This season of Survivor is shaping up to be something special.
Some Tech CEO every day: "You don't get to own things now. I own your refrigerator. If you say mean things about me I will turn off your fridge and spoil all your dairy and eggs and meat. If you don't like it you go to jail."
People in my mentions: "Lmao are you REALLY a luddite? smh"
Tickets have been brutal ever since touring restarted in 2021-22 but oh my god it’s truly insane lately
using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him
This is not fucking it! We do not trade violence oversees for violence here. No money for these murderers anywhere. If that’s not your program you will never be rid of them.
This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.
The story as I heard it back in the day is that even the producers thought The Square was a mess and demanded major edits but let him show it at Cannes, and then when it inexplicably won he refused to change a frame. Act of aggression on France’s part.
Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?
Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.
Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?
Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.
Jaywalking but it’s Leno asking Americans on the street if they can locate Caspian Sea (the country) on a map
“Gnosticism” Jordan Peterson now lives in a bacta tank from Star Wars due to acute steak exposure but before he went he really did the world a disservice teaching impressionable idiots the only 4-6 polysyllabic words they know.
Darmascus and Greg, coming this fall to ABC
Sometimes I try to really sit down and grapple with the scale of cosmic things, the distance between planets or the millions of years it takes for a mountain to form etc, and it just dwarfs my understanding. But I guess at least I can look at a tanker vs a semi and go “bigger. BIG bigger”
The “??? Profit!” era
Besides Birth of the Cool I pretty much skip over a good chunk of the first Miles “albums” and pick back up for the first great quintet bc so many of those early records are just clumsily assembled comps
Oh yeah it’s even wilder for people who were recording during the 78 rpm days when all those singles started getting repackaged and often repeated
There are great songs scattered across early Willie but you get to Yesterday’s Wine, his 13th album in 9 years, and suddenly it’s like “ok, no more screwing around.”
I’m always fascinated by the artists who lived through the before and after of pop albums’ transition from steady dumping grounds of filler to something more considered. Stevie Wonder and Willie Nelson racking up well north of a dozen LPs before they make an album that sounds like a true debut, etc
I think ppl who buy into the tradwife/fash are just part of the larger dream of “retiring” by 30 but ofc the women who fall for this fail to see that the influencers peddling it are definitionally working, in the same way men get hosed by grindset Belforts who make $$ selling get rich guides to them
the way it seems right now, irans goal is to destroy our economy and our goal is to provide footage for dank memes the administration can post so edgelords will think theyre cool
It’s been a common refrain that when the billionaires attempt to retreat to their bunkers when the climate wars they’ve accelerated break out that their bodyguards will just kill and enslave them in a post-national, post-money world. But what if their idiot yes-man apps killed them first?
It’s over for you, criminals. Just get down on the ground with me and try to get me into a triangle choke.
Scorsese is almost 90 but doesn’t feel it because even his late period where every movie has some benedictive tonal bet-hedging on whether it’ll be his last he’s still trying new ideas and re-examining his priors. Meanwhile a decades younger guy like Morrissey seems like a bog monster.
It’s a joy to see how artists grow as they age and not only evolve their craft but their worldview, but the inverse of that is that artists who remain obsessed with the illusory value of youth and its signifiers ironically look oldest of all.
Faulkner and Converge: the only great metalcore bands
As I Lay Dying: a perfect distillation of The Sound and the Fury’s explosion. Funny, sad, nihilistic, yearning, all pieced together like a Cubist painting. About halfway thru I began to get mad thinking that the person who made a movie out of this was James Franco.
It will feature a scene where everything grinds to a halt so the popinjay can explain why Schiller was better than Goethe
Whips all kinds of ass, belongs on the list of Actually Good epics with Ben-Hur or Lawrence.
A truly sublime feat of television
50 full minutes of them making horn noises with their mouths
