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David Kane

@davidkane.bsky.social
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(he/him) author of DRIPPY TRIPPY DOOM and I COME FROM VENUS. Performer of absurdist theatre. linktr.ee/davidthekane

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Doompunk Dispatch @doompunkdispatch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Vibes From Venus #1 - YouTube
Songs that inspired the making of I COME FROM VENUS #1
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Doompunk Dispatch @doompunkdispatch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You have ONE WEEK left to buy copies of my vulcanpunk comic book of psychedelic D🧿🧿M! Link in biome. After August 23rd I’m gonna BURN THE LEFTOVERS (jk) In the meantime, please enjoy a playlist @jorclank.bsky.social and I made of songs that inspired our comic world. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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I COME FROM VENUS
ISSUE #1 PLAYLIST
SONGS THAT INSPIRED VENUS
DOOMPUNK DISPATCHDAVID'S PICKS
1. ROBOT STOP - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
2. GUIDED BY ANGELS - AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS
3. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE - METALLICA
4. ROCKET NUMBER NINE - SUN RA ARKESTRA
5. GIZA BUTLER - SLEEP
6. ESOTERIC ORDER - TORTUGA
7. AH POOK IS HERE -
WILLIAM S. BORROUGHS AND JOHN CALE
8. ARENA OF BLOOD - OSEES
9. FORGING THE BEAST - JOHANN JOHANSSON
10. PLANET B - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
DOOMPUNK DISPATCHJORGE'S PICKS
1. YOU CAN'T STOP STEEL - MIDNIGHT
2. VENUSIAN 1 - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
3. SUPA SCOOPA AND MIGHTY SCOOP - KYUSS
4. BURN ME DOWN - FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS
5. PROWLING LEATHER - MIDNIGHT
6. HOAX - DEATHCHANT
7.1 SEE THROUGH YOU - UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS
8. THAT WAS JUST YOUR LIFE - METALLICA
9. SNAKES FOR THE DIVINE - HIGH ON FIRE
10. DUST ON LEATHER - HEX CROW
DOOMPUNK DISPATCHA portrait of a bald man situ blue skin dressed as an evil priest holding a crucifix. Yellow speech bubbles contain text: 

