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there are many filmmakers whom i clearly recognize as major artists while remaining completely untouched and, frankly, annoyed by their work. learning the difference between "i hate", "it's bad", and "it just isn't for me" has been a crucial feature of my maturation as an artist and human being.

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

That big L really ties the rest of the shirt together

As elements potentially named for colleges/universities/etc go, dukium would be pretty damn funny

[Depeche Mode voyce]:

🎶
REACHE OUT
TOUCHE GRASS
🎶

The PAC-12 wouldn’t even sign off on their TV channel, Larry Scott shoulda been fired into the sun

🎃

Returned to office after a couple of weeks, and didn’t recognize one of my coworkers because I’d never seen him wearing glasses before.
No, I do *not* work at the Daily Planet.

David Cross folks.

The Spartans are winning, of course, because San Jose State is a better school

…candy-corn flavored marshmallows, or marshmallows actually made from candy corn somehow, or…?

A red ball with overlaid text “Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball.”

…I realize this probably wasn’t the energy you were delivering, but…

Well don't I feel stupid

/yoink

Ruin a book with a car:

The Silence of the Lamborghinis

Ruin a book with a car:
The Lord of the Sebrings

I recommend acquiring a crystal ball and bringing your financial habits under control

Of Mice and Men
Romeo & Juliet
Taming of the Shrew
Brave New World
Waiting for Godot
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Bright Lights Big City
Scarlet Letter
Catcher in the Rye
Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Pride and Prejudice
The Importance of Being Earnest

…rapture? in THIS economy?

looks like a 4.6 over in Berkekly who dropped their burrito earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

4.6. That tracks. I sleep through anything below a 4, unless it’s really close by.

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Or Led Blimp, arguably. I’m not sure whether non-rigid airships are considered more technologically advanced than rigid airships

Technologically advance a band:

Graphite Zeppelin

October Cal doesn’t always wait for October

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

Dutch late night TV has its take

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

BRB, off to figure out if these are available on this side of the pond

Oski, the Cal mascot, with his eyes altered to suggest laser beams coming out of them