Monuments" exhibition the-brick.org

AI Slop Merchants, the purple guy is you

An RPG where you play a nerd playing D&D and your character sheet has a tiny D&D character sheet on it for your character’s character.

new magic item just dropped

New short story! “got that spiderblood in me”—dick pills, sting-crazy natives, and the scintillating corpse of Ronald Reagan! (Trigger warning: sexual assault)

Magic: The Gathering Cosmic Encounter High Frontier 2nd Ed. Netrunner (1996) Android Memoir ‘44 Here I Stand Arkham Horror 2nd Ed. Talisman 4th Ed. Twilight Imperium 3rd Ed. And special guest star: The Quest for Shangri-La (AKA “Juggalo Talisman”)

And we’re done! We completed The Children of Fear campaign for Call of Cthulhu—20 face-to-face sessions from February to October. Did we save the world? Did any of us survive? Find out here:

why is there grawlix (%@$&!) in the red band (polybagged) Punisher comic

A man is only as good as his dog.

Your boy was on a podcast! I've never done one before, so I had the knob set to 5 (out of 11) while running at least seven seven-second delays in series, ending in fractal babies-in-a-bag. Also, I didn't swear. So you're getting the clean me, I guess? www.podbean.com/media/share/...

Cursed objects from the rafters~

Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x

Found my childhood security stuffie~

I love this shit.

Mr. Bones is super-stoked about his Halloween costume

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”

anyone need their horse rotated?

My friend Dave found this CD in a used bin 30 years ago—it’s been in heavy rotation ever since. Sublime tunes.

The new bookshelf.

Back-to-School in the United States

YES

The Invisbles, vol 2 iss 4, written by Grant Morrison

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

cenobite’s penis pump

New short story! THE GUNCH—what price beauty, and who profits? doomthinkequations.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY FUCK OFF

Safety Tip of the Day: Somebody's gotta scream for help—might as well be him.

From the lucha libre exhibit at the Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA

Well. One-thousand four-hundred and eighty-two pages later I feel like I’ve been rotated in a direction I’ve always intuited but could never exactly point to. Really puts the Magnum Force in magnum opus. Consciousness expanded like a wound cavity.

My epiphany of the day: "I read Cyberpunk, man—why would I ever have anything to do with corporate AI?"

New bucket list item just dropped:

no context (?) Invisibles

goddamn wizards

When your police look like this, your freedoms are bullshit.

Raves for my latest short story, MOSTLY SKIN (an alternate history of the Wienermobile): “FIVE STARS NO NOTES It’s glorious and obscene.” —Joe Gola, author of The Satanic Bridegroom “I think I held my breath for the entire read.” —Furious D

This week’s comics in cahoots

Expert piloting.

“He’s my imperfect vessel,” burbles Jesus as he flails about in an ill-fitting Ed Gein Trump suit.