FIND ABOUT THIS PLAYLIST,
I COME FROM VENUS
AND MORE
ON OUR SUBSTACK @DOOMPUNKDISPATCH.
LINK IN BIO.
DOOMPUNK DISPATCH
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hi everyone, I wrote a comic book, got Jorge Peña to illustrate, and now it’s finally a real flesh and blood THING you can touch and read and eat. You can purchase one from @doompunkdispatch.bsky.social, who is also me. Link in biooooome 🚀
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Doompunk Dispatch @doompunkdispatch.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🚀 Get em while they’re hot! 🪐 Limited batch of 100 copies, pre-orders close Aug 23. Purchase link in bio. 🤘Long Live Venus!
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Doompunk Dispatch @doompunkdispatch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SNEAK a PEEK at the first four pages of I COME FROM VENUS #1. Preorders for this limited run will open this weekend. Then you can read all 28 full-color pages of psychedelic doom written by @davidkane.bsky.social and illustrated by @jorclank.bsky.social
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Ben McEntee @benmce.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Somewhere in the Marshes
Illustration of a Rough-skinned Newt drifting in an orange pond. There are rocks and an old dagger at the bottom of the pool
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Actual photo of the Ecuador soccer coach
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
every day i find an incredible guy (from a painting scroll attributed to qiu ying called "raising the alms bowl: the conversion of hariti, mother of demons) asia.si.edu/explore-art-...
a shrimp wearing a lotus leaf with its arms raised
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I wrote an essay in praise of the absurdist masterpiece: Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared.
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
apex apollonian absurdism
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I dreamt of the beach (1/4)
Page one: text on black background, “WAKE UP!”. Eyes open, a baby sea turtle with an eggshell helmet says, “you need to wake up!”Page 2: helmet turtle says to a green baby sea turtle, who is waking up out off his egg, “we need to get moving.” CRASH! A cormorant breaks through the ceiling of their nest hole. Helmet turtle says MOVE!Page 3: “when you’re out there, beeline to the water. Don’t stop. Don’t be a hero. Godspeed.” The helmet turtle kicks baby green turtle out the hole off a cliff onto the beach below.Page 4: baby green turtle lands on the sand. The distance between him and the water is quite large. Another baby sea turtle is being devoured by a seagull and is screaming for help.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
IT’S LITERALLY REFERENCED IN A LINE ON THE SIMPSONS I LEARNED THIS WHEN I WAS EIGHT
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Just finished reading the best Corporate Horror I’ve laid eyes on: THE ORGANIZATION IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU by @charleneelsby.bsky.social. Pick up a copy from @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social
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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 23/02/2026
oh word???? no shit????? for real????????
washington post headline saying "the power of AI transfixed wall st and washington. recent research suggests it may be a mirage" as if these idiots just crawled out of a cave
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
substack.com/@doompunk?r=... Consider subscribing (for free!) to my Substack where I write psychotronic culture essays and occasionally post fiction.
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David Kane | Substack
Author of DRIPPY TRIPPY DOOM and other Weird writings.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I forgot to tag @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social too! Go buy their books and support fresh indie Weird Horror!
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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Doof Warrior by Vlad Legostaev. #comics #art #film
Doof warrior shredding
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Scarey!! (they/them)🍉🦇 @scareymulligan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sporadically speaking Spanish around/to my husband then having to stop and tell him “do NOT say that to strangers” bc I was not raised right (The rule of thumb is: if he heard me say it, he cannot repeat any part that sounds like pinche, chinga(da), or verga, also say “manches” instead of “mames”)
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics
A comic in black/white/blue.
Lucy rolls her bike through an alley, by a crew building a fence.
Narration: My neighbors hired a crew to rebuild their fence.
Crew member: "Do you need us to move our stuff out of the way?"
Lucy: "Oh! No, you're all good, thanks!"
Lucy: "Have a good one!"
Crew member: "You, too!"Narration: I was teaching when my phone started lighting up with alerts from the rapid response network and neighbor chat.
Lucy's back is to us as she shows a group of enthusiastic children something on a notebook. Behind her, her phone in her bag is buzzing.

Narration: By the time the lesson was over, they were already gone.
Lucy is reading messages on her phone.
Messages: 
Alert: black SUV
Sighting: be on alert for...
Confirmed abductionL alley between ----- and ----. SUV plates...
We tried to get them inside, but it was too...
...Contacting an I.R. lawyer. Heading to Broadview later today.Lucy is riding her bike home.
Narration: On the ride home, I kept thinking "If I'd been there, could I have warned them? Would my ICIRR* training have helped?"
*Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Get trained and know your rights at ICIRR.org.

Narration: I'd taken the training after Halloween, when the violent ICE raids had locked down our schools and driven our neighbors indoors.

(Image of a halloween bucket in the shape of a jack-o-lantern)

Narration: Halloween is fun here-- The community filling the streets and opening our doors to one another. But this year's was tense, frightened and subdued. Haunted.
Lucy is standing in the alley, staring at the newly built fence.
Narration: When I got home, it was all done. The other two guys who had gotten inside in time stayed and finished the build.

The new fence is superimposed with the brief exchange from earlier in the comic ("Have a good one" You, too")
Narration: I see it every day and think about how those guys built this in the spot where strangers in masks took their friend.

Narration: How many other places in our communities are similarly haunted?
(Drawings of sidewalks, buildings, streets and windows)
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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Melissa Villaseñor. #comics #art #cartoon #fuckice
Color drawing of Godzilla fucking up ICE. There is a separate panel up top of Melissa praying as such:
"DEAR GOD...
ZILLA, PLEASE FUCK UP ICE!"

