Me, wanting a neck massage: "Hey comrade... can I borrow some of your self-care?"
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Stardaddy of the Astronomica Podcast. Communist. He/Him.
Who would've guessed that the most realistic late season character from The Boys was Firecracker
The late, great David Berman, after demanding a poetry-off with a reviewer that went after some other Open City writers:
A perfect conceit for the 20s: the world's biggest bookstore has become a destroyer of books
amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:
no one called it 'cutting off family' when these same parents threw their gay kids out of the house. wild how that works.
lol come the fuck on
Donkey Kong's arch enemy should be Monkey Kong who is a donkey
Hilarious police account of a completely peaceful protest I was at some years ago.
My advice to anyone starting a pop culture (films, games, lit, whatever) podcast that wants to stand apart from the pack: Like the thing you talk about. Talk about what you like in it. Criticism is good and valid, but people type "X-Men" into the podcast search bar because they love X-Men.
*listens to some grainy recording of a gospel singer from the 20s w/ no accompaniment* Me: "man, ngl this junt slaps fr fr"
Ordered mine. Can't wait to rip off Adrian Daub observations from a fresh source.
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Little known Bible fact: The earliest preserved greek manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke include instructions to the reader after each mention of the Holy Ghost, to grab the nearest person and yell "Boo!"
Superman could whoop Holden Caulfield, Beneatha Younger, and Edmond Dantes all at once, with plenty of time left to find the white whale before Ahab. He could shoot the ghost of Hamlet's dad with heat vision. He could put Tom Robinson in jail on the moon.
Alien 1: "Shall we announce our arrival to the humans?" Alien 2: "Wait, wait... *stifling laugh* Let's only tell some of them."
Coming from a guy who looks like Smeagol if his precious was a chastity cage.
Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
Meta glasses ad vandalized in London https://manualdousuario.net/en/they-live-meta-glasses-kylie-jenner/
Meta glasses ad vandalized in London
Everything about this story is wonderful, from the activist group’s name to the surgical vandalism to the not-so-subtle nod to the classic ”They Live”, John Carpenter’s 1988 film…
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i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious
I dream of a future where all video displays are e coli.
Doom running on ... ... an array of *e coli* cells (to be clear, the e coli is just the display, not the computation necessary to run the game lol) item #3 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
I like when people say a song slaps, but I think there's also room for songs that slop. Every Tom Waits song fuckin slops.
Imagine turning on your tv and being like, "Time for the news." And it's this.
Fox News' Jesse Watters discusses his distrust of bisexual women: The whole bisexual thing—guys don't get into that. When a girl is bisexual, we don't trust her. The ones I've met are super weird. To say you're bisexual, it's not a turn on.
A FATHERS DAY THREAD: Hey everybody whose dad is not in the picture for one reason or another: I am right there with you. My dad died in 2011. We weren't estranged, but he was such a distant figure in my life that not a lot has changed in our relationship.
hey therapist cognitive dissonance is like practicing dialectics