paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)
@danlehner.bsky.social
Opened at gunpoint in a Lady Footlocker. Trombonist, composer, bandleader (The Great Long Meadow Fire, True East, Store Hours). Bluesky’s resident Fun Tsar. Brooklyn, NY. he/him. https://linktr.ee/Danlehner
I feel as though if Hank Green is like “yeah, maybe I’m relying on it too much”, I don’t really think you can talk about him like he’s experiencing a psychosis, certainly not compared to, like, idk, Sam Altman who’s like “idea: make a podcast about my son’s soccer game”
you can make genuinely stinging critiques of current Israeli civil society, which makes 2002 America look extremely tame by comparison, you do not have to do this sweaty elevation of a Chapo Trap House bit like it’s real analysis
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
seen in a thrift shop in Berlin, complete southeastern Pennsylvania cultural victory
honestly, a middle-brow (complimentary) director doing a big splashy Classics adaptation that’s sold out for a month at the IMAX and there’s an ongoing debate about it with one of its en vogue translators is probably the healthiest the culture has been in a long time
[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody
If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.
if there’s anything I would want to drill into the public consciousness it’s that there are almost always like a dozen ways to approach any given problem and some of them will be more effective than others and we have to stop acting like the questions around it are against fixing the issue
The Odyssey should be retold by our most bardic Greek who is well versed in the Dionysian pleasures (Stavros Halkias)
I think since the 2020's select figures from the tech and consultant industries have caused people to overindex the prevalence of an "Evil Nerd" archetype, which where you get the idea of a "Chart Guy" (someone who uses data to disenfranchise poor people) but it's just not that common of a person
my dad printed a physical photo of a computer monitor showing the VHS transfer of their wedding for my mom’s birthday (which you are now looking at on a phone screen)
I think it was a missed opportunity not to call Bronny James “Bronoldinho”
"before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer" we know about that! that's a big part of what we already know about him!
googling how to make my legs go faster instead of slower
if it wasn't so frustrating Microsoft Copilot would be hilarious, it's like: "That's good to know — and now I've finally figured it out. It's NOT [A] It's NOT [B] It's NOT [C] It's NOT [D or E] All of my life has brought me to this moment: 🎯 The Fix: [wrong answer]"
the vibecession theory that’s made sense to me is: “groceries are expensive…” [true, characterized as The Economy] “…and even though I can afford them…” [true, characterized as Personal Achievement] “…many probably can’t” [less than they think, where the decoupled economic sentiment comes from]
we must call out Backrooms for what it is: anti-multi-family-housing propaganda (jk. I liked it!)
your socialist ancestors would flog you raw for saying something like “Chart Guy” derogatorily
very funny that after all the “Emily Wilson is going to longhouse Western Civilization with her woke Odyssey”, Emily Wilson herself is like “yeah, a bit too much ‘healing trauma’ and not enough ‘relishing in the blood of your enemies’ in the new movie”
apparently the Coens hadn’t read The Odyssey before writing and filming it and had based it on other adaptations and pop culture osmosis (Tim Blake Nelson, a classics major at Brown, was the only one on set who’d read it)
paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · 2w agotime for the *official* adaptation
the ending of Casino is so funny [spoilers obviously:] the mob life takes everything from him — his wife, his friend, his business, nearly his own life — but he still complains about the Disneyfication of Vegas, as though that was the worst possible outcome
starving people to death is actually really frowned upon in China. it goes against the traditional concept of 吃 which means “to eat”.
rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 2w agothis is the weirdest argument. call me ethnocentrist but i think chinese people hate starving to death as much as i do
learned recently that every president since Abraham Lincoln’s assassination has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover; had Kamala Harris won, she would’ve just barely broken this streak, as she was born about 10 hours after he died.
JV RUNNING BACK: c'mon man. the coach didn't mean anything by it. people say "there's no I in team" all the time. they're not even homophones written down. nobody was trying to hurt you there STAR QUARTERBACK POLYPHEMUS JONES, THE ONLY CYCLOPS IN IOWA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: what do you mean "nobody"