Word balloon next to Z says "YOU GOT IT MELISS."
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 04/02/2026
Frankly I think almost every writer I know and beta read for and cheer on deserves a deep dive like this one David gave my work. What an absolute fucking beautiful gift.
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I wrote an essay appreciating the works of @horrorsong.blog. I name drop @megapolisomancy.bsky.social, whose Weird scholarship has been a great boon 🖤 please enjoy!
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Literary Horror & Surrealist Trash
an appreciation of Joe Koch
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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Loved seeing the redraws of this & immediately wanted to participate, it's such a fun design! Happy late birthday! <:
Redraw of the quoted drawing - a red skeleton guy in a black spiky armour carrying two large swords. He looks jolly and says; "Death to the Wizard Kings!"
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Up now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about one of my favorite trilogies, Jeffrey Ford’s The Well-Built City, and what it has to say about living in a society in thrall, the fascist mindset, and the daily work of staying alive.
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We Are Close, We Are Almost There | Los Angeles Review of Books
Zachary Gillan reflects on Jeffrey Ford’s ‘Well-Built City Trilogy’ in the era of resurgent fascism.
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Reposting my Papa Cronenberg essay cuz I’m proud of it 🫀 Long Live The New Flesh!
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The Wound Takes Hold
Control In Cronenberg
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Please enjoy my most recent essay comparing two books about sapient sea creatures. 🦎🐙
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Minds Mirrored Most Monstrous
War with the Newts / The Mountain in the Sea
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Wrote about my favorite music genre right now.
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Zap Me Into Nothing, Please
a dark ambient playlist
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
“Art that is deemed a liability to business must be avoided without question. Gaming is often many things, but its status as gambling and toys take higher precedent than its ambition as an art form.” @aftermath.site aftermath.site/horses-indie...
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Horses Is Tame
Horses, the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form.
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 21/10/2025
"Is the mind behind reality your own consciousness, that hermit sea trapped behind the rocky shore of your skull? Or is this mind not even your own?" TODAY!! a book review you're not gonna want to miss Sutter Cane’s In the Mouth of Madness by @davidkane.bsky.social psychopomp.com/sutter-cane-...
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Sutter Cane's In the Mouth of Madness - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The mind behind reality is insane. That’s the seed from which sprouts the fleshy jungle of Sutter Cane’s masterwork, In The Mouth of Madness, the culmination of his horror career.
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
psychopomp.com/sutter-cane-... My review of Sutter Cane’s In The Mouth of Madness is live! You can pick up a copy from: @echohorror.com
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Sutter Cane's In the Mouth of Madness - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The mind behind reality is insane. That’s the seed from which sprouts the fleshy jungle of Sutter Cane’s masterwork, In The Mouth of Madness, the culmination of his horror career.
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Ori-Warui -KNUCKLE JET out now on Steam! @oleivarrudi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
this is good
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/test-... @scareymulligan.bsky.social wrote a great personal essay about a REAL stabbing their mom did on a guy.
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Test the Meddle: a mother-daughter interview and short story
…there was a smudge of blue: my mom’s copy of Pink Floyd’s Meddle. I held it aloft and she lit up: “I used to listen to that all the time in my first apartment!” For this piece, I called her up to tal...
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
📕 BOOK BLAST 🚀 If you want a copy of my collection of strange tales 🔥SIGNED BY ME🔥 just send a DM with a mailing address. This offer is *pay what you can*: $10-15 or nothing at all if you promise to share with your weird gross friends!
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
My horror fiction collection is available in print and ebook formats! Please support your local bookstore or library by ordering a copy!
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Drippy Trippy Doom
“I’m not sure if David Kane is an occult conspiracy theorist afflicted with logomania, a brash new writer who’s not afraid to take risks, or a hallucinatory remnant of my having read too …
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
My book was mentioned in this post by the inimitable @scareymulligan.bsky.social ! Subscribe to their Beehiiv for more terrific combinations of words like “the Kennedy’s genetic sprawl” (theparasocialhour.beehiiv.com)
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It's A New Month, Baby!!!!!!!
I like tv, I like music, I like being alive
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speedoru.bsky.social @speedoru.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER episode 3 "Toothless Aggression" is OUT NOW!!! ⚠️ link in the replies! ⬇️
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Stone Butch Blue Velvet @jennyllello.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
PineappleEmporer's thread in r/Buddism: Can fully enlightened beings have girlfriends and stuff? 

