“Hi everyone, I found a site where you can buy fake corpses!! If anyone is interested!!!”

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1. 

   jay

   November 30, 2024 at 11:19 am

   Hahahaha, I accidentally woke my whole flat up laughing at that second Daffodildo picture, what a great find. I guess I’ve always thought of your slave-posts as being a sort of postscript/epilogue/sequel to The Sluts, so that felt very po-mo. And that first photo from crushmyneck… enigmatic, I’m still sort of trying to figure out what exactly is going on there.

   Oh, that’s a really cool way of thinking about disaster films, I really like the idea of viewing them as documentary footage. Did you ever watch “Shin Godzilla”? I’m not sure you could really qualify it as a disaster film, but it’s a disaster film with basically zero human “characters”, just people moving around and talking, while not really feeling emotion or developing as people. I think you’d probably at least get a kick out of the city-destruction sequences.

   Oh, one other recommendation, but I’ve been playing a really wonderful videogame recently called “Lorelei and the Laser Eyes” – it’s like a Resident Evil game sans zombies, with a much more bizarre and complex mansion. It’s full of puzzles that are delibarately just so impenetrable. It’s got a really lovely friction between player and character too, it’s really well put together. Like, you’ll see a painting that’s a clue in a puzzle, press [Examine], and then get a close-up of something that looks nothing like the painting you wanted to see – or, you’ll play a set of notes on a piano to open a locked door, and your character will start playing the piano of their own volition and singing. If you can find a copy, I’d really recommend it!

   Hmmm, I’ve not really been able to get into 1Q84 as of yet, I’ve been finishing up my dissertation application, so I don’t want to get too into something interesting, in case I get distracted. It’s really nicely written so far though, although I have one of those massive 1.2k page tomes, because it’s this vast collected trilogy, so I always feel a little nervous reading it in bed. I’m sure if I fell asleep holding it above my head, it’d be like a cinderblock falling on me, or something. Anyway, enjoy your weekend, best of luck with your Mario!

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   Dominik

   November 30, 2024 at 11:40 am

   Hi!!

   Thank you! Thankfully, my brother’s going to be okay, but it was a shitty scare, especially considering that Hungarian hospitals are nightmarish – no staff, no equipment, no basics (such as toilet paper). I’m just glad he’s out of there.

   I really hope you’ll get the hoped-for news about the film ASAP!

   Honestly, all of your Bûche finalists look exquisite! I’m really excited to hear which one(s) you’ll pick in the end!

   Right?! I don’t know where toothpaste goes as fast as it does! And bottomless coke bottles – yes. Love should be generous to those who’d still appreciate it. It’s almost Christmas and all.

   Can’t, won’t, and wouldn’t want to stand in love’s way on that one. Anal only after love is in parts, Od. (And of course, Daffodildo needs to be highlighted as the top of the bunch, for more than one reason! 😀 )

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   Corey

   November 30, 2024 at 12:24 pm

   Wow, itsnotRay is the fucking James Joyce of twink slaves. How much did you edit that text? I’m pondering what it might mean to kill someone “in the most pedantic way”. I guess a meticulous re-creation of an historical execution method?

   Thanks for plugging my film. The Paris urban experimental film festival is called “Grain Urbain”, scheduled for some time in March 2025 at the Cinema Club de L’étoile in the 17th.

   https://equipe-creative.com/grain-urbain-en/

   It took me a long time to come up with a workable format for my dance writing (mostly Hebrew) and experimental film writing (mostly English). I decided on Substack as a platform because it doubles as a basic website and an email newsletter, is low maintenance, and is completely free (they make money only by taking a big commission on any donations/subscriptions paid through the platform).

   The experimental film newsletter will be just me writing about whatever films I watch. The dance newsletter is more complicated because it has two components: a dance events calendar and reviews. The events calendar is sorely needed. There’s a ton going on at various venues and no place that lists everything together. At first I struggled with the calendar. It was too much work to create a Village Voice style events listing page every week inside of the newsletter. So I decided to add all of the events to a Google calendar that is viewable by anyone. I link to the calendar from the newsletter. Ideally the calendar would be in a box inside of the newsletter, but I haven’t found a way to do that in Substack. The listings in the calendar just show the name, location, and time of the event, with a link to the venue’s website for more information and tickets. I can add events to the calendar whenever I have time, and do my best to show events a few weeks in advance. Then in the newsletter I can be free to write recommendations for the week and reviews of last week’s performances without getting bogged down in logistical details. I hope to find some contributors to write reviews and add events to the calendar, but I’m confident that I hit upon a format that I can handle by myself if necessary. I decided to do the bulk of the calendar and newsletter in Hebrew for the local audience but to write about standout performances in English also. I doubt that you’re interested in all of these details, but I think they’re worth mentioning because this is the stuff that makes and breaks projects.

