Richard Butner
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Richard Butner
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Writer, occasional performer, shipwrecked jester (ghost mixologist, Eagle Scout).
Always a joy to see 'begging the question' used correctly.
January 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
I feel similarly about the renfair. Its origins are in the hippie 60s, and the first folks I met and befriended there were all lefties ... then I ran into the literal atavists, not the fun ones.
January 6, 2026 at 7:55 PM
I spanned the gap re-reading Erin Osmon's bio of Jason Molina, Riding with the Ghost.
January 1, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Man, that song. The very first time I heard it, that line "And my eyes still grow damp to remember, his Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp." Whew.
December 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The credits said Zevon's 1970 song "Wanted Dead or Alive" was in the movie but I completely missed hearing it.
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Omnifucked
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The show notes mention "Louis Shiner" (and even link to a faulty Goodreads page for that name) instead of the great and under-recognized Lewis Shiner (who has a pretty obvious URL of his name dot com), just an fyi I noticed.
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is jazz horror erasure
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm terrible at remembering #1 favorites but the first one that springs to mind is "Sunbleached."
October 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Cannot help but notice the Sleep No More poster in the background. Cannot help but notice that this makes me agree even more w/ her.
October 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM