garafraxa kalkwarf
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they them pedestrian, nothing pure
It will not change your opinion of the novel, nor should it, but after The Humbling dropped he called my wife and was like “why are all these feminists mad about the green dildo, I did a lot of research on that, interviewing shop owners about the dildos lesbians like. It was the most popular!”
can’t believe stavros halkias finally put an actual transgender woman on his show
the well of insane Krenek facts is bottomless it seems
Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.Schifrin tells a story about Old Hollywood. Arnold Schoenberg was trying to get Ernst Křenek, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, some work at the studios. A delegation of composers & John Green, the head of MGM's music department, met with studio head Irving Thalberg, who asked, "What has he written?"
the English language is in desperate need of a boulangerie / patisserie distinction
Getting teary eyed thinking about Lily Gladstones acting style
I wish my undergrad had included a class taught by Cameron Kunzelman
I am ALWAYS thinking dumb bullshit like “I bet beethoven would have hated me!”
Hourly Peanuts Comics@esnupi.me · 2d agoLi'l Folks by "Sparky": Sunday, February 20, 1949
I feel like one of the most frustrating neurodivergent things a lot of people I encounter still don't get is, "look, i can perform the appearance of paying attention to what you are saying, or i can actually pay close attention to your words, but no promises about either if you demand both.
a red-breasted nuthatch just perched on the corner of my cell phone as I was sitting outside looking at this website
heartbreaking: opinion you kind of agree with phrased in the most annoying way possible
"Modern vernacular fantasy ideas get read backwards into a text that is perceived as having originated them but which doesn’t really contain them" is such a good way to put that phenomenon, holy shit. I've always wanted to find the right way to articulate that point.
I read most of the Wilson review this morning & liked it - felt as though people were exaggerating the negativity & put that down to my not having read to the end. I just finished it and it is if anything more positive than I thought it was
garafraxa kalkwarf@cicyfus.bsky.social · last wk.a very tiresome day to be someone who wants to read a few posts on the internet but has not read Homer or seen the film of the week
man, Turandot is so beautiful if you have no idea what’s going on
a very tiresome day to be someone who wants to read a few posts on the internet but has not read Homer or seen the film of the week
It would be so cool to have some sort of hyperfixation again
the University of Toronto campus fills me with an incoherent resentment that I imagine is similar to how many canadians feel about the city of Toronto in general
"It was filmed in occupied Western Sahara & people there are asking for a boycott" feels like a cut & dry thing, but yeah, I'm sure the flick's heartwarmingly mediocre. (It's Christopher Nolan, c'mon; we're not talking transformative art here.)
if there's one thing i hate more than human rights violations it's seeing a weird looking person
Gravel, gravel on the ground Lying there so safe and sound, Why is it you look so dead? Is it because you have no head?
Recently read multiple books from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century that deal with incest without actually discussing it (or just barely) and the moment of being like “oh shit something is being heavily implied here” is really something
