“This system will grind you up and spit you out and if the only thing you’ve got to wedge into the gears is a thick, beautiful pecker, then you’d be a fool to let social convention hold you back.”

fuck it. only good decisions from here on out

Today's upload is a rip of the second Atari E.R.I.C. point of purchase laserdisc. This disc ran inside an in-store kiosk and was driven by pressing keys on an Atari (likely 800?) computer, which then jumped to various time codes via a serial connection to the LD player. archive.org/details/atar...

Kate Bush: the maaaan with the chiiild in his eyes The Child In His Eyes: please help, he’s a wizard and trapped me here with magicks

There are three men outside my office window cutting down a tree, and my ass is sitting at a computer like "I have a real job too! I type on the computer for a living!" like a complete asshole.

9am vs 4pm (I did none of this work)

Organizing my ripped VHS/LD stuff on the Plex server

There's a thread at work where folks are trying to get Claude/Cursor to stop praising everything they type, and it's genuinely incredible to me that they are dumping paragraphs of text into a markdown file begging an LLM text editor to stop s'ing their d's.

Ripped some laserdiscs today.

Finally found a copy of the second laserdisc for Atari E.R.I.C. in-store computer sales kiosks from the early 80s. I have a decent rip of disc 1 up on IA; I’ll try to get this one up soon too. archive.org/details/atar...

A place I was an early employee at is having their 20th anniversary party tonight and holy shit does that make me feel old.

Decades of overpromising have evolved the Peter Molyneux Hype Cycle into something really special. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-abo...

I’m old, the things I love are outdated, I accept that now

One last disassembly of the Amiga 3000 to recap the video circuit, then I’m slapping a Video Toaster 2.0 in here and calling it done!

Today's VHS upload is The Value of Telling the Truth. It's about a lying little piece of shit and how all the world suffers for his hubris. Worth watching for the amazing synthesizer track used for the title. archive.org/details/valu...

I have gathered my thoughts and turned it into a fun blog about how IMDb is hell. I hope you like a long, under-explained list of movie ratings. aftermath.site/imdb-review-...

And here's a new trailer. One of the best we've ever done.

The most online I’ve ever been, August 2015.

My wife stashed her high protein breakfast ramen next to the good whisky I keep hidden from guests. A condemnation of us both.

Boards of Canada's Olsen performed on a PDP-1. Holy shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

My ass is so powerful, it just cracked our upstairs toilet seat.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 The Hudson bee in a cowboy hat still exists & is still good after all these years You can look at him in the image below👇

I took a cross-country trip with the Dogg Zzone boys this week. We Learned At Every Turn about Native American magic, sexy Native American magicians, and the bizarre Native American fantasies of homeschooled children. I should probably delete that entire sentence and start over.

Making progress on the Amiga! Thanks to @cathoderaydude.bsky.social for the article at gekk.info/articles/ami..., basically the only readable information about getting an early model Amiga 3000 to boot that I have found.

Pillow boy

Hey has anyone seen Meatloaf? I can’t find that guy anywhere.

Funniest possible way to start a movie about cartoons stalking a mansion full of beautiful women, and five years before the Coen brothers made a similar claim in Fargo.

Once I watch this video it’s over for you mfers

Yeah man, that’s probably recyclable

I was on another podcast, this time to talk about one of my favorite directors: Andy Sidaris. It was super fun, plus look at this incredible poster image Dirk commissioned?!?

Getting drunk with my wife and watching Perfume Genius music videos in the basement.

She’s yelling at me to come sit in the chair.

I got to be on the Dogg Zzone podcast this week to discuss the moment the light of karate magic faded from baby Seanbaby’s eyes.

Ok so I uh did not realize how gigantic this microscope was when I ordered it.

Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles. Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.

I should probably be getting my gunckels serviced annually, now that I’m almost 50

The 1991 film Robo Warriors left a 40ft tall robot prop standing on a Philippine Air Force base after shooting wrapped. The locals were so taken with it that after decades of succumbing to the elements, they commissioned artists to build a 12ft tall replica: www.sunstar.com.ph/amp/story/pa...

Great little article about a small arcade clinging to life in Liaoning, China www.sixthtone.com/news/1017537

A Life Well Wasted 9 will be released one week from today. Here’s the poster design by Olly Moss. Screenprints will be on sale from 9/4 through 9/11 on the ALWW website. Still ad-free! Come back next week.

“The headbutt.”

*airhorn noises*

Had to take Meatloaf to the ER for observation for possible intestinal blockage. I know he’s going to be ok, but please hold his stupid little face in your thoughts tonight all the same.

Put this in the hall of fame for load-bearing adjectives

Was in Wyoming for most of last week with no internet. Highly recommended.

I got one of those crazy 5:4 Checkmate 1500 displays and plopped a MiSTer FPGA unit inside it and it’s a pretty nice little standalone unit!

There are few places as depressing as an Office Depot in 2025

This is how I, too, would like to be recognized.