My new essay “I Killed Something Awful” has been printed in the Spring 2024 issue of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. It’s about internet trolling, ancient message board drama and the post that (maybe, potentially, kinda) killed the old internet and brought in the new one. Check it out here: https://www.2600.com or pick it up wherever finer periodicals are sold.
Swans: San Antonio, Texas, April 24th 2024
There are millions and millions of words online attempting to describe the “state of things today,” the complex interplay of technology and society and hate and sex which seems to have put everyone in such a foul mood. I could write a million words about it too — but I’m a professional. I’ll be concise.
Games Journalism
I have ambitions. I want to write one of the Great Works; the century works. Something that lasts, like Paradise Lost, or Don Quixote or Blondie by Lester Bangs. What you are now reading is not my ambition. This is a shitpost on the internet about video games journalism. Which begs the question: how, exactly,…
Orenthal James Simpson (1947-2024)
Orenthal James Simpson, celebrated football player and star of stage and screen died of prostate cancer this week at the age of seventy-six.
Lacklove
It was early afternoon and her sweater was the same color as her skin. I don’t remember what we talked about. I don’t remember most of her.
Never and Always
CO-AUTHORED BY: DON & KOBOLD Andy woke late. It was around ten a.m. when he emerged from the shower and brushed his teeth in the usual fashion: fifty strokes for his lower jaw, fifty for the upper and a final fifty for the the frontal bones which speech most frequently revealed. He removed the platinum…
Bit By Kobold
With Apologies to Charles Addams
Get Sexy Sleepy Drinking Blood at the Watergate Hotel on March 22nd!
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sexy Sleepy Drinking Blood, the first Don Jolly dot com zine, will be available for pickup at the Cherry Blossom Pop Up show on March 22nd, 2024. The exhibition, a collaboration between the Watergate Hotel and the Victor Gallery, will host a number of international artists including painter Matthew H. James, who will be distributing a very limited number of zines. The preview begins at noon, with the opening at 4pm. To RSVP, contact the Victor Gallery: info@victorgallery.com
The New Frontiers
The TSA man is looking serious. “Sir, we’ve detected some trouble spots. We’re going to have to pat you down.” He points to a screen beside the body scanner, displaying a little cartoon of the human body. Red exclamations points are clustered around its dick and ass. This representation, I know, is tied to my dick — my ass. I agree with the machine. They’re trouble.