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Critical Nostalgia
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Feral writer. Intergenre. Opstmodern. Hedorahgroove. Smogwave. The Hazeland books. Horror fantasy crime on the streets of 80s LA.

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Additionally it shows anemic capital and property holders desperate to profit on these holdings, no matter how awful the manner in doing so.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
When you're a kid and everything is bad, you run away from home. Grace Cather just did, crashing the weirdest club in LA, finding a group of girls to hang with and a house to stay in.

Only that house has been waiting for someone just like her.

My Gifts Are Hungry, crowdfunding soon.

#booksky
February 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Post an album that was important to you when you were nineteen
February 15, 2026 at 5:19 PM
I keep thinking I should poke my head into feeds that are centered around writing communities here and then I do and I shake my head sadly and close the window.

Why am I like this?

Oh, it's because I started writing before this sort of thing ever happened.
February 15, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Time to price 12-page zine printing.

Oh. Oh no. I don't need that many. No. NOOOOO!
February 15, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Medieval katamari.
It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
February 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Dang. Posters on UpScrolled love their tropes.
February 15, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Hey, I'm hearing that just now the big money is betting on an outside possibility of money delivering and not the steady work of labor. And that seems crazy, right, fellow sentient beings?
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
February 15, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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Tim Buckley ~ Venice Beach (Music Boats in the Bay)
(KCET Broadcast, 1970)
#TimBuckley

Live, otherworldly performance of this remarkable unrecorded song at Boboquivari with the Starsailor band.
A prime testament of magic being conjured.

youtu.be/PwWcGSB8wWI via
@YouTube
Tim Buckley - Venice Beach [rare live]
A stunning performance from the late great Tim Buckley.
youtu.be
January 25, 2024 at 12:51 AM
I used to laugh at Wells' concept of Eloi and now I understand it completely.
So, it's ok if we use these chatbots to run safety critical messaging systems and stuff in our internal systems, right?
February 15, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Family is watching a Hallmark movie where the heroine is on an endless ride-along with a cop and I'm afraid to say it's all fascist apologia, all the way down.
February 15, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Let's listen to Vanishing Point by Primal Scream. Which is somehow not the most fawning, mewling piece of art beholden to that film.

Yes, this is a grouchpost about Death Proof.
February 15, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Oh. Talk about "All we have to do to heal America is to get folks to understand how cities are actually cool."

Which is great. Cities are actually cool.

You're also fighting more than 250 years of cultural history. It's dug in real deep. Nevermind the fact that there's hay to be made.
February 15, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Times like this, I think of getting the last couple stories for the third Strangeways volume illustrated and then publishing the whole darn thing.

Don't worry. It'll pass.
February 15, 2026 at 2:44 AM
"Western Civilization"

Oh, an unserious person.
February 15, 2026 at 2:28 AM
HomerDesignedCarSimpsons.gif
xbox 2 (released later in the year as xbox 360), concept drawings, xs magazine (2005) archive.org/details/XSMa...
February 15, 2026 at 2:27 AM
More like picklebrawl send fleep
February 15, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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February 15, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Big plans. Season coming to a close, gotta get 'em while I can.
February 15, 2026 at 2:05 AM
*Karen O voice*

It's cold un-der the blanket
February 15, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Everyone knows for real that as long as the AI gave them answers that made the line go up, they wouldn't care. But if the AI started saying "Hey, figure in environmental costs for the long run" or "Stop passing costs on to clients and keep prices steady" they'd have deleted it immediately.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Today's Elliptical Cinema: Cyborg. Man, Albert Pyun knows how to squeeze every nickel out of the budget and still deliver kinetic action. Honestly, not the best movie, not even Pyun's best but a far sight better than much of what we're being served up today.
February 15, 2026 at 12:58 AM
The Parallax View (1974, Pakula)
when your dog gets MK-Ultra'd
February 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Dave's Chicken report.

I like Dave's Hot Chicken.

Do not order the new saucy bites because they are dunked in sauce which utterly destroys the crispiness of the coating. So you get soggy bites of not the same Dave's Chicken and they want to charge you a buck fifty for dipping sauce. Total bummer.
February 14, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Servers can absolutely be ground into uselessness. Don't kid yourself.
February 14, 2026 at 10:32 PM