locked and deleted after presumably 12,386 pages of heated debate
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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Leland Stewart's new short film GOBBLE brings practical effects back to the forefront, with the tale of a goblin who just wants to enjoy his dinner.
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Leland Stewart Brings Practical Effects Back To The Forefront With GOBBLE
Leland Stewart's new short film GOBBLE brings practical effects back to the forefront, with the tale of a goblin who just wants to enjoy his dinner.
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 22/08/2025
A brilliant author just told me Invaginies is "a pinnacle of weird horror" & "you write prose that i wanna eat and then the content of what i am reading i am like, 'MAYBE THIS PROSE IS TOO DELICIOUS AND NOW I REGRET' but i gotta keep going"🤩 Maybe you also want a bite? bookshop.org/p/books/inva...
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Invaginies
Check out Invaginies - <p><b>The Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author returns with a new collection of literary horror and weird fiction that glitters with startling prose and tortured souls. </b></...
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Don't be a fucking loser
A colorful graphic with the text: I don't use AI. I'm not a fucking loser.
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I wrote about the deeply weird world of Scorn.
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The War of Body and Mind
dissecting "Scorn"
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Giving some love to Seegson Synthetics 🤖
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Scarey!! (they/them)🍉🦇 @scareymulligan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Calling bullshit on Superman stopping to save a squirrel from a kaiju is so annoying. Oh hey, get a load of Realism McGee; their Deeply Fictional Superhero Movie logic is undeniable! shut up shut up shut up!! Your soul a dirty rock!!!!!!
Portlandia screenshot. Carrie shops away another person. The caption reads “Don’t touch me, you’re a dirty hippie and you don’t get punk at all.”
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Scarey!! (they/them)🍉🦇 @scareymulligan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Sighting Lane’s work genuinely fills me with glee— get this lively art on more covers please and thank you
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Scarey!! (they/them)🍉🦇 @scareymulligan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“…the more we embrace the surveillance state, the quicker community as a concept withers. At some point, we stopped caring about how our neighbors are doing and started concerning ourselves with what our neighbors are Up To.”
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It's None of My Business
A casual analysis of Weapons and our participation in the panopticon
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Scarey!! (they/them)🍉🦇 @scareymulligan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I used to stress doodle bane btw
Sketch book doodles of Batman villain baneSketch book doodles of Batman villain bane in and out of his maskSketch book doodles of Batman villain bane, includes a tiny exchange between Batman and bane
Batman: is it painful?
Bane: extremely.
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Scarey!! (they/them)🍉🦇 @scareymulligan.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
My husband @davidkane.bsky.social wrote a booook (he would prefer you order from your local independent bookstore, but here’s a link to his website)
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Drippy Trippy Doom
“I’m not sure if David Kane is an occult conspiracy theorist afflicted with logomania, a brash new writer who’s not afraid to take risks, or a hallucinatory remnant of my having read too …
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
doompunkdispatch.com/drippy-tripp... Consider purchasing my short story collection. Psychedelic horror and science fiction. Dig in!
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Drippy Trippy Doom
“I’m not sure if David Kane is an occult conspiracy theorist afflicted with logomania, a brash new writer who’s not afraid to take risks, or a hallucinatory remnant of my having read too …
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David Kane @davidkane.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
doompunkdispatch.com/2023/05/04/t... I wrote about Papa Cronenberg’s filmography (written before I saw The Shrouds).
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The Wound Takes Hold: Control In Cronenberg
You see, control can never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control. Like junk. ~ William S. Burroughs Feel your heartbeat. What is doing that? Squishy …
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