Just saw a comment on a Reddit thread roasting someone that was just: "You just know he's the type of guy who puts audiobooks on instead of podcasts for long road trips."
UMMM....WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?!
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Just saw a comment on a Reddit thread roasting someone that was just: "You just know he's the type of guy who puts audiobooks on instead of podcasts for long road trips."
UMMM....WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?!
When I was 9, my mom & I drove 1,200+ miles to live in Kansas for a year.
We got 4 audiobooks for the trip:
-Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
-Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe
-The Chosen by Chaim Potok
-To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I just realized how foundational those books were for me.
Dealing with fandom conflicts is a problem of modern parenting that no one talks about!!
11.08.2025 08:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Look, Tim Curry's memoir is coming out this fall and ofc he's narrating the audiobook.
So can we all keep society functioning long enough for me to hear the OG Dr. Frank N. Furter spill tea on who he shagged on the sets of Clue and It?
K. Thanks.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tim-c...
βYou either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
-- me, after telling my 6 year old to stop reading Calvin & Hobbes and go to sleep.
Same thing w/ great artists.
Even famous people used to have a hard time getting wacky ideas out into the world for all to see. Now, anyone can do it.
And w/out those barriers, they can't outgrow biases or mindsets. A big social media following has reinforcement or conflict causing doubling down.
Also, they definitely changed stuff in editting from the shooting script b/c I remember a cut scene from an alternate ending with Bourne getting drugged looking for Marie's shop and waking up to Brian Cox offering him a job.
Hmmm...doesn't Walter Goggins do that info dump at Langley talking about her background/family hen mentions a brother and suggests sending Clive Owen to the farm?
I always viewed that Marie was saying that side of the family was a different class and never considered her one of them.
Okay, I just fell down a new rabbit hole...this actually seems to be a point of debate online. Some say brother, some say friend/implied-ex.
Wikipedia summary says half-bro. But if I recall, his status was explain in vo/adr. Maybe they changed it for US vs Euro markets?
Shit, I forgot the Christmas tree is set up when they break into the farm and realize Marie's brother is there.
30.11.2024 21:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
My 5-year-old (just completely out of the blue): Pappa, is Magneto a good guy or a bad guy?
Me (thinking up how to answer):
I still think about this joke
from Arrested Development from time to time.
It's perfect.
youtu.be/-sMfKEvv1nA?...
People of Bluesky. Let's get to know each other better. What is your all-time favorite TV show? Quote share your answer in gif form.
25.11.2024 21:50 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It is embarrassingly lousy research that CNN could not double-check when the last brochure, "In case of crisis or war," was released and suggested to our Civil Defence minister that the last time was during WW2.
www.expressen.se/tv/nyheter/s...
I also found checking the comments on r/sweden to be highly informative.
My favorite was the one that complained the editions from the 80s were better...because they advised on tactics for waging resistance through sabotage and guerrilla warfare.
It begins...
21.11.2024 20:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
It's almost like theyβre so incompetent they can't even do authoritarianism right.
21.11.2024 17:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Today is #TDoR
We honour the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.
Friends back in the states: Bet you feel like you dodged a bullet moving to Europe, eh?
Me: This came in the mail today.
Here's a personal favorite moment of mine from the classic 90s comicbook Preacher that seems more relevant than ever these days.
16.11.2024 19:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Relevant Bugs Bunny reference that my brain randomly connected to this...
16.11.2024 19:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I've now reached the period of life as a white dude where I'm starting to get into Warren Zevon.
"Werewolves of London" has been one of my random go-to tracks for years, but a few days ago I heard "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" for the first time, and...uh, damn...
youtu.be/wRWCK9zGynA?...