late for class

The kid gets an invite to be a wizard, but the scholarship falls through. Sudden devaluation in the market for cursed silver that tastes of ocean salt.

The kid gets an invite to be a wizard but on the way is waylaid, stuffed into a box, replaced by a lookalike: A knowledge-seeking golem seeking its creator.

The kid gets an invite but it’s a magic invite, unstable, and it explodes. His blackened wall shadow can still attend, the wall wheeled from class to class.

You’re invited.

open bar

Please know that I brought this folding chair to your wedding because the invite didn’t specify if there would be enough seats for everyone and I thought I’d take responsibility for myself, and it’s not because I’m planning a “heel turn” where I smash you in the back during the first dance for breaking up our tag team.

But you know.

If you did want to get the tag team back together, and could let me know in the near term.

That’d be.

missed destiny

Feel like I missed my calling as a patent medicine salesman. My niche would be “entirely lacking in showmanship” and I’d just sell the bottled drug juice with weird herbs in it and leave town, bing-bang-boom, in my rattletrap carriage with hyperbolic claims painted on the flyout wings.

why do I even follow this channel

what’s up youtube today we’re doing the around-the-cup challenge where we sip from a cup, then rotate it a little, sip again, then keep going until we’ve sipped from every last bit of the lip and gone full circle and this will help us forget

this will help us forget

but dont forget to like comment subscribe donate patreon venmo kofi gofundme and if you can’t eat the whole cup, if the ceramic really scrapes your mouth out check back next week for our new video okay byeeeee

financial gaaaaains

a zombie apocalypse where every stumbling corpse has a briefcase and a business plan

there’s one person in the party who hides the fact that they took a full-color, trifold brochure… in a corner muttering about impossible rates of return on investment

survivors scattering paper currency as chaff while fleeing a horde

the goal: get to the co-op farm outside of town, eat veggies, maintain a perimeter

FIRST DATE IDEAS: MID-WINTER EXORCISM

Looking to kindle the flame of true love? ‘Tis the season to grab your paramour, don some leather protective bindings and some robes, and enter the darkness beneath the abandoned laundromat where Those Who Shun the Light doze the day away, or sharpen their teeth on paving stones. Many a night of romance begins with the kindling of underground murderfires! Couples, hand in purified hand, cleansing a filth-laden spiritual incursion!

[relatable content for good children afternoon edition may 2]

a depraved child of low moral character: There are some things for girls and some things for boys and there should be an equal amount of each to be fair

you (a good child, keen of wit): Whatever you can wrest with your own two hands is yours as your grasp is the only truth in this benighted world

As if working off an indenture contract by mining asteroids in the lawless belt ain’t hard enough, The Company assigned you a dang robot. (1d6)

  1. Mama Roach – Housekeeping protocol enforcement. Controls “lights out.”
  2. Elvin – Geology module installed. Talks to rocks. Doesn’t sleep.
  3. Kazock the Incredible – As required by law, an entertainment bot. Knows 3 magic tricks.
  4. MO1ST
  5. Sgt. Accounts – Armed paperwork management.
  6. Lance – Medic. Frequently breaks test tubes w/ its claws.

let us go then, you and I

The abandoned factory with its basement full of unused sparks in dizzying loose mounds.

The inaccessible stretch of beach that the seagulls circle, never landing.

The portal to a wonderland where your childhood toys are in a heap, damp, chewed on… guarded.

I have so many ideas for places to go on first dates, you guys.

The Signal: EP154

the signal ep 154 cover image - a robot inserts a maxelle cassette into its head

The Signal: EP154 – Exactly 45 minutes of music, custom designed to fit in your head’s cassette deck (or any other music player you have handy so long as it can play an mp3 file). We’ve got all sorts of aural delights for you this time out, including brain-shivering pop from Iceland and California, beautiful-ugly rock sounds from Sweden and New York, beats, cumbia, reggae, boogaloo… you’re gonna dig it.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags. Or, if you sign up to be a member of our mailing list, The Tuned In, you’ll be among the first on the planet to know when a new mix is posted, and you’ll get a permanent archive link and the entire playlist, delivered to your inbox.

Spotify user? Here’s (most of) the EP154 playlist.