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Latest — 26 May 2026

Foam-Padded Folk Horror

A model village for stories where nobody dies, everyone participates, and the pattern survives. Core Thesis Folk horror’s deepest dread is not sacrifice, but scale mismatch: the encounter between a linear, individual agent and a cyclical, communal pattern that persists beyond their comprehension, intervention, or escape. Removing the sacrificial

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Desario: Hinterland + Long Lost

Same Four Pairs of Hands, Different Light It is tempting to frame Desario’s two new albums, Hinterland and Long Lost, as contrasting works. The temptation is strong because the contrast is real. One, Hinterland, was recorded in Portland at Jackpot! Recording Studio with Larry Crane, a producer whose presence

There Is No Reason for This. Do Not Ask.

How a painted miniature accidentally asked a good question about why systems keep running It started with a miniature of an Ork in a Japanese school uniform. If you're not into the Warhammer 40,000 money pit… erm, hobby, that sentence needs unpacking. Orks, in this setting, are

Barbara Powers and the Custody of East River Pipe

Two paragraphs in an Instagram story: a snapshot of the liner notes from the reissue of East River Pipe’s Mel. Presumably Barbara Powers, recounting the tale of copying cassettes at home and eventually carrying small batches of 7-inches into indie record stores on consignment. I had to read the

The Artifact Is Not True Until It Runs

A Field Note on AI-Augmented Engineering, Validation, and the Work Between Specification and Reality An AI model can generate code. What recently felt like a novelty in software engineering is quickly becoming an accepted, even mundane norm. The more interesting—and still overlooked—questions happen before and after the code

The Inevitable Plastique Explosion

A Brutal & Kunnin' Night at the Waaghtory · Four Musicians · One Chanteuse · One Soup Can DA BAND Four Ork musicians and a Chanteuse, performing one night at Big Boss Waaghol's Waaghtory. Waaghol does not play. He watches. He holds a soup can. His silence is worse than

The Rover Takes Over

A TiGGR Scenario About Automation, Indifference, and the System That Doesn't Need You Players: 2–5 | Playtime: 30–45 minutes | Components: 2d6, pencil, paper | Requires the TiGGR core rules THE PREMISE Number 2 is gone. Helicoptered out this morning, mid-sentence, mid-tea. No announcement. No replacement. The Green Dome

The Imaginary Friend

Earlier this month, Nancy went on the road with Dusty Reske's Rocketship, playing (on a broken foot in a walking boot, but that's a whole 'nother tale) five dates in California, Washington, and Oregon for the 30th anniversary of the Slumberland release 'A Certain

The Ones Who Stayed Buried: The Pretty Things

Not every zombie process gets its reactivation event. Consider S.F. Sorrow. The Pretty Things recorded their concept album at Abbey Road across 1967 and 1968, overlapping with the same sessions that produced Sgt. Pepper's, Piper, and Odessey and Oracle. S.F. Sorrow has a legitimate claim to

Semtex in Every Pot

“Semtex in every pot, a 3D printer in every garage.” It lands as a joke because it sounds like a mutation of an older promise—a chicken in every pot—but something in it feels less like satire and more like recognition. Not a policy. Not even a warning. A