Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb died last year, so now I've got no choice but to imagine that in heaven the world's worse duet of Jolene has just begun.
H. A. Eugene
@autobono.bsky.social
Strange fiction, music, and weird stuff. Stories at HAD, Radon Journal, the September 2024 issue of Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere | Filipino-American | He/him linktr.ee/haeugene
Thinking today about how much Add It Up by Violent Femmes was a proto-incel anthem. It's apparent in the lyrics, of course. But I never really thought about how much the song occupies that space between "sad guy" anthems about heartbreak and loneliness and the violence we're experiencing today.
Add It Up
YouTube video by Violent Femmes - Topic
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I like how maple syrup comes in little glass fifth bottles like there are syrupaholics going around with them in their ass pockets.
Watching the old Inspector Gadget cartoon with our kid and was struck by this sad idea that so much of the TV shows from our childhoods were engineered to keep us company while our parents fought in the background.
Wow, actually hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit in the grocery store right now.
I must look extra stately today because the new girl behind the counter at the bodega pointed to my son and said my grandson was very cute 😆
Roller skating for the first time in decades, and there was a brief moment of exhilaration there when I realized this might kill me.
My short story "Show of Force" is out now over at @jerseydevilpress.bsky.social! www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=9218
Today the artist-owned music platform @subvert.fm is launching, and our music is on it: www.subvert.fm/business-80 #subvertworld
They combined ‘Honey Crisp’ apples and ‘Fuji’ apples and called it 'EverCrisp' when ‘Funny Crisp’ was right there.
Each bubble is networked, so pushing down on one will only push the air into its neighbor. Meaning it won’t pop. They really are trying to take all the joy out of the world...
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Variations on Clarke’s third law, “"any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
![“The third law has inspired many snowclones and other variations:
Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God.[8][9] (Shermer's last law)
Any sufficiently advanced act of benevolence is indistinguishable from malevolence[10] (referring to artificial intelligence)
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice[8] (Grey's law)
Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic.[11] (Sterling's corollary to Clarke's law) This idea also underlies the setting of the novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, in which human stalkers try to navigate the location of an alien "visitation", trying to make sense of technically advanced items discarded by the aliens.
Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.[12]
Any sufficiently familiar technology is indistinguishable from nature.[13]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybx4kxfatzhfh4zcicf3mbmw/bafkreifabkqjx5z635btii6glh5ebbe44idgmo3cx6ecwjyotjccjibjri)
I’ve long thought high schoolers ought to be taught how stories actually work as a prophylactic against narrative-shifting propaganda. But this probably a tall order.
The Age of Stories - Orion Magazine
In the Age of the Anthropocene, have we lost control of the narrative?
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Billy Corgan, James Carville, Moby, Stanley Tucci, and Mr Clean all show up at mansion wondering why they were all called here today
I've been having an interesting time lately completing edits and final drafts on stories I wrote and forgot about for years; in some cases, close to eight(!) It's tremendously therapeutic, and probably the closest I've come to feeling like I was reading someone else's writing.
SALE ALERT: I'm off work today, which means no pay, so I made some Cover Prompts! Not sure what to write? Use one of these covers to prompt a new story! Short, Novella, whatever! No AI, Fully Licensed, etc. $25. Just reply with which one you want, and I'll do the edits whenever you want! 1/2
I'm convinced the people who let their clothes sit in the washing machine at a crowded laundromat are the same people who stand in busy doorways and stairwells to look at their phone.
There is a kind of quiet crazy in the world that is under appreciated, subsumed by the more obvious loud crazy.
I was running through the falling snow when I saw a boy across the street, probably between 5-7 years of age, looking down at everything else on the block from atop the largest pile of machine-driven snow in the neighborhood.
You what might be way better than soccer the way it is now is a) no teams, and b) one goal with no goalie and a bunch of people on the field trying to steal the ball from each other.
Weird, I just remembered they made a live-action Cowboy Bebop and it just went away.
Long-necked dinosaurs should be renamed reachasaurus.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew Yorker, by Paul Karasik.
