fun fact about aging: you don’t perceive yourself as being older but you perceive young people as being younger. today I was in a zoom meeting with a bunch of young men and I kept thinking ‘who put beards on these children’.
Correct. High school kids are WAY younger than I was when I was in high school. So are college kids. When I was in high school and college we were full grown adults. But now that I’m almost 40 the high school and college age kids are actually babies. It’s crazy how that happens.
I remember when I was in middle school I would hear my dad calling college students and 20-something employees “kid,” as in “oh yeah this kid that just started in marketing is really talented,” or “the Johnsons’ son is a really nice kid” talking about like a 22-year-old and at the time I was like “what haha those aren’t kids those are clearly adults”
And now I’m a 24-year-old who sees my 18-year-old coworker as a baby and I’m like ah. I think I am coming to an understanding.
Everyone on planet earth currently is the oldest and most mature that they’ve ever been. And they always will be.
Oh man I really have to praise my Burrow Lyric Hybrid Mattress – every time I first lie down on it I’m like “oh wow”, but then I fall asleep and wake up taking it for granted.
The only reason I can’t yet unreservedly recommend it is that “how does this mattress hold up to use over time?” is a critical criterion but I haven’t even had it a year now.
I’ve just been assuming he was since – God, literally decades ago at this point – I saw his theory that a lot more of history than you’d think turned on who happened to be manic at the critical time and I was like “hmm, that’s not really something I can see someone pondering about from outside”, and then realized there were a lot of stretches where he seemed to be posting links or blockquotes with maybe one original sentence to keep his blog warm, and then times I’d check it at like 2AM and he’d just written three dense multi-paragraph posts each referencing four posts from months ago and in 15 minutes when my internet content ran out and I started instinctively pulling up every site I could think of again he’d written two more
What with bucket hats, bare midriffs, and flared jeans having been resurrected by some irresponsible necromancer with frosted tips, I figure there’s no better time to resurrect some of my favorite Y2K fonts. I typically only see the same three or four pop up in discussions on the subject, so maybe this will be helpful to nostalgic designers. Click though for links.
Honorable mention to Yeoman Jack, an excellent free modern face by Iconian that looks more like it’s from the early 2000s than many of their actually 20 year old fonts. I tried to stick to fonts that I was pretty sure were not based on an existing typeface. I only left out Typodermic because Ray Larabie’s work is already so popular and well known, but Neuropol is obviously a classic. Check out his stuff if you’re nor familiar.
The thing about bugs bunny is that he lives and dies by his bits. He’s fully capable of killing you if he wanted, but the thing is, not only is he a nice guy, he’s a funny guy. To beat bugs bunny, many people assume that you just have to not fall for the jokes. If he hits you with a pie, you don’t flinch, and eventually you’ll ware him down. The issue is, misery will only last you so long. There’s only so much bits to endure before it becomes funny. And whoever is getting laughed at is losing. Instead, to kill bugs bunny, you have to beat him at his own game. When he throws a pie, don’t try to sidestep or be a sourpuss, that’s playing into his hands. Instead, you comically open your mouth and swallow it whole. This is how you kill a god.
love the pure barefaced desperation in take a chance on me by abba like it’s just lyric after lyric that’s like i’m a great second choice i know u don’t like me but just give me a go why not i’m an option i’ll hang around and wait for you feel free to change your mind whenever i’ll be around if you have no other options i’m right here waiting patiently btw :). everyone’s too scared to make music that’s that desperate these days. where’s the music for pathetic desperate people
So the original freeway plan for LA included a “Beverly Hills Freeway” that would’ve been decked over Santa Monica Boulevard from the southern stub of the 2 (“Glendale Freeway”) to the 405
And it was still being planned in the 1970s but was never executed can you imagine oh phew, but the thing is the rest of the network which assumed it would be there was built intact, so with no freeway serving the southern foothill edge of the Santa Monica Mountains (like the 5 does the northern edge; the 10’s too far south and the 101 crosses the mountains) there was basically no good route west from downtown, some of the densest and most active parts of the city just became… obsolete for decades, and it was entirely possible to live like 3 miles down the road from some of the hottest spots in the country and know that you would never go there unless you made it like, a thing that you would plan days ahead, take up at least 1 out of your whole morning, afternoon, or evening, and combine several destinations into 1 outing
I mean I’m sure some people drove it to work every day, but Angelino commuters are crazy
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