for this week I reviewed Lost Highway :) and also talked a little about my history with Podcasts/shared the Wavelengths ep buttondown.com/ghostdown/ar...

I'm excited to give myself even more recreational homework by joining the very good podcast dotzip!!

The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology." n.pr/4583d8f

Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.

Marty getting a chunk of the Great Pyramid of Giza for his mom in Marty Supreme. The little moments of humanity that weird, selfish, awful freak exhibits in the film really make the movie shine.

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hey. This is my newsletter. Biweekly grab bag of writing, reviews, poems, photos, music, media recs, my upcoming events, rants, calls for action, and usually a little life update. If you would like to be my hundredth subscriber, hop in. :) buttondown.com/ghostdown

The GOTY video is here 😤 youtu.be/FKG3vjyUldw

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

Neighbors come out of their homes as ICE takes several members of a family in Uptown Minneapolis. “Go back to fucking Texas,” one shouts.

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

people were fired from their jobs for disagreeing with charlie kirk's beliefs on a public forum, while the administration is itself endorsing the extrajudicial murder of a civilian who didn't even commit a crime (not that that should be an instant death sentence regardless), in broad daylight

there is no positive route forward for the United States without mass arrests and trials for DHS employees

there are some very white working class dudes doing electrical work in the office next door and I just overheard one of them say “fucking paramilitary fucking shooting people in the street, did you see that shit?” so I don’t think the PR is going over well

They tell you conflicting things so they can say you’re not listening to them and kill you either way.

The murder of Renee Good at the hands of a masked ICE agent isn't an exceptional occurrence, it is the perfect culmination of an organization designed to inflict violence and institutionalize hatred. Our task at hand is to build a movement that can break this culture and institutionalize solidarity!

May we all walk in this world with the moral courage of Jafar Panahi variety.com/2026/film/gl...

for my annual-ish appearance on a podcast i was on wavelengths and bb and i talked for very long about our respective top ten albums AND movies of the year! We did the sicko option and alternated between albums and movies as we went up. it goes places. Check it out :) pod.link/wavelengths/...

truly bleak how many americans believe that if you violate the law in any way you deserve to be murdered for it immediately. all else aside that is clearly not a good framework for living in a society

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

i made this

I recommend submitting a complaint.

January 7 huh .. that means mood machine has been out in the world for a year. thanks for reading (this book and in general)

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

excited to announce that ai will not only be making all art going forward, but will also be experiencing that art as well. this should give you more time to provide shareholder value and do chores: www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pa...

Wrote about my albums of the year for 2025. buttondown.com/ghostdown/ar... (let me know in a DM, if you feel so inclined, if you catch any typos. Was kinda blinded by tears working on and writing this, hard to catch them myself)

The New York-based DIY show listings zine GUNK published this list of local small-scale music venues that closed in 2025. It is so hard to keep a community-oriented music space open in this city. I really hope whoever leads Cultural Affairs for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will take this seriously.

Get your flu shot!!!

A dear friend is Sbux union leader through Workers United and she clued me into 3 things. Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years. Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US. Shareholders are demanding they settle. Keep boycotting.

Kieran Culkin made the 😬 face at me when we got off the G train at the same time and made eye contact. I didn't even realize it was him until a full minute later, but I think the reason he made that face was because I was probably making the 'where do I know you from?' face.

✨ new video! (and podcast episode!) ✨ here’s an extremely laid back walk through fifty (50!!!) of my favorite games from last year. thanks for joining me, folks. audio: pod.link/wavelengths video: youtu.be/Qwi0hbr2DJo

Latin American Coups promoted by the United States

Time to dust this one off again

Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.

Hey if you are like me and just woke up to a mile long feed of very vague really panicked reactions, this was really helpful in getting caught up on what's going down right now: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

anyway, good moment to lightly track who’s already making excuses for this. exercise some of the old iraq war muscles

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

so we started another pointless war for oil in a blameless country and, in what I believe to be a first, captured their president to hold him in what will probably be a kangaroo court? On night 2 of 2026?

Elon Musk's vanity AI admitted to generating child sexual abuse imagery and it won't get as much attention from the New York Times as whatever panic about trans people they're trying to incite this week

These episodes are always the highlight of my year. Thank you to everyone for listening and inadvertently giving us the confidence to release an episode longer than most operas.

thank you all for allowing us to keep this train rolling for yet another year. the support means everything <3

day one in mamdani’s new york

BB/PV WEDDING MENTIONED

a cheeky icymi, happy new year, here's to More Albums

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

in 2026 its no longer “buddy” or “bro” or “my guy”. this year we’re saying “my lord”