Michael Tritter

Rather ridiculous - stored nuclear waste on the dark side of the moon explodes, sending the moon and its inhabited base into deep space and many adventures! - but often vaguely eerie, definitely a strong British tv vibe. Amazing disco-funk/orchestral title sequence definitely worth watching!

someone's been watching a bit too much Space: 1999

more shocking than the price of the ticket is the fact that my parents allowed me as a very young person to go to new jersey

This 17s video has amassed 220 comments and 219 of them are guitarists who are furious with me

Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And-

Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

index of a two-hour music theory patreon video by Jabeau

The punchline is that he also makes hourlong+ tutorials on a patreon (often about music theory) and they are straightforward and excellent and shockingly calm

Fontspots: Eurostile In addition to the film-specific typographic deconstructions on this site, I’m keeping track of all the times I spot classic sci-fi fonts in movies. What better way to start than with perenni…

Lots of sci-fi usage as well. 2001, Trek, etc.
typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/f...

Eurostile?

I have never sent a fax from the beach
thanks for nothing AT&T

Three criminals (including a young Jeff Goldblum) in the original "Death Wish," one of whom is wearing a red bandana around his head, while Goldblum appears to be rocking a cravat

psychotic criminals in pro-vigilantism 70s exploitation films loved a bandana, or in Goldblum's case, a jaunty cravat

reviews pointing out that the flash is just an led, so doesn't do the traditional on-camera flash look that is so much part of the aesthetic everyone is chasing... and the shoe isn't hot so you can't attach one, which seems like a missed opportunity

"Nobody Does It Better" is the best Bond theme

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

Oh wow, Ras Baraka is the son of the late Amiri Baraka, the playwright and poet (and onetime Poet Laureate of New Jersey yes that was once a title that existed).

Lieutenant Kyle. Just minding his damn business and running the transporter in multiple universes. A go along to get along fellow. Unjustly agonized by mirror universe Spock. (Spock later saved the day but he was a tremendous asshole from a universe of assholes, Kyle did not deserve this.)

would watch

Pope Leo XIV was 30 in the mid-80s which means he was definitely aware of synth pop

Storming into my room and slamming the door because I didn't think of this joke

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

B-boy Jesus

Sneak peak inside day one of the conclave

Excellent ranking

for those who celebrate

catching up on the story of star wars from a 1977 lp of the same name

...when Ben and Vader battled with Laser Weapons and Star Fighters chased Tie Ships

catching up on the story of star wars and laser weapons and tie ships

Another LP from 1980 of fairly bad contemporary covers of music from The Empire Strikes Back

Back cover of an LP from 1980 of fairly bad contemporary covers of music from The Empire Strikes Back

missed one (unlistenable)

Yes

I swear it was was not intentionally in honor of 5/4 but found myself digging up my old copy of the SW Despecialized Edition to show someone and was surprised to have a real emotional reaction to it. Still shocks me how much the filmmaker botched things when he fucked with it later.

Ghorman's alien language is just [French chef's kiss]

for real

yes please, when they line up it's glorious and then they start to drift and I want a pitch control like a turntable