The Onion’s Voting Simulator is characteristically subversive and funny. Go play it now.
Us, 2019
Still rips.
I just found beard hair stuck to the bathroom wall behind the sink. Do I shave in a cartoon cloud, with hair flying in all directions?
My computer reminded me I took this photo 5 years ago. I think this was New Mexico.
I didn’t think I’d want to read a long-ass profile on Mark Zuckerberg, but I could not stop reading Jeremy Stern’s piece for Colossus.
I still think Zuck’s products are rancid, though.
How To With John Wilson remains indomitably good.
Backrooms, 2026 - ★★★½
Some fun creepy pasta over here.
Primetime, 2026 - ★★★★
Art
Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie, 2025 - ★★★★
I didn't know who Shelley was before watching this, but this was the doc I needed to see right now. It's a well made movie of a fascinating, impressive, and tragic person.
I finally added a skip to main content link for keyboard users on chrisdeluca.me. This should have been there since ever.
It’s happened: chrisdeluca.me now speaks gopher. The content there is unique from the content here. To see it, you’ll need a gopher client.
Long live obscure, old internet stuff!
Started reading: The Art of Gathering How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker 📚
Finished reading: Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 📚
Clear-eyed and constructive. I zipped through this on a few flights and felt enriched by my reading for the first time in a while.
Hope, 2026
Man there’s so much of this movie that rules, but there’s also so many checkhovs guns that are set up and then politely holstered that I didn’t feel the tension of the setups concluded. The ending truly sucked.
Started reading: Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 📚
There’s a man in the airport wearing a cowboy hat on top of a baseball hat. Unlike an overstuffed comedy premise, it’s funny.
I saw someone literally hugging a tree in the park just now. The world is a parade of wonders.
Awesome to hear Marc and Tom digging into comedy again.
Finished reading: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 📚
I really liked this one. It’s a wild, dramatic story well told. I relate in very broad strokes, especially towards the end. Eveyone who wanted to read this probably already has but I recommend it.
I didn’t realize that the Coyote vs. Acme movie is based on a short piece in The New Yorker from 1990, by Ian Frazier. They’re both good!
This is absolutely fascinating.
Smell was the first of our senses, and it was so successful that in time the small lump of olfactory tissue atop the nerve cord grew into a brain. Our cerebral hemispheres were originally buds from the olfactory stalks. We think because we smelled.
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Started reading: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 📚
Media Diet: September 2024
I had a draft saved from 2 years ago about my media diet. Some may say it’s too late to finish and publish it, but I say let’s sit with what I was peeping back in 2024.
🎵 Music
The Shape …
Read moreMystery Science Theater 3000: The RiffTrax Experiments — Sting of Death, 2026
I laughed a lot.
It’s not every day I learn a new word. Today it was “squamous”.
covered with or characterized by scaled: a squamous black hide.