“Henry Kissinger is a war criminal!” Pf. War crime requires you to lose the war, or let your sovereignty lapse. Why do you think America keeps riding its stalemates out?
It’s just a fact of nature that Carl Sagan loved to get high
Carl Sagan’s house in Ithaca was built into the cliff wall of a massive gorge. These are literally the cliffs the word “cliffhanger” comes from, back when the motion picture industry was headquartered in Ithaca and filmed serials there. Back before it fled to LA for the weather and also to escape Thomas Edison’s IP-enforcing goons.
There’s a way to get down into the gorge below his house that involves walking through the lawn of a Quaker peace house, dropping down some kind of drainage pit, and walking through a tunnel. My older friends taught me when I was an undergrad. You wind up a bit upstream of a waterfall with a great view of the valley below. We appreciated that this was a great view for getting high. We appreciated that Carl Sagan got high to this view. We were getting high.
Unpo… wait, is this really even unpopular? It’s an opinion, at least:
Craig Kilborn was a better Daily Show host than Jon Stewart.
Under Kilborn, TDS was comedy mocking news shows.
Under Stewart, TDS is “comedy” “mocking” “news”.
I have no idea why Kilborn was the one who replaced Tom Snyder on The Late Late Show. Stewart was even the standard substitute host! And he was good at it! Stewart’s a solid interviewer, good at feeding someone questions to help them get out whatever they have worth saying.
But Kilborn’s good at doing interviews and making them about himself. Which was the point! I loved Five Questions. I loved when Your Moment of Zen was absurdist.
When Stewart came on, they updated the theme song to a cover by They Might Be Giants, that’s a perfect synecdoche for the transition.
He was pretty good in The Faculty though. That’s an underrated movie.
Been remembering a lot of my dreams lately and one of the nice things about that is hey, sex dreams, more random sex in my life.
But 3 times this month I’ve had a dream where I just go down on some girl for like 10 minutes and then wake up and dammit, that was a wasted opportunity
i’m really fascinated by how real and fake hollywood/our entertainment industry is. a lot of them will say and many are convinced that they’re true eternal artists but like they call their work on big bang theory important and come on who the fuck are you kidding
Out of everything in his life, the thing that inspired the media to start pushing the “Charlie Sheen is insane” meme was his decision to stop pretending that he respected the man who created Two and a Half Men.
Caught an episode of Tanked at the bar last night. That thing where all the blues and oranges are supersaturated and everything else is desaturated bugged me at first, but it started to grow on me. [edit: I think the bar’s flatscreen just had its settings fucked]
All the middlebrow documentary channels in the 30s-50s range have turned into channels about the working class experience. But interestingly, working class in a cultural and not economic sense - a lot of these people seem to have higher-than-average incomes, actually, it’s just that they’ve got ribald, down-home personalities and biker beards instead of college degrees.
Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch might count as working class in a Marxian sense, I didn’t watch and I don’t know if any of the operators owned their trucks or boats - but when you get down to it a lot of these shows are about owners of small businesses (businesses that seem to require a reasonable bit of capital, actually), their office and sales workers, frequently family (the “Duck” doesn’t negate the “Dynasty”) and experienced artisan tradesmen. They mostly avoid coming off as white collar by the literalist expedient of wearing t-shirts.
It’s telling that there’s a subgenre of this stuff (Storage Wars, Pawn Stars, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Lizard Lick Towing) that valorizes people whose jobs are at the expense of - whose jobs, while they may be private sector are in a real sense to salvage from and discipline - the actually poor and marginal.
It’s super-telling that the one eviction-themed show is called “World’s Worst Tenants”, and it’s about people who discipline those who irritate small propertyholders. And not, say, lower-middle class types in foreclosure. That one would probably hit too close to home.
But hey, if you ever did create a show with a focused appeal to the truly poor, who would you sell ads to?
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For anyone who’s a fan of Gabriele D’Annunzio and doesn’t speak Italian, I just found out that there will be a brand new English translation of Il Piacere (Pleasure) published this summer. This is pretty big news considering that up until now, the only version of this novel available in English (under the title Child of Pleasure) was heavily censored and dates all the way back to the late 19th century. Can’t wait to read it!
EVA-01 Unit Backpack also Asuka’s unit version is available
$27.32
Are we not going to mention the Unit 02 jacket?
It’s cool that the window of music we’re officially supposed to hate has passed through the mid-90s, and how after that passes you can appreciate even the stuff people hated at the time. Hall & Oates are hip and I can even appreciate Mariah Carey now, though I still think she ruined melisma for a generation.
I was thinking about this because I was wondering just how much of New Found Glory’s success came from their covers laundering the ‘80s for us right when we were on the cusp of being ready. Except they do the punk-vocals thing in a way that’s got the snot without the sneers, and who wants to hear these overblown romantic power ballads that were ridiculous enough covered to sound like they’re coming from 14-year old boys and… oh. 14 year old boys. Fair enough.
Ooooh crap, we’re due to rehabilitate nu-metal soon, aren’t we. Fuck fuck fuck.
you can run all your life but not go anywhere
Various rooms in the Vittoriale degli Italiani, mansion of nationalist and proto-fascist poet, Gabriele D’Annunzio.
My Embarrassing History Crush. But dude, he put a whole fucking boat in his garden and took over a town for funsies :(
Look at his beautiful fucking self :(
L.
He built a house for his boat. He put a fucking cruiser in his garden.
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