Lee Henderson

The really dark part is that he insisted on calling the women in the photos “Barker’s Beauties”.

Tried to find a good reply gif, came up empty.

(Very relatedly: don’t google “Jordan insomnia real genius” because the internet just spits back a bunch of clips of that drug-addled UofT prof who’s obsessed with how butch lobsters are when they fuck.)

So wait, the organizers of this anti-Communist historical monument were somehow unaware that Communists and Nazis are historically enemies? I usually find even gross bureaucratic missteps to be easily explained away as incompetence, but in this case I’m finding that difficult…

OMG… le mot juste. 😳

Also that says “Fifa Peace Prize”, which… why are they allowed to use their hands?

Audre Lorde:
“The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.”

Perplexed by Avant-Garde Dance? Let This Choreographer Explain.

Sigh. Stop expecting artists to “explain” their work (etymologically: to squish it out onto a flat surface), or indeed to suggest anyone should. “Explanations” can only neuter and disappoint.

Instead, ask them to contextualize, position, reframe, present, open, offer, historicize, psychoanalyze…

“The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.”

—Audre Lorde

Ah, right, yes, I’ve heard of this. Dissinflation.

Oh, thank god—if there’s one thing Québec doesn’t have enough of, it’s indie brewers… 😂

I was JUST lamenting the lack of complaints about “sucka MCs” these days. Has the number of MCs exhibiting sucka-ism decreased as a proportion of total since 1992? Or is the number of MCs just in recession overall? Or has the threshold by which one becomes a sucka merely increased prohibitively? 🧐

Yeah, dude, tack hard towards the weaknesses!

Shocking how many people eat their potato-leek soup chilled.

My favourite part—and I feel the need to point it out because it was SO artfully subtle—is when she flexes that she was dear leader’s “VIP” guest at the RNC. You can tell she’s gonna try to dine out on that for YEARS…

Omgomgomg… so much to say
1-This robot really puts the Mock in Mockba
2-It tripped and fell right into the uncanny valley
3-My favourite part is when the engineers can’t operate a simple Emergency Shame-Curtain
4-Did this get Peter Boyle’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz” stuck in anyone else’s head?

Of course you are! ‘Tis your right as a British Subject (by affiliation).

My first response was going to be a mock “too soon!” … But of course it isn’t.

Wait, but has the world changed, or have you?

I saw that piece at Fringe, it’s not as dumb as it sounds.

Wait, so Dr. Who exists as a show in Community… but then if Dr. Who and Community are both parts of the Expanded Tommy Westphal Universe, that means the Dr. Who series in Community is actually a documentary…(!)

Cold muck or otherwise, only a monster would deprive you of risotto.

Sending someone a spotify* playlist is like handing them an ailing puppy**: it’s not a present, it’s an obligation to spend both time and money.
——
*or insert stupid parasitic streaming service of your choice
**except the puppy may one day love you; the megacorp never will

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

Maybe ballooning class sizes (as managers hire more managers & fewer faculty) and doggedly treating students as “customers” are why students feel like their presence doesn’t matter…

“The students — there are 761 enrolled this term — pack into a historic wood-paneled theater…”

He just hopes Trump will one day make him a real boy.

The administrative class loves and excels at two things: 1) diluting their own responsibility/ies by hiring more of themselves, and 2) making their own jobs less complex by reducing the agency and the number of people doing the actual work the institution is mandated to do (in this case, teaching).

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

Educated guess: post-sec administrators will—without regard for student needs/faculty expertise—lustily roll out “partnerships” requiring prescriptive uses of a paid megacorp AI. Faculty will be asked to incorporate that AI brand into teaching—first gently, then under threat of reprisal.

"Russia's Pearl Harbor"—Ukraine surprise drone attack hits nuclear bombers More than 40 aircraft were struck by the Ukrainian assault.

This headline/quote/simile is reckless and wrong. The US did not invade Japan unprovoked in WWII, capture its territory, and then refuse to negotiate while murdering and raping its people.

What revisionist idiots are saying it’s Russia’s “pearl harbor”, anyway? And how much were they paid?

They don’t make ‘em like Syd Mead, anymore (…er, which also means they no longer make ‘em like Syd Mead made ‘em).

“Disturbing” in the sense that a collection of seashells on the beach is a bivalvic mass-grave? Then, sure, I guess.

I’d argue for Spalding Gray’s inclusion. And Wallace Shawn.

But I’d also argue that’s still “autofiction” but presented as performance rather than on the page. Does “autofiction” for some reason preclude it being something performed? (Genuinely asking, I’m unaware if it does.)