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Is the market for 90s hardcore t-shirts as absurd as some ebay listings suggest that it is?

Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother is the ur-text for a substantial portion of 90s indie and post-rock.

I have a joke about the Augean stables, but it's laborious.

Saw Brand New Day, and: gotta say, a concise screenplay and Destin Daniel Cretton knowing how to stage an action setpiece go a long, long way.

"...while in winter the sitting rooms were heated by a gargantuan tile stove that looked like a Secessionist cathedral." (from Danilo Kiš's "The Stateless One, translated by John K. Cox)

Changed "apothecary" to "pharmacy" in my WIP when I realized that I was hewing dangerously close to the Key & Peele "I'm steampunk now" guy.

Kurt Vonnegut in Back to School.

At @wwborders.bsky.social, thoughts on six recent books in translation... wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The Watchlist: July 2026 - Words Without BordersLooking for summer reads? Tobias Carroll recommends six new titles in translation, including novels, poetry, and a short story collection.wordswithoutborders.org

Wrote about a pair of Russell Hoban novels, which is likely to lead to me reading a lot more of Hoban's books in the coming months. tobiascarroll.substack.com/p/do-we-need...

Do We Need a Russell Hoban Cult?I’m going to say “yes.”tobiascarroll.substack.com

Wrote about @paultremblay.bsky.social's new one at @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social... www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/07/29/a...

A Technologist’s Nightmare: On Paul Tremblay’s “Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep”From reading the first fifty or so pages, a reader might be left with two key impressions of Paul Tremblay’s novel Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep. The first is that it represents somethi…www.vol1brooklyn.com

One more HER PRIVATE HELL thought: seems telling that one character shares a name with the musician responsible for the song "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" - a phrase that would work perfectly as an alternate title for the film.

Really dug @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social's review of Her Private Hell, which raised some elements of the film (including Tarot references) that I did not catch at all. popheist.com/fantasia-fes...

Fantasia Fest Review: 'Her Private Hell'A near-ecstatic odyssey of destruction and rebirth, 'Her Private Hell' is about destroying what's impeding evolution, no matter the cost.popheist.com

Just got back from seeing Her Perfect Hell. Absolutely batshit in the best possible way; my half-baked theory is that Refn designed this movie to utterly break "ending of [film] EXPLAINED" articles everywhere.

I'm totally here for Alex Cox discussing The Prisoner, but I'm especially here for Alex Cox's dog being utterly adorable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmHa...

Alex Cox on THE PRISONER: The Genius of Patrick McGoohan | Now on the Criterion ChannelYouTube video by CRITERIONwww.youtube.com

Thrilled to have received blurbs from Brian Evenson, Simon Jacobs, and Chuck Tryon for my forthcoming book on KILL LIST! www.bloomsbury.com/us/kill-list...

Kill ListA minute-by-minute analysis of Ben Wheatley's film, Kill List (2011).2011's Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley and written by Wheatley and Amy Jump, provides a…www.bloomsbury.com

The Midnight Organ Fight remains my favorite album that I find really fucking hard to listen to in bulk for (probably obvious) reasons. But god, what a record, and what a loss.

Autocorrect wanted to turn "rosso vermouth" into "rodeo vermouth." Kinda into it, honestly.

To whatever DJ chose to play Moss Icon on WFMU right now: thank you. Truly needed this.

Got my copies of the next Eden Book Society titles from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social, and I am - not to put too fine a point on it - STOKED.

Saw ROSE OF NEVADA tonight, which besides being very good also reminded me of the existence of New Fast Automatic Daffodils.