Jake Cole

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Generally I listen to Death from Human onward but even their early stuff is amazing and what’s especially impressive to me is how clearly mixed it is from the start. Bass clarity is the first casualty of metal but Schuldiner always made sure you could hear it youtu.be/_duhhVa-dk8?...

The NY Post turning this into a good-natured Smokey and the Bandit story is so funny. Are they even trying here?

It’s funny this is the least strange Moore has ever looked but there’s an interview with him where he mentioned this day. He and Frank Miller met Kirby and Kirby said how he thought they were amazing and doing wonderful things w/ comics and both got flustered like “but you’re JACK KIRBY!”

This is also why the Yarvin cult of intellectual death has taken hold. Only a population actively denied education and regressed to resourcing-mining serfs could ever look at the morons who own capital and see geniuses and titans. They will put that toothpaste back in the tube at all costs.

The (correct) argument that WFH increased productivity is actually a knock against it bc it reminds bosses that not only is their presence not responsible for things getting done but in general they are the equivalent of Stephen Merchant’s idiot bot in Portal, an intellectual tumor on actual workers

Of all the myriad ways people cooked their brains during COVID, none has been more consequential than the boss class learning that the average 19yo shelf-stocker is more vital to the economy by an order of magnitude than they will ever be, thus they’ve decided to end life as we know it.

These goons have cooked their brains in their echo chambers for so long they absolutely thought “we’ll be greeted as liberators” because they believe any city with > 200,000 people is a no-go zone and now yoga pants SUV moms are pushing them to mass suicide.

Awful. AWFUL.

Every friend and job I’ve had since college is the direct or indirect result of Twitter and seeing it become bots, Nazis, and transactional relationship dead-enders paying firsties rights for their witless, evil comments bums me out to no end.

In much the same way I used to drink sweet tea and soda every single day from childhood and then I switched to just water for health and within two months if I tried a Coke or tea it was like putting pennies in my mouth.

Yeah I have a small number of pals who refuse to make the jump and insist their Twitter experience still feels enough the same bc of mufos to stay and all I can do is shake my head bc like, yeah if you got slowly boiled in it sure but take some time away and come back and it’s horror.

Clapping and giggling with delight at Kevin O’Neill’s art in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Even on their comics side DC has made a real art of this in recent years. Apart from generally needing to start at the beginning of a 4-5 issue arc you can really plop in wherever, instantly feel a much larger context and history but nonetheless understand the story at hand quickly w/o homework.

It became a running joke how everyone in the Claremont era was constantly reintroducing themselves to the reader bc “every comic is someone’s first,” but then the pendulum swung way too far in the other direction to make you buy as many issues as possible (IIRC Marvel went bankrupt for this?)

I’ve only read the first few Travis McGee novels but A Purple Place for Dying was my fav so far and would fit the bill.

It is an impressive achievement, whatever the sporadic and fleeting merits of the works themselves, to create a functional archipelago of sub-franchises clearly linked by a decade-long plan that is a towering financial success. To assume it would be that way for forever is just pure hubris.

Drinking a true Italian espresso in a Venti-sized cup and running into the Leaning Tower with such force to take the edge off that I orient it upright again.

Company that sells coffee in a thermos-sized mug with enough sugar and syrups to stop the heart of a charging bull rhinoceros learning Americans want a big gulp of slop:

Danny Huston a stealth MVP for how debonairly he repeats it back

It’s really funny that an American coffee company was caught left-footed by the revelation that Americans would rather have a literally watered-down product if it meant it came in a big cup vs an actually crafted treat. Buddy that’s why you exist!

The number of bands that owe Sabbath is incalculable but no one has ever more credibly sounded like they could have replaced the lads in the studio on Master of Reality and 90% of people wouldn’t notice.

He drinks formula right out of the garden hose

Kicking back and relaxing with some Mark Fisher

There is a reason that Flannery O’Connor wrote Like That.

I know we’ve been getting stories of people cutting off their parents and other MAGA relatives for a decade now but I think, to quote the wise men of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Oh hey, that frog is giving a scorpion a lift across the river. That’s nice of him.

How ya gonna keep em on the farm (Queens) when they’ve seen Thanos?

I think Jack Kirby is one of the most important artists in American history, and not even I would throw money at an Eternals project if I held purse strings. A stunning act of hubris then immediately followed up by a Captain Marvel “sequel” actually being a sequel to two streaming shows.

They took the classic executive-brained lesson from the success of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, NOT that solid writing, casting, and character investment can get a crowd to care about characters known to <3% of ppl going in but that Marvel itself was an all-powerful brand with infinite buy-in