Watching on Peacock.

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If what you’re doing at midnight on New Year’s Eve determines the course of your next year, I’m going to be doing a lot of drinking Glenfiddich on my own in the dark while reading a good book. Fucking brilliant.

Well, shit, I guess I'll be drinking Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Stout all year. There are worse fates.

The Netflix servers are going to crash about ten minutes from now, aren’t they?

As someone who considers himself a very jaded reader, I just want to note that @natcassidy.bsky.social's When the Wolf Comes Home (which I haven't yet finished) features the first character death in a while that made me go, "Oh, goddamn you." Anyway, great book so far.

Agreed. I am a hater. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Watching on Hulu.

so sorry for creating Discourse™️ anyway, donate $5 at katforillinois.com if you can swing it

A View to a Shrug.

It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk

I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.

Here’s the last of three Christmas-themed pieces from the Fango newsletter that I repurposed for the site this week. Thanks to @crazysexyghoul.bsky.social for encouraging me to republish them. www.fangoria.com/surviving-ch...

As has been discussed elsewhere, Pluribus is the best thing that artistically and metaphorically describes the AI discourse, without that being an impact font THUMBNAIL spoonfeeder. It even unpacks this theme in ways that some people who don't understand nor like the show *complain* about it.

Once again: fuck everyone who voted to put this deranged narcissist back in office. If you don’t lose your shirt in his economy I hope you get ass boils

I find a whole lot of this extremely relatable, as I suspect quite a few other people will.

Have to admit, I have had similar thoughts when the first two issues arrived here, wondering if the postman thinks it's a survivalist or even a doomsday cult thing. Also wondered what neighbors might make of it if it ever got misdelivered to them.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

My new favorite shirt.

My personal top three horror movies of the year are Weapons, Sinners, and The Ugly Stepsister. I'd actually have a hard time making a number one pick between those three. If pressed, it'd probably come down to a tossup between Weapons and Stepsister. Honorable mention to The Monkey.

In short, using AI in your writing is among the dumbest things you can do as a writer as it exposes you to potential legal action while affording you zero legal protections. AI is a nightmare box for idiots. Don't fall into the trap of shortcutting your writing career.

Watching.

After watching the latest episode of Pluribus, I was upset to find that next week's episode is the season finale. I am irrationally bothered by streaming shows with an odd number of episodes, 9 instead of 8 or 10 or whatever. But mainly I'm just not ready for the season to end yet.

Next: Every Dog Has His Day by Bryan Smith. This one feels very like the opening bits of The Stand with Frannie and Harold. It’s all about the loss of any purpose, finding yourself suddenly in an alien world, and trying to find one anyway. I dug it.

Love it or hate it the Zune is here to stay, google+ is here to stay, the Blackberry is here to stay, the Sinclair C5 is here to stay, the NEC PC Engine is here to stay, Enron is here to stay, Theranos is here to stay, Worldcom is here to stay etc etc etc.

Tubi original MATCH feels like someone at Tubi said, "Hey, you know how people use our service to endlessly rewatch sleazy VHS exploitation/horror movies from the 70s and 80s? How about we just do our own versions of that?" Which I endorse as a strategy, if true.

I contributed an essay on the viscerality of female-directed body horror (yes, even that one 😜) to this GORE-GEOUS 🪱💋 deluxe set of THE UGLY STEPSISTER from the great @secondsightfilms.bsky.social

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Rob Reiner represented the best of America, while Donald Trump represents the worst.

Watching.

These are all great and people will understandably namecheck the most famous of them in coming days but The Sure Thing is one of my favorite 80s comedies. Must've watched that a million times back then.

Sorry, can't work up any sympathy for Mahomes. He's won three Super Bowls at the age of thirty. Quite a few greats, such as Dan Marino, played their whole careers without winning even one.

Boo. Still my favorite format, now, in the past, and forever. This news makes me extra glad I had my run with Leisure Books in the 2000s.

The new book, released one week ago today.

As previously noted, I'd seen the first feature on tonight's #TheLastDriveIn special many times. This second feature, ICED? As far as I can recall, I've never seen it. An 80s slasher that I haven't seen is an extremely rare beast, so this should be interesting.

I've seen CURTAINS, tonight's first movie on #TheLastDriveIn, many times, including in a theater in the 80s. Don't recall fully what I thought that long ago first time. I don't think I loved or hated it, but it stayed with me. I came to like it quite a bit with repeated viewings over time.

writers, destroy chatgpt by embracing your inner weirdo pervert. it will never be able to replicate true freak shit.

That's the nice way of putting it.

Finished reading @keithrosson.bsky.social's THE DEVIL BY NAME last night. Should've finished it a while ago, but my reading speed these days isn't great. Anyway, it was damn good. Could not have wished for a more satisfying end to the duology that started with FEVER HOUSE.

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It speaks to how desperate they are to have relevance by trolling the left and how pathetic they are that they don’t have any kind of pop culture of their own to pull from.

There are 2 reasons the WH is using artists like Sabrina Carpenter & Sza’s music (against their consent) 1) trolling, obviously, but 2) the right wing has no cultural influence. They could use Kid Rock, or any other right wing country singer‘s music, but it wouldn’t have the impact. B/c they suck

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

From @briankeene.bsky.social's photo journal today. From several years ago. We're posing in front of the real dumpster where Mike Lombardo and I were immolated in THE COMPLEX.

In the mail today.

Watching the Joe Bob/Last Drive-In episode for this via the complicated process of switching back and forth between the Joe Bob host segments on Shudder and the movie itself on Tubi.

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