miss-andrea:

we democratized channels of information and got exactly what we deserved

For all the flak that last decade’s adopters of fedora/“class” style get, have you ever actually read GQ or Esquire? Menswear culture has *always* been about dorks trying to pose as smooth badasses.

baseballcardvandals:

i wanted Moby’s Dick but i could only afford a Free Willy.

I hosted a social event recently with a secret theme of celebrating Taylor Swift’s birthday that had been planned since July and only revealed on like Thursday

The upside is I got to rub it right in the face of everyone who ever gave me shit for liking Taylor Swift and the downside is that for years everyone will read secret Taylor Swift motives into every attempt to socially assert myself

Oh hey KUSC’s playing that program again where they use multiple versions of familiar Christmas music to illustrate the conductorial aspect of performances, it’s pretty sweet.

21mb:

Alive 2015 at Tokio-3

sadybusiness:

1. 

When my boyfriend and I are making cruel and unjust fun of Internet articles in the privacy of our home, as it is our right as citizens to do, we sometimes land on “Reasonable Empathy Guy Voice.” Heyyyyy. We’re all people! I’m a good person, you’re a good person! Let’s be reasonable! David Foster Wallace! Have you read that guy? Heyyyyyy, why are you all so mad? Lena Dunham! TheREG sounds kind of like a creepy camp counselor. You get the sense that he is always about 30 seconds away from whipping out his acoustic guitar. It’s not actually that funny. But the REG is common enough, and easy enough to get fed up with, that when someone finally wrote an essay about him, everyone, including me, had something to say. 

2. 

The thing about that whole “you can’t judge a novel until you’ve written one” line is that, yes, it’s silly. If that’s the case, then no-one, except novelists, should be reading. 

But I tried to write one, last month, just in case. And it actually worked. 

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truefax I’ve only done cosplay once at Otakon 200…2? 1? I was Takeo Takakura from Mahou Taukai Tai. This doesn’t count any of my summers at the New Jersey Renaissance Kingdom (the first 2 Dunn-Ley years)

most musical subgenres are like a high school bus trip that doesn’t go anywhere but lasts long enough for a good fingerbanging anyway

0ver-doze:

Don’t you fucking tell me AKIRA isn’t one of the most influential (and really greatest) animated films of all time

Oh shit Gaius Baltar in the second BSG was literally literally just Ron Moore realizing that BSG1’s Baltar would be more interesting if he was actually Bashir from DS9

provincial-wretch:

ingolfr:

that’s some awful strong social construction

reading this like a poem is great fun
also: youtube.com lol

America is not remotely the first imperial power to distract itself with a quixotic, expensive, and unrewarding attempt to plant and maintain an allied kingdom centered on Jerusalem, and it will not be the last.

America–in fact, no nation–can insist that others follow the rules of the road if we refuse to follow them ourselves. For when we don’t, our actions appear arbitrary and undercut the legitimacy of future interventions, no matter how justified.

President Obama (via azspot)

That’s a curious metaphor, that. “Rules of the road”. When you think about it laws and regulations pertaining to the use of roadways - speed limits, decibel limits on vehicles in travel, the directive to stop and wait at red lights, the directive not to use shoulder lanes for travel,  the directive not to cross particular lane markings, prohibitions on accessories that tend to strongly draw the attention of other drivers - you realize that the flouting of these is understood as specific, normal, and proper to the very vehicles and drivers tasked with their enforcement, supplemented with sumptuary laws specifically intended to distinguish them.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

ebeanezerscrooge:

superfurryfuntime:

Boys’ Night by Max Landis and AP Quatch

i read this a couple weeks ago and i really really enjoyed it, its like an adult perspective of kid cartoon mascots but without any of the ~dark~ or ~gritty~ aspects that make adult perspectives on kids cartoons so unappealing and bland. its weirdly genuine. give it a read

It’s fascinating watching, in meatspace and on the internet, in terms of personal life and political ideology, the completely different idioms but fundamentally similar functions by which people respond to the same stimulus — the experience of having gone from a period of economic expansion to one of contraction. My understanding of history has always been cyclic and more so as I learn and experience more, and living through the 90s-10s progression definitely gives me a better feel for, say, 10s-30s, or 50s-70s. Like they say, those who study history are doomed to watch it repeat.