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The appeal of eerie aesthetics.

considers the autumnal line between actually scary stuff and the cozy unease of ghosts, pumpkins, and flickering candles. 👻🎃🕯️  

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On Spookiness

Tár

And the new Succession trailer.

on technology’s role in TÁR and Spotify’s latest interface update and foray into audiobooks. Plus the week’s streaming news.

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TÁR tech / Spotify hiccups

A grey apartment listing. (Streeteasy/Daisy Alioto)

Grey Apartment Listing 

Gray spaces everywhere.

on the plague that is overwhelmingly gray interior design.

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Desaturation point

Different CATV (Community Antenna Television) stations available to subscribers in Elmira, New York, in 1966. (Arthur Schatz The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock)

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TikTok echoes cable.

on social media’s evolution (devolution?) into television.

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Channel surfing

Peak Drink

Too many beverages, too little time.

on the oversaturated state of the beverage market, along with some drinks recommendations from Kyle Chayka. Also, a glitchy techno livestream and *House of the Dragon*.

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Jay and Silent Bob social

We're missing slackers.

on a curious development in entertainment: the total lack of aimless slacker heroes.

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Where are the losers?

Ana de Armas in Blonde

The girls in Luckiest Girl Alive, Blonde, and Do Revenge are traumatized.

on three recent Netflix releases and the latest in streaming news.

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Netflix's sad girls club

Jeremy Fragrance

Is this a cult?

on a charismatic, confusing thought leader.

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Sniffing out Jeremy Fragrance

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