🎉 Weekend Edition Vol.071

pull the trigger

Happy happy weekend. I just got back from seeing the new Zach Cregger movie Weapons, and it was incredible. Highly recomend it if you are into the "elevated horror" kind of stuff. Not super scary—although there are a couple jump scares—but it has a lot of unnerving moments and creepy visuals.


Sarina brought us two new flash fiction stories from her world of Devil's Delight:

😈 The devil and his wife + Two steps from hell
two flash stories from Devil’s Delight

Then Grub triumphantly returned, as everyone, including my mother, who also went ahead and left a comment... seems to know about this little site now 🫣:

🐛 Grub in a world of nonsense #6
can’t hide for long

This week's short story was an incredible flash piece about the faces we put on for ourselves and others from Katherine Garrison:

🎭 Faces for Sale at Iz’s Emporium by Katherine Garrison
the finest faces in all the land

Lastly, Baron was scheduled for a column on Friday, but it's his big 4-0, so we gave him the week off. If you haven't read his first two excellently written and researched columns, I urge you to catch up now.

🏛️ The Big Beautiful Dissonance
800 pages of reality distorting nonsense
🏛️ These detainment centers aren’t going to fill themselves
and fill them we will

Monday's media guide was the best of the season so far:

📺 The Media Guide S6E6
floating through the universe

And the new and improved Review of Links went out with one exclusive edition for paid subscribers and the Wednesday public preview edition:

📰 06 Aug 2025
The Wednesday edition
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Next week:
Depths, deterents, decisions, and deficits

First up this week...

Macrowave - Radio Broadcaster
Turn Your Mac Into a Private Radio Station

Lucas Fisher, a friend of Foofaraw, released a new app on Mac and iOS that lets you turn your Mac into a private radio station that anyone can listen to through their browser, Mac app, or iOS app. It's killer, and you should download it now.

Check out six more links from around the web in The back page—exclusive to our paid supporters.

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