Vinny

i remember getting yelled at on the portland subreddit for saying an internment camps for homeless people was a bad idea. blue state voters have been frothing at the mouth for exactly this policy for years

september 15, 2025: i just figured out tom green and seth green are different guys

it's been like eight months

i'm so sorry but i've actually been told by very serious people that this isn't realistic and Helsinki should probably give up on this nonsense :/

(jk this is amazing)

this joke was unappreciated in its time. decades after my death it will be rediscovered and elevated to its deserved position among the stars

A ★★★ review of The Gold Rush (1925) super competent slapstick with a shallow romantic drama tacked on. in its original context it was apparently impressive but i think we're allowed to look down from the shoulders of giants and say, i a...

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i can't imagine a single system that would be totally resilient degradation and corruption by bad actors over decades or centuries. even a perfectly egalitarian democracy would be vulnerable to a stupid and cruel populace

maybe authoritarian is here because a lot of people wanted authoritarianism

A ★ review of Night Moves (1975) vapid and lecherous, written by men who think women are mysterious and nonsense sex creatures lots of little continuity errors between the cuts, especially the fight scene, to the point that it might ...

i watched night moves and i thought it sucked and it was bad

a nice vineripe tomato, room temperature or sun warmed, never cold. red all the way through. you can't beat that. i'd eat a tomato like an apple, just eat the thing on its own, that's a perfect thing. the peppery smell of vine in your fingernails

all crawling vines and bitter fruit

just thinkin bout stuff

i'm just casually wondering if there's a sickness in our hearts that we ignored as it festered and metastasized. if we spent decades or centuries as convenient bedfellows of pointless cruelty and violence and the darkness grew in from the corners of our eyes until it covered them

a month ago i bought like 30 pounds of dried rice and beans

never stop imagining a better world

screenshot of wikipedia article - list of cloud types

list of cloud types

of the european microstates, andorra is certainly the one whose name is composed of the most prepositions strung together

i would like to be carved from a large cool grey stone such as basalt over the course of years, tap by tap of a hammer and chisel

oh that's a reasonable guess

this is clearly a shameful attack on romanian-moldovan unification by the blu-ray disc association

world map showing the 3 blu ray regions

world map showing the 6 dvd regions

moldova was in DVD region 5 but is in Blu-ray region 3. what the hell happened

I believe what many people actually want in their heart of hearts is for the "right" thing to happen without requiring anybody to wield power. But it turns out there is no magic. It's just us.

much like electric bicycles, lentils are utterly utopian. i will not elaborate

talented artists spent hundreds of hours of their precious lives posing clay puppets by hand in a labor of love. awful. just awful

releasing your movie on netflix is a good way to make sure it withers into obscurity and irrelevance. i didn't even know they released a chicken run sequel in 2023 until i specifically went to check if such a thing existed

elsevier delenda est

happy new year's

the inability to build housing is the achilles' heel of so-called progressive states and cities. it will be our undoing.

in portland oregon one of the vital organs of local politics is a blog about bicycles. a mandatory interview for any hopeful candidate

taking part in the No Logo movement by crossing the starbucks picket line but pointedly ordering a "small" instead of a tall coffee

thank you ryan. i wish people said this to me more, on account of how my opinions are almost always correct.