To the woman sitting in front of me at a recent event who would whip out her extraordinarily bright phone to read erotica whenever her partner got up from his seat: good for you, girl

Found some vintage copies of Fate Magazine while cruising Brown & Dickson the other day. The temptation was strong

After months of there only being a handful of releases worth schlepping myself to theatres for, this week is an embarrassment of riches: LURKER and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER tonight, Toronto Indie HorrorFest tomorrow, GOOD BOY on Friday, then the first 3 eps of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN at the Revue Sat

If you can catch LURKER on the big screen before it hits Mubi on Oct 10th, I suggest you do so. There's something about not being able to turn away from all the starfucker awkwardness that makes it the kind of experience you can't replicate on TV. Truly a hell of a movie

After watching THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER TWO, I've instructed my friends that if I willingly pay to see CHAPTER THREE, they have to be waiting for me outside the theater with that bolt gun from NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Finally went to go check out Museum London today

There's no surer sign it's time to go home than when, at midnight, you find yourself fascinated by a copse of trees at the darkest end of a parking lot

Did Paul witness a ghost in my apartment? Is Garth Brooks a serial killing vampire? Will people ever listen when we tell them to stay out of the woods? The answer to at least one of these questions is yes - find out which on the latest show, where we explore haunted British Columbia pod.fo/e/32b705

the computer is good, continue being on the computer all the time.

Shocked by how much I liked the new TOXIC AVENGER flick. "Eat your fucking beard" alone made me laugh harder than anything in the original

Most of the time I'm not someone who pats themselves on the back. Every now and then, though, I'll cut a full hour out of a 1h43 minute recording session, listen to it to make sure you can't tell, and think to myself, "Man, you're a fucking wizard at this"

After we finished recording the show earlier tonight, Paul looked up from his phone and asked, "who's over at your place?" I was alone and told him so. "Well a woman in a white dress just walked across the frame behind you." Cool. Cool cool

Was talking to someone last night who said their boss runs the entire shop according to ChatGPT's advice instead of asking his employees or paying attention to data. Apparently things have gotten worse since this new model dropped. The actual line was "the answers from 5 are so much dumber than 4"

It's been a good lineup this last few days

Day off. Hit the gym then took in a doubleheader of CAUGHT STEALING and JAWS. STEALING wasn't my bag at all - constantly felt at right angles to itselt, like it wanted to be a quirky mistaken identity flick AND a gritty, hard-edged thriller. Didn't mesh for me. JAWS in IMAX though? Hasn't aged a day

This is a really good read on the interaction between the ongoing COVID pandemic and the rise of the US fascists in the first half of the 2020's.

Shame that it took the passing of Brent Hinds to get me to revisit my Mastodon records. I had all but forgotton what absolute masterpieces those first 4 albums were. Their new, smoother sound still isn't my vibe but after catching up, I can hear there's still a lot to like about EMPEROR OF SAND

Just found out that FEAR DAILY crossed 1m downloads today, eight days before our one year anniversary. Fuck yes. Huge thanks to everyone out there listening!

This is a great read

I've never been a Joe Rogan fan and watching him act like a big bitch baby live on stage during his 2016 election night special cemented that. However, until watching Elephant Graveyard's lengthy breakdowns of his cognitive decline, I wasn't aware of how much more toxic and broken he'd become. Damn

Watched SINNERS again. Hard to fully describe how much I love it. To call it a "single location vampire thriller" is technically accurate but it's so much more. Everything is suffused with so much emotion, you can't help but feel connected to something greater than yourself

Spending Sunday the way God intended: drinking red wine and eating corn chex while watching BEYOND SKINWALKER RANCH ahead of a guest spot on @cryptidcocktail.bsky.social

Guy on the Shell night shift asked whether or not I thought his new hairdo works. It does, and I told him so, but it seemed like he was waiting for more and I didn't know how to politely explain that I've been bald for 15 years - if he's looking for in-depth hair analysis, he's come to the wrong man

Midnight and I'm watching Lance Henriksen debase himself as he hunts Sasquatch in DEVIL ON THE MOUNTAIN, because apparently I hate my brain

Dipped into the city yesterday to check out the Royal Ontario Museum and could not figure out the superhuman amounts of side eye I was getting from the docent on my way into the Auschwitz exhibit. Then I saw my reflection: freshly shaved head + laundry day Hawaiian shirt and the light went off

Received what is possibly the greatest compliment I've had so far on my fiction writing: "take away the Ring cameras and cellphones and WEAPONS could be a Fear Daily story"

Words borrowed and rhythm scavenged from Brennan Storr @largelythetruth.com liminality Where closing time is dictated by vibes, waterfall cries from the shower next door easily break a fragile hypnagogic state. Another night, another fine Quality Inn 2025.08.06 #APoemNearlyEveryDay

There's a small measure of comfort in knowing that there's still enough interest in THE LIFE OF CHUCK, at least here in London, Ontario, to keep it playing in the daytime slot at Hyland Cinema

The new NAKED GUN flick made me laugh so hard in the theater I'm gonna have to change my name and leave town

Watching for the White Lady ghost...

