Uncle Space Ghost

The Millennial medulla oblongata

As an alum of the NYU real estate company, this is incredible.

I've reached a very confusing place in my life where there is a subset of people that will only call me by my real name and a subset of people that will only call me "Space", and it breaks my brain a little bit any time someone in either group crosses over into using the other name.

Probably not too much. I already use it primarily as a soapbox for the issues I'm versed on, a testing ground for punchlines, and ill-informed sports opinions, and that's about the level I'm cool with it functioning on.

Scenes From a Bubble:

Even had we not decided to ignore scientific findings and stand as the vanguard of the last gasp of petropolitics, we would still be at a competitive disadvantage right now. However, because we *have* decided to do those things, we have locked ourselves out of the century's most lucrative market.

Carbon Brief has done the best reporting on this topic by far, but Xi/the CCP saw the potential for this outcome as far back as 2023, and the USA's 2024 election cycle aligned with a dramatic uptick in the rate of construction of renewables in China. Post-election, that rate has gone stratospheric.

When someone loads up like that, they are about to hit you with what professionals call "The Ol' Razzle Dazzle"

YouTube video by Hazel Dickens - Topic Black Lung

Hazel Dickens' voice is haunting

Sort of like Alien only receiving one technical Oscar and then becoming the most iconic film of 1979 (love Apocalypse Now, but in a popularity contest, Alien wins) and singlehandedly jumpstarting the Home Video market.

The Best Picture category is interesting for me as a time capsule. Remarkable to see which films actually win/are nominated it vs what films from a year become the gems. At the time, the Academy would never have thought to nominate stuff like Days of Being Wild, Europa Europa or Misery.

Kevin Costner on the poster for the 1990 film Dances With Wolves, the film the Academy decided was more worthy of the Best Picture Oscar than Goodfellas. Total Recall, Miller's Crossing, Misery, Nikita, Europa Europa, Ghost, and Days of Being Wild all came out the same year. But no, Dances with Wolves it is.

The Oscars have a lot to answer for from 1989-1991

I'm overdue as well - I don't think I've seen it since I watched in class during college

The Fisher King is fascinating. There's something profound there underneath it all, but it reads like a vibrant, aimless mess. I kind of love it?

And they are all of them sandwiches

Going so fast her body literally has oversteer

"I sent thousands of hot people to the Italian Alps for two weeks, and I was shocked at what I found."

two men are talking to each other in front of a mirror with the words `` it 's showtime folks '' Alt: Roy Scheider as Joe Gideion in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979). He stares into a mirror, cigarette hanging from his lip, and says "It's Showtime, Folks!" with a small flourish of his hands.

Films about people being awful, you say?

May I offer you some All That Jazz in these trying times?

Ideal balance for the NBA All-Star Game is 3 quarters of silliness where the teams informally agree to keep it close and a final quarter of going all-out at one another.

When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism.

A few suggestions...

This would have been some years ago, so I can't speak to their current collection, but it was part of NYU's Bobst Library and their private collection.

Reminds me how I stumbled upon the entire 2010 F1 season on the Internet Archive during COVID. Preserved with pre and post-race shows. Brilliant time capsule. The entire Chinese GP coverage is about the Icelandic volcano erupting and teams not being able to get home.

I get that most people don't get/won't have had the privilege of seeing things like a copy of Atlantic Monthly from the 1870s, but once you do, you realize immediately why the bulk of what's contained within has never been digitized or transcribed. Delicate as anything and overflowing with writing.

One thing I've learned through studying film and history is that preservation of records is disproportionately reliant on the maintenance of physical documents, many of which can't be digitized without presenting serious risk to an original. Short of direct transcription, it will never be online.

Charles Darwin 🤝 Charles Leclerc

"I am stupid."

Nottingham Forest: Vitor Pereira agrees to replace Sean Dyche as new head coach at the City Ground Nottingham Forest sacked their third manager of the season in Sean Dyche; the decision came after the 0-0 draw with Wolves; Dyche lasted just 114 days in the role; former Wolves boss Vitor Pereira has...

Manager #4 in the span of 7 months.

I root for a very normal football club.

Some days, I feel absolutely insane telling people that the current market is overvalued and rife with fraud, and some days CBNC just up and tells people to invest in the Moon.

That's a really weird way to say, "We're pretty sure the economy is going to fall apart if we don't find a new speculative market that will let us keep passing around all this debt."

Honorable Mention:

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters (2007)

The Lives of Others (2006)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Black Dynamite (2009)
Ex Machina (2014)
The Death of Stalin (2017)