iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s pretty funny that Perkins gives the best line in The Monkey as Uncle Chip: “I want you to know we’re going to do our very best with you boys. It’s just that our very best might be pretty bad.”

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know an idea is starting to click when I stop worrying about how long a draft is. It will be however long it needs to be. That's why we edit.

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hell yeah, I get to be bad cop when we call the kid's new school

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Surprising oven rise with this batch of multi grain bread

Multigrain sandwich bread made with whole wheat, oats, cornmeal, barley, and flaxseed

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't think "keeps getting better" is how I would describe Word updates

An alert from Microsoft at the top of my screen that reads: "Update Available: Word keeps getting better - restart to apply the latest updates"

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The new Tubs record is good! Merge fixed the muddy production that made the last album hard to take, at least for me.

thetubs.bandcamp.com

Hard Life, by The Tubs

12 track album

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Me: Our kid doesn't want to play trombone. School: That's right. A real dedicated trombonist! Me: They don't want to play the trombone. School: You want to learn trombone too? Okay! Me: What? School: Trombone lessons for the whole family!

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Are there 90s major label debuts more depressed than Jawbreaker’s “Dear You”?

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“One size fits most”? I can’t even get all my fingers in one of these and I’m not a huge guy

Box of Vinyl Gloves that reads

Powder Free
• Medical grade
• Fits either hand
• Barrier from dirt and germs
• Non-sterile

50 SINGLE-USE ONLY DISPOSABLE GLOVES
ONE SIZE FITS MOST

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Is the academic AI doomer--you know, the "the machine can do it all!" people--simply masochists? The desire to be abject seems to involve a lot of jouissance for them

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I've written books about horror and about Dickens, and this is what scholars call "fucking bullshit"

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tossed aside a book after a chapter that recounted the "glorious revolution of 1688" as an example of nonviolent political action--the withdrawal of consent--without any discussion of the class fractions and economics that made this withdrawal effective.

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

First batch of beans grown from Rancho Gordo’s flor de junio beans. A little less than a half pound, and more to come

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Post first department meeting of the year cake, chocolate pumpkin with a bit of cinnamon and chopped Mexican chocolate, and a pumpkin glaze

Chocolate pumpkin cake with a bit of cinnamon and chopped Mexican chocolate, and a pumpkin glaze

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Anxiety dreams get weirder as I age. Last night, it was an awkward conversation with Michael Gira outside a concert for a new Swans’ record that had a cover almost identical to Neurosis’s Times of Grace. Do I mention that? No, no, be kind…

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Green cabbage is cheap right now so I made a batch of sauerkraut. Not enough green cabbage for two full jars, so I shredded half a red cabbage and made the concoction on the left

Two jars of shredded cabbage, salted and packed for sauerkraut. The bottom third of the jar on the left is green cabbage and the rest is red cabbage. I’m sure it will all turn pink eventually but it hasn’t yet

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Few realize that Bari Wood’s thriller about sexually rapacious identical twins was adapted to the screen

Hardback cover of Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Gleasand

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

And the beans appear to be developing nicely!

A ripening pod of flor de junio beans on the plant

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Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Body Horror is out today in the UK (and I believe already out in the US and other countries)! The code CUP20 gets you 20% off when purchasing the book directly from @ColumbiaUP. I’d be really grateful for any reposts or help with promotion! 🪰🧪🩸 #horror #bodyhorror cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho...

Cover for Body Horror: Biology, Biopower, Biotechnology, by Xavier Aldana Reyes. It includes a still from the film, featuring Jeff Goldblum. His face shows visible signs that his body is beginning to change.

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It’s a multipurpose shape; a box.

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is this teabag about to sexually harass me?

A red teabag with “Take this moment just for you “ written in italics and with “moment” and “for you” in larger type so that the whole thing sounds like some weirdo emphasizing those words in a breathless voice

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We drove by something called ‘Boot Barn,’ and it appears to be exactly the kind of Wild West rootin tootin shit I thought it was

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

(To the tune of the VU's "I Found a Reason") I found a reason to go to campus Oh, and the reason is Ididn'treturnaninterlibraryloanbookontime

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I have limited knowledge of Michigan , so every time I see a video of Haley Stevens, I think she’s escaped from the cabin in Evil Dead and is about to start chanting “Dead by dawn!”

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I guess the ghost of Christmas past can fuck off then

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It’s 1975, you’re writing a horror novel about rural gentrification and you need an image to convey how men become fascist foot soldiers. Your solution? When they become evil, they buy new trucks with crew cabs. Joan Samson understood politically rancid American masculinity

I’ve just described part of Joan Samson’s book The Auctioneer

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

When the whale watching tour tells you no liquor, wheeled shoes, or drones, you know you missed something hilarious

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Found what looks like an original paperback of The Stepford Wives

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Wake in Fright needs a commentary track that’s just my partner muttering “My god. Oh god. Why?! Oh god…”

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I booked some of these and they were basically basement shows in public spaces. We’d get the boot once the cops showed up or someone got worried about liability I would guess if there are fewer places willing to do shows like that, it probably has to do with demands for insurance and security

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New theory: the McConnell situation is guerrilla marketing for Paul Tremblay’s new book. I mean, how likely is it that we get this many Weekend at Bernie’s references at once?

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I have never been a Mike Flanagan fan, so my big question about his adaptation of King’s Carrie isn’t whether he will portray Carrie’s mom sympathetically, but whether he will let her be sympathetic and fat

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Finally watching Hokum and was this shot in the same house as Oddity?!

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s nearly eleven and I have yet to see any conspiracy theories that RFK Jr killed Graham via explosive diarrhea? What has the internet become

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Numero’s reissues this quarter—Macha & Bedhead, Codeine, and Seam—are fantastic

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

On a run of hot horror right now with Michael McDowell ‘s The Elementals and Wake in Fright. Other horror focused on oppressive heat?

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It could, but we made so many U-turns that I get the cold sweats just remembering them

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Raspberries have started coming in, so it’s time for berry bars

Almond berry bars made with 325g raspberries and 113g blueberries

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Photo of recent interviews with Mitch McConnell

It's a Ouija board because that bastard is probably dead

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Dreamt I decorated the house with nothing but monorail memorabilia, so summer is going great

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

What’s hilarious about this Iowa conservative thing is that their undergrads are fairly conservative, or were when I was a TA there. This is more likely to make them curious about Marx, Lenin, and Mao than they would be otherwise

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

2025 Josh really screwed 2026 Josh when he booked an 8am vet appointment on a Monday in July

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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, or The Dangers of Fence Candy

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