Mark Walters

italian horror fans'll be like "you don't know Argento Fusilli? Oh, you must see "The Yellow Knife." It's shot all in green, except the blood. There's a 45 minute shot of a nun crucifying a clown with huge needles. A masterpiece"

a sign for a missing poodle saying "the opposite of lost" "don't try to find me. I have finally escaped my "master's "wicked clutches.to the others I say: join me. BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU.vive la liberté." -pierre

not everyone who wanders is lost

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

right now the coroner is cutting open hulk hogan and discovering he is full of nothing but hot dog meat

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

Yeah I remember they outed a guy who wasn't a public figure

I wish more people realized this

This is quite a journey

These two dudes are not drinking and yet they are sharing a drink called loneliness

it's. . . clobberin' time

T Pain War Pigs YouTube video by Working 2gether Inc.

wait watch the live one instead it's even better

Hey man I had Rototoms myself don’t recall them sounding good at all

Ooooh mounted snare drum!

Acadia really is a top 5 USA destination

Dang!

But yes I agree the McCain article is troubling but I think he was out of his depth

A lifelong apprenticeship: David Foster Wallace and Bryan A Garner on writing Quack This Way, Garner's tribute to Wallace, gifts readers with insights into language and the intricacies of an odd friendship

That guy was buds with DFW too

www.theguardian.com/books/2013/n... A lifelong apprenticeship: David Foster Wallace and Bryan A Garner on writing | David Foster Wallace | The Guardian

The article literally has a quote from DFW re Scalia that politically they were nothing alike at all

Amazing interview. Still thinking about the story about Dylan's assistant.

Dear Carrie, Why did you fire one of the best drummers in the world

Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment? 1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!) 2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc. 3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read 4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting) 5. read aloud a chapter to someone else 6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid 7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through 8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener 9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story 10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you 11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first 12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip 13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term [writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

I’m the Antarctic Truther of your nightmares

Yeah man you should care where Antarctica is of you’re doin a lil podcast about Antarctica

Nah dude they’re half a world away from one another

Shackleton was Antarctic bub

Me and the boys heard you was talking shit.

woah Wilko Johnson back from the dead

comic strip in which Opus the Penguin is about to be abducted by ICE

opus begins an un-excellent new adventure. www.instagram.com/berkeleybrea...

man you KNOW C-3PO sucks at the drums

jesus christ man this is so rough