William Bibbiani

MANN & MACHINE

Money does not equal art.

i am glad to hear that bluesky is listening to me and i look forward to my seat on the board

Yeah, I’d like the new one better if it was the same sauce. (Although I’m hardly impressed with the bun, either.)

Larger burgers, fluffier bun, same ol’ sauce? That’d be the sweet spot. All they need is a Bigger Mac.

I did. The new sauce was a novelty but after a few bites I realized it’ll never be something I crave.

I'm other words, It's doing what romance has done for publishing since forever.

Sigh. Okay.

Good game everybody. Good game.

If you see this, post a character that starts with the letter R

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says the most profound shit you had ever heard as a child, turns into a raptor holding a pistol and runs off

Agreed. This is bullshit.

Chalamet was wrong, and people were right to point out he was wrong, but Docter did something truly damaging, espousing fundamentally homophobic ideology as his excuse (i.e. that queerness doesn’t belong in the mainstream) and that’s intensely fucked up.

Former Pixar employee u/PixelatedRonin fires back at chief creative officer Pete Docter on Reddit over claims on LGBT storyline cut from 'Elio' (2025):

Happy International Women's Day to all you amazing ladies out there. I hop you enjoy your

*checks notes*

23 hours of celebration.

Interviewer: Do you have any other advice? Obviously, “just write,” because that’s the best advice. But is there anything more specific and more interesting that you’ve learned? Because you’re quite good at this by now. Pete Docter: Write and show people. I think that’s [it]. [Thinks.] This is a weird one, but I do feel it’s important to nurture yourself and encourage yourself to be as good a person as you can. It sounds hokey but I feel like ultimately, if you get good at this, it’s almost like a musician. What you put out is going to be a reflection of who you are. So if you’re kind of a selfish, greedy person I don’t think that you’re going to produce great, giving work for other people. I think you need to work to… That’s easy, and I don’t mean that to be a lecture because I’m a lousy person. I’m still working at being better. But I do think that art in its best form is a reflection of the artist, and so being kind to other people and nurturing a sense of trying to better yourself, I think is a key.

In contrast, here's a *very different quote* from Pete Docter, eleven years ago, in an interview conducted by me (who now regrets being so complimentary):

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Bought myself a fabulous new book for my birthday!

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“As time’s gone on, I realized my job is to make sure the films appeal to everybody.”

- Pete Docter, defending a gigantic box office bomb that didn’t appeal to anybody because his shitty, homophobic decisions ruined the story

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Sigh.

Sigh.

okay I'll bite, who is 'Timothée Chalamet'

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I am pretty confident that SHERLOCK was the show that popularized pop-up text effects, and as such it deserves credit, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it was the first. It’d be cool to find out exactly where it started.

What was the first movie or TV show to use pop-up text to casually illustrate all its cell phone messages, as opposed to insert shots of the phone?

I don’t recall seeing any prior to the first episode of SHERLOCK (2010). If anyone knows of an earlier example I’d love to know about it!

I saw a new horror movie recently which conveyed its text message information with a brief shot of a phone, not even in close up, and whatever that phone said I will never, ever know.

We accept text pop-ups. They’re convenient and popular enough that they seem natural. Long may they reign.

I’m going to become the condiment king.

This tends to hold true for women more than men. There’s only one Best Actor winner in history who was younger than 30, and (by my count) only three from the last 20 years who were younger than 40.

god its so funny how wolves are like, conceptually, wild, bigger, scarier versions of dogs but in reality:

- nope
- same silly dog brain and behavior
- the roundest snoots, cartoon ass looking dogs, basically a sphere for a nose