Zack
@thiswasatriumph.bsky.social
Typewriter enthusiast, new dad, old husband https://typewriterdatabase.com/twdb.0.typewriters?z=1&y=1&m=1&hunter_search=5788&c=1
“Wallace Wood” reading like Charles M. Jones or Isadore Freling to me
Comics in the Golden Age@comicsinthega.bsky.social · 3d ago
Discotek doing more for Savers 20th anniversary than Toei. But super excited for this.
Discotek Media@discotekmedia.bsky.social · 4d agoDigimon the Movies Collection 3 includes: Digimon Frontier movie subbed w/ the dub restored! Digimon Savers movie, subbed. X-Evolution: The feature-length TV special, subbed. Complete the collection w/ rare & little seen films! X-Evo uses existing masters & will look rough.
Oh wow. I remember this airing, and not getting it, but then rewatching in college and being blown away.
Discotek Media@discotekmedia.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Big O! One of the true mecha classics returns! Both seasons. Subbed & dubbed. Plus the 5.1 English audio for season 2 is here! Coming soon.
Bought Vivo Barefoot walking shoes at REI. I am pleased with my shoe purchase! They had a color that worked for me. Sandals, you have to order online.
Zack@thiswasatriumph.bsky.social · 6d agoWent to two physical shoe stores. I’m convinced that shoe wholesalers are intentionally killing retail w/ cheaper, sh*ttier versions of their branded products. Seemed universal across major brands.
Went to two physical shoe stores. I’m convinced that shoe wholesalers are intentionally killing retail w/ cheaper, sh*ttier versions of their branded products. Seemed universal across major brands.
Zack@thiswasatriumph.bsky.social · 6d agoI wear three pairs of shoes: nice hiking shoes, cheap slip ons, and sandals. My sandals are broken and need replaced. My slip ons are also at the end of their lifespan. Internet advice says buy tennis shoes: New Balance, Adidas, something like that. What’re your favorite shoes for summer?
I wear three pairs of shoes: nice hiking shoes, cheap slip ons, and sandals. My sandals are broken and need replaced. My slip ons are also at the end of their lifespan. Internet advice says buy tennis shoes: New Balance, Adidas, something like that. What’re your favorite shoes for summer?
Fang Lijun, Chinese (1963- ), Untitled, 2011-12, oil on canvas, 360 x 250 cm
Summertime by Mary Cassatt, 1894 / Oil on canvas / 29”x37.9” / Hammer Museum. schristywolfe.com/2018/07/19/s...
If the plot is “no price is too high to pay to bring Matt Damon home”, I am fully sat for the movie.
I failed in my goal and kept digging. Found that Moses Brock had a Tarlton for a grandmother. He must be the Ur Tarlton! But again, no clear connections here.
Zack@thiswasatriumph.bsky.social · 3w agoSurely Tarlton and Moses Brock are related! Surely my ancestor Tarlton has some connection to this earlier man! But no! Moses Brock, according to FamilySearch, hailed from an entirely separate Brock family. Parallel Mannings, parallel Brocks. I have to set this down. /End
It’s crazy that English has prescription and proscription and one of them means “medicine your doctor recommends” and the other means “a list of people whose lives are legally forfeit.” But also perscription isn’t a word at all.
Special props to the team that worked on this Cat’s Eye Omnibus — they even translate the author’s newspaper gags!
Finished Twin Peaks: The Return last week. It joins my mental pantheon of meta-entertainment experiences alongside “Endless Eight” from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and "Chester and Hester's Dino-Rama" (RIP) formerly at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 2mo agoSo I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
This. Blocked a few more people today - 'EVs aren't perfect'. Yeah, no sh!t, in a country where 1/2 the country has 0 access to transit and >1/2 obese, we need whatever tool is rapidly cutting GHG and AQ emissions. Along with giving up meat, installing solar, it's one of our biggest tools.
Michael DiTullo@d2lo.bsky.social · 3w agoThere is a lot of disinformation out there thanks to the oil industry about EVs but the science is clear, they produce a lot less climate changing and negative health impact pollutants than gas powered cars. If you need to drive, drive an EV if you can.
Got stuck on a family history mystery this week. A stranger messaged my on FamilySearch supposing us related through the Manning family, Manning being my grandma’s great grandma’s family. I figured it would be a quick lookup. Nope! #genealogy
Finished Batman / Green Arrow / Question: Arcadia last night. The stark contrast between the labor leader saying “all human lives have value” and the billionaire Utopianist saying “it doesn’t matter what happens to them; we’ll be fine” will stay with me.
CONGRATS AGAIN to “RHAPSODY, REIMAGINED” by Andrea Hale, FIRST PLACE 🥇 in the Internet Archive's 2026 #PublicDomain Remix Contest. A dazzling reimagining of King of Jazz (1930) set to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. An aesthetic triumph. Watch it here ➡️ archive.org/details/rhap... #PublicDomainDay
Since folks are asking, this is at Minneopa State Park near Mankato, MN. In addition to its stately shithouse, there's a gorgeous natural prairie with an early stone windmill, a wild bison herd and a lovely waterfall.
My dad recently said, about something else, "You can't expect a pirate to plant," and I seethed with rage that he did not drop this insanely useful metaphor ten years ago.
Looks like Letterboxd is on to the second stage of enshitification. They built a pretty nice app, we built a great community on it, and now they are selling us like serfs to whomever makes the sweetest offer. Serfs overstates it… we can and will just walk away when the experience inevitably tanks.
PJ Holden@pauljholden.com · 4w agoI like Letterboxd, but I could never understand why very smart articulate people were giving their writing away. variety.com/2026/digital...