Reading a piece on 404 Media about the Sig Sauer P320 and how gun buffs have done exhaustive videos showing the pistol can accidentally fire itself. Sig's public response to this is such a crystalline example of how far internet-brained L v R dynamics have infested even corporate communications

"Lecturers acquiesced when they found that a lecture on the sea was none the less stimulating when compiled out of other lectures that had already been delivered on the same subject. 'Beware of 1st-hand ideas!' exclaimed one of the most advanced of them" EM Forster ahead of the AI curve by 100yrs

Finally pulled the trigger on the Hollyland Lark MS 2 wireless lav mic ahead of the GSG patron live show tonight and it's easily the best piece of new kit I've added in years. The Shure MV2 dreams of being this good right out of the box

When I was a kid and my neurodivergence really started to manifest, I hid out in the basement. Spent whole summers down there in the dark and quiet. Cubs games on WGN were my window to the world and Ryne Sandberg was, with Nolan Ryan & Cecil Fielder, one of my favorites. RIP to one of the greats

After a month using the Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro 3, my only real criticism is that their noise-canceling isn’t good enough to block out the boomers behind me talking about how they called the cops on a fucking deer in their yard

Between seeing GINGER SNAPS at the Revue recently, and now VinSyn's new 4K of THE RAGE: CARRIE 2, I'm starting to think that, as bad as it was, my experience of high school in the late 90s could have been a lot worse

A listener sent me a copy of Dee Snider's STRANGELAND, which has been on my watch list for a hundred years but hasn't been rentable in Canada. Stoked to dive into this one!

Recently, a bartender at my favorite place in Victoria introduced me to a "Death in the Afternoon" (absinthe and champagne), effectively ruining me forever

Rewatching the OG I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER after seeing the new one. The gulf between the inciting incidents in the two films is insane: OG has the kids straight-up murdering a guy then dumping the body. The new one, they're basically present at the scene of an accident and can't save him

Every time an app I use offers me a discount if I switch to annual billing I start wondering exactly how they're planning to fuck up their service with AI

On my way to return a book to the library, I was stopped by a busker who asked if I had "actually read" the thing. Presumably the implied alternative here is that I cart around props in 30° weather on the off chance I need to impress sunburned strangers noodling tunelessly on guitars

This week on Ghost Story Guys, in keeping with our Wet Hot Canadian Summer, we throw back to July 2023 to look at the hauntings of Toronto, Ontario, but with an all-new intro, outro, and some bonus stories thrown in for good measure! pod.fo/e/300046

My antipathy towards crowds was reinforced today as I made my way home through Northwestern Deuce Days

The Times Colonist finally got around to reporting on the local asphalt plant's overpowering chemical smell causing problems throughout the city. True to Victoria form, the paper absolves the plant of responsibility in one paragraph, then corrects itself with a quote from the owner in the next

Finally got around to watching Alfonso Cuarón's ROMA and while I respect what he was chasing, it felt a lot like Fincher's MANK in that it had more technical ambition than heart. In fairness, ROMA did still manage to provoke more emotional reactions than just annoyance and boredom

Brought the car in to be serviced this morning and whatever faith in humanity was generated by seeing 11 unsold used Teslas in the lot next door has been immediately undone by the neverending stream of Failarmy videos playing in the waiting room

We've been using @riversidefm.bsky.social to record GHOST STORY GUYS for almost 3 years but lately their server connectivity has been absolutely terrible. I haven't seen lag this bad since Real Player. Might have to swap back to Zencastr or try Squad Cast

this from @citymystic.bsky.social is really great - the death of sincerity and overwhelming irony poisoning in culture is crushing people, an encroaching glibness we must push back on. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/banish-wit...

You know times are tough when the weather app asks me if it's raining

Tonight there was a car show in the park near my place. I went over to have a look, then realized I could never stop moving, just in case one of the owners thought I knew a single thing about cars and wanted to talk