   Currently the calendar is finished for December and I’m putting finishing touches on both of the newsletters, to send tomorrow.

   James Turrell looks cool. I just saw that there’s a major installation of his in the permanent collection at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. I’ll have to check it out. I must’ve missed it when I was there a while ago.

   People who give PowerPoint presentations fall into two extremes: those who use various bells and whistles to make the presentation into a work of graphic art devoid of substance, and those who can barely use the program to put two slides together and throw up monotonous blocks of text. If your goal is to make money it’s advisable to trust only the latter group.

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   James

   November 30, 2024 at 2:43 pm

   Yo D-Dawg, afternoon now – about half one, ought to have lunch soonish. This post did NOT disappoint :] Sectionalboy and crushmyneck have nice butts, and omg Gavin and Simon are sooo cute, and latex looks great on nowayback. ‘PS2 graphics’ is charming, and I think we all spied the Cooper novel. And those comments, blimey – ‘I love being an evil poz faggot,’ ‘pump hiv inside your guts’ – jeez. ‘I’ve got an ass full of shit waiting for you’ – just charming. My favourite is easily – the guy who has ‘no gag reflex. I discovered this a while ago thanks to an evil friend.’ I feel a bit guilty about how funny I find that comment, its wording.

   Yeah, I’ve never been super big on nicknames. In secondary people called me by my initials because my name is kind of long/””posh”” so there might’ve been a bit of mocking in that. I’ve been called Jim, which I don’t mind, and Jamie is another one I’ve been called before. Guys sometimes manage surprisingly decent pet names for me.

   It really was, yesterday was so great, best day I’ve had in a while. I’ve always struggled with not just like, totally hating myself and not thinking I’m deserving of anything good, which is stupid and irrational. I am making a conscious effort, these days, to try and be nicer to myself. Saturday’s off to a nice start, too – lie in, tea, rereading As You Like It, have laughed and smiled quite a bit. WOO!

   Yeah, it’s more complicated than I expected. I’m not so baffled by the Raj’s involvement, but I thought Blighty would be more to do w/ the wound definition.

   If I’m commenting at 4:30 in the am, it’s got to be like, the summer holidays are something, because I know that staying up that late is basically NEVER good for me.

   That’s me – boots-first right into the weekend, figurative guns a-figuratively-blazing! May yours be a good one, too. See you Monday Dennis!

   p.s. jay, Man, there’s stuff AFTER the chambers? I really didn’t play much, then. The lore/atmosphere of portal is incredibly attractive to me. Joy, more zombies. Dead Space strikes me as more action-y than especially spooky. Only horror game I’ve finished is Amnesia (Dark Descent). Yeah, it is quite a big thing for me. I am hoping against hope things work out the way I’d like. He’s pretty great – I’ve never had a boy sing La Marseillaise for me before xp! I’m wary that all human relationships are transitory, and that this might not last as long as I’d like it to, but he seems pretty dead set on marrying me ://o. But I’m willing to give what could be really fun a try, and I don’t want to deprive him of something he ostensibly really likes (i.e. me, somehow?!). I haven’t got to play guitar for someone in quite some time. I’ll refrain from gushing any more. How goes the weekend, so far?

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     jay

     November 30, 2024 at 8:48 pm

     Hey James! Yeah, there’s tonnes of stuff after the chambers, it’s really fun. The System Shock zombies are maybe a tiny bit more unique than the average game zombie – they’re fully conscious people, who have their bodies controlled by a parasite, so when they attack you they’re always shouting “I’m so sorry” or “Please run away”, it’s pretty creepy. Amnesia is excellent, I think – that company made a really great game called “Soma” that’s very much about all the “read-only-mind”ish stuff we were talking about, but horrible and miserable.

