we're bringing back True Detective Season 2. we're saying it's good. we're asking for more Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, and Rachel McAdams. we're leaning into the dialogue. we're having Leonard Cohen listening parties. we're learning about various municipal structures in the State of California.

king in yellow

ultimate dork post begins "[insert profession] here, actually..."

tile floor in the bedroom viscerally upsetting

tile floor in the bedroom viscerally upsetting

everything is computer? "everyone is twelve" theory? No. Everything is MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007).

I genuinely believe this is a huge part of the LLM worship; half of these people are functionally illiterate

zero balance, generic story, difficult to level up magic users, a lot of potion abuse, but damn if there wasn't something about getting swallowed up by an open world you could explore deeply while logged off the internet and listening to early 2000s Canadiana on big headphones during Christmas break

Toronto Public Library coming through with some great horror programming. HELPMEET sicko-in-chief Naben Ruthnum discussing AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS with all time greats Brian Evenson and Victor LaValle on Friday Dec 5th. Online, free, and at lunch time (EST). www.eventbrite.ca/e/classics-o...

ancient immortal technique of Final Fantasy Tactics: all monks

going to a curry palace tonight

waking up tomorrow and the day after and the day after that

another email claiming it can sell my books to millions, another text declaring I owe the government money, another phone call pretending to be my bank in distress, another passing Cybertruck weeping some kind of fluid into churned snow - maybe it knows its maker. scams rule everything around me.

I found the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Jeep. now to begin the ritual and open the 9th gate.

we do enjoy Final Fantasy Tactics, folks. we do love praising the plot despite every other scenario ending with a villain magically warping out of the scene before the killing blow can be delivered. Also, there is math magic and samurai.

who watches the watchmen

I found the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Jeep. now to begin the ritual and open the 9th gate.

you live long enough and you realize the beat for Skee-Lo's "I Wish" really fuckin goes, bud

I like how I keep saying I am an actual communist but I keep getting followed from "Bi/teacher/activist/Harris stan" accounts which fine you do you but also can I suggest you read The Social Ideology Of The Motorcar? libcom.org/article/soci...

son, if you're doing this shit you're as indie as Nickelback.

not sure there is much bleaker than a restaurant with a neon sign that says "DO EPIC SHIT" in the window

advertising your company can give me a 90% success rate... when all your potential clients are competing against each other... every day is new parade of stupid in my inbox

*placing a flashlight under my chin* "Did you know the Province of Ontario still has public Catholic schools in 2025?"

Transgressive queer horror fiction? Oh yes, I’m a fan—as long as it’s not problematic of course

mandatory reading

thinking a lot about Giorgio Moroder saying "the dream was so big"

wife up watching turtle videos about Gopher Gus the Lettuce King (he is a turtle not a gopher)

dumb "AI can help do your job" motherfuckers coldcalling my work line at 5PM, unable to form a coherent pitch and shocked at my annoyance. all these shitbirds have is the assumption you'll debase yourself for nothing. I stride across a field of NFT carcasses and gutted B2B SaaS orgs. You're next

thought I was done with writing about Toronto real estate horror but the phrase "Coalition of Toronto Residents Associations" filled me with enough dread to consider going back for more mold deranged boomers clinging to crumbling tiny castles with basement apartments they rent for $2500 a month.

dumb "AI can help do your job" motherfuckers coldcalling my work line at 5PM, unable to form a coherent pitch and shocked at my annoyance. all these shitbirds have is the assumption you'll debase yourself for nothing. I stride across a field of NFT carcasses and gutted B2B SaaS orgs. You're next

waking up to my job at Third Way think tank where I flush money down the toilet for 8 hours straight like I'm in Michael Haneke's THE SEVENTH CONTINENT and then eating my slop bowl over a different toilet at home before bed.

the indignity of once having read a book with a protagonist named Shadow

if you are missing the surreal / abstract / pitiful then you are in danger of drifting into the Cool Zone, where monsters just look Cool with no possibility of being Scary

hiding with my son under a fallen oak on the Lich Road as we wait for a band of mercenary nutritionists who just got out of a conference keynote to cross the Bridge of Despair before we continue on our quest for a bahn mi that will not cut the roof of your mouth yet still retain its crisp texture.

important to remember places claiming to be the "Center for Democracy and Defenestration" or "The British Future Institute" or "The Haliburton School of International Relations" are just a guy on a computer. At most a subletter in an office park with a Substack all his pals jackoff into monthly.

nothing ends, Adrian. nothing ever ends.

bracing oneself against the bar as tragedy befalls you (or, sports and their consequences).

how many scheming viziers is too many? asking for a friend

a Southern Ontario classic by way of Buffalo, the homemade Buffalo Chicken Finger Sub. level up.

WereRowlf

buying a roast tomorrow

Separatin’ the real from the fake The fake from the real

Separatin’ the real from the fake The fake from the real

paying respect to the departed souls

i bet i could do alchemy. i bet it's not even hard to accomplish the descent of the fifteen steps of night and ascend the fifteen steps of illumination

everyone is having a good time

I don't have four movies watched to post today (baseball took over my tv) but I have me dressed as four books I love instead, enjoy! Read these: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker Hemo Sapiens by Emily A. Weedon The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan Soft Targets by Carson Winter

tonight I am gonna be Rowlf.

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