One thing I don't really buy about the last season of Magnus Archives is that any of the evil avatars are actually enjoying themselves. The monsters like Breekon and the NotThem behave much more plausibly (ie they seem kinda miserable)

I would develop the capacity for intimacy but I already have narcissism and misanthropy penciled in

Cameron Winter pisses me off. I only just listened to 45 seconds of his music for the first time but I want to kill him

Weezer's Green Album is one of the few albums my opinion on has never changed. It has always been boringly uninspired and the dictionary definition of slight. I think a lot of the Weezer albums people really hate are probably better.

R.H. Malden's ghost stories are odd in that they're like M.R. James if they didn't have the "wallop" at the end, just a lot of mildly unearthly happenings skirting around the edge of a mystery

Nothing quite like the disappointment of a horror story that flubs the resolution (though inspired by "Whittington's Cat", a story by Lady Eleanor Smith)

She's on the way out

The Reneesonce is over

Every time I start to seriously ponder embarking upon writing as a serious enterprise I remember about Networking and shudder

DENNIS

Current listening: "The Step" by E.F. Benson. Protagonist in this is such a piece of shit. Musing to himself that he may well extort the hot daughter of a family he's evicting for sex

[Dead serious] I am not a silly billy. Don't you fucking call me that

Listening to Revolver for the umpteenth time and reflecting for the umpteenth time that the truly remarkable thing about the Beatles is they made so many songs that would be the best song of most other people's entire career.

One reason I still have twitter is I would never hear of things like the AI generated videos of massive prisoners chained up in court being read 6700 year prison sentences and yelling "take these chains off and say it again!" If I were only on bluesky

Thinking about the last shot of A.I. with Teddy on the bed and killing myself

I wonder if you can get an oil change cheaper if you provide your own oil and filter. My sole reason for not wanting to do it myself is it's cold

I'm torn between thinking "the whole ____ thing" is an inexcusable writing tic and acknowledging that's a way people actually talk now

also what the fuck does "caught" mean??

Sometimes I'll be reading an old horror story about a heretic monastery of ill worship and its attendant blasphemous and I'll think "I wish evil Catholics were real" and then after a beat I'll think "oh yeah"

Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.

Don't see too many Ichabods these days

Doing some regular horror and I have to keep reminding myself that gothic pulp written 80s years ago by Frederick Cowles has nothing to do with The Magnus Archives' dread powers

Learning that the Magnus Archives fan community (or at least, the Tumblr version of it) generally pictures Jonathan as like, a sexy Indian guy. He is maybe the most schlubby white guy coded character of all time.

I'm so close to the end of Magnus Archive but fatigue is really starting to hit me. I think it's because every episode of season 5 is basically the same with no real variation besides whatever topics our heroes chat about

I thought West Virginia was the BBW capital...."redneck" is so undignified...

They should make meal replacement drinks that actually sate your hunger. Then we'd really be cooking with fire

Think I'm going to completely half ass the remaining music challenges. Will feel good to say "I don't need to check every Migos track I will simply pick 'Bad and Boujee'", or "'Pumped Up Kicks' is all the indie anyone could ever want, no further looking needed"

The worst part of all this Tarantino stuff is he's ruining one of my all time favorite reaction images. The vibe is all off now

I genuinely wonder what Tarantino would say if somebody he respected challenged him on where he gets off calling anybody else a ripoff artist

No wonder The Greek is despised

Clerks 3. You actually cannot imagine how bad it is, and the specific way it's bad, even if you're familiar with all the other Kevin Smith atrocities. It is harrowing. It manages to be one of the most depressing things I've ever seen despite being aesthetically worthless

"In Too Deep" by Genesis putting a big Patrick Bateman smile on my face at the grocery store

Wisdom is loving Curly Joe despite his many faults

Having negative thoughts I don't know what to do with. How does one channel hating somebody for being pathetic?

I wonder how one even defines "suitable work" when my current job is as good as it is.

Man now I have to figure out how unemployment works

I quite enjoy the tension in Magnus Archives of everybody who's mean to Jonathan being 100% right but still feeling like they're being too hard on him. The grand opera that is solipsistic subjectivity.

Had a dream last night that hot girls were surrounding my car making fun of me for how much trash was in it. This is not a joke

It's bothersome when you notice obnoxious tics in your own writing but still find yourself doing them

The Eternal Cycle: following sexy ladies and then muting them because they repost other sexy ladies too much

I'm on episode 154 of The Magnus Archives and I imagine this is what Jonathan looks like by the end

Cafeteria at work just served the most "ingredients will expire if we don't use them" dish of all time (a casserole made up of waffle fries, bacon, and shredded cheese) and it was pretty good ngl

Thinking about the time Twelve Tribes spent like a hour trying to recruit me and I googled "is twelve tribes a cult" afterwards

Critics lambasted Grand Funk Railroad because how awesome this was scared them

One day the book I write on this topic will be my claim to fame...

Simon Fairchild needs to shit or get off the pot. They've been teasing this old fucker since season one, I'm almost 3/4 of the way through and all he does is appear in a statement now and then with a twinkle in his eye

@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social Here is my overview of 2001's heavy rock and metal. It is finished. share.evernote.com/note/86200a9...

@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social I made a playlist of highlights from the heavy 2001 albums I will be recommending with more detail and structure tomorrow, figured I'd share it. This excludes "Seamless" by American Head Charge, not on streaming. Also lacks the super obvious stuff