How then can one not see to what extent horror becomes fascinating, and how it alone is brutal enough to break everything that stifles? - Georges Bataille

another guy has a 100 lb bag of pinto beans framed

parents house scene report: msnbc talking head has a wu tang record on display in the background of his living room

Oh my, looks like they cut the fur with friskers scissors.

it being just the hour when people were on their way to church, pleasure seemed like an act of worship.

This house tour is an unbelievable flex.

It can’t be done!

tables and chairs like incubi and succubi

“Dear friend, I do not believe that if you had once read my Manifesto you could persevere in your objections, so either you have not read it or you have read it badly.” - Antonin Artaud

This pastel has all the creamy unctuousness of oils.

Nothing but eyes, nostrils, the well-curved lips, ears, curls, the splendid globes of the breasts.

as Cézanne used to say, the meat

idiots, madmen, inverts, grammarians, grocers, antipoets and positivists

my daughter left the room for several minutes and came back with this

in nearby towns it was a common practice for people to steal skulls from the bone house, and then sleep with them in the hopes that the spirit of the deceased would reveal a lottery combination in a dream.

Drinking tea since it’s after 5

Wild that rectitudinous is a word

Sketch For Summer - The Durutti Column - La Edad de Oro, Madrid 1983 YouTube video by kigonjiro

what’s better than this?

youtu.be/rMRdKp7BewU?...

becoming a real durutti column guy

I used to book show at a place that had apartments and studios, and one of the residents would come to shows and bring his bongo. He’d start playing along with the band from the audience. Everybody called him bongo dave.

only one author in the history of English language literature had a cooler real name than the guys he made up: Rex Stout.

Bad news…

He’s funny and gets that Sherlock is a weird guy who shouldn’t be likable at every turn.

My wife is busting my chops about decorating the house in jugendstil style again.

Can’t remember the last time I met someone who said they were “good with names”.

“Whoever denies sexuality is not only an idiot but also insults his own parents in a most despicable fashion.” - Egon Schiele

on here thanks to @radioshock.bsky.social who also gave me one of the best book reqs ever, the ware series by rudy rucker