just around the corner
Dad (he/him). Shabbos goy. Antifascist Gen-X in NWMT. I eat my dinner in the bathtub, then I go to chess club
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just around the corner
i forgot how bad it is for the soul to listen to this dumpster speak.
Absolutely! I am not pro-mosquito but I'm happy to see my adversary scratching his bites
I'm not especially in on the "he looks like shit" bandwagon – I think he looks about like he always does – but his combover does appear to be malfunctioning
Autocorrect changed "matchups" to "matches," I swear I'm not British
I don't generally pay attention to livestream comments but the reactions are pretty funny
I'm a doctor, not a political commentator
You don't even really have to rig it! Every voter knows which matches are going to be televised, which makes them more likely to look into the teams playing, which makes those teams more likely to get votes. Kind of self-rigging
well, *you're* not
A bunch of Guys who wish it was dead (mostly because they get yelled at here) keep confidently and wishfully declaring it is on its deathbed. Kind of like we were doing the other night with the president
This rules. Steve Ditko seething
It's not enough for these guys to just leave; they also have to stop obsessing over the place they left
More and more persuaded that the defining characteristic of my generation was the lead exposure
"We have the technology." Do you? Do you really?
Honestly even adjusted for inflation I thinking building a cyborg for 6 million was a hell of a bargain
I can't support this with any evidence but I feel like outrageously priced cocktails were culturally enabled by outrageously priced coffee drinks
I think in the end a far better day is had by all when I simply block someone who has ideas I think are wrong and dumb than when I yell at them about it
Guy who lives to brigade dunk: this website is so mean
A phrases like "milkshake duck" was a reasonably unique formulation at the time it were deployed, so a future linguist would have pretty clear indicators of when it became popular. "Main character" is much, much more contextual.
Me: Minding my own business, getting good work done. Brain: Hey, remember that time you were super cringe and awkward and a touch inappropriate? What a stupid piece of shit you are. No wonder you're such a fuckin' loser. Brains... NOT EVEN ONCE.
As a complete tangent: the phrase "main character" in this context is fascinating because, as a phrase that already had a meaning, we all know here what it means but it would be extremely difficult to isolate its origin if you didn't already know where to look (maplecocaine)
time wets all foots
Caller ID, decades ahead of his time
Announcing Infrastructure Week
“Ladies and gentlemen, The Weakened”
I get so resentful that My Ding a Ling is his only pop #1
Related:
Okay rock-n-rollers, I need a reality check. I became a Chuck Berry fan when I was 12, so had been listening to him for a decade by the time Pulp Fiction came out. It was my opinion, at that time, that You Never Can Tell was a fairly deep cut. Of course it’s changed since then, but was I wrong?
Samuel L Jackson voice:
[tune of Piano Man] la-da-da, did ‘e die
I know in our district families have to pay a fee to ride the bus, and while it’s pretty nominal (~$100/yr) I’m sure it results in fewer riders than if it was free
This is my emotional support stream of horrors
Not today.
🎵 possibility forever 🎶
Bluesky is an Ecco chamber
"I believe in separating the art from the artist," I say, to explain why I haven't touched my draft in days.
“Blogs are dead.” Okay but atrios posted just this morning
Saying “Bluesky will die” is like saying rock and roll is dead. On one hand yes it is, it’s not the cultural juggernaut it once was. But on the other hand it’s still being made and enjoyed by a subculture that keeps it going not because it’s lucrative or culturally relevant, but because they love it
“Student rapper assemblyman” has a nice ring as a single title
FOR EXAMPLE: bsky.app/profile/ohsh...
I watched it not too long ago and thought about what a hassle it would have been to get releases from all the people they filmed doing the walk out in the sidewalks
I was just listening to Bowie’s “China Girl” the other day and realizing what a problematic cornucopia that is Come for the Asian girl fetish, stay for the visions of swastikas
Also, I hadn’t heard this full quote til now, and the part about “don’t look at any data yourself” reminds me of my MAHA acquaintances who said “we were lied to during covid.” I think in both cases, they’re hearing, and then getting mad at, something that wasn’t said
🎷💲
I guess I shouldn’t say “can’t.” It’s “won’t”. Which is to say will not. Which is to say they do not will it.
