Joshua Gooch

Okay, one exception: Stephen Graham Jones’s Indian Lake trilogy. That has the scope and multi focalization of King and Straub when you take the series as a whole

As I leap between ‘70s / ‘80s horror novels and contemporary ones, I’m surprised by a structural difference.

King and Straub wrote what were almost Victorian multiplot novels—lots of characters and character focalizors. I can’t think of any one writing those baggy novels about, eg, entire towns

Plate of misir wat, stewed collards and kale, and brown basmati rice

First decent pass at misir wat. Making nitter kibbeh really was the key

Grilled Cabbage With Spicy Thai Dressing Recipe Deeply fragrant, with smoky, charred edges, cabbage takes on a nutty, sweet flavor when grilled over blazing-hot coals. Its structure also makes it the ideal vessel for this spicy Thai dressing.

This was good, but really anything sauced with lime juice, fish sauce, garlic, cilantro, and olive oil would be

I’ve got a whole chapter about this piece of common sense and some great horror movies that take it apart

Wow, I got so many great proposals for my NeMLA call on history and horror.

Here's hoping I can get another session or two, because I want to hear all of these pieces!

I'm three hundred pages into Adorno's Negative Dialectics, and this pops onto my feed.

What could be more fascist, in his reading, than the drive to unify strings of text into a single, coherent personality?

Love to spend months planning an event and have the kid get sick the night before

My god, this reply to Cass refusing to answer whether he has second thoughts on being friends with Kissinger

Trying to think of an outline for a new horror project about horror in the present moment.

What horror can teach us now:
• Know your enemies
• Find your allies
• Don’t stop until the threat is removed
• Prepare for a sequel

Five and a half pound head of cabbage

Three quart jars of shredded cabbage packed with 50g salt

Five and a half pounds of cabbage to two and a half quarts of sauerkraut

"He won't actually share his feelings or opinions with me," she continued. "He just shares these loutputs] that ChatGPT writes about his thoughts or feelings and how they're right." The deeper he was drawn into ChatGPT, she told us, the less he seemed to want to engage in a meaningful way outside of the chatbot. He "was not open to my perspective that his questions were leading, or that he was not presenting an accurate picture, so it's not giving him accurate answers," she continued. "Finally, I told him, listen. Don't f*cking send me any more ChatGPT stuff! I am down to hear your perspective in your words. I'm down for you to say, 'here's what I learned on ChatGPT, and give me a description of it that we can discuss as two human beings with our own intellect. But sending me these... I would say one thing, and he would send me this barrage of f*cking data."

Turns out, it’s not just comp teachers who don’t appreciate getting LLM garbage dumped on them

futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

Thank you! I have gloves and goggles, but not a dedicated grinder

I think if I mixed the ghost peppers and the Thai chiles in that jar, I’d have more than a pick me up experience!

Well, that mistake is finally over. Now I have to decide whether I grind the ghost peppers up

Well, that mistake is finally over. Now I have to decide whether I grind the ghost peppers up

When Teams meetings go wrong, they sound like remixes of "Fitter, Happier"

I didn’t think that chile steam could be an issue until now!

I feel like a lot of US political analysis would benefit by understanding the difference between class determination and class position

I think I've made a huge mistake

An open-question: Did I somehow pepper spray myself by dehydrating ghost peppers in the toaster oven?

Devastated to learn my kid is taking up the trombone

The shark in Dangerous Animals should have had hands so it could give Zephyr finger guns when it swims past

God, if we all die in a nuclear war because this asshole said “here we go”

So far, the only character in Alien: Earth that isn’t an idiot is the Eyeball

Everyone’s learning today that form and content are inseparable, huh?

A box for a game called “Let’s hit each other with fake swords” that came with two foam swords and a card game that we’ve already lost because everyone was hitting everyone else with fake swords

You’ll never believe this, but the kids did not bother with the associated card game

I think the real split on the left in the US isn’t ‘fight’ vs ‘don’t fight.’ It’s ‘The US is disintegrating’ vs ‘No, it’s not’

I can’t imagine a weirder interaction with students than using the new emojis in Canvas

What I've learned from having a kids party at my house:

1) Pinatas barely last a minute

2) Kids will eat your hot peppers out of the garden and make themselves ill

3) When you're not looking, they will all shove their faces into their slices of cake