Peter Counter, Nightmare Host
@peterbcounter.com
Spooky ace essay boy. Author of BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING (Invisible Publishing, 2020). HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE (House of Anansi, 2023). https://peterbcounter.com/
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I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Kingston, Ontario. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. My essay collections contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Kingston, Ontario. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. My essay collections contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
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DIE HARD has great lighting. Look at those blues and skin tones enshrouded in darkness, we got a light blasting through smoke in the next room to give you the contrast; you wanna know why I dunk on modern blockbusters? This is why, the visual poverty, the fear of lighting a set properly
December 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
DIE HARD has great lighting. Look at those blues and skin tones enshrouded in darkness, we got a light blasting through smoke in the next room to give you the contrast; you wanna know why I dunk on modern blockbusters? This is why, the visual poverty, the fear of lighting a set properly
Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
I don't understand how OEMs can keep making TVs with motion smoothing. Should be illegal! Films should have protective software that makes it impossible for them to be played at bullshit frame rates.
December 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I don't understand how OEMs can keep making TVs with motion smoothing. Should be illegal! Films should have protective software that makes it impossible for them to be played at bullshit frame rates.
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Stephen King Universe Deep Lore:
“So the turtle doesn’t like the clown?”
“Yeah and that eventually helps the cowboy”
“So the turtle doesn’t like the clown?”
“Yeah and that eventually helps the cowboy”
December 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Stephen King Universe Deep Lore:
“So the turtle doesn’t like the clown?”
“Yeah and that eventually helps the cowboy”
“So the turtle doesn’t like the clown?”
“Yeah and that eventually helps the cowboy”
regardless of frame rate, Reginald VelJohnson is a legend
I am in a hotel with three TVs and none of them let you turn off motion smoothing so I'm watching the worst version of Die Hard. Merry Christmas mother fucker.
December 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
regardless of frame rate, Reginald VelJohnson is a legend
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Each time Doctor Who regenerates they radically reinvent his whole look
December 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Each time Doctor Who regenerates they radically reinvent his whole look
I am in a hotel with three TVs and none of them let you turn off motion smoothing so I'm watching the worst version of Die Hard. Merry Christmas mother fucker.
December 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I am in a hotel with three TVs and none of them let you turn off motion smoothing so I'm watching the worst version of Die Hard. Merry Christmas mother fucker.
Merry Christmas to all you fuckin' Gonzos out there.
December 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Merry Christmas to all you fuckin' Gonzos out there.
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General memo: if you are a dad, please try to be a good dad this holiday season, because some dads really are just out here makin' it weird.
December 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
General memo: if you are a dad, please try to be a good dad this holiday season, because some dads really are just out here makin' it weird.
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And Tiny Sim, who DID die
December 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
And Tiny Sim, who DID die
welp- I always knew my procrastination would be the end of me
fuck fuck fuck I totally forgot I needed to figure out what to do about the beheading game I'm playing with the Green Knight that crashed last year's Christmas party, 2025 just went by so fast you know?
December 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
welp- I always knew my procrastination would be the end of me
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there are two types of Christmas song:
- isn't winter such a sexy time?
- cower, pathetic humans! the Godhead has fractured and the divine is becoming flesh
- isn't winter such a sexy time?
- cower, pathetic humans! the Godhead has fractured and the divine is becoming flesh
December 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
there are two types of Christmas song:
- isn't winter such a sexy time?
- cower, pathetic humans! the Godhead has fractured and the divine is becoming flesh
- isn't winter such a sexy time?
- cower, pathetic humans! the Godhead has fractured and the divine is becoming flesh
there's a word for a flu that everyone has all around the world but for some reason no one remembers it
December 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
there's a word for a flu that everyone has all around the world but for some reason no one remembers it
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Today's read is @nikostratis.com's recent memoir! It's been long enough since my memoir binge in the fall that I'm feeling refreshed on the genre, let's give it a spin~
December 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Today's read is @nikostratis.com's recent memoir! It's been long enough since my memoir binge in the fall that I'm feeling refreshed on the genre, let's give it a spin~
The spirits did it all in one night.
December 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The spirits did it all in one night.
Pluribus is the best show of 2025 and only The Pitt comes close.
December 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Pluribus is the best show of 2025 and only The Pitt comes close.
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IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE
How much are you going to pay doctors?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Half the amount that everyone currently pays could provide universal healthcare. Private health companies don’t need to exist. Eliminate them. And use your collective buying power and economies of scale to get it done. Every cent of their profit is healthcare denied.
December 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE
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okay but Christmas is an actual humbug tho
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
okay but Christmas is an actual humbug tho
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This is a problem but also one deliberately created by marketers who call any use of a computer now “AI-powered” 👇🏼
I'm starting to think a lot of people think AI is whenever the computer does something.
December 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is a problem but also one deliberately created by marketers who call any use of a computer now “AI-powered” 👇🏼
Both books have a chapter explicitly about the horror of Christmas, so it's seasonally appropriate.
Wow- did Christmas sneak up on you because you were distracted by [gestures at wide scale social collapse]? Don't worry! Your local bookstore probably carries one of these two books that are guaranteed to please readers with good taste!
December 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Both books have a chapter explicitly about the horror of Christmas, so it's seasonally appropriate.
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Wow- did Christmas sneak up on you because you were distracted by [gestures at wide scale social collapse]? Don't worry! Your local bookstore probably carries one of these two books that are guaranteed to please readers with good taste!
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Wow- did Christmas sneak up on you because you were distracted by [gestures at wide scale social collapse]? Don't worry! Your local bookstore probably carries one of these two books that are guaranteed to please readers with good taste!
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Merry Christmas to our future corpses.
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Santa Clause Versus The Smoke Monster · Invisible Publishing
I hope the next me remembers the current me with reverence, waking up at age thirty-five and donning my dead man’s clothes with at least a bit of sympathy. I hope the next me is more Santa Claus than ...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Merry Christmas to our future corpses.
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If you've been watching HEATED RIVALRY (or are aware that everybody on the planet appears to be watching it), and want to hear the Nova Scotia author of the original books talk about her craft, her reaction to sudden fame, and why she thinks sex scenes must serve the story, listen to this chat.
"I was put in the in the Four Seasons in Toronto for the premiere [of the show], and I felt like a hick. I was like, 'I don't belong here.' They had these maple toffees, and I was dumping them in my purse every day. Because I was like, *free toffee*."
Listen:
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
Listen:
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
December 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If you've been watching HEATED RIVALRY (or are aware that everybody on the planet appears to be watching it), and want to hear the Nova Scotia author of the original books talk about her craft, her reaction to sudden fame, and why she thinks sex scenes must serve the story, listen to this chat.
Home Alone 3: On Trial at the Hague
December 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Home Alone 3: On Trial at the Hague
there are two types of Christmas song:
- isn't winter such a sexy time?
- cower, pathetic humans! the Godhead has fractured and the divine is becoming flesh
- isn't winter such a sexy time?
- cower, pathetic humans! the Godhead has fractured and the divine is becoming flesh
December 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
there are two types of Christmas song:
- isn't winter such a sexy time?
- cower, pathetic humans! the Godhead has fractured and the divine is becoming flesh
- isn't winter such a sexy time?
- cower, pathetic humans! the Godhead has fractured and the divine is becoming flesh