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A Listicle Letter Addressed to Me, Containing An Itinerary of Things I Really Ought to Improve About Myself in 2021
Dear Jack (a.k.a. You, a.k.a. Me), I think you know all too well that it's high time you upgraded your metaphorical physical and psychological OS settings. You're filled with bugs that need fixing, and you can't wait for others to help do it for you, so maybe give a hard reset and reboot a go?
By Jack Anderson Keane3 years ago in Psyche
Dear Donald: So Long, and Thanks for All the Shit
Dear Donald, This is an open letter addressed to you, imagining a world in which you actually cared to read words on a page. Maybe get somebody to read this out to you like the world's worst audiobook? Or like a bedtime story for the world's oldest, brattiest, stupidest infant. Which is you, Donald. I'm talking about you. I'm insulting you explicitly. I'm calling you stupid and bad, because you are, and you know you are, and you like that you are, because that's all you've ever been.
By Jack Anderson Keane4 years ago in The Swamp
An Imaginary Soundtrack to 2020. Top Story - January 2021.
This playlist was a tough one to whittle down, but I eventually settled on the following selection of 66 songs, each from a different artist, ranging across a wide array of genres and moods. I arranged them into this very particular order that you see here, as a means of creating a good tonal ebb and flow, and also finding decent matches between the end of one song, and the beginning of the next. However, you can always play it on shuffle mode, and it ought to work just fine. I hope you enjoy...
By Jack Anderson Keane4 years ago in Beat
HEREDITARY: The Horror To End All Horrors
If you were to be asked the question of what you believe is the best horror movie ever made, coming to an answer is far from a straightforward proposition, as the question is wide open to a lot of interpretation and subjectivity, with many different avenues of thought to take into account.
By Jack Anderson Keane4 years ago in Horror
BETWEEN WORLDS: a deliriously bonkers (and bad, but brilliant, but mostly bad) supernatural-horror-thriller-erotic-drama-comedy, starring Nicolas Cage as a shagaholic Deep South trucker.
From literally the very first second of 2018's Between Worlds, upon sight of the basic-ass Times New Roman default font they chose for the main titles, the first thought that sprang to mind was:
By Jack Anderson Keane4 years ago in Geeks
30 Curious and Obscure Words, Phrases, & Insults (Which Are Totally Not All About One Specific Tremendously Stable Genius). Top Story - January 2018.
Lexicography is a wonderful thing. The study of words and language, the strange and fascinating ways in which these words came to be, and how they have linguistically evolved over time, is a subject ripe for intellectual curiosity.
By Jack Anderson Keane7 years ago in The Swamp
13 Hidden Horror Movie Gems to Help You Survive the Annual January/February Cinematic Dumping Ground
In recent years, the month of January has become synonymous with the widespread dreaded expectation of the major movie studios releasing their cheapest off-cuts, and likeliest critical duds, to die a quick death in the cinematic dumping ground that is the awkward winter period of post-Christmas/early-New Year/start-of-awards-season chaos.
By Jack Anderson Keane7 years ago in Horror