The Muscle Memory of a Rap God
While grinding on the new Rolling with Scissors gear store, I rediscovered some deep-seated muscle memory. Turns out, five years away from Eminem doesn’t mean you forget how to keep up with the Rap God. Here’s a status update on the store and a reminder that some signals never fade.
Merch
You asked for it, and the Prince of Darkness is delivering. Rolling with Scissors merch is officially in development. No corporate markups, no hidden profits—every cent above production costs goes straight to WORT 89.9 FM. Here’s the status update on the gear you’ve been demanding.
Signal Lockdown
The Feds tried to put a wiretap on my tracklists, so I’m stripping the signal to its core. This week’s episode notes look different for a reason: we’ve moved to a ‘Blackout Formatting’ protocol to keep the three-letter agencies out of our business. If the playlist looks like it was smuggled out of a lead-lined basement, that’s because the Prince of Darkness doesn’t play the government’s bullshit. The signal remains ours.
Waking Up to the AI War
An IT veteran’s perspective on why the OpenAI military contract is the real-world beginning of Skynet. It’s time to stop calling it “the chat” and start calling it what it is: a weapons system.
Puscifer: Normal Isn’t – Episode 1339
Puscifer’s Normal Isn’t arrives as a slow-burning, atmospheric statement piece — one that trades immediacy for space, restraint, and surgical vocal delivery. Episode 1339 uses the new record as an entry point into the project’s wider theatrical and sonic DNA, framing it as both a tonal reset and a deep-dive expansion across eras.
The Jetsetter: Custom Retro Gaming PC
I set out to build a practical Windows gaming machine for Microsoft Flight Simulator and a library of retro DOS classics. What Hobbs at H-Mods delivered instead was a fully fabricated, RGB-lit piece of functional art — a custom PC so visually ridiculous I keep pausing games just to stare at the case. From accessibility realities and hardware anxiety to wall-mounted retro gaming and resurrected music software, this is the story behind the Jetsetter build and why modern horsepower is mostly being used to run 1993 shooters.
What the Hell Is Going On With Manifest?
After falling deep into the final season of Manifest on Netflix, I’m left trying to process whether I’m watching science fiction, theological allegory, or a full-blown existential fever dream. What starts as a grounded mystery about a missing plane quickly spirals into visions, prophecy, and cosmic judgment — landing somewhere between Stranger Things and Stephen King’s The Langoliers. Intriguing, frustrating, and impossible to stop watching, this show has officially broken my brain.
Digital Dust
While building the Nine Inch Nails deep dive, I pulled out one of the first CDs I ever ripped into MP3 — sometime around 2000. What I didn’t expect was hearing the digital equivalent of vinyl wear. Not damage… but texture. It raised a strange question: when does outdated audio quality stop being a flaw and start becoming nostalgia?
Nine Inch Nails: Where the Pressure Breaks – Episode 1338
Episode 1338 begins a long-form deep dive into Nine Inch Nails, focusing on full studio albums and the moments where the pressure finally breaks. From Pretty Hate Machine through The Downward Spiral, this is the sound of escalation, collapse, and aftermath.
Silent Vice — When the Algorithm Actually Gets It Right
A late-night algorithm stumble led to the discovery of Silent Vice and their crushing track “Temptress.” What started as a random TikTok clip turned into a full catalog deep dive — and the realization that this San Diego band has been building something heavy, atmospheric, and fully realized since 2010.