Professor Buzzkill

Saw three neighborhood dogs standing around on the corner this morning. Finally, a strategy meeting I would like to be invited to

Fairy certain Spirit Halloweens are just the seasonally fruiting bodies of a much larger subterranean organism

The Death of Mountains Check out The Death of Mountains - <p>The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories...

it's #TDOV and it's also my book birthday for THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS!!!

people say nice things:
"Kurella has written a sharp and tender tribute to the power of love and hope. I would not have trusted this premise with anyone else." - Premee Mohamed, author of Butcher of the Forest

Geese: the original culture jammers

No progress yet in my research to discover the secret fourth leche

I tell the cat "coffee is for closers" approximately four out of seven mornings

Fell asleep for a half hour and dreamt that they added a new zodiac sign, Gershwin, "The Composer", between Pisces and Aries

I am on record that HomeGoods is an abomination of surreality, but on this day, the universe provided:

MTV's True Life Reboot: My More Granola Life Partner Got Me Hooked on Kombucha

The more I understand about generative AI, the more clear it becomes that it is absolutely, unequivocally designed to invoke Azathoth

Photograph of a gray cat standing on a copy of Sarah Pinsker's book "Haunt Sweet Home"

Photograph of a gray cat laying on a copy of Sarah Pinsker's book "Haunt Sweet Home"

@sarahpinsker.bsky.social I loaned my copy of HSH to a friend and it has been annexed, I thought perhaps you would approve. That's Gandalf, btw

YouTube video by AnthraxVEVO Anthrax - Madhouse

Theme for the Trader Joe's parking lot pre arctic blast
youtu.be/uGHsxMqpL0c?...

My old friend and his sweet, loving pup could use some help:

Aickman's Heirs alone is worth a heck of a lot more than this. Also a big fan of @premeemohamed.com and Richard Gavin's collections, as well as Weird Horror Magazine

Ah, SD-1 gang. Clearly an individual of taste and substance outside of publishing as well

For those going home to visit family this weekend:

• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

Belief in a better world is a mandatory survival skill

Steve Albini recorded at least three of my favorite records of all time: Low's "Secret Name", Neurosis' "Times of Grace", and Songs: Ohia's "Magnolia Electric Co." Plus quite a few others that I love dearly. Huge loss. RIP

Pleased to have backed this campaign, do what you can

Dreamed I was buying a book called "Geometry Reimagined". The subtitle was "Like geometry, but with vampires!" The cover had a blond vampire with red eyes, biting into an inverted triangle, roughly in the style of E.M. Carroll

Become the skeleton you drew in your junior high notebook

Goth shack / baby Goth shack / I got me a car that's as big as a hearse / and it's about to get worse

My phone transcribes the name of my dermatologist as "dr neo master cereal" and it takes every bit of my willpower not to call him that

my mom said someone in church said that jesus “will return through a black hole” and “might have an exoskeleton”. thinking about becoming religious again

TNG scene. We're in Picard's ready room, and he's just chilling out max and relaxing all cool. He's sitting at his cute little ready room desk in his chair with the computer monitor in front of him. He's leaned back, eyes closed, lips pursed ever so subtly, as if he's having a nice experience. Closed caption reads, "(electronic pulsing.)"

is the staypuft marshmallow man a kaiju

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Lipschultz

Zbigniew Makowski, Separate Objects, 1963

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134849

We have entered the "chills and getting teary about the international space station on our eleventh hour of Top Chef" portion of our COVID journey