Finally saw The Odyssey, which is the consummate Christopher Nolan film in that it has moments of near-sublime spectacle that make you believe in Big Movies again mixed together with dialogue like, "Our Age of Bronze is ending."
that specific feeling when u need to leave town for 2.5-3 days and find yourself going down on a mysterious older woman in her mansion so much you get brain damage from oxygen deprivation
Unfortunately, she is very correct about this
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last wk.Emily Wilson DESTROYS Zoomer culture with one cutting remark
Heatwave 1 was 100 pages, Heatwave 2 was 110, 3 was 152 pages. At this rate @htwvmag.bsky.social will be releasing a novel length journal four times a year!
‘weeding’ is an experiment by librarians to determine how rapidly they can close the gap to their secret utopian ideal of a book-free library before the masses wake up and realise there are only seven books left and they’re all guides to cozy tabletop rpgs
Odysseus and his men landing on an island where they have to play basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters
Really good trolling would be to go see Picnic at Hanging Rock with some friends and then 35 minutes in get up and leave the theater and disappear and never be seen again by anyone in their entire life
feeling so burned out. can’t wait to be finished with book project (derogatory) so i can immediately begin book project (complimentary)
Reading Hellworld and imagining most of the ‘Great God Development’ chapter as an extended Victoria 3 campaign
If you actually followed the California prop 65 warnings you’d spend all your time whitewashing your walls and building wooden crates for storage.
If you catch me playing mobile games it means I’ve seriously lost control of my life
YT used to be a lot better circa 2016-17 when the algo would give you the next most insane video in whatever genre you were watching
Re: the OTB Open, I’m now convinced that Gannon Buhr means “favored by God”
[ancient Greeks sitting around a fire circa 600 BC] GREEK GUY: Idomeneus [Greeks mumble and nod in assent] SECOND GREEK GUY: Antilochus [Greeks respond approvingly] THIRD GREEK GUY: Diomedes [Greeks cheer and clap]
Sunflower butter is underrated. idc what the seed oils people say the 1960s vegetarians were probably right
I never trusted anyone back in the day who had knots in their ipod headphones cord
Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
baseball fans are a mere day away from getting to endlessly scrutinize, obsess over and fight about the entirely meaningless and largely symbolic 100-game start to the season
“a nation of homeowners” listen to yourself. you are sick. that is a sickly aspiration.
Something very poetic about my printed copy of Hellworld literally falling apart the more I read
Figuring out that Ken Burns’ American Revolution was probably a works program for revolutionary war reenactors
Very depressing to learn that Cairn has a mechanic where you have to take pictures for the gram for your “sponsors”
Someone's gotta take the mic away from this former Bethesda dev
okay, it's time to shitcan the overhead shot following a rural road surrounded by forest in horror movies
Gaming doesn’t count as screen time. Gaming is books. Unless it’s on your phone - that is screen time. Movies are books unless they are Marvel, who produce screen time. Television is screen time.