Justin Stone

There’s humor and there’s what the meanest kid in town finds funny

Learning Objective

I will spell crisis of faith

Pynchon autumn again

I understand why I was not
asked to consult on One
Battle after Another but still

Enchanting

When Pynchon has a moment
Nobody even knows it

A favorite all-time band NOW

nuzzle

shit is fresh

Excellent news. Y’all made great records.

Bill Shitbag, Nebraska, on his final day, calls the bank one more time to ask if his DOGE check cleared yet.

Oh yeah this is their Manifest Destiny.

An audience addicted to the fifth wall

Against the Day — feels wildly relevant

Those are not the Beatles’ sons

Captain America but he rubs your feet every once in a goddamn while.

Grimacing Ahab parades the Pequod around New Bedford harbor. A silent and inscrutable spectacle.

Ahab parades the Pequod around New Bedford harbor.

Ahab parades the Pequod around New Bedford harbor.

. . . power through oppression of the innocent . . . Neuropathists would recognize in both kings a desire to construct a self-consistent world to live inside, which allows them to continue the great damage they are inflicting on the world the rest of us must live within.”

Pynchon, Against the Day

“La Mayonnaise,” Pléiade explained, “has its origin in the moral squalor of the court of Louis XV—here in Belgium the affinity should not be too surprising. The courts of Leopold and Louis are not that different except in time, and what is time? Both monumentally deluded men, maintaining their . . .

Brian Wilson was a big influence on my story Either Raygun Or.

Un-rock & un-roll

storysouth.com/stories/eith...

—through the systematic encirclement of populations, the starvation of bodies and spirits, the relentless degradation of civility until citizen was turned against citizen, even to the point of committing atrocities . . .

Pynchon, Against the Day

As the ordeal went on, it became clear . . . how much the modern State depended for its survival on maintaining a condition of permanent siege—

Immigrants and refugees make LA and the USA great.

Sending militarized and masked police and ICE to arrest them makes the USA worse. And sending in the National Guard and threatening to use the Marine Corps and holding a military parade to glorify a president…that’s fascism.

My awesome wife Susie Aquilina published another great piece at @mcsweeneys.net

Two Years Ago I Was Making My Own Bone Broth, and Now I Am a Supplicant to Asmodeus, Ruiner of All Things My journey towards bowing to the feet of the Lord of Darkness has been a long one. I can’t be sure exactly where it began, if it was when I started...

"When it comes to my little ones’ health care, I do my own research. By which I mean I consult with the ancient Luciferian texts that foretell the death of compassion as we enter into the New Era of cruelty and despair."

Still fine to drink yourself
to death in Texas, they
know you will need that.

I’m always surprised to learn that sports are still happening? People playing in games/matches that other people watch?

Your AI — Good One