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swallowing a bug in front of my judgemental colleagues

The 'prose poem system' is a great idea. adds a lot of ambiguity and flavour!

Appreciate it, friend!

Like a pain relief commercial from the unstable shadow realm in your own mind.

Intersubjective entities, an architecture that hungers for flesh and bones, and glitchy atmospherics. What's not to love?

Also agree the music is dreamy and works great.

Exquistely arid! flesh become cycle.

Very informative! Had never heard of this and it's like a fever dream.

Much appreciated!

Thanks so much for the comment! So glad it made an impression!!

A gothic romanticism of lack / void in a whorl of techno-social withdrawal. This is the kind of poetry I could see a character in Gibson’s “Sprawl” trilogy creating.

Ah thanks!! Your texture assessment is greatly appreciated. I also really enjoyed the article from Erik, so many amazing finds in the Houdini haunted mansion.

They all seem to work fine for me

This jam is an excellent idea! As far as resources go, Discmaster is pretty great for searching / pulling all kinds of obscure material/imagery from a massive archive of old CD-ROMS, clip art disks etc:

https://discmaster.textfiles.com/

Thank you! I think it was the result of an early morning associative chain after reading a book of Cronenberg interviews the night before!

Absolutely! And just in time for Houdini's birthday (today, apparently!)

Excellent. Brings to mind Guy Debord: "Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation."

I found it through the Houdini mag decks you had been making, which I found extremely fresh and strange! Same with the website.

Teal Zap looks very intriguing -- thank you for the suggestion! 

This is a great idea! Numbers get weird up close!!

Oh wow thank you so much! The Houdini-sphere is such a magnetic bellwhether for dire, mystero-hilarious materials… So I am really charmed to see this get a mention there. Also fascinated by that “cold crack” term, if you or your friend ever write more on it, I’d love to see where it goes. Might just be a coincidence but it reminds me of the way Marshall McLuhan used the term “cold media” to describe media that required a lot of audience interpretation/participation to complete. Almost like picking at a scab, sure…

Yes! I think Rutherford had the "plum pudding model" of atomic structure, so maybe they taste like that...

This was timely (pun intended) and helpful as I was also just thinking about potentially needing a clock type thing. Thanks all!

Yes! Thank you. Alumni have gone on to many non-hemorrhagic vocations!

much appreciated~~~~!

Best deal since 'Buy 1 Fuck Hell Get 1 Fuck Hell Free!'

Very striking! Re: the etymology of angel in the original Greek, the term literally means "messenger" so a staticky angel is almost synonomous with "corrupted message" or something... Works on many levels... 

Ah thanks so much for playing and commenting (on this, and the others!) I really appreciate your film-informed approach as I am coming from a similar world of film-saturation (although I am still working through some of the suggestions you gave on other brainfreezing movies!)

*me running around suburban streets shouting 'what year is it!?'*

Fantastic way to do a memoir, really impacftul. Also, wonderful Devlog on Decker with some really helpful insights and tips! (And of course thanks for including some bits from my deranged little dematerial dictionary)

Thanks very mu!

90% murder, 10% delicately handling a ballerina music box.

Summoning the gloved hands of Dario Argento to give this a double thumbs up!

Sow vurry hoppy thet somween made un Oon tha Air game! Wennar Tukas Ull!

Ah so glad you met the quail—and liked it!

This works really well, the format is really elegant and evocative!

This is awesome! Kind of reminds me of a sect of TV worshipping televangelists in William Gibson's Virtual Light.

You could also change the size of your deck to make it more phone friendly, for example going into the .deck file and swapping the length and width values under "size" to enable a more vertical view. Here's an example of someone who did that in the latest jam:

https://erikhoudini.itch.io/the-fish-bowl-get-your-ears-wet

Charming. There's a shop like this near where I live. It makes me want to go spend some dough on useless tchotchkes!

A big pink thank you!!!

"I"... "like" ... where this is ... "going" (!)

Of course the fish would recommend dungeon synth by THE POND! Great selections and a brilliant way to present them. What else do the fish know that they ain't telling?