My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

P🌍M #tjpw

If you’re looking for an interesting alternative to light, I suggest checking out shadows

"October, 2025. Trump is king of America. Only the D’s and District Court judges stand before him. Battlefields are now called ocean drugs drugs by sea they call it also.”

Maybe one of the best paragraphs about the modern internet that I've seen written, jesus.

two horrible and completely indistinguishable chihuahuas called goofus and gallant

Sandy was not ready.

lol at both chicago teams

Finally got something out of my head that's been there a while: A capsule history of the mid-density Chicago apartment building daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-life-dea...

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

it's not FOR us

Remember the ASUKA (Veny)/Akito One Light Tube Deathmatch? That was so fucking good. If you don't remember it, you are in luck www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSrH...

Here's the recap of what we watched at Joshi Night 2 in September.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Saw some very interesting fraternal order paraphernalia at the initiative of the great @introvert.net

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

As a general rule any idea or concept that immediately leads to 'you must be ever wary and paranoid of people you know and also strangers' is poison that can be freely disregarded

this new season of battlebots sucks

i'm in a coffee shop, and two guys who seem to be old friends are having a "conversation" behind me but neither of them has laughed even once in the past hour. i feel sick.

Did not think this bespoke knowledge would be as genuinely relevant throughout this year as it has been

how insane was it to say “we tortured some folks” and then not only not do anything about it but keep everyone involved in polite society. what did we think was going to happen after that

interesting

one of my retvrn opinions is that there's only one "high tech" font, and it's this

Filling out my certificate of awareness from 1927.

Interesting point - has any journalist pressed the WH on exactly what limit on presidential power they're observing that makes the shutdown mandatory?

memory is so weird - spotify led me to this Japanese folk/psych song from 1970 just now, at first I was like, this song RIPS. And then after a minute, I was like: WAIT, I KNOW THIS SONG www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5vR...

Happy September 11710th, 1993

I'll take the bullheaded, deeply flawed, 1990s quest for authenticity and cultivating a core which you shouldn't sell out over this any day. Any day.

(Or we could say: The long twentieth century began with “Nude Descending a Staircase” and ended with Dude Descending an Escalator.)

Malice, incompetence, or a secret third thing: on bureaucracy daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/malice-incom...

Walmart nostalgia is Blockbuster nostalgia, to me. The things you liked about it were pale imitations of concepts they stole from the places they ran out of business. You don't like Walmart, you like the shadows of the things they destroyed

well, at least Obama made good on his promise to shut down Guantanamo

The one pro-ICE guy they found to interview downtown today being a suburbs-based casino marketer and erotica convention entrepreneur named Larry Goone might be the thing that tips me over into We're Living In A Bad Fic territory

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

I could never be a booker of a major wrestling promotion because my first reaction to Gail Kim's comments about Riho would be to book Raku Vs Momoka Hanazono Vs Miyako Matsumoto on Dynamite. You'd be getting the hardest grade Frilly-core Goblin match in history.

It’s also why there’s no way around it—combating the loneliness epidemic will take virtue/ascesis because it will require many people to engage in the momentarily painful act of putting down PHONE and spending time with other awkward, sometimes unpleasant people.

4018 West Chicago Avenue

What’s happening: Napoleon is master of Europe. Go deeper: Only the British Fleet stands before him.

Now 58 minutes into his scheduled 15-minute address to the United Nations, President Trump is excoriating world leaders for "canceling my dear friend, and let's face it, a very beautiful woman, Carmen Sandiego" and demanding that the detective agency and its "terrible woke Chief" be defunded

along with the prosecution and defense there should be a third lawyer questioning the nature of truth, justice, existence, etc

He’s right

would be sort of interested in a publication tracking down Suey Park from the 2014 twitter #CancelColbert incident for commentary on recent events

The things, you say You're unbelievable

Proud to live in zone H, a region of multi-ethnic cosmopolitan cities situated within multicultural pluralistic, nations, with astonishingly diverse food cultures.

Really funny to ask a “Public Intellectual” what the last interesting academic paper they read was and for them to respond “I only read substack”

2️⃣ Private wealth is at record highs in all advanced regions. Public wealth, by contrast, has declined to turn negative in North America, fall near zero in Europe, while East Asia has stabilized with 25-30% of national wealth in public hands.

Imagine having the balls to either land or take a 450 double footstomp. #永島千佳世 #里村明衣子