Peter Counter, Nightmare Host

brb gotta watch Louis pwn some fuckin' manosphere noobs

Just muttering under my breath: "this is ok I don't hate life everyone has to sort their garbage this is ok you're still a writer and the writing will happen don't panic this is ok."

The challenge here is to not let this situation send you into a depressive spiral. That's the fabled "self forgiveness."

Sometimes you don't get to write for a day because of chores.

Right? There's more than one way to get in Jeopardy!

Heated Rivalry mentioned in a Jeopardy! clue—Rachel Ried is officially immortal.

do Americans know about Matthew Good?

Kippers for breakfast? Is it St Swithin’s day already?

even before all the generative AI bullshit, this company was responsible for all your barely literate business clients insisting you remove voice from your writing because of the blue squiggles

destroy them!

¡Yo quiero great writing!

The Literary World's Prestigious Taco Bell Quarterly has surpassed 24,000 followers in the sky. I can't even use the Paris Review over here as my villain because I'm crushing them. We are about to surpass Lit Hub. Taco Bell is your Literary Hub now.

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Last year I wrote an essay about Grammarly's foolish pursuit of gen AI. They should have read my obscure and rarely published newsletter before making this most recent blunder.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but the "ask for forgiveness not for permission" window of AI development ended like two years ago.

This reminds me of the time those NFT dipshits minted all that music without permission in an attempt to launch some ill conceived blockchain music service and it was over in like 12 hours. Only this time the dipshits work for a popular spellchecker.

A long time ago I realized that I don't like deeply engaging with art I hate, so I started refusing to review things if I didn't have at least one positive thread to explore (ie. Netflix's Haunting of Hill House show). Now I am a critically acclaimed nonfiction author. This can be your path, too.

Anyway, the core idea of a novel is that it's a story written by a human being from another time and place. Unbelievable how much this concept has been lost on the disruptor and early adopter sets.

Hello time bomb,
I hope this email finds your devil on sugar snacks, down at the Radio Shack, turning shit into solid gold.
Dirty enough and ready to go off,
Matthew Good

unfortunately the last ten percent is either unclear or pretty cringe and I'm just too vain!

reading some more practical texts on the occult and contemporary magick use and the biggest surprise is that I'm already doing like 90 percent of it (obsessing, worshiping satan, being asexual)

massive points value but not a word

nine titles stuck to his father's ass:
MARKWAYNE

conceived on top of a Scrabble board

It's so sad because a creative life and the skills that drive it can be developed by anyone. It's a choice. But many people don't like that idea either, because it can sound like not choosing to be creative is their fault, and they'll be damned if some filthy artist is better than them at anything.

The only problem to solve is the resentment that other people can do something the AI user cannot. And I think that resentment comes from a deep lack of fulfillment seeded in consumer mindsets. Many people think they should be able to acquire anything through money or shortcuts.

Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?

The main good thing about the latest MP crossing the floor to join the Liberals is that Poilievre is going to lose his freaking mind and that will be fun to watch.

Rewatching The Knick and I'm on season two and I think I can confidently put it in my top five shows of all time.

because I'm a nerd, my daily creative writing goal is 666 words, and you know what? I always hit it, because I'm a nerd