     Yeah, I know what you mean about all relationships being transitory – I’m sorta trying to figure out where I fall on that particular issue. Like, I’ve been with my boyfriend for coming up on 2 years now, but obviously there’s a kind of “would he love he if I wasn’t a twink” neurosis that a lot of younger gay guys have that I try not to let consume me. Fingers crossed for you! Well, he sounds lovely – how did singing La Marseillaise come up? Giving it a try seems like a great mindset!

     Weekend is great with me so far – just more reading mostly, submitting my dissertation proposal, and maybe some Resident Evil 4 with my flatmates later. How about you?

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       James

       November 30, 2024 at 10:22 pm

       Heyhey jay – after digital greetings, I always wonder what to put after, punctuation-wise. Because just ‘Hey jay.’ is unnecessarily solemn, but ‘Hey jay!’ may or may not begin to be grating with its enthusiasm. Who knows. Maybe an ASCII emoticon. Hi o/
       Huh. I don’t know what comes after, I thought it was just chambers, GLaDOS fight, done, but evidently I’m wrong.

       How very sad for these poor pseudo-zombie chaps. Doesn’t sound ideal. Actually love how those System Shock 2 graphics look, though. Just that alone makes me think about playing it. But these days I always feel like, if I’m not reading or studying I’m wasting time. Plus interviews and A Levels, just, ughhh. I wish I could enjoy videogames the way I used to ;-;

       Mm, am aware of Soma – was unaware of its hypno aspects. Have you played the other Amnesias? I haven’t.

       2 years is fucking awesome, man! I’ve never been in like, a ‘proper’ relationship, longest ‘thing’ I’ve had was like 6 months. But the awkward graspings of adolescents are hardly comparable to adult relationships. I hope your bf and you continue to have each other :]
       Fingers crossed, as always. I do this thing whenever someone seems to like me – I share/honestly admit to as many flaws as I can, presumably out of an intent to ‘prove’ to myself that I can’t be liked and to nip things in the bud before they ever get the chance to bloom (wow, such metaphor, much imagery). I’ve told this guy these things and he’s *still* talking to me and said he plans on sticking with me through my imminent academia-fuelled neuroses. We’ve started putting a shared playlist together, which I’ve never done before, and I can’t believe it’s happened/ing to me :/)

       La Marseillaise came up because 1) he’s French/Portuguese, 2) were considering each other’s voices, 3) for whatever reason he mentioned singing, 4) I jokingly suggested he perform La Marseillaise, and 5) he sung La Marseillaise, for me, which is, implausible to me.
       Yeah. Even if a good thing ends (everything ends, duh), that doesn’t stop it being from a good thing. Like. The Boyfriend Buff. Stat boost in happiness. Will it go away? Maybe. Who knows. But for now – fun. I guess I’m trying to shut up the overthinky part of my head. It’s just nice to have a guy who makes me smirk and giggle, and makes my face warm, and, stuff. I am going to give it a try. He certainly seems like he wants to :p

       Oh my fucking God he’s so cute. Jesus God. AAAAAA!

       Oo, what’s your dissertation on? (seamless change in tone.) And you’re reading IQ84 – you big on Murakami? I’ve read quite a bit of his stuff. He’s pretty samey, but I eat his writing up all the same. I remember reading Kafka On The Shore when I was a younger teen – it was the first book that had made me feel so much in so long, it was like, ‘OH, so THIS is why I read! I had forgotten!’ I’ve read Sheep Chase, Dance Dance Dance, Norweigan wood too, and South of the Border, West of the Sun. Damn. Now I’m in the mood for Murakami. It’s *so* Murakami weather.

       My Saturday excluding stuff I might’ve already said: struggling to come to terms with the fact that a really cute guy wants me to be his boyfriend, reading the SECOND canto + notes of Pale Fire (that index is a godsend for piecing things together, things are starting to make a bit more sense – and I think the poems so far as standalones are really lovely things, super readable), talking with family. Currently drinking hot chocolate, very yum. In a damn good mood, really!!! Vaguely contemplating watching a BBC doc. on porn addiction.

       Thing I keep forgetting to bring up w/ you – re: like, ‘artsy’ videogames, are you aware of The Beginner’s Guide?

       God he’s cute. Anyway, that’s my S̶a̶t̶u̶r̶g̶a̶y̶ Saturday so far!

