Same. I’m not gonna pretend like “I always saw through her.” I really hoped she was the real deal. It’s actually good to hope that politicians aren’t full of shit, and it sucks when you turn out to be wrong.
Headline: Trump stepped on a rake and it slammed into his face, causing him to stumble around and step on a different smaller rake, which slammed into his balls
Comment: He probably owns stock in rake companies. He and his pals are getting rich
I once spent several weeks chasing a phoner with him, culminating with a publicist’s suggestion that I fly to Budapest to do the interview in person, or else hire someone local to do it in my stead. Given the context of our previous discussions, I genuinely couldn’t tell if she was serious.
The year is 2003. I’m in a college dorm room smoking weed and playing NBA Jam with a bunch of guys with wildly varying musical tastes. Delton 3030 is on the stereo 90% of the time, as the only option everyone can agree on.
I was initially skeptical of this because we just had two movies about the guy AND a Lilo & Stitch remake, but then I remembered that teenagers don’t really watch feature films that much either.
James Bond — the most enduring fictional icon of rugged midcentury masculinity — is famous for having a very specific, specialized drink order.
I had a pair of Florsheims that my mom bought me to wear to homecoming sophomore year. By the time senior prom came around they had practically disintegrated.
The peak of civilization
When I interviewed the director of Seeing Red, she mentioned multiple times that she might have “made a $200 million film instead of going to therapy.” A good line, but delivered with a somewhat deflated tone. The similar phrasing from her boss here is interesting…
And yes, really good. Luca too.
I once saw him play an all-acoustic benefit show with a bill that also included Neil Young, REM, Tracy Chapman, Pearl Jam… His inclusion on it made zero sense. His set was so, so dumb — he was humping the grand piano onstage at one point — and it was also clearly the highlight of the day.
Just the worst fucking thing. My condolences.
I think sometimes about how every book I’ve read about the onset of WWI contains some passage like “despite the troubling news in the papers, the cafes in Brussels were busy that night.”
On the one hand, it reads ominous/tragic now. On the other, what else could they have reasonably been doing?
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I totally missed the news that the cheat-on-everything app, which was poised to radically disrupt higher education and job interviewing 9 months ago, “has since rebranded itself as an AI-powered meeting note-taker.” Bit of a climb-down there.
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
When I was writing a book, I spent a not-insignificant portion of my tiny advance buying old issues of The Source and Vibe on eBay. So many bombshell interviews with major, still-relevant artists published in national magazines in the mid-‘90s are simply not available in any digital form whatsoever.
I was stunned the first time I actually heard him talk. The way people wrote about him, I assumed he must have some sinister yet undeniable charisma — was not expecting “paint-huffing 13-year-old who just learned his first slurs” to be the vibe.
My father is a minister. He runs significantly to the left of the Democratic Party on a ton of social and economic issues. His congregations have generally ranged from dead-center to center-left. It’s weird how often politics-knowers seem to be unaware that people like this exist.
The sheer number of these guys who come from PayPal is darkly hilarious. “Of course I should have the authority to determine who lives or dies in this violent new world order I’m creating — I helped develop a platform to pay for things on the internet in the ‘90s.”
I don’t even really think this is fair. Iraq was heavily debated publicly, and there was a plan. It was a stupid and delusional plan based on unrealistic assumptions, but it was known publicly and voted on by Congress.
There was no public debate or Congressional authorization in this instance.
Exaggerating your Arkansas connections for clout is amazing.
I grew up in Arkansas. My family has lived there for generations. I don’t bring this up often because bragging about being from Arkansas is a profoundly un-Arkansan thing to do, unless done ironically.
I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.
Wilbur — what a legend. 💙
Get ready for a lot of stuff to happen for “purely financial reasons”
I’ve since seen the “rocks and bottles” phrasing in dozens and dozens of news stories, and I’m not sure how many people know it’s generally cop-speak for “miscellaneous minimally-threatening objects.”
The first time I interviewed a cop for a story, he told me crowds were throwing “rocks and bottles” at officers.
Me: “They threw rocks at you?” (This was on Hollywood/Highland, I was curious how they got these rocks.)
Him: “Not really. ‘Rocks and bottles’ is what we say when we mean, like…stuff.”
Incidentally, this is a great book:
Saw them at the now famous Coachella 2006 show. Still remember arguing with my friend who wanted us to leave Depeche Mode’s set early to stake out a spot. “Why do we need a good spot to watch two dudes standing there pressing buttons?” I said. I’m very glad to have lost that argument.
This is a very very very obvious point to make but shops and movie rental places and record stores are all more fun than buying things online
