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bad news: i'm on the run from the entire city of boston because i called it "dunkin' dognuts"

one of the stranger things i’ve found on youtube is someone who used to make good history videos and now has landed in a place where he filmed himself having a vasectomy. the potential gore is obscured by a hospital gown, but still, why? “what if my pride and joy grows up to be someone’s else’s abuser?” great question. do you mind talking about the spanish civil war instead?

another odd thing about how people tend to discuss thomas pynchon is how, in his own way, his character naming conventions aren’t dissimilar from the ones used in mass market paperback romance fiction, but you’re in for a terrible time if you point that out to someone who evangelizes on his behalf.

i’ve never read pynchon, in part because no one has ever described one of his novels to me in a way that it did not sound like a manic episode dumped on page. if given the choice between reading gravity’s rainbow and a slow death by anacondas, i’d lament that i’ve had a good run before picking the snakes. maybe someone out there could change my mind, but given 30 years without that happening, i’m not optimistic.

one of my favorite “the past is a foreign country” type stories is that time the opie and anthony radio shock jock guys were whatever the 2002 version of cancelled was because they did some sam adams sponsored (???) initiative encouraging couples to have sex in public (???????). some people ended up getting arrested for this. the amount of failures of judgment involved in this one is astonishing.

one of the more disappointing realizations i’ve had over the past couple of years is that whatever social commentary that exists in any given horror movie is very blatantly geared towards people in their early 20s or so, and i aged out of that demographic a while ago. i don’t want to write off the genre entirely. robert eggers in particular is trying to do something different and i appreciate him for that. but when you land here, it’s very easy to see why the academy generally does not celebrate this stuff.

another conversation i overheard while picking up food: “most of my friends are arab because i’m a gemini”

wife and i are in my hometown on dog watching duty this weekend. i ordered some enchiladas for takeout and went to the restaurant. told that it’d be a few minutes. i’m standing adjacent to the bar as i wait, and hear a guy in either his 50s or 60s call something “bitch energy”. okay..?