this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025 "my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists" "your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs" solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

Put on Curtains from 1983 while working today. So frustrating. It has clever ideas but the execution was terrible. It felt unfinished, but I could also see the better movie it was trying to be. An interesting failure is better than being boring, but it wasn't the relaxing slasher I was looking for.

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Part of the college experience is feeling like your going to die an hour before an assignment is due and then accidentally writing the best thing your ever written.

I genuinely attribute much of my career success as a freelance journalist to being reliable, pleasant, communicative, and turning in clean copy. It's not always my job to create a work of artistic genius! Often, I need to make the solid, functional table someone ordered, and do so on time

Gonna say it, not enough games about defeating Klansmen, Confederates or neo-Confederates.

Joe is making a great List

Every time a politician talks like this they should get dumped with green slime like they’re on You Can’t Do That on Television.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and it’s not even close.

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

I specifically told Joe I was waiting for this list last time I saw him and he doesn’t disappoint. I am always excited to see unexpected gems every day in October!

One of my go-to sushi orders is natto rolls with raw quail eggs on top.

PR’d at the gym this morning, but I was disappointed because it wasn’t a very big PR. It’s so annoying that gradual, difficult, incremental progress is often the key to accomplishing things.

Got a tattoo for the first time on Friday. It took me over 44 years to get one. Now I’m already thinking “I should get another tattoo.”

This article has a lot more important problems so I feel stupid saying this…but umm…the Mercury wrote and published the first major article about the DSA councilors back in June. Of course it isn’t the local reporting linked or mentioned here.

I’ve gotten into metal in my advanced age (turning 45 on the 17th) and I think one of the reasons is because it’s not embarrassing for middle-aged, happily married guys to rock out about dragons or space wizards. It’s dorky and silly, but it’s not creepy or cringe like pretending to be a teen is.

Van Helsing spies a vampire approaching. He leaves the door open, an invitation to come in. The beast suspects nothing. Another successful kill. It’s not easy keeping the world safe.

Today's Classic Cover of the day is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, with an edition illustrated by Belgian artist Jean-Leéon Huens!

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

It’s October! Time for 31 days of horror recommendations. In the past I’ve just done movies, but this year I’m branching out. Movies, books, video games, any kind of horror media. Not everything on this list will be good, but I’m confident that everything will be interesting.

Can’t believe that Hegseth did the giant Patton flag thing. That’s the first thing the movie does to communicate to the viewer that Patton is monstrously theatrical and insane. If you have even an iota of media literacy you can see that.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

"Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?" - the President of the United States of America www.kgw.com/article/news...

The Brave and the Bold #152 (1979) #batman #dccomics

I am once again on City Cast PDX this morning—today we discussed @portlandmercury.com Fall Arts Issue stories, like the opening of PAM's Rothko Pavilion, a wholesome local zine-maker meetup group, and improv comedy show Punchlines & Piledrivers. portland.citycast.fm/podcasts/pam...

Your cloaking device has failed. Your invisibility spell has no magic to it. Everyone can see through your glamour. Camouflage does nothing. It's Bisexual Visibility Day. We're exposed and in the open. Duck and weave. Move! Fly, you fool! They can see us, but they'll have to catch us.

okay i have to hand it to eisenhower, that’s a fucking burn

One of my favorite facts is that most “snake oil” was alcohol with other drugs dissolved into it, usually cocaine or opium. Did people care about the potentially benefits? Maybe. But the important thing is that it made you feel something. Modern supplements don’t even do that.

Years ago I was an extra on Grimm and David Zayas was the special guest for the episode. Dexter was still on the air. Producers were falling over themselves to fete him and he waved it all off. He ate lunch with me and the other extras like we were all coworkers. Just acted like a guy doing a job.

Saw 1988's Waxwork last night. It's really fun! You probably have an idea in your head of obnoxious 80s teens stumbling into supernatural danger. This movie fits that idea, but with room for a few "What the fucks?" That balance point is a very good place to sit. www.imdb.com/title/tt0096...

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Pardon me, but while MAGA and Trump may want to use it that way, we don't need to let them. I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October. But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.

I seem to have food poisoning. So I’m doing something that I know is going to make me feel better: Watching the 1997 sci-fi horror classic Event Horizon.

I’ve written two novels and I’m working on a third. I haven’t gotten an agent yet but I’ve demonstrated to myself that I really can do the work of writing books.

Today is 9/16/25. Three squared, four squared, five squared. It's a Pythagorean triangle! Isn't that neat? Happy Triangle Day!

RIP to a real one youtu.be/Qeemjaosp-E?...

Salem from the 90s Sabrina show should continue appearing in stuff. He should be in commercials, maybe host the oscars or something

Into the Badlands was a delight! If you like post-apocalyptic martial arts epics about well-dressed hot people killing each other give it a watch.

Book Cover of the Day:

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

The Portland Art Museum is expanding! I wrote all about the new Mark Rothko Pavilion for the @portlandmercury.com's Fall Arts Issue. www.portlandmercury.com/fall-arts-20...

i do not think it can be overstated at this point that we do not know who killed charlie kirk or why they did it.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Some helpful tips for following the awful news out of Minnesota today.

Copy editors do important work.

I’ve invented a new cocktail. It’s called “Friday Night” and it’s a big mug of chamomile alongside a bit of whiskey. You drink it while sitting on the couch with your spouse while watching television on Friday night. I just had one. Highly recommended.

The reason many of the commentators don’t like Bluesky is because the infrastructure is set up in a way that no longer benefits them. On Twitter it was always easier to gain an audience by purposefully saying things that upset people. Getting ratio-ed was a tactic. Here, that’s much harder.

Thinking Portland is scary is so transparently ridiculous. Do you know how fucking pleasant and idyllic this place is? The most challenging this I had to deal with this week was a slightly too-loud bar where I had to repeat myself while ordering cheese fries. "It's like living in Hell." Fuck you.