Start fights among historians everywhere your kids go by naming them Spinoza and Machiavelli
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Start fights among historians everywhere your kids go by naming them Spinoza and Machiavelli
The good news is that the Library of Babel definitely has them. The bad news is,
I was talking to a guy who just moved to Philly & said he didn't want to take the El until he has his concealed carry permit. I tried to be diplomatic about urging him to reconsider, but what I really wanted to say was "if you think you need a gun to ride the train, *you* are a danger to the public"
I just watched Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 and based on those interviews, within the hair metal scene lipstick seems like the controversial dividing line between "I'm such a manly man that I can dress like THIS to get chicks!!" and "nah, performing masculinity isn't what I'm here for"
We're in the "buy our healthful radium tonic!" phase of things right now. Except back then US economic growth wasn't mostly being propped up by Big Radium.
Kodama if I'm trying to win, Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar if I'm trying to say "Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar" at every opportunity. Spent a weekend in 2021 training myself to rattle it off effortlessly and now's the time to reap those rewards
I don't think I'd actually seen Baby Jane yet when this first ran, so the "basket" version of the quote is the one lodged more deeply in my brain
This is a scarier concept tbh. Like if it's hills in general, that's just something I'm learning about hills. But if it's only the one, what's going on with that weird hill!
I recently watched the 1939 Yiddish-language film of Tevye, and it's very grim in ways that make perfect sense for the story but cause a lot of cognitive dissonance for a viewer who's used to the Fiddler version. Also there's no shtetl - the family lives isolated among pogrom-happy gentiles!
Pretty sure standard red light practice in Philly at this point is "if I saw it before it turned red, I'm going through." In probably unrelated news, I keep walking by little patches of broken plastic that used to be headlights.
My North By Northwest discourse is that Eva Marie Saint voiced Katara on The Legend of Korra. The woman just turned 101 a few weeks ago, had an eight-decade acting career, and got to dirty-talk Cary Grant to the full extent that 1959 would allow. What a life!
The patterns on the cover of Dawn do evoke DNA helices, but you kind of have to already be looking for it. It's been long enough since I read them that I'm not sure if there's similar things going on with the other two
Banks also wrote The State of the Art, a story where the Culture takes a direct look at 1970s Earth and their response is to eat the rich
Connors, P. (1993). "Psychological and ethical consequences of indefinitely recursive Marmota monax observation." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74(2):1-3820.
In 1528 the Great Council of Florence elected Jesus Christ to be King of Florence in perpetuity. So you might have to specify the Father or Holy Spirit to make sure you get one of the persons of the trinity who's still available
Oh cool is that an original Lightning Bolt?
I saw one in Center City a few days ago and it looked... greasy? Like a dirty kitchen appliance. Given how ridiculous the cleaning protocols are, I wonder how long it's going to be before we get the first full-on Cyberrustbuckets
The episode opens with a big-box store worker turning off motion smoothing on a display tv. I think "plot point" might be putting it too strongly, and to the extent that it does affect the plot later, it's because he's turned it off - so not a lot of depiction.
It was definitely Cats until I watched Cats this year. Now it's probably back to being either Twilight thanks to reading/watching backlash stuff back in the day, or one of the later Harry Potters where I aged out of caring between the book and the movie
Wretched TORMENT* (*sick as HELL)
Always kinda funny to see the niche that Buggin' Out's career settled into
Everything You Know Is Wrong, definitely one of my favorite They Might Be Giants songs
When the neighbor in A Serious Man asks Larry "Do you take advantage of the new freedoms?" this is what she was referring to
brb, consulting Georg Cantor about which kinds of infinities are in play here
sunday.... www.twitch.tv/evandahm
The D&D podcast Rude Tales of Magic has Wealthy Wim Windows, the World's Richest Dwarf, who by human standards is a pauper. He can afford to put ribbons in his beard and he's the first dwarf to ever ride a bike (rented)
Starting an all-male band to cover Kim Deal songs in Yiddish, it's called די ברידער
Seeing Gwendolyn Christie back for the finale made me realize that Severance shares a lot of sensibilities with Peter Strickland's movies. A mysterious "normal" that's not the one you're used to. (Duke of Burgundy's my favorite, In Fabric maybe most Severance-y, Flux Gourmet has the most Christie)
I love Mel Brooks, but Haynes is My Guy. A career composed mostly of big swings and entirely of bangers.
You can (and should) say a lot of bad things about Noel, but if he were doing something like this he would at least open to partway through the book instead of staring at the copyright page
I freely admit this is low-hanging fruit that could use zillions of examples
Looks like the info here is incorrect except for the name
Leatherface is a gender-nonconforming artist from a working class family and would be preferable in any number of ways
You're in for a treat when he goes from two-strip to three-strip Technicolor!
What's interesting to me is that it's an article from a college paper, & the interviewee who says "DVDs look better" is also a college student. Are the Kids These Days maybe just calling all discs DVDs? Or maybe idealizing the limits of old technology as an aesthetic, like xers/millennials with VHS?
