HeyJaredThe North Texas Apocalypse Bunker Weekly Report
The weekly newsletter of Mark Finn, who writes about, broadcasts, and navigates popular culture as he patiently waits out the entropic collapse of our beloved societal institutions.
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Weekly Briefing from the North Texas Apocalypse Bunker, 09/25/26 (opens the original)
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We welcome the early return of the Autumnal season here at the bunker! Since are new to the Central Texas area, if one or more of you could be so kind as to provide us with a list of what animals need to be sacrificed, and when, to appease the heathen gods of weather and the goddesses of seasonal allergies, we’d greatly appreciate it. Living out in the country, metaphorically speaking, there is no shortage of cows, horses, feral pigs, opossum, raccoons, some baby goats, and a particularly obstre
Weekly Briefing from the North Texas Apocalypse Bunker, 09/18/26 (opens the original)
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We hope everyone is taking care of themselves in this god-awful heat and humidity, full of rising tempers and rising costs, shuffling a deck of existential threats and constantly playing solitaire with the harried intensity of an air traffic controller on a fifteen minute smoke break. <source
Weekly Briefing from the North Texas Apocalypse Bunker, 09/11/26 (opens the original)
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Things are settling somewhat here at the new home base for the N.T.A.B. We’re still making adjustments, but Waco is feeling more and more like home every day. We’re hoping the groove continues to deepen and we won’t be as tightly wound nor quite so ping-pongy in the coming weeks.<div class="image2-in
Weekly Briefing from the North Texas Apocalypse Bunker, 09/04/26 (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Weekly Update, everyone, and thanks for your continued patience while we continue to unpack and rework our lives at a seemingly glacial pace. We hope you’ll all remember that you’re getting a long weekend because people fought and bled and died for the right to have days off a century ago. Lots of them were kids.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a_iK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.
Weekly Briefing from the North Texas Apocalypse Bunker, 08/28/26 (opens the original)
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We’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the passing of both Tim Curry and Dolly Parton. Gay icons for different reasons…and kinda the same reasons, too, but also talented people we admired very much. Both of them were rightfully lauded while they were alive, but it’s still strange to consider a world without Dolly Parton in it. Rest in peace, y’all, and thanks for everything.Convention AlertIn two weeks, you’ll be able to accost me in person at ArmadilloCon 48 in Austin, Texas. This is my “hom
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