Read Denis Johnson's FISKADORO today. A lot of "not really sure where he's going with this" in that one

Listening to Elisa Ambrogio's The Immoralist yet again, easily one of my most-played singer-songwriter records

Does GenAI being trained on a wealth of porn mean that if you ask it to generate a nude pic of a male it will automatically give him a huge dick

Dogs were really onto something when they took in the entirety of the world around them and said: woof

Did you know that paralyzing the muscles in your face (aka getting Botox) can inhibit your ability to have an orgasm? Sometimes I remember this fact and feel a need to tell everyone I know as soon as possible--

A goal of the AI generative images porn machine is to drive women out of public life - devaluing women's thoughts by associating them with sexualized images; but also devaluing women's sexualized images, if profitable, by flooding the zone with bootleg knockoffs

I love that he's thinking the sound of accidentally swallowing something that isn't food

If you think of events in the news as intended to distract from other ones, you don't have what it takes to be a writer, because you don't understand character or narrative in terms of how detail relates to a larger scope.

Rough draft favorite film rankings of 2025, waiting to see Resurrection and The Testament Of Ann Lee, let me know if there's anything else that might warrant a reshuffle of my top 5

jon hassell's birth name was toilet trouble

I guess Trump gave up on trying to get into heaven :-( one of his advisors must've explained how pedophilia is considered really really really bad

This is going to get lost in the shuffle of not really mattering in the grand scheme of things but my god is "kinetic strike" a vile euphemism for "bombing a city and killing people indiscriminately"

Closeted guy saying "Yeah I'm serving cunt... every time I cook my wife dinner!" in an attempt to bond with the guys in the neighborhood

Is there something like a VPN that anonymizes telephone call locations, sorta like calling from a telephone booth? Asking for a neighbor who wants to call our senator, John Fetterman, and tell him to k*** h******

Everyone laughed at me and called me a hoarder for not throwing out my "No Blood For Oil" and "Our President Is The Illegitimate Dictator" signs in 2006 but who's laughing now? When you have to go to Michael's and get new posterboard?

The news of the ICC getting their bank accounts frozen already seemed under-reported and now it's even more under-reported. When Bannon said he was going to flood the zone with illegal shit he wasn't kidding. He also said he wanted to take over Venezuela and make his own Dubai btw

Trump celebrating the five year anniversary of January 6th by showing he knows how to properly conduct a coup now

Amazon would rather show you sponsored ads for things you aren't interested in than sell you what you're shopping for. Netflix would rather sell subscriptions than movie tickets, even though the latter is more profitable. As our world becomes more transactional, the bosses value our humiliation more

Back when I was a teen getting into music online, the website Nude As The News had their top 100 records of the nineties designated not as "the best," but "most compelling," and that strikes me as still likely the best criteria for a retrospective canon

There's a movie coming out called I Was A Stranger and I was wondering if the title was a Smog reference but looking at the IMDB page the director is named Brandt and I don't think guys like that are allowed to know about Drag City

A good habit to get into for the new year is every time you think about hitting refresh, hit yourself in the head instead

It's crazy they kept making new years after 2016. Here's to ten years of linear time enduring even when it should've called it quits, maybe 2026 will be the year such fortitude is rewarded

Guy who's a few years out of touch so it's clearly just me: Here's to a WAP-py New Year everybody!!!

Added four records to my Bandcamp wishlist to check out thanks to their inclusion on @motherslug.bsky.social's year-end list

Highly recommend at least one listen to the title track of Ryan Davis' "New Threats From The Soul" while reading along with the lyrics, really crazy construction of lines and call-backs to cumulatively devastating effect

Not gonna fill out a full 2026 Bingo card but I do think some right-wing manfluencer/AI singularity guy will replace his dick with a dildo/fuck machine where the balls are rerouted so cum shoots out his butt

My basic take on Complete C Comics (Joe Brainard collab'ing with New York School poets circa 1964, reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social ) is it is cool and I like it but in the way I like poetry which is basically less than how I like narrative comics BUT I am open to rec's of books by those poets

30 Dec 2025

A lovely, wandering tribute from Xander Marro to Louis Family Restaurant, a beloved diner in Providence RI that’s just announced it’s closing for good on Dec. 31. xandermarro.substack.com/p/good-bye-s...

That everybody is going to be much dumber from here on out is a gift to people like me, whose lives are defined by a sense of intellectual superiority that's not really based on anything in particular

Merry Christmas to all my friends, may you all receive what you ask for, assuming you share with me a wish for world peace, in addition to the Nintendo Switches and Tropical Dandy reissues

In between nog and pies I've been separating yolks from whites a lot this season and that means thinking about the Tampopo scene

kyoko speaks

I thought the Napoleonic Code referred to honor and behavior among short men

Attempting to cook a cranberry curd pie for christmas eve, likely beyond my skill level... will i pull it off? Watch this space

Bla-ck Christmas, you have my heart But the very next movie was A Christmas Story This year, I drank five beers I'm getting the details all wrong

I, alongside many others, contributed a best-comics-of-the-year list to The Comics Journal. I made my picks with an eye towards consensus favorites, but still got bummed out seeing the trends in the list I was absolutely a part of. (Too many superhero comics, not enough minicomics or manga.)

On Bandcamp there is a Meat Puppets 2022 Up On The Sun megamix edit of improv sections of that song from a 2022 tour. Cool right? Sadly the album art is obviously AI. How do I know? The bandname is misspelled as Meat Pupkets.

Very annoying to get a shirt from my mom for christmas and feel like i need to google the brand to see if it has weird right-wing politics or just looks dumb and feels gross. Good thing I did though, because it turns out yeah the brand has famously bad politics and the material is mostly polyester

New ongoing comic to begin release THIS THURSDAY dec 25th aka xmas "youths raised in an isolated cult-like community are exposed to the outside world when two strangers arrive and cause an incident" Free to read on substack or kofi linktr.ee/spiderbabby

Just a coincidence I'm reading these two books by Argentineans at the same time though Enriquez does shout out Bomarzo on page one paragraph one and the NYRB intro says she wrote an intro for the current Spanish-language edition

Wrote about some comics from the homies @crepusculine.bsky.social @jessemcmanus.bsky.social @kartalopoulos.bsky.social

Overheard a lady on her cell phone say "I'm a cougar, not a predator." Obviously she has not seen Zootopia yet

Always feel bad when I don't remember the name of someone who remembers mine because I am convinced it comes off as more smug/aloof/"cool guy"(derogatory) than stupid and confused

More of a Linnell guy than a Flansburgh guy but god bless any radio stations that put They Might Be Giants' "Santa's Beard" in the Christmas song playlist. It's not any more annoying than anything else