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@Dover – thanks so much for showing me around the new club. The sound is great – can’t wait for the grand opening!
OH BABY – this is a menu! It has everything – fries, steak, and a special feature (my secret recipe – Dover’s Potato Salad!).
@yennifer – you wanted something amazing for the club, well… you’ve got it! Oh yeah!
k looks great i guess. maybe add more items tho??
What's the "Extra" that comes with the Steak?
Man what? I can't tell you that - it's a secret!
i dunno if its a good idea to have secret things on the menu
A sneak peek at the very first episode of Bubble Puppets: The Dramatic Series. Series 1, Episode 1
The story begins at Dover’s Club, where Penelope is hoping to meet “just a guy” and instead encounters Zakk… a soft-hearted singer with too much honesty, not enough emotional strategy, and a song that may accidentally change everything.
Episode 1 sets the stage for the musical chaos to come: awkward introductions, dramatic overreactions, strange club politics, a possibly missing pair of shoes, and the first sparks of a romance that will eventually lead to… well, cloning. And maybe time travel.
Coming soon.
I have plenty of emotional strategy. I strategize my emotions all over the place. And where'd they even get that photo of me???
Don't worry about it my guy! They just mean you're 'not all there', which is cool. And that photo is from a selfie I took, but I had my phone facing the wrong way. It happens.
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Everyone thinks The Cure are “goth”. Let me ‘erm actually’ that for you…
Goth is architecture. Goth is deliberate darkness, constructed grief, the aesthetic of mourning worn as armour. The Sisters of Mercy built cathedrals. Siouxsie built monuments. Fields of Nephilim built tombs. The Cure are not dark… they are unstable. Disintegration is not a goth record. It is a nervous breakdown that somehow became beautiful.
We all love lists. Here’s a list of my favourite Cure songs, in no particular order, that are defensibly NOT GOTH:
- In Between Days: pure jangling summer pop
- Close to Me: claustrophobic but playful, almost comedic
- Just Like Heaven: romantic and luminous
- Hot Hot Hot!!!: basically a dance track
- Why Can’t I Be You?: chaotic, giddy, horn-driven absurdism
- The Love Cats: jazz-inflected, cartoonish, genuinely silly
- Let’s Go to Bed: deliberately lightweight pop, Smith was trolling his own fanbase
- The Walk: synth pop, pure and simple
- Boys Don’t Cry: new wave, not goth, almost upbeat in its heartbreak
- Jumping Someone Else’s Train: angular post-punk with energy not dread
- Charlotte Sometimes: eerie but literary, closer to Kate Bush than Sisters of Mercy
- The Caterpillar: whimsical, fluttery, almost psychedelic
- Lovesong: a straightforward love song, full stop
- Never Enough: hard rock more than anything else
- Pictures of You: devastating but luminous, grief rendered as beauty not darkness
- Plainsong: my personal favourite. Soaring, sparkly, it pulls you up to heaven and then beyond
And that’s without even mentioning Friday I’m in Love, which I started hearing in grocery stores in the 2000s. Try to beat that, Bauhaus. Goth knows what it is. The Cure has no idea. A band that refused to be categorized even by their own darkness. I respect that more than I can say. Except I just said it. So maybe I don’t respect it less than I can’t say.
I have it on good authority that actual goths agree with me on this. You know who you are.
Yours in the shadows,
— Niles
currently listening to: Seventeen Seconds, side two, lights off
My man... sometimes I can't tell if you're putting on an act or if you really believe the shiz you say. Chill it.
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The Dramatic Series is wrapping up production, and we’re nearly there.
Dover’s Club is a bar on a street where the decisions are bad and the music is good. It’s run by a woman who owns the building, the stage, and most of the regrets. Her ex manages the place. That’s fine. It’s fine.
The people who end up there are the kind of people who end up places; a folk-rock everyman who is honest to a fault, a performer who arrived from Sweden looking for something specific and found something else entirely, a cosmic entity who has been everywhere and is tired in a way that takes millions of years to earn, a goth sock puppet who is devoted to someone who will never love him back, and a farm worker from Colorado who is just genuinely happy to be around friends.
There’s also a rat who plays guitar. He’s everyone’s favourite.
Nobody learns their lesson. Nobody really grows. But something accumulates, across 32 episodes and 41 original songs, that feels, by the end, like it was always heading somewhere, and perhaps used too many commas.
Bubble Puppets: The Dramatic Series. Coming this Summer (2026) to a YouTube near you.
I already have my ticket booked! Woohoo!!!
omg PP are u coming here for the show?!
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Not happy. My Uber just turned around and is taking me back to Earth.
Note to humans: “Space Travel” means going beyond your own solar system… not flying to the closest rock and turning right around. Way to go… you stepped onto the sidewalk of the galaxy.
Zakk’s not the only one who gets fan art. Take a look at this! Now THAT is one handsome guy!
wutevs i can totally see your sig on it you dummy
That is very nice. It's sure swell to get people to draw art of you and then take the time to send it to you. Having fans is great. Don't listen to the haters.
Läget! That means “sup?” in Swedish! I’m loving it here in Sweden, but I miss my cuz @partygirl66 SOOO much! It cost a fortune to have all my Ikea furnature shipped here – and then I find out there’s an Ikea on every corner? LMäO!
OMG! thats too funny PP!! ur place looks amazing tho 🩷
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Tom! I saw you jam at the firehall - you've got to come down to my new club baby! Wooo! Ya... alright.
So cool – some more fan art! And this was from before my new tie! Man, I love my new tie.
Dude that's amazing - got your weird coloured eyes and everything. Ya, I get fan art too. I'll see if I can post some...
it looks just like ya - i mean, except the tie
@dover no one is supposed to see it yet WTF?
Yo my man, how'd you even get in? I didn't see you there.
Cool, cool... I heard you singing and let myself in through the window. Wicked setup.