Timothée Chalamet straight up lookin like Anne Frank in this Chanel ad

In 2017 Dr. Paul Locus was attending a Halloween party dressed as the Joker when he was urgently called to deliver a baby. Despite the costume he rushed to the hospital

“A wild spectacle to behold, like some dead-of-night sweepstakes show on the cable access channel of a nation-sized small town in an alternate dimension….” Read more at: tinyurl.com/yc6dumda

March edition of the ＷＡＫＥ ＩＳＬＡＮＤ substack is here -- the vibes are shifting into stranger territory still! wakeisland.substack.com/p/wake-island-…

The creep of normalization is a strange phenomenon to experience in real-time: to know how truly strange all of this is, and yet to experience that strangeness less and less intensely…Until strangeness is only a feeling that I know I ought to feel and yet not one I actually can.

Don’t ask why I have this. I just do. Who wants it? XS.

Doom & Bloom - April edition of the Wake Island Substack is live open.substack.com/pub/wakeisland…

how to strategically and intellectually make a connection to the American pope with the new Ye song ?

“Somewhere east of yesterday, a banker embalms Beethoven in derivatives. Time squirms. Form stutters. The West writes itself into a sealed chamber lined with mirrors and wiring — nothing escapes, everything refracts. Decline doesn’t march — it spasms.” eurosiberia.net/p/william-burr…

A zeitgeist defining essay from our spring issue by our pal David Leo Rice 🌀 Read THE FEAST OF FOOLS | ON CARNIVAL, IMAGINATION, & HERESY IN THE AGE OF THE TRICKSTER 🎪 southwestreview.com/volume-110-num…

Feel like it’s gonna be a “straight guy drug addicts tagging along with the gay guys” summer

The May Edition of ＷＡＫＥ ＩＳＬＡＮＤ substack is here! wakeisland.substack.com/p/wake-island-…

Great essay by my friend Paul ＷＡＫＥ ＩＳＬＡＮＤ: “The Inverted Tower The original Tower of Babel, in Genesis 11, tells the story of a united humanity: one language, one project. They attempt to build a tower to the heavens to make a name for themselves. In response to this hubris,

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The cool thing about that is my father. My brother was the one kidnapped, but my father used to work for the same TV station. He was cameraman so he knew when the camera came on he followed the light from the camera so he just followed the light that’s when he knew when to turn

I’ve lost count of how many people I’ve forced to watch this video

Damn, we’re getting a new Adam Curtis project just as life starts looking like one…dazzling, horrific war footage and all

If May was a month to regroup, then June is when shit hits the fan. The possible beginning of a world war lands on Friday the 13th, the same weekend as Father’s Day, my first as a daddy to my baby daughter. open.substack.com/pub/wakeisland…