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         jay

         December 1, 2024 at 3:57 am

         Hey James [. / ! / ?] (delete as appropriate). I don’t really pick up on your punctuation, so don’t stress. Yes, System Shock 2 is so so nice looking, it’s got a later level that takes place in a like, huge digestive system that honestly just looks spectacular. I’ve played every Amnesia game, I totally love them. Soma is maybe less hypno-ish and more drone-ish – although I don’t want to give away too much.

         Oh, I totally, 100% get what you’re saying about over-sharing your issues. I gave my boyfriend this whole “I have a lot of problems, and you can stop dating me at any time” speech when I got upset in front of him for the first time. I think it’s a self-harming instinct, like you said, so I try and cut down on it a little nowadays,

         My dissertation is on, uh, how colour affects memory retention, like whether highlighted text helps readers memorise information. It’s pretty dry, but I’m enjoying it. Oh wow, you’ve read a lot of Murukami, when I was a younger teenager I was only reading shit like Percy Jackson, haha. So glad you’re enjoying Pale Fire! Never played/heard of Beginner’s Guide – do you recommend it? Is there anything I should know before I play it?

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           James

           December 1, 2024 at 8:52 pm

           Hehe, multiple choice conversation, my kind of chat! I guess I just pick things apart in conversations which don’t need picking apart.

           Because of course it’s in a digestive system. Duh. I am not unfamiliar with the format – Jabu-Jabu’s Belly in Ocarina of Time comes to mind.

           I’m contemplating giving Portal another try tonight??? Will. See. Hm. If I’m to give videogames a whirl these days, I kind of need them to be short. Do you have a fav Amnesia?

           I see the robots in Soma (SOMA? Acronym?). Man I’ve really got a thing for robots. Proud to be more a sci-fi head than fantasy fan.

           God, speech-giving, sounds like me. I can’t even text people normally. I don’t know if it’s a self-sabotage thing, though it might be. Think it’s just because 1) I don’t want to develop a good thing only to lose it? and 2) people can do better than me. But there’ll always be ‘better’ people, or whatever, so. Brainfart. 17 year old dude does not know what he’s talking about when it comes to the complexity of human relationships.

           You can stretch that out into a whole dissertation? Blimey. I remember reading, somewhere, don’t ask where, that stuff written in blue ink is more likely to be remembered? Is that bullshit?

           Oh, I totes had a Percy Jackson phase, *shivers*. In secondary school these girls called me Nico because dark hair, moody, gay. They were unaware that I had read the books. I’ve read a bunch of YA crap, and I try not to forget the importance of dumb fun novels, but what with applying for English undergrad things I suppose I’ve a little extra pressure to read ‘serious’ stuff. But even then, I know that a good English student is one who reads EVERYTHING, hence I’m trying to poke my feelers into super recent obscure internet… stuff. Can’t wait for my uni interview so I can say: ‘So. You guys ever heard of Read Only Mind?’ Sure that will go down well.

           After rereading Antony and Cleopatra, Pale Fire finished! Last night in Canto 3 I had my suspicions – which I had held for a while – confirmed, so, yay, I’m an attentive reader, apparently. Nabokov’s ability to wrap everything up/tie it together is so impressive. A little bit Borgesian, what with its textual focus and translation shenanigans and such. Have you read any Borges?

           Beginner’s Guide is one of them thar fancypantsy postmodern meta videogames about making videogames. A narrator guides you through the work of a developer that’s faded into obscurity. The kind of thing critics call an ‘homage’ or ‘love letter’ to videogames. Nice music, makes me cry. Hope Sunday’s been good!
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           jay

           December 2, 2024 at 1:43 am

           I hope you did play more Portal, I think it’s incredible. Hmmm… favourite Amnesia is probably Machine for Pigs, or Bunker. I always love horror environments that are pretty metallic or mass-produced, I think there’s something really interesting about violence happening in spaces which weren’t really consciously designed or considered. Overall though, Soma would totally be at the top of my list, if it was officially an Amnesia game. I think Soma isn’t an acronym – I’m pretty sure it’s a Greek term meaning “a divorce between the mind and the body”, although I may be wrong about that.

