i'm glad to see people finding community over their love of reading on tiktok and IG. genuinely, it's great to connect over books in any medium. but that's because we ALWAYS need to express our love of novels and long-form storytelling, not because of the vitality of social media itself
the fact that there's a reading culture which is thriving on tiktok is a testament to the vital necessity of books, not the power of tiktok to make people buy things
A little sheepish about failing Kevin Roose's latest AI booster bait (the LLM-versus-classic literature quiz). But to be fair, I was treating the test with the seriousness it deserved by barely skimming the quotes and putting zero thought into my answers
I seem to have turned off the switch that allows me to get to sleep before 6 am
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
i thought i was going to get a stupidly high bill for these overdue books from my university employer's library. $2 a day and my life has not been great so it was creeping into weeks. instead i guess maybe they have a mercy rule and just billed me a flat $20
Who takes Amtrak a lot? I have a question
WARHOL: Why can't it just be magic all the time? DIDION: What.
stone cold steve austin stole this bit from joan didion
my husband has gotten back into wrestling and there's a lot more of this than i expected youtu.be/dOxV970jRLY
it's such a great movie to throw on while i'm procrastinating sleep so i return to it a lot lol
this song rules and only gets better with time
Calvin and Hobbes panel: Calvin looks up at his dad, who is putting on a bike helmet and about to go on a ride Calvin's dad: "Sure! 'Cyclists have a right to the road, too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!'"
His plans are measured in centuries
The surveillance state, but only for cute dogs I wanna show to my husband
An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.
Analyze This was a pretty major hit! I remember hearing a lot about it at the time. Funny how it's had no cultural legacy but it makes sense
the whole movie is just leo trying to get out of his bewildering and illogical situation so he can go home, which is what every single one of my dreams is about
it's weird Analyze This and The Sopranos came out the same year but it's not talked about like Armageddon/Deep Impact or Illusionist/Prestige
Guy trying to do a timeline cleanse but the gloom won't rub out, no matter how many videos of dogs and penguins they post. The damn Lady Macbeth of timelines
PRO TIP: don't say "mom to mom" unless you're really 100% sure the other mom is a mom
Updated entry: Yikes
i ghost wrote Nate Silver's entry in the Time 100
having a feminist mom is so funny because she wants a grandchild so much but if i actually get beyond that she's like "i mean there's twenty years of your life, gone"
1889 newspaper question and answer column that ruminates on the baseball of a decade earlier, when bettors and gamblers nearly ruined the game
1889, when sportswriters looked back on the era of sports gambling as a haunted time for baseball
I think it's pretty funny that there was a movie this year with Train in the title and a big honkin axe on the poster and I am just not interested in seeing it at all
Yup!
So anyway, don't call yourself a Man of the Woods or Forest just because it sounds masculine. It's actually cursed
The album cover for Man of the Woods. Description from Wikipedia: The cover image features two images of a male, edited to appear as one. Top-diagonal-half image features male in all-black suit and white undershirt, in a snow-covered wooded area. Bottom-diagonal-half image features male in ripped blue jeans, flannel button down shirt in a smog-filled wooded area. Below this title: MAN OF THE WOODS, appears in capitalised handwritten print.
The album that got Justin Timberlake cast out of the music industry is titled "Man of the Woods". Readers of Whack Job might remember the Viking term for a man who was cast out of society: "Man of the Forest"
having said that, i am placing a hold on that book so i guess it's pretty good promo. just. could not be me.
i think people can structure their relationships and families however they want, but when someone shares details in the paper of record that make even the polyamory subreddit go "wow.... lotta red flags here" idk idk idk
sometimes while making a choice like staying up until 4 am on a weeknight, i ask myself: "what exactly is wrong with me?" and it's like....... same thing that's been wrong for decades bitch, get medicated already
