The burger in that Applebee's ad looks like if diarrhea could stand up and walk

Xmas present to myself. Spotted in the wild at Record Grouch in Greenpoint Brooklyn

This lifetime holiday movie I'm watching may be the greatest piece of avant-garde art the 21st century has produced

Still probably the best/most representative/beautiful/horrifying/emblematic piece of art to have been made so far in this our 21st century of the west. The retch of a dying soulless culture desperate to finish exhausting itself so it can start a new life unencumbered by the weight of history.

Here's the first chapter of my next novel.

I mean, we just celebrated the anniversary of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald a couple of days ago.

My 2003 Sox fandom suddenly feeling relevant

Can't imagine what it feels like to be a Jays or Dodgers fan right now. And I say that as a Red Sox fan who lived through the 2003-2004 seasons.

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them. If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Yep. Agree as someone who's both edited and been edited. A good editor feels physical pain at the mistake you're about to make. Take them seriously and work to find a solution that makes both of you happy.

They're locking them up today/ they're throwing away the key / I wonder who it will be tomorrow /you or me?

Amateurs. The best books to steal are the thin computer manuals that go for like $50-$75 bucks. Take them from a corporate chain store then return them to a different chain store for store credit.

Like this one so much I'm almost tempted to crosspost it on the fascist one too: scottcreney.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/i...

Yankees suck turned out to be an understatement

People using social media, a thing that is almost entirely performative, to mock reading books in public for being performative is a thick, flavorless kind of irony.

Clear, concise, and simple.

"I gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot" is the most Mountain Goats lyric of all time

Jump motherfucker

Not begrudging anybody their hero worship, but if you honor Ozzy Osbourne on here without any reservations, I never ever want to hear you talk shit about any artist's personal life ever again.

Poop fart butt

Watched this fantastic doc last night on criterion. Nice companion to Kathy Hessel's essential The Story of Art Without Men. www.criterionchannel.com/beyond-the-v...

The grass over this guy's grave will be the greenest in the cemetery from all the pissing and shitting. I personally can't wait.

Save this one to put in future (future?) anthologies about this period of US government and the latent sicknesses in our society that birthed it.

I wrote a thing and the subject of the thing is not the actual subject of the thing. scottcreney.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/w...

I believe, with a quarter of the 21st century now behind us, that the only appropriate way to talk about the weather is to say holy shit we’re all going to fucking die.

Fantastic reporting here from the Boston Globe www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/02/m...

Wrote 1500 words about going to Barnes & Noble to buy a graduation present scottcreney.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/o...

I am determined to see how far I can wander away from the ostensible subject of an essay and still make it cohere into something. This might be the farthest ramble yet.

No kings except kings lead hat

Registered today. Smile is at its heart about the realization that the California dream, and the American dream, is a lie. Pet Sounds is about the realization that the adult world is a lie. You can hear the crushing disappointment happen in real time.

Wrote about going into the city and drinking a couple of beers in the Center For Fiction Cafe. This one gets a little weird.

It took thom yorke however many months to come up with... that???

Pretty sure there's never been an NEA grant proposal like this scottcreney.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/t...

Only person in the Center For Fiction cafe drinking alcohol at 4:30pm on an 80 degree day. Says something or other about something or other but I'm not certain enough to say what.

Halfway through Bridget Read's Little Bosses Everywhere about history of MLMs. Funny thing is you start to see how everything in the USA is basically a pyramid scheme.

Mining the mundane for moments of transcendence. Enjoy the picture of our cat. Not so much a cry for help as a joke for help.

Happy Guatemalan Iguana Models Day to all who celebrate blunkvalue.bandcamp.com/album/flutte...

In a writing mood lately I guess. Here's some thoughts on MIke Peters, the recently deceased singer of the Alarm, which as usual is just the tip of a strange iceberg.

In a writing mood lately I guess, here's my thoughts on MIke Peters, the recently deceased singer of the Alarm, which as usual is just the tip of a strange iceberg.

Felt inspired by our recent Argentina trip to write this thing about penguins and organized resistance to state-sanctioned torture. I'd be very flattered & humbled if you took ten minutes out of your day to read it.

I always think of James Tate on a day like today: "After a poodle dies all the cardinals flock to the nearest 7-Eleven. They drink Slurpees until one of them throws up and then he's the new Pope."

@mckenziewark.bsky.social Found this in a bookstore in Ushuaia Argentina

The ringer is mostly garbage these days but this one about mlb and Jackie Robinson is the best thing I've read all week www.theringer.com/2025/04/15/m...

You wouldn't think moving from Georgia to New York meant a major downgrade in senators but it did. This guy is a fucking idiot.

Clem Burke made it look easy. Here's my favorite deep cut. The showmanship at 2:55...still never seen a drummer pull that one off.

And what was the point of extracting the value of my labor and giving it to the stock market if you were just going to piss it away on a whim

So I guess at this rate the markets will reach zero by the end of the month and then we can begin to reimagine society and build a world that isn't based on exploitation and cruelty