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Jonathan Kennedy
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Filmmaker/photographer, communist, small town surrealist, pro wrestling enthusiast. Abbas Kiarostami liked my work, Guy Maddin liked a bunch of my Instagram posts once (he/him)

Hamilton, ON via St. John’s, NL / jonkennedy.net
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Dale Gribble’s father, Bug Gribble, shooting a pair of guns into the air while performing at a gay rodeo.
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Extremely stupid but on-brand guitar strap I just bought.
A guitar strap with a pattern of green aliens attached to a Squier J Mascis Signature Jazzmaster with off-white body and anodized gold coloured pick guard.
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The youth don’t know about secret tracks.
YouTube thumbnail for a reaction channel reacting to “Around the Fur” by Deftones. The title reads “A 40 minute song??? - Deftones ‘Around the Fur’ full album reaction!”
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Damn
Post from Hideo Kojima’s Instagram: l'm at a loss for words. It all happened far too suddenly. Because of the strike, we weren't able to shoot "OD" for a long time, and we were forced to reschedule to next year. Even during that time, Udo and I exchanged emails frequently. We stayed in close contact. When we met in Milan at the end of September, he told me how much he was looking forward to the shoot starting up again next year. He was full of energy then too, making me laugh with his usual "Udo-isms." I still can't believe this. Udo wasn't just an actor. He was truly an "icon" of his time. We've lost a great "icon." There will never be another like him. Udo, rest in peace. I will never forget you. 56 minutes ago
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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No one who has seen my photograph or knows my general tastes will be surprised by these.

Gregory Halpern
Francesca Woodman
Alec Soth
Trent Parke
A checkerboard mid-game sitting on the railing of a patio with a light layer of undisturbed snow covering it. A black and white self portrait by Francesca Woodman titled “Self Portrait Talking to Vince.” She is looking at the camera with her mouth being held open by what SCAD Museum of Art refers to as a “sinewy object [protruding] from her lips trailing to the right just past her face as if a word bubble.” Tables and benches with several large potted plants in front of a wall of uneven stone bricks. Next to one of the plants on the bench is a large framed portrait of Lenin. High contrast black and white photo of people walking through a lobby. A bright streak of light is shining in and illuminating a single person so brightly that they appear to be a figure of pure light.
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Read Ishay Landa’s “The Apprentice’s Sorcerer” particularly chapter 2, because he outlines the relationship between fascism and capital really clearly there. He even discusses the misreading of thinkers like Spengler as somehow anti-capitalist.
Hitler, consistently, is the economic liberal-understood not in terms of doctrinaire laissez faire but in terms of a defense of capitalism, which is by no means, of course, reducible to laissez faire-protesting against the insubordination of politics. As in the following passage from Mein Kampf: In the fields of thinking, of artistic creation, even of economy, this process of selection still takes place today, though especially in the latter it is exposed to a serious handicap.... Here in all cases the idea of the personality is still dominant...Political life alone has today completely turned away from this most natural principle.... Marxism, indeed, presents itself as the perfection of the Jew's attempt at excluding the overwhelming importance of the personality in all domains of human life and of replacing it by the number of the masses. To this corresponds politically the parliamentary form of government... and economically the system of a labor union movement... In the same measure in which economy is deprived of the effect of the principle of personality and, instead, is exposed to the influences and effects of the masses, it is bound to lose efficiency, serving all and valuable for all, and will gradually fall into a definite regression (Hitler 1941: 666-7; italics added). The bulk of Hitler's anti-liberalism is underpinned by the conviction that political liberalism is incompatible with capitalism. For the worker, Prussian Socialism means working a whole lot, for the absolute minimum, but—and this is a vital aspect-being happy about it. Such socialism is not out to free the worker from the burden of hard work, but from the burden of being ashamed of hard work. For this is precisely what distinguishes the awesomely spiritual Prussian worker from the materialistically corrupt English one: Marx teaches therewith contempt for work.... Work-hard, long, fatiguing—is a misfortune, effortless gain is a blessing.... [T]he manual labourer is in England more a slave than anywhere else. He is morally a slave; he feels that his occupation excludes him from having the title of a Gentleman.... This accounts for Marx's mental attitude, out of which arose his social critique and which had made him so disastrous for genuine socialism. He knew the nature of work only in its English version... The English lack the sense of the dignity of hard work.... Had Marx understood the sense of Prussian work, that of activity for its own sake, of service in the name of the collective [Gesamtheit], for 'all' and not for oneself, as a duty, which ennobles regardless of the kind of work, his Manifesto would probably never have been written (Spengler 1933d: 77-78). "Prussian socialism" thus boils down to "English capitalism" shorn of worker's discontent.
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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There are a bunch, too hard to choose.
Cannibal Ox “The Cold Vein” Thursday “Full Collapse” Pageninetynine “document #8” New Order “Get Ready”
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Me: “How much does a PS1 copy of Silent Hill go for these days?”