           Hahaha yeah, I try and avoid speeches where I can – if people don’t really interrupt me, I can end up just talking for hours about stuff I find interesting. I get what you mean about the whole “people can do better than me” thing, it’s a hard mindset to get out of. I think I’ve just been lucky to have a supernaturally patient / understanding boyfriend, he’s sort of repeated positive phrases to me to the point that they’ve sort of sunk in.

           Oh, yeah, I get that about having to read “serious stuff”. You seem really well-read, so you could definitely let yourself read something really easy. I mean, if you can wrap Read Only Mind in like, academic language, you can make anything sound smart to interviewers. Given that I have sort of atypical literary interests, I often spend ages coming up with dull ways to articulate the genre of what I enjoy, or what I enjoy about it. You could totally spin ROM as a, say, “collaborative decentralised literary movement that blends the subjective nature of eroticism with the objective truth of computer-programming”. I think unfortunately there’s a certain kind of person who hears “internet fiction” and just totally stops listening, so you have to sort of learn how to Trojan Horse them into listening to what you’re saying.

           Haha, I’m glad you liked Pale Fire – it’s such an elegant mechanism, I think. Canto 3 really did feel like a magic trick to me, in terms of bringing everything together. Yes, I totally, totally love Borges – his Library of Babel is exactly what I mean by the type of mass-produced environment that I find incredibly compelling. I love House of Astarion too, anything related to mazes or hard to navigate housing is right up my alley/corridor/hallway. Anything else like Borges you recommend?

           “Fancypantsy postmodern meta videogames” heh heh heh… rubbing my hands together evilly. Sounds excellent. I’ll play that next weekend, hopefully! See ya!
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   _Black_Acrylic

   November 30, 2024 at 5:28 pm

   itsnotRay’s makeup game is strong, it has to be said.

   Mum saw the CDG hat with Mickey Mouse ears and she thinks it’s great, so everybody’s happy it would seem! Here is a pic.

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   Steeqhen

   November 30, 2024 at 6:39 pm

   Hey Dennis,

   God these posts leave me a bit shaken, not necessarily horrified or scared, just a bit of dread and sadness for some of these guys who are obviously mentally ill and depressed. I always fear I’m gonna scroll down and see the face of someone I know personally, and I agree with **jay about these feeling like a continuation of The Sluts, but even more real.

   Thanks for calling my ramble charismatic, honestly made my day. How I watch The Housewives is through this streaming service called Hayu. It’s basically a service dedicated to reality tv with everything from Bravo (the network that makes Housewives), including the spin-off shows like Vanderpump Rules, which in it’s first few seasons is also crazy; they’re all on coke and adderall and a few of them have alleged histories in escorting (including the main guy Jax and his Floridian sugar daddy). It was a genuine group of friends too, though they all wind up cheating on each other WITH each other. Anyway, Hayu has a black Friday deal at the moment, with it being €15 for 6 months (I sound like a spokesperson right now lol).

   It’s the first Saturday in potentially years that I’ve been awake and up since 7am, though it’s 5:30 now and I’m feeling the exhaustion. I’m trying to write an article and also do study, when really I just wanna crash out and watch mindless trash. I’m also hoping that some of the Switch games on got on Vinted come soon… Hope your weekend will be good

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7. 

   Misanthrope

   November 30, 2024 at 8:24 pm

   Dennis, Okay, the dude with The Sluts is kerazy, haha.

   Yeah, I think a lot of this push for 5 days in the office is to get a lot of people to retire/quit. I do think that those who are about to retire or could’ve retired years ago (we have a lot of them) will probably do that, but ain’t nobody quitting. At the same time, as you pointed out re: the personal freedoms, and along the same tangent, these guys are talking about efficiency and there’s absolutely nothing efficient about going into the office for work that can easily be done at home. Traffic congestion, less productivity, paying billions for old buildings…I mean, what’s next, replacing email with snail mail?

   I’m all for efficiency, especially when it comes to how our tax dollars are spent, but this idea is absolutely ludicrous. It makes no sense other than as retribution/punishment, and I’m not at all for that.

   Well, the Thanksgiving Day festivities were fun. Kayla’s mom and her bf were up from Mississippi, and some other of their/our friends came over. We had 10 people here. The food was good, and the videogames were hella fun and funny. The rest of this weekend, we’re just gonna chill, Alex and I. Kinda a last hurrah before we get a little more serious about our fitness and lives. We were just talking about it.

