Listened to Mythos last night. Caught up with old friends and watch them cross bridges into existing worlds. Since it was technically Easter when I finished, I was able to say, "they are risen!" Well done, @juliansimpson.bsky.social, @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social. and @thesounddesigner.bsky.social.

Now that #baseball season has begun. I continue to believe that the #Yankees defeating the #Dodgers 4 to 2 in the World Series is one of the events that can take us out of this dark timeline. That is not an emotional preference. It just seems that we've been wrong ever since the #Cubs won the WS.

I'm quite pleased, in honor of Simon the Mystic from "Lord of the Flies," that we've released our latest episode on Easter Sunday. Being lost isn't just losing your sense of direction on a trail. It is often a profound existential crisis.

I think it's a "flooded zone" issue. There is so much to choose from, it's always evolving, and has the promise of more to come. But taken all together, it becomes a brown noise of, "Oh yeah, that guy sucks." And we move on. He is a "boor." And also the other two spellings.

New Orleans! 3 dudes boiling crawfish while two eat Jambalaya and the third enjoys a smoke!

Is there anything better than the solution hitting you on a brisk walk, the quick trip to the kitchen, or sometimes just pulling something from something else?

Fun fact. I'll be going to the community and swamp where Call of #Cthulhu's second part takes place. #UnholySaturday

Spent my sobriety anniversary in the park listening to The Lovecraft Investigations' "Crowley." Nice to hear Matthew and Kennedy just doing their job. Not sucked into a gaping maw. Well done, @juliansimpson.bsky.social, @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social, and @thesounddesigner.bsky.social.

Listened to Lovecraft Investigation's "Crowley" for the second time yesterday. I also included my view in the thread.

He's right. Now, imagine that entire subplot done in the style of #Andor.

Is it just me, or is Train's "Drops of Jupiter" about Jodie Whittaker's Dr. Who?

whoa

Here's the home page for the podcast!

If you're going to make a podcast about getting lost, it's probably best that you define it. Episode two is out.

Don't assume you know what a truck show is.

Sorry. Not sorry. It is my sportsball weakness.

Seriously, I want your opinion. I am sure a lot of folks would want some agro anthem, folk ballad, or power fighting soul track as the song of #theresistance. And I could get behind a lot of that. But am I so wrong in wanting it to be this?

Made a little creepy from The Magnus Archives with my friend @theartofgemmarae.bsky.social. Enjoy?

Without a lot of fanfare, I have started a podcast with author/adventurer Peter Stark. It will drop every Sunday night. If you are a fan of the adventure of getting lost, give it a listen.

The Winter Soldier is the darkest of sequels to Three Days of The Condor.

I don't have any problem with YA literature. But I do wonder if it is removing the transgressive pleasures of "read at too young an age." I wonder. But I could be wrong. Are there still "flashlight favorites?"

I'm not sure why this is going so badly. The respect he shows for service members, particularly those who served in combat, is legendary.

I'm not sure why it's going so badly. His fidelity to both business partners and spouses is still celebrated.

I'm not sure why it's going so badly. His tenants always said what a great landlord he and his father were.

I'm not sure why it's going so badly. His contractors always spoke so highly of him.

I am not sure why it is going so badly. He handled casino management so well.

I'm not sure why this is going so badly. He handled the pandemic so well.

He was a good friend who continued to encourage and support me through his life. He gave me one of the most joyful months of my life as a consultant on HBO's Treme.

tl;dr: from the thread beneath. I just got out of the most insulting meeting of my career. After repeated jabs, a media CEO offered me "an opportunity for exposure" to create content for his new page. Waited all my life to say this reply, "People die from 'exposure.' Thanks for your time."

1. I went to a meeting today with a media platform CEO to discuss a potential promotional partnership for an already existing IP. I have had a spotty relationship with this CEO's organization, but it was facilitated by a friend in the hopes of mending fences. She chose to attend as well.

I have also come to believe that many people's movie nitpicking has nothing to do with genuine cultural criticism and are just long-winded versions of, "This is not the movie I would have made. Why won't anyone let me make a movie?!"

Give it up #UK. The issue belongs to New Orleans. No one will ever be better at having the worst.

We all share a mystic continuum.

Here's to not only St. Patrick but also to Columba and Brigid.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

Black Sabbath should be a friendship test. It's a damn near perfect anthology. It's a great reminder that the creepy kids in Salem's Lot, The Shining, and all #JHorror come from Bava's Sabbath and Fellini's Toby Dammit. #filmsky #horror #horrormovies

Happy #StPatrick!

There are some dangerously uninformed and portentously smug folks on #Bluesky that I be would be horrified about having a cabinet position. I take them in a heart beat over anyone in this current administration.

Priceless. This dude was there when they cut their first trailer. "Hear the collected records of a repair team sent to a remote arctic outpost and unravel what waits in the ice below. TRAVEL IS NOT ADVISED..." The man has frostbite scars from Fristed.

Stick to who you are. Either you die a villain or live long enough to become the hero.

Everything you need to know about what the villains are up to in Washington DC can be found in three great movies that turn 50 this year. "The Bad New Bears," "All The President's Men," and "Network" all feature antagonists whose spirits have returned to 2026.

No matter how many show up, The Fonz and Carmine Ragusa could take 'em all. (But they have to be together. No man is an island.)

If you haven't "lost it at the movies" or lost it on any other art form, you probably shouldn't be a critic in the first place.

One of the most brilliant things about the movie? It makes the job look thankless, grinding, and occasionally, career and life threatening. Who wants to do that?

This, but also, no one wants to go home to live with their constituents.

My junior year, my ride to school was Harry Connick Jr.

There must be a lot of dead Valkyrie to make them smile even that much.

No longer responsible for making payroll for 8 people, I have gone back to doodling, dreaming, and scheming. I should be picking up steam on Substack in the next few weeks.

I spend way too much time thinking of an alternative history where Orson Welles' first RKO picture is The Shadow.

This fucker of a book has aged exquisitely. Only the French would write a dense intellectual treatise on why we're all screwed.