Gregory Crosby

Surely a horror movie about podcasts already exists and I’m simply unaware of it? Something along the lines of Pontypool? Asking for a friend.

Please. Don’t you know it’s a cold-hearted orb that rules the night?

Were I an aubade I could tell you what I really think of you.

the thing about social media is that like a lot of successful technological developments it sort of disseminates its own myth -- these myths are I think always (avoid saying "always" without numbers to back it up tho) progress fables rich with notions of inevitability

Feels oddly subversive to put a Jimmy Carter stamp on an envelope.

Sometimes the stars align.

I still maintain that Kael was less a critic than a brilliantly pithy reviewer (reviewing being a very different critical skill).

The cover of Haunted no. 3 where a titularly haunted guy is running toward the viewer saying, "Why? Why? Why? Why?" While a banner above him says, "You BETTER believe "THIS IS HOW IT IS." And there's a cemetery with a caped goblin and a ghost or something behind him.

Yet again thinking about this Ditko cover which remains maybe the most relatable piece of art I’ve ever seen.

Passion and Form Ah, they have kissed! The rhyme Comes in unnoticed.

A Louise Glück miniature that appeared in The Threepenny Review in 2023. To my knowledge, it remains uncollected.

Another sucker bet in a long line of sucker bets.

And for some it seems the penny won’t really drop until they try to outlaw the Democratic Party.

Still the best bathroom selfies. Xo

They probably wouldn’t accept a sonnet sequence about this, right? Oh well.

"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

By chance, in the summer of 2000 on my one and only visit to England, I toured Lichfield's home where many of his photographs were on display; I'd forgotten all about that until seeing this.

Tanning was also a marvelous poet; here's a seasonally appropriate favorite.

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Now the ending of Eyes Wide Shut *really* makes sense.

One of the pleasures of being a child of the 70s.

something I've been thinking about but struggling to put into words is the difference between the 9/11/GWOT era of patriotism and whatever it is we're facing today and I think Adam has nailed the latter.

When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now

Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways

Always loved this portrait of Tanning. “Ha ha, I’m an artist, motherfuckers!”

I Am Just Trying to Have a Civil Online Conversation About Vampires Whoa there! That’s a pretty extreme claim. Surely you don’t mean to call ALL vampires “blood-sucking ghouls?” Have you ever donated to a blood bank...

"I am not pro-vampire and I am not anti-vampire. I am just trying to have an objective discussion here without using loaded words like 'kill.'"

Just like the Second Amendment didn't anticipate the machine gun; the First Amendment didn't anticipate social media.

"Rulers can do whatever they want with the power that they wield if nobody stops them. All the laws and constitutions and statutes and norms and rules in the world are not going to stop them. … there is often a price to pay for such brazen and naked abuse of power."

I’ll stop the world and melt with you.

Fun fact: I learned it from Nick Tosche’s biography of Dean Martin.

(Sadly we live in a timeline where the Madbomb has been exploded by the very worst of us.)

Cultivate menefreghista (unless you’ve already cultivated it; in that case, cut back a little).

It’s true. People want Twitter without Nazis; *I* wanted Twitter without Nazis. Mastodon felt like the kids table at Thanksgiving with that one obnoxiously goody-two shoes cousin.