logging out of the work machine and now logging out of here until the new year. time to make great and terrible things.

an outbreak of Japanese citypop uncles in the suburbs this weekend

struck down by emotion in the gym parking lot after finishing a novella next to the truck with the Deez Nutz window stickers.

Like plagiarists, slopmongers will continue to exist—and they're worse. Adjust your level of contempt accordingly.

Treat a published work that was later divulged to be AI-generated the same way you would if you found out it was manually plagiarized from a different book. Same situation, just the plagiarism has been automated and averaged out a bit, and the plagiarist is also a scab and a cultural arsonist.

taking "myriad" away from the writers and putting it on the high shelf

pull up to the gym to watch a man climb the little ladder into his gigantic truck like a rat

This strikes me as just a way to let LLM in the door over at SFWA. You do not a survey to craft a no generative AI policy.

Drive-By Truckers really popped off with this one: "I know the bottle ain't to blame And I ain't trying to 'Cause it don't make you do a thing It just lets you"

we have the entered the Evil Talking Mirror phase

taking "myriad" away from the writers and putting it on the high shelf

man, nobody sits in an isolated tower compounding elixirs like they used to

Review of Hobtown #3 @hobtown.bsky.social “Detective fiction is about getting to the bottom of things; weird fiction is about the abyss in its bottomless depths. “Hobtown Mystery Stories,” in their layered and satisfying surrealism, are about both.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

hanging with the boys

dissociating as the sub shop plays deep cuts from Shaggy (maybe an entire album?) while the wind howls outside.

"BUT ACTUALLY MY EDGE CASE THAT I'M ONLY ALLUDING TO OPAQUELY MEANS I NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG" - ancient song of the generativeAI user, cited in thirty seven journals that don't exist and one hundred and ten that do

driving around in the dark playing SIGN O' THE TIMES at full volume

lol

explaining a labour violation on the internet means you'll get someone showing up to say "that's illegal" and, bud, let me tell you about most of what is going on out there right now.

believe me.

“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here

the key to lifting heavy is Janet Jackson's "Together Again"

my enemies trapped forever in an endless hall of real estate agent Instagram reels

certain gates

the bootlickers spontaneously appear whenever a CEO is criticized. previously maligned for claiming flies spawned from rotting meat, spontaneous generation theory has found new viability in the current social media landscape. corporate rot summons the bugmen who worship a shitcoin.

your kid will experience more cognitive damage in debate club than on the football team.

perfect season to acknowledge the wasp's architecture

life keeps happening but you can always start a new save in Elden Ring with a character named The Scrundler

the boys are back in town to increase value for shareholders

sometimes you put all of your blood and sweat and tears and dreams and cash and effort into something and still sucks absolute ass. now to explain this to our tech overlords with brute force (not using their glorified notetaker).

the extractors are here

great record.

I am taking all your dads to The Keg.

welcome to Hobtown

sometimes you put all of your blood and sweat and tears and dreams and cash and effort into something and still sucks absolute ass. now to explain this to our tech overlords with brute force (not using their glorified notetaker).

welcome to Hobtown

never trust "entrepreneur" in the bio

carrying these holidays on my back by preordering the tourtière

he knows.

don't talk about it be about it

headed to the donkey sanctuary

every few years you will spend an evening in an Elmore Leonard novel

living a Vision of Escaflowne lifestyle, incorporating a sense of wonder and menace into my everyday existence -gardening, chores, fiction, weightlifting, etc.

going about my day, cleaning up the kitchen, driven to my knees remembering that "The Rat" by The Walkmen is something like 21 years old... youtu.be/asI2DsUPWJ4?...

"Food is very important to my family/culture" feels like a default until you stumble upon a family where it very much is not. Soylent households.

befriending the dads of my enemies, hanging out on the couch watching football and drinking beers, discovering their greatest weaknesses, deepest fears, and childhood attempts at drawing Dragon Ball Z characters.

guy who is made slightly uncomfortable by ambient noise in a trailer for a TV show: "It's very Lynchian."

Squatting Deep with Wyman on Fridays

I know what I am about.

oneshotting elder millennials with controlled deployments of Wye Oak's "Civilian"