And Al Hirschfeld!

Such a beautifully stylized approach to the western by Steve Ditko.

Reminder that if you need to reach out to a friend I am a much better choice than ChatGPT. It's been like a decade since I told someone they should just kill themselves when they were complaining too much and being annoying

Domino's write-up of Journey Agent credits me for making him aware of it - those are well-drawn hobo comics from a crust-punk trainhopper type, priced affordably - check it out if that sounds good to you

A lot of my religious or spiritual beliefs boil down to thinking consciousness is a miracle; it's insane we can think in language to apprehend the world, communicate, & work towards ideals. I see part of the goal of the fascist/AI project as to destroy thought + language in a way I consider demonic

they should make a game show called Are You Smarter Than A Billionaire that everybody wins

Whoa.

New Equipment Pointed Ankh LP incoming, preview track is perfect first thing in the morning starting your day music

Aw man, RIP Young Bleed. I like his first record My Balls And My Word

RIP Dick Cheney. Born Chester Cobblepot in upperclass Gotham, he was exiled to the sewers for his grotesque animalistic habits. It was there he developed the avian motif that would serve him well when he entered the vibrant world of 90s supercrime.

There's that George Carlin line "think about how dumb the average person is, then remember half the population is dumber than that" which while smug is clarifying -people don't know 1/3 is larger than 1/4 or what potato chips are made from - but remember: AI is making people even dumber

"Inside you there are two Spies" costume 2 of 2 for Halloween 2025

Once again have a room opening up at my house in December, if you or someone you know need a place in South Philadelphia or have been thinking of moving to the city, and can get along with me, get in touch. It's pretty affordable all things considered

Pranked harmlessly by a guy from a band and his wife as they pleaded ignorance of having heard of their band when I was like "oh there's a musician with that name." (It was Neil Burke from Men's Recovery Project)

the assumptions made about the target audience by making the first two items "OnlyFans' and 'child support' are kind of incredible

So, is there a Mister Bride Of Frankenstein?

New Joy Williams in Harpers, talking about Gene Hackman's death

New Lisa on Pynchon thebaffler.com/latest/lacto...

Halloween sciientists are calling my theory that goofy costumes are actually more attractive than slutty ones "an amount of cope that is frankly incalculable"

People don't want to acknowledge this but it is interesting and existentially scary how GenAI resembles the illogic of dreams. You can't flip a light switch in a dream, AI can't show you a video where a candle gets blown out

if you carved a jack o'lantern i'd really love to see it, and if not, get to it!!!

Baltimore people should go to this and her show at Current

The weird thing about my jazz knowledge - maybe a little deeper than just the biggest hits, but not that deep - is that when I think of Jack DeJohnette I think of him drumming on Arthur Blythe's Lenox Avenue Breakdown. A great record with a drawing of a building shaped like a saxophone on the cover

I liked this more than Zama - Does the Pynchon trick of using a private eye structure to potentially interrogate paranoia and secret societies, but also is just about a dude indifferent to women's inner lives wondering if he's gonna kill himself while a woman tells him everyone's thoughts on suicide

I was at this show, it was very nice

New Kukangendai. If it is like their other records I think it will be good to fall asleep to but I realize that is potentially a dangerous thing to promise about a record I haven't heard yet

Printed the covers for Crepusculine 2 yesterday.

Recently read these two novels about the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Something interesting is it seems the losers really enjoyed fighting anyway. Sales wrote the better novel (the follow-up to one called Uncertain Glory I haven't read) and De Motherlant seems like a real POS

Did flowers used to be more popular, or was it more economically viable for businesses to do the upkeep required to sell flowers? I asked a friend this question in a dream and he said there was a themed restaurant called Flowers decorated with flowers when he was a kid but that's probably not real

Whoaaaaa

Novelty music you can really sink your fangs into, like the tunes are apples you're bobbing for or grapes psychic suggestion has as being eyeballs

You can just hear it in his voice, it's perfect

If you don't already have one, you're gonna develop some kind of serious medical issue you'll be managing forever and it's best you catch it early so you can't be scared of going to the doctor

Whoaaa congratulations Angela!

Kids at school I worked at today thought my voice sounded gay and now that I'm home I'm listening to Harvey Milk

News of the day reminds me that the Ruppert and Mulot (with Bastien Vives) comic The Grande Odalisque rules. Precisely engineered action comics about women doing art heists by formalist masters. Two-thirds of the creative team are sex creeps but you shouldn't let that stop you from reading it IMO

Realized I've been listening to records I listened to twenty years ago when I was in college, a completely normal thing to do for someone my age. The first Wolf Parade LP, Herbert's Scale, and yesterday, Boris' Rainbow (with Michio Kurihara). I wonder what I will remember next

Know I'm preaching to the converted here but I think a big message that should be communicated to the normie liberal No Kings protesting crowd is that you shouldn't use AI because it's a fascist anti-worker technology and Trump responding to the protest with an AI video underlines that point

Read Samanta Schweblin's Good And Evil And Other Stories and at first was like "I don't really like Schweblin, I should stop reading her" (maybe not true, I just don't remember any of her short stories) but the longer stories in the book's back half I enjoyed

Really think certain panels from Ichiro Iijima's manga My Gorilla Family could be memes, but I don't really know what situations would be appropriate to use fhese as reactions

I think "I'm not going to the protest because it seems insufficiently radical, or else dangerous" is real "my understanding of leftism is defined by social media owned by the right wing and I don't understand how propaganda works on me" shit

I was just made aware of this truly cursed thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrsW...

It's funny that people talk about certain Pynchon novels as accessible entry points when for so long his readership was people drawn to the idea of a long difficult book. Now that that type of guy is considered annoying, though, it's like oh yeah he has like four books that are fun wacky comedies

These are the homies from around town

The Grandma's Garden debut EP is available now in full on our Bandcamp. Check it out for 20 minutes of spiky, riff-heavy, indie-punk party songs from Tokyo's hottest new duo: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-...

Ride a cowboy? We need to stop eating horses altogether!

Listening once again to Matthew Herbert and finding it hits but also reminded of how vast his discography is beyond the records I know. If you've got faves, shout em out

Fellas, what bad habits we picking up from the new Pynchon novel? We're all gonna start calling women tomatoes, or just me?

Wrote about contemporary trends in pop metaphysics supplanting spirituality and our subsequent succumbing to depression. Also comic books

Maybe this will sound melodramatic but it strikes me (in the middle of the night) that such a scheme being undertaken by one of the true bastions of monoculture is the machinery of capitalism sowing the seeds of schizophenia among the populace