velvety arms of the night

there should be a jesus on the cross emoji. not for any religious reasons. just so I can use it for every slight inconvenience.

one time I went over to a friend's house and their housemate was making paper in the living room, and we saw this big tub full of water they were using to dissolve old scrap paper into a slurry, and everyone was immediately like "oh, you need scrap paper?" and started turning out their jacket pockets and producing expired coupons and bus tickets and crumpled receipts and old shopping lists and whatever else they'd been carrying round with them for no good reason, and passing it all to the paper-making housemate to make sure it was suitable before it got torn up and dropped into the tub, while people took turns stirring the slurry with a big wooden stick. it was strangely ritualistic, like presenting an offering to some kind of temple elder for inspection before placing it in a watery shrine to be devoured and reformed. pulp for the pulp god.

there's a group of high school boys in this McDonald's and I just heard one of them say "I bet you you cannae break your own arm" so something interesting might happen shortly

I understand the urge to comment on recent trends in which people seem to want increasingly sanitized media compared to the recent past, but when you say things like "people used to just shrug and move on when there were books and movies that made them uncomfortable" it's like...well. actually people used to convict artists of obscenity in a court of law.

ran up at him like no-mushroom, 1-Life super mario getting ready to make a big jump. 😭

say what you will about john mcafee (and you should.) but that guy could fucking post

sam reid transcends being blond by being a genuinely strange person

"Bordel Patriotique" an anonymous political porn pamphlet from 1791, claiming to be written by Marie-Antoinette for the deputies of the new legislature... Obviously, it's not actually written by her