   Oh! And my company has fucked up our first paychecks under the new contract. Shorted us all $400. What they don’t know is that there are now several DOL complaints in and the investigations have started. They’re already finding problems/issues with their public filings. What prompted these things is that we found out that our company has been deducting our 401(k) contributions from our paychecks every pay period since November 2023 but keeping them and not paying them over to our 401(k) custodians/accounts. A big violation. We’re missing thousands of dollars in contributions and earnings and interest in our retirement accounts. We’ll see where that goes.

   It’s one thing after another, Big D.

   I hope you’re getting along well.

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8. 

   Dev

   December 1, 2024 at 3:23 am

   Hey Dennis,

   Just got a chance to write back and it happens to be escort day! Always a lot of fun. The picture with The Sluts got me.

   Re: Faulkner, I too have not read his later novels but I keep meaning to. I’ll let you know if/when I do. And about Emeril’s, it was mostly fine dining takes on New Orleans fare with a lot of locally sourced ingredients. They even gave us mini po-boys, and snoballs for dessert. Everything was excellent of course.

   Hope you’ve been well this past week. I’ve been making the most of my break from school. Took my daughter to the Audubon Zoo for her first birthday, went to some record stores, and today I spent several hours just walking around the city enjoying the finally cool weather. Speaking of which, NO is beautiful this time of year. I would definitely recommend visiting in late November / December.

   Yesterday I finished Joyce Carol Oates’ book of short stories The Museum of Dr. Moses, which was my first time reading her. Probably a weird one to start with but I really enjoyed it. Her prose is pristine but still has a lot of personality. Any thoughts on her? Talk to you later!

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   Bill

   December 1, 2024 at 8:05 am

   I have to join the chorus of appreciation for Daffodildo.

   Had a very enjoyable gig. Though I’m listening to the recording, and I must say I was having a bit too much fun, and should have been a little more attentive to the needs of the improvisation. The organizers shot video; I’ll report if it gets posted.

   Not much here other than family stuff and preparing for the next gig. I’m reading Eliza Clark’s new collection, enjoying it so far. I usually have trouble with body horror in fiction, but she does it well.

   Bill

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10. 

    hsnkktobg

    December 1, 2024 at 8:26 pm

    Dennis, Hi!

    Big fan from Russia here! How do you feel abound band Eric’ Trip? I feel like the best music to read Guide to is their songs Spring and Frame!

    Love, G

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    Lucas

    December 1, 2024 at 10:13 pm

    Hi. Any updates on your bob-omb friend? How was your weekend? Mine was nice, but exhausting wrt the social obligations I had to fulfill. But that was fun, too, in a way. The demo I went to was in support of Palestine, more specifically to demand the German government to stop sending weapons to Israel. It was the first time I went to any kind of demonstration, so it was a little scary, but the people there were wonderful. The only real downside was that it was way too cold outside. Like I mentioned, I went there with a new friend—from my therapy group as well—and we hung out a while before the demo and got along amazingly. We barely know each other but we’re surprisingly similar; it’s sort of amazing in this weird way how I always find people with the same little ticks as me. Unfortunately barely found either the time or energy to write as much as I wanted this weekend. My social battery is totally dead so I’m staying in this next one to study and write, and I have the Christmas holidays in a few weeks as well, anyway. I did start reading ‘Murphy’ and I’m enjoying it a lot so far. Btw, this comes out of left field, but do you (or does anyone) know where I could find a pdf of Danielle Collobert’s ‘Notebooks, 1956-1978’? Been looking everywhere and I’m desperate by now. It would be very nice if you passed this last bit on in tomorrow’s P.S. Until then, xo.

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    Steve

    December 2, 2024 at 12:59 am

    Scrolling through all these is just depressing. My soul flew out of my body when I read Hurtyouforever’s promise to ruin his slave’s link by getting him addicted – hope that’s just a fantasy.

    New York seemed a lot quieter than usual this weekend. The winter cold also finally kicked in. It’s pleasantly brisk during the day, but at night I wish my apartment was warmer.

    I made it to A TRAVELER’S NEEDS yesterday, but I thought it was one of Hong’s worst films, rather lazy and visually indifferent. Making them so quickly and serving as a one-man crew is yielding diminishing returns.

