Kári Tulinius

That’s a good point, but I think that Kurt Cobain also operates as a kind of one-person doorway into the early 90s. Kids who get into Nirvana also end up getting into related bands. It’s like how Elvis was his own thing, but kids who got obsessed with him also listened Jerry Lewis, Buddy Holly etc.

Nostalgia for the early 90s started in the late 90s and still hasn’t let up

I think I’ve seen someone wearing a Nirvana T-shirt every single day I’ve left the house this century

There are a fair number of men of the international persuasion who inflate their size in one way or another, but putting a specific number on it isn’t something I’ve ever noticed. Talking about your height in centimeters just isn’t as common of a thing as mentioning your feet and inches in the US.

funny, I noticed this in the US, that guys who were just a tiny bit taller than me (I’m 5’8”) would say they were six feet, but I’ve never run into anything similar elsewhere

Næst segir þú mér að Bíll Paxton og Bill Pullman séu ekki sami Bill

so, I just learned that two guys I knew reasonably well from very different contexts, who I met years apart, and both had the same very common name… are the same guy

That anecdote about running for club president and promising that his mother will do the club’s laundry is extraordinary. If it was in a novel I’d think it was just way too on the nose.

Anyway, congratulations to Lens for going to the top of the table in the French football league

A screenshot from Google’s minute by minute commentary of a football game between Angers and Lens. It correctly shows that Lens striker Florian Thauvin scored a goal for his own team.

A screenshot from Google’s minute by minute commentary of a football game between Angers and Lens. It says that Lens striker scored an own goal, even though he scored the goal for his own team, Lens.

Google used to pay a website called Goal to syndicate its football commentary on the Google homepage, but now they’ve switched to AI which leads to nonsense like this, when the commentary says a striker scored an own goal against his own team, even as they credited him correctly for his first goal.

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stendur eitthvað innan í eða aftan á bókinni um kápuna?

some people's hobbies are their jobs, and remain their hobbies after they retire

i was raised on these streets

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

Þetta er örugglega ritvilla, bærinn Heiði er í Biskupstungunum.

I bought a book for Nephew B from Bookshop.org today and with the free shipping it was less than it would have cost on Amazon.

'When they were good, God got up to dance.' The deluxe edition of The Replacements' 1984 classic album Let It Be is the latest in a decade long effort to remaster and reissue the Minnesota indie rockers' entire catalog. The reissue...

a reissue of Let It Be, one of the great rock albums of the 80s, made me post about Minneapolitan indie rock legends The Replacements, I also include one of the best show reviews ever in song form, Tommy Womack's "The Replacements"

Hómer Simpson, klæddur í tötra, heldur á hatti og segir við bláklæddan mann sem er að ganga í burtu frá honum: „Thank you. Thank you. Rememer my dog up and died. Thank you.“

vídjóspjall á kvöldin, regluleg textasamskipti, plana ferðalög svo það væri alltaf á hreinu hvenær við hittumst næst

The first Zootropia film was pretty much about racial profiling in police work. It’s not particularly radical, it still shows cops as good guys after all. I’ve heard from friends who‘ve seen Zootropia 2 that it’s even more political in its messaging, while retaining the excitement of the first film.

I really liked Space: 1889 in my teens, and on some level I still do, but when I returned to them in my twenties, I started to get ever more uncomfortable with them. There’s a real, uh, lack of questioning in them.

'non-ideal Kant' Immanuel Kant — Chief Architect of Scientific Racism is a short blogpost by Nathan Allen [archive] laying out Immanuel Kant's theories of race. It builds on the 2005 essay Kant's Untermenschen by...

yes, it's me, back on my bullshit about immanuel kant and the origins of scientific racism

buy 12 more small chunks of cheese to fill out the rest of advent

It's been dropping a lot in popularity. In the 80s it was in the top 100 of baby names, but now it's heading out of the top 500. However, Franklin has been getting a bit more popular, but it's still only like the 380th most popular baby name.

we all find our own unique path to enlightenment

I was curious, out of the top ten worldwide box office champs for each year, how many movies were original, written-for-the-screen stories. No adaptations. No remakes. No sequels. Starting with 1977

'77: 4; 78: 5; 79: 3
'80: 3; 81: 7; 82: 6; 83: 4; 84: 8 (wow!);
'85: 5; 86: 6; 87: 5; 88: 5; 89: 4

Oh wait, I’ve also seen Lightning Bolt, Jackie-O Motherfucker and Yoko Ono more than once. The last one barely counts because one of them was in a museum when I was a kid.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times (I’m excluding Icelandic and Finnish bands and musicians and I think it might be only these five I’ve seen more than once).

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Modest Mouse
Bob Dylan
Liars
Low

Compass Rose er rosalega vel úthugsað smásagnasafn, síkvensuð eins og góð rokkplata.

Við Vilja erum að lesa Compass Rose eftir hana í bókaklúbbnum okkar, hún í fyrsta skipti og ég í svona sirkabát það milljónasta. Smásagnasafnið var að koma út í finnskri þýðingu.

among the saddest things I’ve written Fifty years ago in the novella The New Atlantis Ursula K. Le Guin wrote about a far-fetched future where the climate was undergoing catastrophic changes and a fascist government ruled the US. A...

I made a post about one of my favorite Ursula K. Le Guin stories (there’s stiff competition) “The New Atlantis”, written half a century ago about a far-fetched future United States ruled by fascists and a climate that’s collapsing.