Désespérer

I’m watching the Lilith Fair documentary on Hulu and Sarah McLachlan was explaining the “fair” part of the festival name and she said it was a play on wards, that “fair” could mean “equal”, “attractive”, or “a celebration”.

And I thought, “But Sarah, ‘fair’ can also mean ‘white’.” 🤷🏾‍♀️ Ijs.

Hibiscus Forever

#BeWary 🇺🇸

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

Michael Keaton working on the production crew for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, 1975

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

This conversation happened 2 years ago.

Someone in my Toastmasters club, which meets at the local public library, saw that I had a book about the Battle of Verdun. She remarked "oh my uncle was there." I thought she meant he was from Verdun. She corrected me - no he was in that battle as a French soldier in the First World War.

In 1916.

How The Good Boy Team Created The Most Adorable & Innovative Horror Movie Of The Year Co-writer/director Ben Leonberg and producer Kari Fischer talk Good Boy, making a horror movie from a dog's POV and potential sequels to the viral hit

I try to avoid hyperbole, but when I tell you that #GoodBoyMovie is near/in my Top 10 2025 movies, I urge you to listen! Ben Leonberg and the magnificent Indy have created one of the freshest haunted house twists!

Be sure to check out my @screenrant.bsky.social interview below!
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Stripes: After more than 30 years, CDC has finally given Gulf War Illness a diagnostic code, admitting it wasn’t all in the vets’ heads. They know even less about TBI.

“Plenary authority” means complete, full, and absolute power to act on a matter without limitations.
• When someone or some body has plenary authority, it means their authority is not restricted by outside approval, higher oversight, or narrow boundaries.

YouTube video by Gerald Shortell Stephen Miller glitches and shuts down after saying too much

Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately freezes. Guess he wasn’t supposed to say this out loud.

From Cornell Law School

“Plenary authority is power that is wide-ranging, broadly construed, and often limitless for all practical purposes.”

youtu.be/WLLyJ0krfd8?...

Sivanchron Flesh Praetor - V'neurmatreul
2022

Comic-book ad from 1967 showing scenes from "Saturday's Super Hero Schedule on CBS."

CBS's Saturday-morning cartoon lineup for 1967: Captain Kangaroo, Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles, Moby Dick and The Mighty Mightor, Shazzan!, Space Ghost, The Herculoids, The Superman-Aquaman Hour of Adventure, Jonny Quest, The Lone Ranger, and The Road Runner.

Every single one of the illustrations is a brilliant brooding exercise in evoking dread & doom.
I’d never seen his art before I picked up this book, but after an Earl E. Mayan internet odyssey I’m completely smitten

It is super annoying to acknowledge, OK as a species we've had basically instantaneous access to all documented human knowledge for 20 years now and yet our collective decision-making sucks ass.

But faster access to wronger information at a higher cost isn't the move.

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

I remember the leg-wrestling. It’s been about 45 years.

Do you remember the tug-of-war story in one of the books?

YouTube video by DavidBowieVEVO David Bowie - Lazarus (Video)

“This way or no way

You know, I’ll be free

Just like that bluebird

Now ain’t that just like me”
youtu.be/y-JqH1M4Ya8

I owe you a handwritten letter. In it I will tell you about my only conversation with Bowie which did involve me being a little hyper about him saying ‘qliphoth’.

I woke up and shared it with Elyria who told me I really needed to write it down. There’s a lot.

Notably, I’ve been listening to OUTSIDE the past several days

Let me preface this with a reminder that I often have incredibly vivid, detailed dreams

The dream I woke up from today is no exception

David Bowie was recording a new concept album (yes, he knew he was dead & that wasn’t going to stop him from rising to this moment)

The album title:

LACRIM/OS/A

The thirsty crow from Aesop's Fables. Image by Milo Winter.

In Aesop's Fables, a thirsty crow is unable to reach the water at the bottom of a pitcher until he drops enough stones into the pitcher that the water rises. Real crows and ravens have been documented doing the same thing, both by ancient scholars and modern scientists.
#FairyTaleTuesday

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile at Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT.

Only at The Onion on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

Any time Black ppl say “I don’t like this, here’s why”

A group of mfs get the urge to say “nun uh! One of the 3 Blacks I know isn’t offended, so you’re overreacting!”

me off to the kitchen to eat some chocolate biscuits at 3am

I don't so much mind being asked to violate copyright by students--most of the time they don't understand copyright law because nobody's ever explained it to them in a way that they'll understand--but I do mind faculty who violate copyright and tell students to do the same or they'll fail.