vaudeville ghost s. pumpkins

it is so much funnier when the guy road raging at you has a giant JESUS bumper sticker

This is how culture dies. Games made by nobody, for an audience of nobody, remembered by nobody, built on the bones of great artists who came before. This is the last act of a dying civilization that forgot what it means to be human, if it ever actually was.

I posted a new short story. It's called "You can't sleep here." I hope you like it. www.patreon.com/joeycomeau/p...

if you haven't yet switched your clocks to display 24 hour time, consider: you can check the time and it's 13:12

sunset

rando on an ebike going the wrong way down a protected bike lane carrying a paddleboard (or possibility a kayak??) on his shoulder got very mad at me for not getting out of his way i'm sorry bud but making bad choices does not give you the right of way actually

another new track from IROIRO, easily one of the coolest bands out of seattle right now m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbyz...

you ever have someone pegged as like 19 years old and then find out they're in their mid 40s

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constantly torn between my distaste for the concept of a musical canon and my desire to have a robust repertoire of karaoke crowd-pleasers

every update to no man's sky makes the title less apt

it should cost money, payable to me personally, to complain about reviews not liking a thing you like if you have ever done this you owe me six bucks; please be in touch by the end of the week

there are few better moments than, upon seeing something weird happen, locking eyes with a nearby rando and shrugging about it

hey hi I'm gathering a list of features/tropes/etc that make a mega man game a Mega Man game (things like "choose your stage order", "defeat a boss, get their weapon" and so on) what elements, big or small, define a Mega Man game to you?

putting my persuasive essay skills to good use tonight (complaining at great length about lime scooters in the city's survey)

saw two different usps vans without license plates in the span of two blocks this morning. the rest of the day has been similarly weird

this is the sort of nonsense slogan i expect from, like, a protein bar extra baffling from a pizza company

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

the youtube algorithm is desperately trying to get me watch videos about how You're Playing Monopoly Wrong and i want to set the record straight: the only wrong way to play monopoly is to play monopoly

ads represent a fundamental security risk to you as a user and running an ad blocker is one of the easiest and most efficacious ways of being safer on the internet "turn off your ad blocker" is dangerous advice

wrote a poem www.vaudevillegho.st/elegy-for-a-...

sure wildfire smoke sucks and all but at least my tom waits impression has never been better

met a bridge

no promises

seattle is very proud of its new mascot

i don't make the rules

met some clouds

I am not sure how I lost this Overqualified letter while rebuilding the website, but it is found again! www.patreon.com/joeycomeau/p...

had to rescue a spider who had gotten trapped in the bathtub. after a moment's agitation it seemed pretty chill about being ferried to safety

new post! as is traditional, i had most of this written, like, a month ago but didn't post it until someone else asked basically the same question and i was like 'oh yeah i should post that'. www.vaudevillegho.st/how-do-you-f...

the guy in the "noah was a conspiracy theorist" t-shirt dealt me actual psychic damage

i have been very excited for iroiro to drop their debut single and now it is here iroiroband.bandcamp.com/album/once-s...

Every time I re-watch The Wicker Man (2006) it takes me all day because I keep pausing to do more exciting things like the dishes, checking the mail, or taking out the compost.

saw a jogger today wearing a red white and blue shirt bearing the text "wtf is a kilometer" possibly the most american shirt imaginable

i see these little guys all over the place

july 4th is cringe

every time someone complains the graphics aren't good enough in a video game another ghastly uncanny valley homunculus is born

happy pride

seeing the world's normalest looking old ladies carrying "billionaires hate us all" protest signs always gives me life

wallingford at night

today in scenes from a dead mall: pacific place has set up massive TV screens to show the world cup, with a very bad sound system blasting loud enough to be heard (but not good enough to be understood) through the entire building the crowd gathered was not big enough to make the mall look alive

photo from a few weeks ago, vantage, wa