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most of you will probably know me already from my extensive canon of chillers words in the brooklyn review, @pitheadchapel, subnivean, evocations review, and beyond substack.com/@hyperorfixation

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The Order of Death
The Order of Death YouTube video by Public Image Ltd - Topic

they’re calling “the order of death” by public image ltd the best song of all time youtu.be/O0bk6Hbz0ZU?...

03.03.2026 23:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(realtor looking at don’s empty apartment) this is the home of a man with no apes

01.03.2026 21:30 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

don draper writing megan a check for a million dollars and on the memo line it just says “slurp juice”

01.03.2026 21:29 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

very short list of famous people i’d go to war for and danny mcbride is probably one of them especially when these are the stakes

28.02.2026 01:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

we have to build more housing to get these people out of red states

26.02.2026 01:43 👍 406 🔁 63 💬 10 📌 0

recent events are truly making the case for misandry like never before

23.02.2026 23:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

my sweet baby raymun😭 he may not understand reproductive math but green apple orchards is going to make one hell of a twisted tea

23.02.2026 14:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i love raymun fossoway because he’s a good guy, but also because he looks like he used to meet with his attorneys at the dunkin donuts in shamokin PA before it burned down

17.02.2026 02:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

dammit.

16.02.2026 18:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

they’re just parochial small business owner type psychos all the way down

13.02.2026 03:07 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

running DHS like it’s amy’s bakery

13.02.2026 03:00 👍 39 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

yellow ledbetter is a hall of fame “annoy the cat by singing in her face” pick

09.02.2026 15:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

if you went back in time and told bush-era democrats they’d win “sports” in the national divorce they’d put you in the psych ward

09.02.2026 14:48 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

god imagine being a chud and having to pretend to both hate the bad bunny halftime show AND enjoy kid rock. i’d rather die

09.02.2026 03:03 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it’s bullshit that “edtech” doesn’t mean “an app that lets you rate pictures of ed asner.” we fucked up

03.02.2026 01:29 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

it’s very cool and funny how MAGAs have opened the oldest vault and found that all of our institutions are immutably Woke and Gay. that’s just the way it is in this country. if you don’t like it there’s the door!!!

02.02.2026 15:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

well that’s good, at least

31.01.2026 18:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i guess i just don’t understand the point of looking at this new shit heap of traumatic information. every day we’re already having our faces rubbed in the knowledge that this gang of pedophile murderer bandits will never be punished

31.01.2026 17:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

it must feel so good to marinate in the uruk-hai goop pit

25.01.2026 17:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i now only drink in extreme moderation, but every time trumpist fascism lurches into a new circle of hell, i up the age of the fine bottle of scotch i will buy when [redacted]

25.01.2026 16:44 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

zirp and ebitda are beautiful names for a pair of twin baby girls

21.01.2026 14:20 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

everything else she says is like “we need to pass a bill to make it easier for you to cut off your fingers with a table saw” and you just think wow there is really a whole other america out there i guess.

12.01.2026 17:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

she’s right about car headlights being too bright. but that’s about it

12.01.2026 17:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

don’t recall millennials begging for our own kyrsten sinema but ok

12.01.2026 17:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

not feeling great that republicans and their freikorps can bully, harass, and threaten our people out of public life but their numbers (almost) never get called in return

05.01.2026 14:20 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

riding the uptown train with my friend Wet Coughman

17.12.2025 21:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

10.12.2025 21:25 👍 4694 🔁 649 💬 152 📌 57

not getting tickets for this show might be my biggest regret of 2024

08.12.2025 16:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shane MacGowan with Sinead O'Connor - Haunted
Shane MacGowan with Sinead O'Connor - Haunted YouTube video by Sinéad O'Connor

they’re calling “haunted” by shane macgowan and sinéad o”connor the best song of all time youtu.be/_q7307IWwr4?...

07.12.2025 22:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Laser Beam
Laser Beam YouTube video by Low - Topic

they’re calling “laser beam” by low the best song of all time youtu.be/jNaf3iXibJ4?...

18.11.2025 13:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0