And those nine are "the tale of a shady as hell man trapped in a senseless and lethal etc"
When I was 17 I also obliviously rented Blue Velvet, and I've never seen my dad get more upset at a movie. I was plenty disturbed myself, but going from "why would someone make this???" to "no, seriously, why would someone make this" was a pretty important turning point in how I engage with art!
I grew up in Philly and was also confused on this point for a good long while
I think a lot of people forget that feral hogs guy was posting immediately after two major mass shootings in one weekend, in El Paso and Dayton. Nobody was in the mood to hand it to him (I'm still not! Read the goddamn room, hogs guy!) and it came across as an absurd grasp at changing the subject
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
Searching "towers" got me one, which is impressive because the word doesn't appear in the text of the comic! The other one's probably the Neopets strip.
I like the idea of Swan Boy and Roast Beef having a nice chat about the Dead Kennedys
The main drivers of gambling/speculation have been specific judicial rulings & regulatory changes, because we used to have more legal guardrails against rich people fleecing normal people, but the right has been working to dismantle those. All of this is part of the world they want.
Either the rules apply to everyone, or they are a joke and this platform is a joke. Thanks to @nacl.sh for organising. chng.it/K6v864JNtQ
Hmmm I'm out of the habit of Posting but I don't want this to look like a bot account. So here goes: I watched Carlito's Way tonight and it was really good! This De Palma guy knows how to move a camera and I didn't know that Al Pacino could sound so much like Tom Waits
If you didn't bother to write it why on earth should we bother to read it?
The Selesnya Paperwork Reduction Act was passed quite a while ago but the Azorius are still deeply bitter about it
100 percent. (And anyone who replies "but isn't that the Severin logo?" clearly hasn't listened to the interview with Joe Rubin on the Severin podcast where they go over the rights issues for the different film elements)
I love him and I love Strange David
What bands did Yewli listen to when he was younger that he's now kind of embarrassed by?
SOMEONE has got to introduce the Criterion people to animation. 1200+ titles and under 10 of them are animated.
I really like the original version of Nightmare Alley despite the happy ending - it's so egregiously jarring and tacked-on that it's almost like they ended the film by reciting the Production Code in a sarcastic voice.
I spent this weekend at a 24-hour horror movie marathon and my favorite of the bunch was Paperhouse, screened off of Bernard Rose's personal 35mm print! (Other highlights: a Hong Kong black-magic extravaganza called Seeding of a Ghost, and a Hammer tabby-vs-murderers joint called Shadow of the Cat)
Magic for Beginners is an all-timer for me. Basically anything Kelly Link writes (or publishes! Small Beer Press!) is gold.
Everyone should watch Glen or Glenda and sure, get your giggles at "pull the strings!" and the random cheesecake inserts. But then think about the gender ideology of *everything else in the culture of 50s America*. Ed probably couldn't have gotten his truth out there if it *wasn't* a weird mess.
Earlier this year I read a biography of Howard Hughes, who died starving and covered in needle sores because he had enough money to surround himself exclusively with people who would indulge his mental illness. It's an image that's stayed in my thoughts for various reasons.
The phrase comes from Richard Nixon in '69, the idea was "a few weirdos are dominating the news but most Americans don't want those hippie freaks." Trump's trying to use that same framing but these days, a few weirdos are dominating the news but most Americans don't want those maga freaks.
If I remember right from The History of White People by Nell Painter, in the ancient Mediterranean there was a belief that the most beautiful slaves came from the Caucasus. Then the 19th century guy who came up with Caucasoid/Negroid/Mongoloid decided that meant they were the ultimate white people
I always just spam the Tiny Shriner Car attack and hope for the best
You Keep Me Hangin' On, Supremes original and Vanilla Fudge cover. I love that the Supremes are part of the foundations of heavy music.
As someone who watched Joe Manchin slice chunks off of the Build Back Better Act while the Congressional left supported it - well, I still wouldn't have predicted the current state of things, but there is precedent at least
Is... is that Allowed
A six-year artist/listener age gap? Sounds problematic idk????
Automated, even-handed, non-escalating enforcement is *less* like a police state than "if a cop sees you he decides on the spot how much he wants to fuck up your day"
Plus parakeets, although those guys don't have quite the same vibe
I always thought it was from Captain Awkward, but trying to verify that just now, the oldest reference I could find was from a commenter on her site rather than the Captain herself. And the comment is referencing a meme that sounds like it was from someecards. captainawkward.com/2013/04/15/4...
I've got a Classy answer and a Trashy answer, and they're both Carol Kane
Hey that's me, taxonomy in bio
Maybe not quite the same mood but I'd be front row for a show that's an hour of Extraction Point and then an hour of Hostages
100 gecs put out a remix of One Step Closer 3 years ago now, the legacy is secure
Gotta be some Priit Pärn in there - my vote goes to Ja Treeb Trikke ("And Plays Tricks") www.youtube.com/watch?v=snYN...
Pretty sure this is the first full sentence in Yiddish I've read in the wild! And it's a good one.