    I’m really happy that a friend is currently mounting a successful self-distribution run in New Zealand with a film he directed. He was rejected by all the festivals (mostly in the U.S.) he applied to, but once he was able to get it in front of the audience’s eyes, people have responded very enthusiastically. It mixes found footage (the source of its images), sci-fi and body horror, so he thinks it disappointed festival programmers looking for films that fit neatly either into genre or experimental categories. I hope that he can get some U.S. screenings now that he has some positive reviews and proof it can reach an audience.

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    HaRpEr

    December 2, 2024 at 2:20 am

    Hey. I think you should take it as a compliment if an escort really digs your books. The way I see it, if sex workers and johns get something out of ‘The Sluts’ then it speaks to the book’s impact.

    @Corey is unfortunately very right about powerpoint presentations. They are either too much or not enough. People are generally either so self aware that they get nervous and can’t get the words out, or so socially unaware that they go on for far longer than they were supposed to. My whole class is doing presentations and they are only supposed to be ten minutes, but if I’m unfortunately correct in my guess then the three hour class will run over. Hopefully the professor will be kind enough to give us the appropriate number of smoke breaks.

    Yeah ‘Satyricon’ and ‘Against Nature’ are two of my favourite books. I’m the only person not doing a presentation on something we had a lecture about, but I asked the professor if I could do it and she was kind enough to say yes. There’s a lot of similarities between the two texts. The end of the Roman Empire and The fin de siecle, decadence, ennui, decline, the blending of high and low, obsession with gothic tales, ‘Against Nature’ even referring to ‘Satyricon’ as one of the books Des Esseintes holds in high regard (I could go on).

    Anyway, I have a long week ahead of me so I’m going to go and collapse onto some pillows and think about nice things until I hopefully shuffle off of this plane for as many hours as possible.

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14. 

    Justin D

    December 2, 2024 at 4:00 am

    Hi, Dennis! Great to see that Daffodildo is a fan. I watched a really beautiful film last night: ‘The Eight Mountains’. Here’s the trailer. If you appreciate a show, don’t tell type of film, I definitely recommend it. My Thanksgiving turned out to be mostly OK, thankfully. Good food; my parents are British so we do more of a traditional English “sunday roast” type of meal (Prime Rib, roast potatoes, vegetables, etc…). I’m not much of a drinker, but I had a dangerously delicious espresso martini. Also played a few rounds of UNO with my eight-year-old niece—what a throwback, I hadn’t played that game in years. How was your weekend?

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    nat

    December 2, 2024 at 7:08 am

    Oh hey. It’s 7 am right now, I’m tied up, and my dom is writing this out, it might be awkward becuse I’m trying to get this done before the new post.

    ‘The Sluts’ showing up was akin to a jumpscare, lmao. Yes, write out lmao. thank you. Don’t write that last part, you wrote that last part in, didn’t you? The other profiles are.. hmm…, well as a ‘slave’ myself, I do see a lot of common traits here with me. I hope that isn’t a bad sign.

    Personally? It’s been a bad week since I last wrote in. A lot of happenings I prefer not to write about in a public place, sorry. So I’ve been pulling back from a lot of things. Hope things will be calmer, man saying this out loud is weird. I found out today that I forgot to take my meds for a while, and not sure when that started. I’ve been taking them starting today, don’t worry. The new Joy Williams is at least making these days more bareable, so thank you for the reccomendation.

    Cloudflare hasn’t been a problem actually, mostly my internet being spotty, and me forgetting to check back. D’oh. — Clumsy dummy, lol. – N’s dom. — Writing is comfortable right now, sketching out a character whose only reaction to anything is either abject anger or belittlement, akin to a female… uhh… Heathcliff? Sure, that might work.

    Racing Lagoon is neat, car game people are too scared of it due to the RPG parts, vise versa. It’s one of those untranslated game that got a miracle fan translation out now, though if you are interested that means you’ll need to go through the murky pages for a rom with the fan translation, and I can understand if you rather not do that. Just got to a bonkers part where it all suddenly turns into a bonkers mayhem.

    I’ve been meaning to get into the rest of the Paper Marios, only played the original 64 game with the flawed Wii release of it, or well I heard a while back that it was flawed.

    I think that should be all? Remember to write that last part in.

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