For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #109
It's a dog eat dog winter, you gotta stay weird and you gotta stay warm.
If we tried to detail all of the wild shit that has happened in the last week alone we’d need 10,000 words, and an Ativan. But to us, continuity and consistency are what’s important in a world of back stabbers, death merchants, and shit-rats.
So we’re here. We’re queer. Let’s keep it weird.
This week the inboxes of paid subscribers received a lawyerly classic from our intrepid attorney (not actually our attorney, nor yours), “Data or it didn’t happen”. An incredibly detailed post on how digital evidence, forensics, and the law are all doing a dangerous dance in civil and criminal cases. Lawyers should bookmark this one. All subscribers will have access to this article next week, so keep an eye out for it.
In our written world, like a fine wine to Justin’s cheese, this week also saw Kennedy’s, “Mythmaking as Method” go out to all subscribers. Exploring the the demon-hunting Warrens, and their incredibly troubling history.
Last week, paid subscribers also received Volume 3 of High Spirits. Due to Justin blowing his vocal chords out singing Sweet Child O’ Mine in his garage, Kennedy had to ride solo for this instalment. Fear not, her unreliable narrator returns next week and rumour has it he fully intends to take you all to Cock Lane.
What Justin Recommends
Movie | Boys from County Hell (Shudder) - Residents in a small Irish town start mysteriously bleeding out, right where they sit. An ancient curse? A virus? Or something else? The Boys from County Hell has a cast of characters that you will assuredly love; you truly feel their love for one another, their social boundaries and the rural community existing within and around them. These relationships form the backbone to an incredibly entertaining, darkly funny, and downright scary movie. I can’t recommend this one enough.
Book | Experimental Film by Gemma Files - This was a recommendation from the Fangoria Colors of the Dark podcast, and they did not disappoint. I absolutely annihilated this novel in a handful of days. A dark, supernatural horror novel set in Toronto and surrounding area tracing a dark path through history and found footage in a wonderfully unique way. What also stood out to me was the incredibly detailed view into the world of the neurodivergent, both as a protagonist and how they navigate their own child’s neurodivergence. I had never seen such a raw, intimate, example of autism in a home like I did in this book. A must read.
Don’t fret, you unruly bunch of shit-sharpshooters, we’ll be back at full staff next week.
Until then? Smoke something nice.
The Bullshit Hunting Crew
Ps. Kennedy and Justin are in an edit war. She is supposed to be taking time off. Here’s the picture that WAS on the top of this post — Justin
