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I’ve got vahmpeers on the brain right now due to recapping AMC’s AMC+’s Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampirefor Queerty—and also fun—so obviously, I had to revisit 2002’s Queen of the Damned and inflict it upon you all! Happy Halloween, treasured subscribing friends! This movie is full of howling weens! I wish I could tell you what happened in Hollyweird between Neil Jordan’s macabre-gorgeous Interview With the Vampire and…this. But I imagine it went something like: “AAAAACCKKKK!

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Your paid subscription supports my creative projects and allows me to pursue original essays and artworks like these. If you’re already subscribed, I hope you’ll consider upgrading to a paid subscription! Thank you for reading. Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, people of Earth. I’m sure you recall the Mexican alien mummy incident that took place last week. Kind of weird, right? The way it was presented on social media, it appeared as if the Mexican government was casually doing an unboxing video of extraterrestrial (Mex-traterrestrial?

Welcome to my Photo meets Tech meets Travel newsletter, which is free and reader-supported. If you’d like to show your support, please consider a paid subscription, which offers full access to the Archives, and more! This week Apple made a splash by trumpeting the coming arrival of “Apple Intelligence,” it’s brand of AI for the current edition and new iP… ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzpr7SqKWgqpGdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnpJ2ybq3LpWSnnadiwKq%2ByGagqaCfo7JuvMeoq6irXam%2FtrjY

Every so often I do a sweep of my parent’s garage looking for rogue bottles that need drinking up. In the past among the vinegar we’ve had some nice surprises: a bottle of Ayala 1975 Extra Dry, still fizzy and actually quite tasty if a little oxidised, or a 1980 Chateau Septy Monbazillac which was like liquid marmalade.  There was one, however, which I had been studiously avoiding because I was certain it would be knackered: a champagne-style bottle thick with dust which must have been there at least 20 years, probably brought back from a golf holiday in Normandy.

The decline of American religion is the most important demographic development of the 21st century. Over the last couple of decades, every aspect of religious life—formal worship, private prayer, affiliation, membership, and belief—has fallen. Fewer Americans attend worship services regularly or identify with a religious tradition today than did so a fe… ncG1vNJzZmirpKS%2FurjIp5ysZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8SxrZqml5q5qq%2FApapmrJiaeqK5xKugnJmeqHq4tM5mmKud

Welcome to Dispatch #59 of The Audio Insurgent.  I’m trying to get back to shorter dispatches!! This one is half the size of the previous few dispatches… To me, the best sign when you are working on a new project, regardless of your role on that project or even what kind of project it is–a news story, podcast, event series, is when you are genuinely excited to share it with the rest of the world and kinda can’t wait to do so.

Hauntology by its very nature is a grab for the past, for the kindness of childhood. A time which can never exist, because it never did exist. The lost future is as mourned for as the inaccessible past. This is the state of modern society. This is the order of the day. Reach into the past and let your soul linger in the amniotic fluid of nostalgia. Cease to exist, because a better world lives inside the crackle of the VHS tape.

Note: Today’s introduction discusses the massacres that took place in Israel last weekend. If you’re giving your mind and heart a break from that news cycle — which has only grown more tragic with the additional deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians — please skip straight to the links. You’ll find our usual whatnot and nonsense there. I’m not going to describe the images posted to the Telegram channel South First Responders in any real detail.