jedwardgregal.bsky.social
writer : cat worshiper : Pacific Northwest resident : sorry cop : live like an angel die like a devil : he/him
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As someone who has owned four Thin Lizzy shirts over the years, I fully endorse this choice
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Read it close to 30 years ago and still think about it a fair amount.
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I love the direction the show has taken since the name change, but this return to pure pulp was so much fun. Excellent episodes!
Also you guys compared him to Kingpin, which is fair, but to me this dude is totally The Blob! Same haircut, too!
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Why do you waste newspaper space, NYT? That entire interview could've fit in 14 words.
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I’ll admit I know nothing else about the city, but stepping off the train into a pack of dogs fighting in the terminal and then seeing two women and an infant weaving through traffic on a scooter suuuper fast was a lot.
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Once in Philly a driver passed me on my bike and turned directly into me (no signal, of course.) When he saw I was upset about this he jumped out and wanted to fight me, but a South Philly grandma deescalated the situation by telling him to shut the fuck up and get back in his car.
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I spent about 30 minutes there at night walking from a train station to a ferry and that was enough Naples for a lifetime
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I lived in Philly for years, it’s nuts. On my last visit I saw billboards reminding everyone you have to stop at red lights.
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This is bananas, I’ve got a document with 7-8k words of one sentence story ideas. Coming up with ideas is the least of my issues as a writer.
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I read those books about a decade ago and still think about them all the time, would LOVE to see this
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A real “like trees in November” situation, huh
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I recently got re-obsessed with Henry Darger, so my mind’s been on this kinda stuff. I’ve been feeling inspired to lean into my fixations in my own writing as a result.
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I feel this. I love fiction that’s iterative in nature. How many Brian Evenson stories feature androids on some forgotten colony/ship figuring out what it is to be human? It doesn’t matter, because they all rule, and it really feels like it comes from someplace deeply human.
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so many people dedicated to making the world worse than it currently is, and look, isn't life hard enough? is this really how you want to spend yours?
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Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-
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Regular listener here but I prefer their earlier, more subdued work when they were less into that high-pitched whine vibe.
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Yes! When we got out of the theater we IMMEDIATELY started talking about how we want a whole movie about those dudes.
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I caught this in reruns as a kid but all I can remember is how much the music freaked me out.
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Checked it out after I saw you and @joerlansdale.bsky.social praising it on the other site, and man were you guys right. Some of the most morally complex protagonists I’ve ever seen, sparse enough storytelling to let the narrative breathe, and humor, gnarliness, and heart in equal measure. So good.
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It’s dogshit and I hate it
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I dug some of Funeral Oration’s more polished melodic hardcore back in the 90’s, but didn’t hear Communion (1985) until 7-8 years ago. It floored me when I first heard it. Raw, blown out, wall-of-noise, passionate hardcore punk. It’s how I wanted my old band to sound without even realizing it.
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Hard agree, “fun” is the sole responsibility of the person running the game.
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My favourite part is where Cathy shouts "ITS WUTHERING TIME, BITCH!" and then just wuthers all over the heights
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Funny story: first time I watched it I was home alone at night and our power went out within minutes of finishing it. I lit some candles and called my partner to ask if she could come home because I was so freaked out 😂
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Second time I saw it I STILL felt like something awful was going to happen during that whole scene. I understand why it doesn’t work for a lot of people, but man, that movie dredged up ALL the little-kid-terrified-of-the-dark feelings in me.