Finished reading: War for Eternity by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum 📚
Operation Watchtower | Chapter Three: Ground Zero
Belle Flower flees with Red, her past nipping at her heels. Red’s quiet help masks old wounds—he’s using. She doesn’t trust him, but needs shelter. As she washes the blood away, her fear sharpens. A man in a gray suit comes for her. Shots are fired. Belle’s grazed. Agent Grayson apprehends the attacker. Meanwhile, Senator Wexley spirals. Believing he’s been replaced, he begs shady allies for help. Broken and paranoid, he plans a comeback—ready to “flip the tables.”
Finished reading: The Lover by Marguerite Duras 📚
Finished reading: Kult - Divinity Lost by Modiphius Entertainment 📚
Operation Watchtower | Chapter Two: Tough Talk
Bryce Wexley, broken and hunted, watches a doppelgänger version of himself on live TV while the world burns. Homeless and unraveling, he’s offered kindness by Lucky, a diner owner. Haunted by conspiracies, paranoia, and visions, Wexley’s reality fractures as he glimpses something watching him. Meanwhile, Belle Flower flees a killer in a grey suit, and Agent Grayson arrives in San Diego to find her—both unaware how deeply they’re entangled in something monstrous and occult.
Finished reading: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 📚
Finished reading: The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger 📚
Operation Watchtower | Chapter One: Operation Watchtower
Agent Nicholas Grayson is assigned to investigate occult influences behind major domestic terror events. Sent to San Diego under Operation Watchtower, he must track extremist groups and enlist hacker Belle Flower. Belle flees a mysterious assailant tied to her traumatic past. Meanwhile, senator Bryce Wexley, haunted by his involvement in a government cover-up, experiences visions of alien forces and his own complicity. All three are caught in a dark, interconnected conspiracy.
Finished reading: Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C.G. Jung 📚
Finished reading: Cruel Summer by Ed Brubaker 📚
Finished reading: Under the Perfect Sun by Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew and Jim Miller. 📚
I saw Dog Man with my grandkid; it was adorable and even the villains are do-gooders. We re-watched Coco later that evening. Kiddo thought it was a tie, but I preferred Coco.
🍿 Nosferatu (2024) - ★★★★★
Eggers does something that no other vampire has succeeded at: our antagonist looks genuinely undead. Not only that, our Nosferatu is the embodiment of death.
🍿 The Town (2010) - ★★★☆☆
Another heist movie inspired by Heat, this time set in Boston, which has never looked better. I avoided Charlestown as much as I could because of characters like Gem. Not that living in Southie was much better. You had to be street smart in Boston.
Kult: Divinity Lost, Dramatis Personae
Bryce Wexley walks the streets unseen, name stolen, face worn by another. He speaks of secrets but the world does not listen. The thing that follows him does not sleep.
Nicholas Grayson believed in order, but the truth is a thing that does not abide by laws. He guards an artifact, though he does not know if it is meant to be kept or set free.
Belle Flower moves through wires and shadows, a ghost among machines. She runs, but she does not know from what.
Finished reading: Generation Hex edited by Jason Louv 📚