I literally can't open instagram without seeing 5 of the most famous people in the world talking about a tv show based on a book that my friend in Bedford Nova Scotia wrote, and our stupid provincial government still doesn't think art has any value.
A throw blanket in a log cabin
Illustration of a forest clearing
Intense floral design
My cat will live forever print
Hello, my bathroom ceiling collapsed. Unrelated, would you like to buy some art? They’re calling it “the best time” to do it ✨
www.sonnyross.com/shop
#illustration #nature #fantasy
Also to be clear I'm not ragging on Wednesday, I genuinely think that's an incredible lyric and I can't stop thinking about it.
Hahaha this was supposed to say "nodding sagely".
Removing my headphones, nodding safely, and immediately submitting "You saw a pitbull puppy pissin' off a balcony" for consideration in the World's Finest Lyrics Competition.
The honest truth is, if I ever see you (anyone) wearing so-called "smart glasses" of any sort in my presence, I'm not going to knock them off your face or whatever, but I am going to walk directly away from you and refuse to engage with you in any way whatsoever until they are gone.
Mind you these workers are specifically Kenyan workers who are made to view and annotate the absolute worst things created by man and machine for extremely low pay and absolutely no support or care from Meta for the trauma they endure every day at work
please take a moment today to laugh at AI shills and tell them to pick up a pencil🙏
Just before takeoff, our flight attendant stopped mid-safety presentation & then said "My mistake, we're not doing life jackets"
I'll I also literally sang that to Carla right after! Hahaha
We're so tired from flying all day back from Paris that I just asked Carla "Is that the Kermit the Frong Song?" and then we both laughed for way too long about it.
Respectful Counterpoint: this actually rocks and we should still be doing it because little silver pizzas that you can buy stuff with sounds cool as hell.
We're in a tiny little restaurant in Paris and there are two British men who are basically doing a recreation of The Trip at a volume that can only be described as broadcast ready.
I really enjoy how like 50% of Jeopardy contestants have names that sound like characters in a Tim Robinson comedy.
Thinking about a really funny phone call with my dad in 2021 where he was asking me about what NFTs were, and I tried my best to explain it with minimal bias, and he was basically like (paraphrased) "Wait, that's actually what it is? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard." My dad's great.
We're going to Paris on Thursday for Carla's birthday, and it's VERY hard to keep focused on work because I'm so pumped.
Oh man, these rule so much! The school on Roke is basically exactly how I pictured it!
Ahhh, ok, yeah, I'm sure that's the more likely answer. Really hope you get it sorted, I know how hard it is to have like zero energy.. Mine was also massive brain fog.. thankfully cutting out gluten truly fixed all of it basically!
Good luck!
This might be out of left field, but have you looked into celiac? My iron levels were super low for years, nothing worked at all... eventually a new doctor checked again, and my levels were so low she almost sent me straight to the hospital. Blood test and a scope later I was diagnosed with celiac!
Like, I was a clerk, and then a library assistant for like 6 years and I somehow forgot that the trucks come in different sizes, and apparently this one is a big boy. What have I done.
I did a really funny, and very classically Paul thing where I bought a used library book truck (shelving cart) from a church on marketplace for my office, and once I got it here I realized it's a LOT bigger than I thought it was and I don't know where the hell I'm going to put this thing.
One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
Also, and this is a bit niche, but on the off-chance anyone has awesome recs for gluten free restaurants in Paris (either dedicated GF, or known to be careful/safe for celiac), that would be ~immensely~ helpful. I've got a list, but I'm sure there's lots I'm missing!
Any pals / followers have favourite spots to visit in Paris? We're going to be there in about a week, and would love some suggestions, esp if they're less touristy. Sadly the Catacombes are under major construction and closed!
It is pretty wild to live in a time where the guillotine feels more and more like a perfectly reasonable solution every single day.
Yes, this exactly.
Like there are, thankfully, real people still doing thoughtful cultural reviews of art, but they feel like tiny, difficult to find blips in an absolute deluge of slop that says nothing and does nothing but maintain the illusion of value for.. once again.. fake websites.
It's genuinely bonkers. It's almost impossible to see any value at all in the type of "press" that seems to be everywhere these days. None of it feels like humans engaging with art, it all feels like empty "content" just to juice numbers for fake websites. And that's what artists get! Cool!
Carla and I have been talking about this in music as well, & how it seems the landscape has eroded to the point that "reviews" or "press" now basically seem to mean "The bio/blurb/onesheet you provided quoted almost word for word, with less than a paragraph of AI gen text added for cushioning".
Just explained Pee-Wee Herman to someone as "what if an adult man had the mind and temperament of an impatient, petulant child, and lived with a bunch of puppets" and I feel like I suddenly understand why I am the way I am.
