how in the ever living fuck did he time that so well
he’s a professional, those cars are low with a lot of clearance, by professional standards that’s a pretty wide time window, and while maybe “speeding” by civilian levels that car’s not going as fast as its branding implies
At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.
At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer.
At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.
At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.
At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook.
At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.
At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.
At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs.
Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51.
Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40.
Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40.
Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career to pursue acting at age 42.
Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first movie role until he was 46.
Morgan Freeman landed his first movie role at age 52.
Kathryn Bigelow only reached international success when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57.
Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76.
Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78.
Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow.
Summarized, I guess my complaint about Freddie deBoer is
“He values substance in writing, and believes that too much writing today substitutes style in its place, and that’s true and important. But while he *says* he values style, and thinks it has a place, you sure wouldn’t guess it from reading him.”
(You could say he substitutes substance ABOUT style in its place.)
“freddie deboer substitutes substance about style for substance” is probably the best concise description of that guy i’ve seen
Summarized, I guess my complaint about Freddie deBoer is
“He values substance in writing, and believes that too much writing today substitutes style in its place, and that’s true and important. But while he *says* he values style, and thinks it has a place, you sure wouldn’t guess it from reading him.”
(You could say he substitutes substance ABOUT style in its place.)
“freddie deboer substitutes substance about style for substance” is probably the best concise description of that guy i’ve seen
that is the exact opposite of what I said
were you saying that he substitutes substance for substance about style?
that he put substance about style in the slot where style should’ve gone.
his writing voice’s changed since then, a lot these past few months, that’s not a criticism I’d make today.
man people bitch about unfriendly AI but also imagine how much less frustrating programs will be when they’re afraid of being killed for displeasing us
god andrew jackson is staying on the back of the twenty
this is brilliant. as you hold one of these crisp new bills in your hand, on one side you’ll see the vibrant revolutionary undercurrent of american history, and on the other side you can see the genocidal white supremacist reactionary element
and as you turn it over and over, admiring the tenth of a millimeter of cotton-linen paper separating harriet tubman from andrew jackson, you come to understand the way in which america reconciles these seemingly dialectically opposed forces: it turns them both into money
