Not gonna lie, The Novel is a terrible DM.

And all the men and terrorists and bad actors of this city will look up to me and cry “let us drink from the garden hose,” and I will answer “no”

Moon Knight spying on a woman visiting a gourd store seems kind of close to #ComicsOutOfContextAfterDark

Spiderland

BIG MOOD.

Just found this - a script supervisor (the part of the crew responsible for things like continuity) claims she left the show because the Duffers were verbally abuse, particularly towards women. So - very much the usual. www.newsobserver.com/entertainmen...

To be fair, hard to believe any sort could get away with this level of entitlement - but of course the ones who did are white. Imagine these pricks facing the classic 23 eps per year production or even the 13 of classic premium TV. Even notorious long shoot, excessive rewrite guys were tighter.

The they criticize Netflix for deciding shows with few episodes & complex sets, stunts & visual effects should be written before shooting starts - despite a documentary showing the crew & cast being very unhappy & stressed. It's so very white middle class guy.

This arrogant BS sums up modern contentainment: The Duffer bros had a huge budget, skilled labor for complex production needing clear plans, about 3 years to write & a vast invested fanbase & dicked around so much they had to shoot key scenes without a finished script & thin they did a good job.

Read the Stranger Things creators admit they started shooting scenes of the last season without finished scripts despite having 3 years to write 8 episodes. It makes the mess of Lost (not worth watching) seem well crafted. Also those involved learned from it, but most of the industry didn't.

It's been about a decade, so time for a Chicago theater to have another missing stair incident.

a sign that I have curated my feed well is a certain uncredentialed Chicago politics person is doing their usual election schtick but have passed almost entirely unmentioned this time and the one post that quotes their stuff does not name it or them.

The Novel is not big on cryptozoology.

If the timeline isn't weeks or months is 60% won't happen & 40% results will be far from promises & won't justify the time expense nor disruption but relief at it being over will obscure this. Compare to time needed to finish stuff when war or profit depends on completion & the BS is evident.

See Harris is aiming for that vital youth user base that has been up for grabs since the Jeremy Renner app shut down.

Two postmodern artists doing work that comments on romance tropes secretly pine for each other. Meta Rivalry

"Gritty reboot of Turner and Hooch" would have been an Onion article at one time, but we've crossed a few lines since.

The jerk store called. It was just screaming and then they hung up

Cleaning out my bookmarks & the "To Share" folder includes articles & blog posts now old enough to be history - though the information may as provoking as if it happened yesterday. For example this one on the Iraq War shows a line from then to now. crooksandliars.com/karoli/66-bi...

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

Saw "blessed is he who has reached the point of no return & knows it, for he shall be free" & thought it meant rock bottom or having to face an issue or accept what you can't control or a choice you can't take back. And the freedom was clarity Turns out it's about faith, but maybe my take is better

They had “was the grink there” in 400 BC

fellas, is it a good sign when the Queen has to join the army reserves?

It would appear I no longer have a functional understanding of what a television season is

Asking The Novel once again to close the bedroom door and wash their socks themselves.

The Megyn Kelly of today totally thinks the Megyn Kelly who wrote her memoir in 2016 was a whiny slut who should have praised the Megyn Kelly of 2007 for knowing her place, keeping quiet & hiding from Ailes until he left her alone.

The century long indoctrination against Marxist theory leads to such nonsense like pretending "we" are responsible for the upper class protecting a predator & obscure the degree of their complicity & continued protection even after the predator was exposed and "we" objected.

Slint - Spiderland

This L&O clip includes a scene of a John Yoo type lawyer saying the president is bound by no laws in war & sovereign authority can do whatever they want to "unlawful enemy combatants" seems prescient now. youtu.be/xpJktAEHghM?...

Spiderland www.mylesdunhill.work/2025/07/spid...

Bikewondo

Relevant to today's events.

thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game

Also this is always worth reposting.

Slint spiderland

I've collected a series of posts riffing on the Slint Spiderland album cover, and before I severely cut back on my online time, I'm sharing them with everyone.

i went to the panopticon store and you knew everyone there

anyone who defends this as a business decision is simply lying Bezos personally made the decision to kill the paper's endorsement before the election, Bezos chose to gut the opinion section, he's the one who told the paper's audience they should leave so they did, and now he burns down what's left

A reminder that O'Neill was backed by far right money and defined her career by prosecuting a black child based on a false coerced confession and continued to defend the cop who then did the same thing to two black boys in the Ryan Harris case. www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

Gary Taxali

The movie vexes me - didn't expect an exact adaptation, but seems like dudes decided 2 girls in a Ghost World of end of adolesence & suburbanizarion was too thin & shoved one out so Zwigoff could do his Crumb worship, Clowes his art school bitterness & both fantasize about bedding Birch.

Ghost World was almost a great film about being aimless after high school with decent female characters then Zwigoff & Clowes let their hero worship of Crumb discard the source material for a crypto Crumb story about a middle aged loser bedding a hip teen, blues 78s & anti-PC edgelord bullshit.

[Ominous Whoosh]

And this episode has a follow up about the show within a show reaching its 200th episode and the charactes pitching movie ideas as the series faces cancellation. A level of story / parody inception one rarely sees this side of Adult Swim.

My youthful theory proved out when even Ed McBain's 47th precinct books had a meta novel and, of course, when Stephen King began to retcon all of his books into the Dark Tower series, eventually including himself as a character in his late 50s - a very meta / multiverse age.

Have gotten to the same point. Most people I follow are careful to avoid it anyway, but for once saying enough to A Discourse.

Not usually one to voice my most melodramatic worst case fears - but sometimes one must note how bad it might get to confirm the need to fight before it gets even close to that point.

The Novel is not suble when looking to score some party pills.

Everyone does get that the size of these camps is much larger than the immigrant population, right? And has noticed the ideas being circulated, that includes some Democrats like Newsom, of putting the unhoused into camps. And that the end game is making death camps income based?