John Herreid
@herreidjohn.bsky.social
Graphic designer, Catholic dad, guy who makes beer, bread, and sometimes art.
You all should read Dogsbody (and anything else by Diana Wynne Jones you can get your hands on)
Eve Tushnet@evetushnet.bsky.social · 7h agoI have never heard another person say this about Dogsbody and it is so, so, so good. Probably my personal favorite of hers and has been for a long time.
I am going to be spending the rest of my day and possibly my week thinking about "Werner the Herzog" and quite frankly it's the last thing I needed
MaksonLima@maksonlima.bsky.social · 9h agoJuro que tem dias que eu acordo pensando nisso aqui:
This was the best, I remember reading and rereading it, along with Andy Buckram’s Tin Men and The Marvelous Flight to the Mushroom Planet
Jake@jakeall.bsky.social · 9h ago8. This book ruled when I was like 6
At the neighborhood block party and a gaggle of small girls have all asked the face painter to give them elaborate mustaches / eyebrows. They are all running around giggling at their clever scheme now and pointing at one another.
The Gilded Age is back in all of its manifestations
Anthony Hopkins as Harvey Kellogg in Road to Wellville - Hot Biscuit!
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Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 23h agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
After helping out at the neighborhood Fourth of July and the local parish festival, I regret to inform you that one of life’s great pleasures, the terrible novelty tee shirt, has been almost entirely taken over by AI slop
Probably one of the most accurate depictions in media of how weird tech people really are
Just taught my second son how to shave. The march of time is inexorable.
One of the fun things about our neighborhood is that it was designed to make driving fast impossible and to be walkable, in 1919.
I guess I can understand being flattered by a human but I cannot understand a grown man who knows how technology works allowing himself to be flattered by an LLM
Listening to an audiobook of Our Man in Havana read by Jeremy Northam and it’s very fun except that they insert goofy-ass “Cuban” music as intro and outro to every chapter
Signing into FB and seeing an elderly relative sharing AI thirst trap images of Sarah Palin
Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons
ALT: Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons
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The fish in Cat in the Hat repeatedly violates Seuss’s law which is why our age of nonsense rhyme is collapsing
Glad my boys are getting along today (loud chortling and singing songs and doing wacky voices) instead of fighting (loud complaining and airing of grievances) but why is there no volume control in either case
Geppetto’s brother who built a real boy out of pasta
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 2d agoA single piece of confetti is called a ‘confetto.’ spaghetti = spaghetto graffiti = graffito
I think it’s cool that Disney is so committed to showing us what is unique and special about the medium of animation that they keep making cautionary live-action versions of their animated films so we can compare and contrast.
About 10% of the critical reviews of The Odyssey have good points to make but the rest of them are almost entirely “yuck, I went into this Christopher Nolan movie expecting it to not be a Christopher Nolan movie, but instead it was a Christopher Nolan movie and I don’t like those”.
Me listening to the priest today saying that, to him, maybe the real miracle wasn’t some sort of multiplication of loaves and fishes but instead that maybe—and here he adds that this is a novel idea that he personally believes—that the people were inspired to share the food they had
What if I signed up for a Trappist retreat, as a special dad treat
“That boy needs therapy” “Psychosomatic” “That boy needs therapy” “Purely psychosomatic” Something I sometimes mutter aloud when reading anything by Rod Dreher
Making two kinds of pork belly for the day, one a crispy Chinese recipe and one a Vietnamese braised recipe
Aletheia is going to see Evanescence tonight with her sisters in what may end up being a major rainstorm. I told her to just wear extra mascara so it can run effectively
My secret for finding new (to me) music on music platforms is to take the name of a country and a decade and search for playlists. Like “Czech 1960s” or “Japan 1970s”. You can also add a genre if you feel extra adventurous