eBay:
eBay listing for Silent Hill tagged with “new low price” listed as $377.99 Canadian, marked down from $419.99.
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Homer Simpson looks down at Mao Zedojg whose body is draped in a Communist flag, and says “please wake up” while Marge and Patti stand behind him with several onlookers.
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Absolutely goated airline snack
Air Canada “exclusive” Twigz buttery herb and garlic pretzel twists.
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Maybe read this instead.
Sophie Lewis “Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen & Girlbosses Against Liberation”
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Now THAT was a beverage. Personally I want to see Gatorade bring back their Lemon Ice flavour, which was the most underrated beverage of the ‘90s.
Early-to-mid ‘90s era glass bottle of Lemon Ice Gatorade.
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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A reporter from The Simpsons asking “why now? Why not 20 years ago?”
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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A JDL supporter showed up to a pro-Palestine demonstration yesterday in Toronto with a jug of ammonium hydroxide. Imagine being so pro-genocide that you want to attack people with acid because they oppose it.
A woman in roughly her 60s wearing a Jewish Defense League hoodie holds a jug of ammonium hydroxide while a gloved hand reaches into frame to take it from her.
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Homer Simpson ponderously saying to Bart, “your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media” Michael Parenti “Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media”
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Got paid and immediately spent too much money on books
Stack of books: Olga Ravn “The Employees”; Laura Vazquez “The Endless Week”; Olga Ravn “The Wax Child”; Tomas Downey “The Diving Board”; David Kuhnlein “Ezra’s Head”; “Lizard Brain: Horror Stories”
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Motch Hedberg: “Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn’t even get his degree.”
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Recent photographs
Wilting roses on a rose bush in front of a concrete driveway. The frame of a red bicycle in front of a black gate. The top tube has a peeling silver sticker. The downtube has letter stickers that read “not yours.” A shattered glass door in a brick storefront. Grafffiti on the door reads “Kyle Spears eats poo” in black marker. The word “poo” has been crossed out in red and “pussy” is written in red above it. A person sitting in their car shot from a high angle. Only the driver’s right arm and torso are visible. In the cup holder in the center console is a cup holding (possibly fake) roses.
November 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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42. The Blair Witch Project (dir. Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick)
Poster for The Blair Witch Project. A close up of the top half of Heather Donahue’s face with the title and stick figure in red above her, and back and white high contrast image of trees at the top of the screen.
November 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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41. Noroi: The Curse (dir. Kôji Shiraishi)
Poster for Noroi: The Curse. A creepy blood splattered clay mask of a malformed face with large uneven eye holes and a small horn at the top of the head.
November 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Previous years lol (I always do a Simpson’s pumpkin)
Pumpkin carved with Groundskeeper Willie as Freddy Krueger Pumpkin carved with Mr. Burns as Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Extreme rush job this year but happy Halloween and shit
Pumpkin carved with a picture of Maggie Simpson with alien tentacles
October 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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40. Ghostwatch (dir. Lesley Manning)
Poster for BBC’s Ghostwatch. The disembodied heads of Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene and Mike Smith are above the title on a black background.
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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39. Marebito (dir. Takashi Shimizu)
Poster for Marebito. A pale woman sits with her head obscured by shadow and a pair of u locked manacles near her feet.
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM