Negative Creep

Aaron Boone saying “the haters said I couldn’t do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters”

Oh funny, that was around the time I borrowed it from the Monmouth County Public Library in Shrewsbury. I did return it, unlike others. (It’s funny to think I heard this before The Pixies, or Hüsker for that matter, but man, “Hoover Dam.”)

Naturally I’d be on this tour like flies on shit.

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

Is that so? Then I stand (partially) corrected.

I mean he made sure the GNR logo was in there, but yeah. He went on a long rant against Jeff Sessions either on the internet or a radio interview in Trump I and you could have knocked me over with a feather.

computer… enhance

At Last: C Alexander’s ranking of Paul Thomas Anderson films:

1. Blood
2. Boogie
3. Master
4. Battle
5. Thread
6. Vice
7. Love
8. Magnolia
9. Pizza

The thing is 1&2 are in a constant knife fight and 3 is waiting in the wings to take the loser on. 5 thru 8 need rewatches, been decades. 9 annoyed me

Almost surely a top 5 episode for me. “What experience do you have?” “Five years of modern dance, six years of tap.” “What was I laughing at? Oh, yes! That crippled Irishman!” “Lisa, just because you’re ten feet tall doesn’t mean you can tell me what to do!” “I’m Bart.” Maybe top 3?

Also, as others have noted, this is actually unfair to George M Burns, as his casino actually made money (from a strategy of its catchy name, sex appeal, ability to book top talent, Marge’s crippling addiction, and literally running a money pit that is not mobbed up). (Well, not SO mobbed up.)

Aside, but: “I said, hop in!” is my favorite Simpsons gag. Usually the show doesn’t phase me: “right, Leonard Nimoy beams out, the Union Jack unfurls behind Sideshow Bob, Homer parks in front of his house for work, yes yes fine, but: how is that one scene supposed to end when the camera cuts away?”

Gift of prophecy and all that. (Also I’d rework that first one to the image of Smithers screaming in Burns’ coffin.)

I know The Simpsons is, you know, a zany cartoon with no real continuity, but I’ve always wondered what happened next in that scene.

Jeeze Louise they flagged you for being rude.

Another thing that happens when you get older is when things like this happen and you say, “oh, come on! We’ve seen this one! Everyone can see through it!” is that, in fact, this one (“Mission Accomplished”) was 22 years ago, long enough for a generation to have no direct memory of it.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

This opinion is really not that unpopular.

That’s our money up there. Your money. You paid $2,176 in taxes and there it is: your plane might fall out of the sky; federal agents will gas your home; your ambulance bill may be five figures. But at least you paid for this. So did I. So did your neighbor.

But not Amazon, they don’t pay taxes.

I was going to say something big must have happened!! It’s been a minute but last I heard he was still a big home-towner.

Gotta tell ya: one of my favorite live sports moments was Opening Day ‘01 at Shea and when they rose that NL Championship flag while the Braves were standing for the Anthem.

I thought it was Shostakovich on a cross cultural tour, but that makes more sense.

I’m not up on this lore; his father was a sanitation worker who died on the job in Brooklyn. According to Wikipedia it looks like he was Connected, giving tickets to Bonanno crew.

“What the hell does Gollum have to do with sleeping around?” or the English professorial version thereof.

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

No one more qualified

Elon Musk once said he would pursue former Twitter execs to the ends of the earth. Instead, he just settled their $128 million lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Elon Musk is a little bitch

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

Bari tried to get cancelled and couldn’t even manage that. So she fake-canceled herself. Hilarious that @mattyglesias.bsky.social doesn’t remember that.

You can't claim to stand for "higher values" while also supporting, even tacitly, a never-ending campaign of destruction, murder, rape, starvation and torture.

Good Samaritan tries to boost fundraiser that has been officiously deleted.

Now this really should be in the @thelouvreof.bsky.social (once thumbnails work again)

Winamp Nucleo UX skin set up like a seventies chrome stereo (Pioneer, Marantz, etc - linear EQ adjustment and circular buttons instead of rectangular)

The green led lights works best for me for the classic UX, but I’d be lying if I said this didn’t look very handsome: