Larry Griffin... THE CON novel out now!

This seems like a lose-lose in a way, because just not ever showing certain minority groups wouldn't be good either. I think WEAPONS did good portraying them as people. And horror as a genre means everybody gets got in the end. I don't think there's a real solution to things like this.

He was a brilliant writer, and the whole problematic thing of it just enhances that experience really. There's a layer of good taste that needs to be removed to access some raw truths sometimes. It just is a work of genius.

Reading Bolano's 2666 in 2013, fresh out of college and moved to the wintry land of North Dakota to write about the oil boom, is a really formative thing for me as an adult. That was such a huge, fearless work of art. Nothing was the same after that.

Yeah I get it. Got to look for the really poignant or artful moments. I just can't help myself. I just do whatever I find interesting, and sometimes it's completely out there.

Kendrick Lamar ft. Joyce Carol Oates "Not Like Us REMIX"

I've done some of my favorite genuine, pitch-black horror writing when sick with some sort of a fever or drinking a lot. I don't know what that says about the art or me.

Good old capitalism

Every day I get closer and closer to being Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men

“You can only pick 1 of these 4 authors.”
“5 of these movies must go, 1 can stay.”
“This director, or that director?”

Nope, I’m not giving up anything I love for your stupid social media games. I’m keeping ‘em all, all of them, times are tough as it is.

This FRANKENSTEIN movie doesn't trust the viewer to understand the story at all. So much narration it's like why not just read the book instead. Oscar Isaac is surprisingly bad in this. He did great in EX MACHINA a decade ago and wondering how this one seemed to miss his strengths.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

This new Michelle Wolf special on Netflix is killing it. Total button-pushing in the best way. Always on your toes here.

Just your normal early November snow storm.

Too many of the guitar or keyboard parts in albums I like sound a little bit like police sirens.

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

He's salivating at the prospect of using this as another carrot to blackmail people to vote for them for years

I caught a few minutes of football at this bar yesterday where I was getting some writing done before comedy. Kept seeing Trump on screen. A whole country of reality TV stars and game show hosts that eventually get rewarded with being able to decide who gets health care and food stamps.

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”

-Ta-Nehisi Coates

Yes. Just get back on your phone like everyone else and watch twenty second short videos instead. That's the only thing that's not performative.

you are not a democrat. it is fine if that is your voting affiliation but if you have loyalty to a political institution right now instead of your neighbors and the rest of the oppressed struggling against this regime, you are focused on the wrong thing. and that goes just as well for politicians

It's just like any other creative pursuit. Some people just enjoy doing it. Keeps you active, fills the time, most importantly it's interesting and fulfilling.

Really floored by DIE MY LOVE. Elemental, chaotic, bruising picture - I'll have to think about it some more before I really write a whole lot more. These are two of our best actors and the direction was just stunning.

His last one KINDS OF KINDNESS was so fucking funny, all the way through. I think it's interesting when guys like this let their sense of humor show. Like how David Lynch made that third TWIN PEAKS season so funny in a lot of places.

He definitely has a sense of humor - even if this one seems to dilute the story a little.

It's all pretty sick stuff that doesn't really give you an olive branch of likability much at all - it's just twisted tales. There's some remove from the characters, almost an irony to it all, but there's real craftsmanship for sure.

BUGONIA... pretty fun. I remember being so baffled by Lanthimos' stuff in 2020 or so when I watched a few of them in a row, but now I can see what he was doing.

The new Vince Gilligan show PLURIBUS on Apple is really something. Totally fascinated by the first few episodes up already

That kind of mindset is always funny, like yeah I'm sure they're really having to tighten their belts all the time, these supposed billionaires with their assets...

This is like a Denis Johnson sentence. Impressive.

Worse than the first one which I already didn't like

THE BABADOOK - what a movie that is.