oliver levy

You study art? I love fine art!*
(*screenprints of dollar bills with the head of Bart Simpson in Joker makeup, coated in diamond dust for some reason)

when we were little, my dad used to grab hold of us in bear hugs and say “get out of that! you can’t, can you?”. feels like a quote from something but i couldn’t identify it. thanks to google’s ai overview, i now know it’s “most likely a reference to beyoncé’s song irreplaceable (2006)”

"The reason the Ship of Theseus is important because it applies to everything."

Umm, only if you change a bunch of stuff: A body instead of a ship, cellular regeneration instead of replacing parts, etc.

Is it even still the same concept at that point?

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

Chantel06: My beauty secret? I… Chantel you 💋 Unless you sign up for my newsletter 👇

guffyboo: hard to tell but i think it might be that you put a sticker of the rolling stones logo over your real mouth

francinefancy: sticker mout

BobVespa: enchantment allure

"I was working in the lab late one night"

Let me stop you right there. I am not listening to a song about work

I went to see Malcolm Middleton playing on the Golden Hinde tonight. He kept referring to it as “a pirate ship”. At the start of the night I felt this was a satire on Walter Raleigh and British imperialism. Not so much by the end of the night

Bless you.

Trying to import contacts from Twitter, but the landing page is just a .gif of Robin Dunbar shaking his head??

Where nobody knows your name... Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

Hey! Lots more fun here now.

Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.

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Movie poster: Reservoir Dogs, 1992, Quentin Tarantino

if you don't love these movies, just admit you hate men

Geppetto was the woodcarver. His marionette was Geppetto's monster

Shhh, don't cry, Puddo. You're almost home and dry.

Hah — I can't believe it (sort of) works!

Maybe it's perfectly straight viewed through the bottom of an empty glass.

Struggling to interpret the distorted text on the "Drivers" ones. Is it meant to resemble a skull? The refraction through an invisible pint-glass? They're similar enough for it not to be accidental . . .

Sharing common interests Farewell to Terry Farrell and Jonathan Main, and introducing three fascinating new books

New Substack post on the deaths of Jonathan Main and Terry Farrell, and the notion of creating places that bring people together johngrindrod.substack.com/p/sharing-co...

That Chrysler suddenly sounds like it might be fashioned from a rotting whale-corpse.

YouTube video by NeilCicieregaMusic Neil Cicierega - Love Psych

This has entirely replaced the original in my head:
youtu.be/Xx5IUyg9whQ

Found it: the platonic ideal of graphic design. The dawn of the digital, starring technologies yet to converge. The rationalism of the grid, in tension with earthy mid-century autumnals. A palette actually improved by the yellowing of time. I could set up home in this cover.

what's an opinion on the 1979 satirical black comedy thriller film Winter Kills that will have you like this

The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

99PI has two nominees up for Best Writing at the Signal Awards. We're currently splitting the vote! As a result, we're in a very close race with Malcolm Gladwell.

Do you want to beat Gladwell? I do! Vote for @99pi.org for Best Writing!

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Oh, I didn't know that! Just assumed the radio quiz must've had tremendous star-making power.

now this is comedy

Did he win? Thought he was just a contestant in one of the heats, who nevertheless "captured the hearts" of the "Great British Public".

Fact of the Day: Superman is an abbreviation of “Supermarket Manager”.

Awful news that Kaleb Horton died. A talented writer who in another time would've been getting $5 a word with an expense account. Read his skilled filleting of the Entourage movie web.archive.org/web/20150605...

Death Is Just A Change David Lynch has gone on to whatever the next place is. I’m very sad about it; it came at a hard time for the city of Los Angeles, a place he dearly loved, and it’s hard not to think his change of cons...

Really sorry to hear about the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton, a fantastic writer. Only seems fitting to share what he wrote for David Lynch kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-jus...

a great writer and a tremendous photographer of california and the southwest whose work I admired very much. a very sad day.