Before you’re like “oh ‘prestige TV’ isn’t all that”, I want to remind you that as recently as the early 1990s, a dinosaur scalesuit working-class family sitcom with slapstick elements was actually pretty cutting edge because though it DID reuse plot beats that had been in regular circulation since the pre-television white ethnic “little theater”, it did so in awareness of what they had done with that on Roseanne

Grabbing the bottom of my belly and it’s not firm yet, but compared to not long ago it feels like mud someone suddenly poured a bunch of sand into

aorish-deactivated20251222:

Thanks, Wikipedia, very cool

regina-bithyniae:

k-simplex-deactivated20241001:

sitting in my bedroom jerking off to steadily rising GDP per capita rates

Welcome to neoliberalism kiddo

Now that the Facebook ad algorithm’s fully digested my financial background and integrated that with what else it’s picked up of my tastes the ads are amazing, I’ll look each day and find a new “this basic good: but with a pretty compelling premium twist! available for more than you’d pay at Target but honestly not much as rich-people prices go!”

chongoblog:

This old man. He played four

He man door hand hook car door

With a knick knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone

My dad’s dead then who was phone

degenerate-perturbation:

God I fucking love chemicals . Thank God they made up chemicals you can eat

Oh huh, I thought the angle of making Peter Griffin from there was to be basically a Masshole but in a way that brought no specificity anyone recognized

Fireplace guy tried to come in after the bell with an estimate to replace my whole chimney above the roofline, after he’d already talked me up from “replace the damper” to “break through the back wall and reline the smoke chamber”

(I was skeptical and put up a fight but what got me was a picture he’d taken reaching his hand inside making clear that

• there was a very clear intention the walls be fully lined with concrete
• now they were not

)

But I NOOed him back, I’m gonna replace that when I add a second story anyway and even if it’s a little degraded I don’t terribly mind if smoke leaks out to Also The Open Air and if that’s 75 years of degradation exposed it can take 20 more with a cap

Just losing the habit opened up so much more of my time and left me with a drastically different influence set than the one everyone has at scale, which probably means I miss out on some middlebrow shit pitched to that but the bespoke stuff I get instead is SO much better

If you were not around at the time it is easy to miss how much of our sense of “canonical” 80s music and look dates to the 2002 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, prior to which the era was seen as an aesthetic embarrassment and elided

kontextmaschine:

I grew up being trained to recognize “guy who talks about not having a TV” as like, A Guy, in the negative sense, but yes oh my god just falling out of the habit of watching TV in college in the early 2000s and never picking it up again was so clutch

An ironic thing is this change happened before I tried to break into creating TV as a screenwriter, my Veronica Mars spec (“Miami Vice, Principles”) and before that, abortive Firefly were entirely based off watching DVDs after I’d heard the show was good

I grew up being trained to recognize “guy who talks about not having a TV” as like, A Guy, in the negative sense, but yes oh my god just falling out of the habit of watching TV in college in the early 2000s and never picking it up again was so clutch

txttletale:

txttletale:

you cn argue that ai art has no soul all you want but most human comedians could never make me laugh as hard as ‘each player votes for the death goblin’

(by @roborosewater-masters)

kata4a:

frankly it is surprising that a piece of text-prediction software trained on “every piece of text on the internet its engineers could get their hands on” ever says anything true at all

I worked writing user manuals for industrial equipment for a while, and mostly what that involved was making documents written by engineers sound like they were not written by engineers and maybe 10% as long. Engineers live surrounded by lengthily, tediously correct documents.

eightyonekilograms:

raginrayguns:

They Might Be Giants – New York City:

Cause everyone’s your friend in New York City

And everything looks beautiful when you’re young and pretty

Has anyone ever put together the full yet of views on New York as expressed through song lyrics?

Interpol - NYC:

The subway, she is a porno
And the pavements, they are a mess

Doves - N.Y.

Everything they say is true
This city is insane
…
On the run ‘till we’re caught in New York
Maybe best not to talk 'till New York

This but for Los Angeles usually gets confused for a RHCP playlist

sunhazeys:

americans what’s the state that doesn’t feel real to you. for me it’s montana. i cannot even conceptualize montana

South Dakota, Rhode Island. Kentucky kinda

tiktoks-for-dead-pope:

OK smashed up most the rest of Blueberry Hill before a windy rain started blowing under the pine. Had to stand on drier & less consolidated debris to do so though, which I’m feeling in my lower back. Also got some ditch digging done, gotta tamp down the long side of Strawberry Ridge beside the woodchip trail before I do that, though, and that’s down the priority list.