It’s a pet problem to me because ive encountered it a lot, and I really don’t know how to solve it. The person who rejects expertise that contradicts their own limited experience can’t be talked out of that ignorance with more expertise.
“The use of ignorance to establish oneself as a greater authority than the expert” is something I’ve seen as a problem for a long time, but I’ve never seen it expressed as well as it is in this essay.
The pitched tubes really take it to a whole level
YEAH
He puts on SUCH a command performance, and looks like he’s having the time of his life doing it
Community notes but stupider
And those Evil Dead 2 effects aren’t “good” by wide release Hollywood standards (even if the time), but DANG they put so much thought and work and love into them
I had a great time just the other night watching Evil Dead 2 with the 15yo, and he spent the whole time speculating about how the ludicrous effects were managed
Credit to RLM’s Jay for helping me appreciate how great Allan Trautman’s performance as Tarman was
Pronouns for a guy who makes you laugh and makes you think: hee/hmm
The Band?
They should put him on camera with a big microphone obscuring his mouth so you can’t tell it isn’t moving, like Fuhrer Gill in that Star Trek episode with the Nazi planet
I mean, it’s Labor Day weekend, and the president traditionally does a labor day speech, right? If we don’t have definitive proof by tomorrow, he’s in hospice
here's the place for conservative women to gather online
Actually one of my favorite articles about B&S is this Paste piece whose focus on the author’s personal relationship to the music would fit right in as an IHTOV essay
If You’re Feeling Sinister
Yes me too! I have been a classical listener since I was a teen, have delved very deep into certain composers, but still really learned a lot from Classical Music for Dummies
Computer, enhance
Wait, Michigan? Lobos are playing Michigan? Like the Michigan that Jane Coaston posts about?
Highlighting this for the youths: this was how you earned a video game achievement badge in 1982. Take a photo of your screen. Mail the photo to the game publisher. They mail you an actual iron-on patch.
Had to look up the actual score I was trying for. Since the game was timed you had to run a flawless route utilizing the underground passages to be able to collect enough treasures to get 20,000
I mapped that sucker out to try to get a max score but somewhere my map went wrong and I didn’t find out till very late
I’m pretty much the oldest age for whom a video game was popular during their childhood
It was the working man’s JSON
“You can’t today because of woke” honey, Blazing Saddles was woke as fuck
A funny irony of “you couldn’t make blazing saddles today” is that Blazing Saddles itself was playing on tired tropes that were, at the time, no longer acceptable. It opens with a joke about white people’s clownish expectations about minstrelsy!
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary stops on by, speaking words of wisdom: all men die.
Dear Donald Trump: мы вас похороним
But he will, one day, and we resolve to be here to see it
You couldn’t publish A Modest Proposal today, the English and Irish are too adversarial
That’s clearly Fake Melania’s husband
Six homicides!
Which again, would not get made *in the same way* but could still get made. I have no trouble imagining Tyler Perry producing a direct-to-streaming parody of westerns that also lampoons modern racism, complete with fart jokes, and it would be just fine
Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony
“Is That All There Is?”
The wizard sleeps calmly. In the distance, frogs sing.
When he does go Google will undergo a stress test like it hasn’t seen since the day Michael Jackson died
Not gonna stop me from enjoying the fantasy for a while though
Yeah my FIL had TWO heart procedures in his 90s, they’ve really got the minimally-invasive, full recovery thing down pretty well these days
yet
This is as fun as the night Kissinger kicked, and it hasn’t even really happened
omg it IS happening
The American Swan Lake
trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream
BOOM TUBE
Apropos of absolutely everything, want to steal an absolutely banger saying I have seen others say and issue a reminder that if your memory is not a blessing, that is entirely a you problem
Thank you for all the fries and cronchy smoshed and other kinds of potatoes darth
7Up Cool Spot
Worth remembering that any time I say, "it's happening," I'm talking about The Winds of Winter
Thinking of the three hours of hopeful anticipation when he ended a tweet with “covfefe” and then went dark
But look at epitaph, he wins it by a half, or that’s according to this morning’s telegraph,
