Justin A. Burnett
@justinburnett.bsky.social
Author of The Puppet King and Other Atonements | Creator of Silent Motorist Media
Pretty legendary moment at the mailbox…
October 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Pretty legendary moment at the mailbox…
The Problem of Evil, a chapbook of poetry, very short stories, dreams, and journal entries, is available for purchase here: www.silentmotoristmedia.com/books. Consider joining SMM on Patreon at $5 or more to automatically get subsequent chapbooks by me, as well as issues of The Impossible.
July 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The Problem of Evil, a chapbook of poetry, very short stories, dreams, and journal entries, is available for purchase here: www.silentmotoristmedia.com/books. Consider joining SMM on Patreon at $5 or more to automatically get subsequent chapbooks by me, as well as issues of The Impossible.
Silent Motorist Media is now on bsky! @silentmotorist.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Silent Motorist Media is now on bsky! @silentmotorist.bsky.social
The first of its kind!
June 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The first of its kind!
This book is an absolute treasure.
June 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This book is an absolute treasure.
Honestly, is there anything better than 1) stop-motion animation 2) distant future dystopian cities with deep, inaccessible ground levels, and 3) labyrinths?
June 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Honestly, is there anything better than 1) stop-motion animation 2) distant future dystopian cities with deep, inaccessible ground levels, and 3) labyrinths?
Just wish there were more movies like these.
May 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just wish there were more movies like these.
Disappeared from Dallas, TX. Detained, according to Latin Times, for his autism awareness tattoo and vanished despite being determined “clean” of gang affiliation. Currently in El Salvador, where he’s packed in an overcrowded terrorist detainment facility. His name is Alvarado Borges.
April 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Disappeared from Dallas, TX. Detained, according to Latin Times, for his autism awareness tattoo and vanished despite being determined “clean” of gang affiliation. Currently in El Salvador, where he’s packed in an overcrowded terrorist detainment facility. His name is Alvarado Borges.
Lies, lies, oh and look, more lies. Literally: being throbbing heaps of evil shit is the entire point of what they’re doing
March 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Lies, lies, oh and look, more lies. Literally: being throbbing heaps of evil shit is the entire point of what they’re doing
The Ducornet pile grows…
March 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Ducornet pile grows…
The stack I want to get through this year:
March 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The stack I want to get through this year:
Republicans continue to lose sleep worrying about what’s in your pants, what you’re doing with what’s in your pants, and what you should be doing based on what’s in your pants.
Fucking weirdos.
Fucking weirdos.
March 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Republicans continue to lose sleep worrying about what’s in your pants, what you’re doing with what’s in your pants, and what you should be doing based on what’s in your pants.
Fucking weirdos.
Fucking weirdos.
I’m ashamed to have ever donated to this worthless party.
Democrats aren’t going to save us. We fix this with our hands.
Democrats aren’t going to save us. We fix this with our hands.
March 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I’m ashamed to have ever donated to this worthless party.
Democrats aren’t going to save us. We fix this with our hands.
Democrats aren’t going to save us. We fix this with our hands.
Damn. This wasn’t NEAR as good as I hoped it was. Quite a bummer.
February 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Damn. This wasn’t NEAR as good as I hoped it was. Quite a bummer.
Last weekend was a killer movie run, with A Scanner Darkly, followed by Blue and White of Krzysztof Kieślowski‘s Three Colors Trilogy. This weekend, it’s Red, followed by The Double Life of Veronique, and Pasolini’s Teorema.
Moments of magic and bliss are how we cross this darkness.
Moments of magic and bliss are how we cross this darkness.
January 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Last weekend was a killer movie run, with A Scanner Darkly, followed by Blue and White of Krzysztof Kieślowski‘s Three Colors Trilogy. This weekend, it’s Red, followed by The Double Life of Veronique, and Pasolini’s Teorema.
Moments of magic and bliss are how we cross this darkness.
Moments of magic and bliss are how we cross this darkness.
Thank you, Quentin S. Crisp, for reviving the impulse to write stories by reminding me that writing should be FUN.
(Also, ditto for Raymond Carver.)
(Also, ditto for Raymond Carver.)
January 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thank you, Quentin S. Crisp, for reviving the impulse to write stories by reminding me that writing should be FUN.
(Also, ditto for Raymond Carver.)
(Also, ditto for Raymond Carver.)
The problem with me not doing year-end lists is I keep finding albums like this and by god you need to know about them.
January 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The problem with me not doing year-end lists is I keep finding albums like this and by god you need to know about them.
It’s apparently not easy to capture the dysphoric isolation of a terminally online culture. Kairo did it, beautifully, and now there’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, which I enjoyed and recommend and wish I hadn’t have waited so long to watch. A powerful debut(!) for Anna Cobb, too.
January 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It’s apparently not easy to capture the dysphoric isolation of a terminally online culture. Kairo did it, beautifully, and now there’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, which I enjoyed and recommend and wish I hadn’t have waited so long to watch. A powerful debut(!) for Anna Cobb, too.
I’ve been very slow to get around to most of the “essential” 20th century American short story writers, but this book, as most of you know, is beyond great. A master class in short fiction rich in implication and poetry.
January 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I’ve been very slow to get around to most of the “essential” 20th century American short story writers, but this book, as most of you know, is beyond great. A master class in short fiction rich in implication and poetry.
Definite King in Yellow vibes toward the end of Apocalypse Now…
November 24, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Definite King in Yellow vibes toward the end of Apocalypse Now…
Criterion sale score, plus a book I couldn’t resist.
November 22, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Criterion sale score, plus a book I couldn’t resist.
This was the first, or among the first, horror films I saw that felt like it offered something *more* than what I had been exposed to of the genre by my teens. Still resonates with my fascination with abject spatiality in horror and its undertones of religiosity. RIP Tony Todd.
November 9, 2024 at 2:28 PM
This was the first, or among the first, horror films I saw that felt like it offered something *more* than what I had been exposed to of the genre by my teens. Still resonates with my fascination with abject spatiality in horror and its undertones of religiosity. RIP Tony Todd.