Fondor Haulcraft

Saw a cool old timey car in Glendale today, later realized Jon Favreau was driving.

to mock the foolish IRGC, we can inflate the Kurds to a comically bloated form. A moment that lasts only 3.4 seconds in an eight minute and twenty two second long cartoon....Three point four seconds. That's all the time Big Kurdus will need to exist

Love that Sternbach calls them “animé antennas”

Gotta hand it to the Maori on this one, they got the rest of us good and hard

John Abizaid

RIP “I feel liberated. We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.” - you had a great run as the best quote in the FT from people who really would benefit from reading the FT, there's a new sheriff in town.

Satellite photo of the Namib Desert. The top two-thirds are covered in red, undulated sand dunes, leading down to a dry river bed, seen in bands of blue and white. Along the river bed, black dots of vegetation curl around the pointed tips of dunes.

#PPOD: Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite captured this image over the sand seas of the Namib Desert on 7 January 2012. The blue-and-white area is the dry riverbed of the Tsauchab. Black dots of vegetation are concentrated close to the river’s main route, while salt deposits appear bright white. 🧪

Okay he also missed the meaning of the ending, no excuse for that unless he didn’t know what “tonsure” means, so I guess “nice background and insights paired but with some big misses” for this mini-documentary.

I‘m no literary scholar and don’t speak Polish but count Stanisław Lem as one of my favorite authors, and I’ve at least looked up how to pronounce “Stanisław Lem.”

This is actually a very good featurette but he mispronounced “qi”—how is it possible to be a scholar of Chinese-language cinema when you neither speak the language nor exhibit any curiosity about *how* it might actually be spoken?

Gets me that I’m watching the (good) special feature and the film scholar’s mispronouncing people’s names. You watched the film, closely, but never figured out how to say “Chiu?”

Honestly maybe the first time my dumb and simple male reflexes have actually yielded results in some way

Crocs woman was hot enough to rewire my brain—overheard her speak a bit of Chinese, tonight I’m watching Raining in the Mountain and I’m getting more of the dialogue without subtitles than I have in *years.*

i am 100% not cool enough to be in situations where the coke gets busted out but i'm going to posit that its resurgence in popularity from the '10s on explains more about how politics works across the left-right and insider-outsider spectrum more than most ppl would suspect

Entrance to the Vermont/Beverly LA Metro station, which is designed to look like it’s been cracked open into the ground by an earthquake

Takin da subway

Cafe dog

Cafe dog (headed straight to under my arm to try to grab my muffin)

Or it’s like Asimov said about Gilbert & Sullivan—he had so much of their work memorized because he was exposed to it at a crucial point in his brain’s development (middle school)

Here I am talking about suits and I’m exiting the opera behind a really hot woman in Crocs of all things

More eerily there’s a guy here also wearing a tan suit who looks like a slightly shrunken, 30 year older than me in a bowtie

Everyone in an insta comments section getting hot and bothered over bob in a mr show sketch

The masses yearn for 90s hungover Odenkirk

Actually did see him at the premiere of the Lodger Symphony

Update: have looked twice at a guy a couple of times bc he’s a real Glass doppelgänge; have thought there was a literal chance of “an evening with Philip Glass”

Attending Homer-style (left a big hot sauce stain on my shirt eating dinner, tried buttoning my jacket to hide it but it’s directly above the buttoning point so now it’s even more obvious)

It’s that and the reverse too (electeds such idiots the electorate wouldn’t believe you if you told them)

This war is not an imperfect thesis statement.

It’s a reckless, illegal, immoral act. There’s not gonna be a sound rationale because he doesn’t think.

semiquincentennial of humiliation

The problem with the advice to eat liver every day is you'be got to chain a Greek to a cliffside first

Honestly the front line guys have been dominating coups for too long. Let's see what a systems manager who's really into Napoleon can do

(They said this right after I started doing it)

When my friends were living on Roosevelt Island they said every guest would, at some point, inevitably just start taking pictures of the Queensboro Bridge.