"Well, it's complicated because fire kills you" is a hell of a sentence.

Trick or treater said he’d trade me two pieces of his candy for one of mine. I said he could just have the candy and he still threw two pieces in my bowl and took one. For those keeping score that means I somehow ended up with more candy than I started with.

Last week a stranger asked me what my costume was supposed to be. Friends, I was not wearing a costume. Happy November.

"Sits slouched atop a purple cushion the Delphic avatar of money, hope, odds and desperation, his wrists bound" "If the Knife of God Shall Be Found Dull Let My Hand Be His Whetstone" by Theodore Sovinski (Ted) / New today at AC alwayscrashing.com/current/2024/1…

An auspicious day for new fiction from yrs truly in your favorite lit mag’s favorite lit mag! Featuring football, gambling and the longest title I’ve yet gotten away with.

You know and I know that you're going to be staring at this hellsite all day today, might as well read something good

"Is anything important going on today?" Yes friends obviously duh, there's a new story by Ted at AC

I am visiting New York this weekend but not in a dumb Midwest tourist way. In a cool way.

Guy at the bar put piggies by the Beatles on the jukebox. Insane choice.

NYC book haul

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No one more significant or meaningful—the most resonant artist of my lifetime.

"A breakneck ride through the nightmare of a dying empire . . .  a dizzying feat that treats Antonin Artaud’s 'Theatre of Cruelty' as an ante to be upped." Ted reviews blake butler's new novel UXA.GOV (𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊): full-stop.net/2025/01/22/rev….

Thanks to Full Stop for this astute close reading of UXA.GOV by Ted, contextualizing it w the work of Jodorowsky, Kafka, Artaud, Deleuze & Guattari, Burroughs, Sade, and this website

"To read the novel is to submit to its style and let it be, to decide that 'What does it mean?' is an inappropriate question." Ted reviews UXA GOV by blake butler (𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊): full-stop.net/2025/01/22/rev….

Happy Super Bowl Day Perfect time to read a super-bowl short story featuring terrorism, Las Vegas eunuchs and a sports gambling oracle… alwayscrashing.com/current/2024/1…