Brian Thompson

This is not good, but it can't be much worse than any other paper by a sociology Ph.D.

I also feel compelled to remind people of this whenever they freak out about Nuclear War (colon, A Scenario), which is a well structured and compellingly written list of increasingly implausible logical leaps.

Wow, this didn’t age well.

The fountain pen “community” is deeply deranged.

He also had a soft spot for movies with really huge tits!

F2

They’re folding the grocery business back into Whole Foods and using the Amazon Fresh retail buildings for new big box style Amazon stores. Don’t worry, Bezos will be fine!

Once when I was on chemo and wore a baseball cap to cover my patchy scalp, they wouldn’t let me sit in the main dining room at Houston’s Steakhouse.

Sometimes I wonder if my opinions of AI are well founded, but then someone will insist I look at “good” AI-generated art that’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen, or some other AI evangelist cretin will say something like the below.

This is a very uplifting episode, as there's nothing more satisfying than learning someone you dislike is prominently featured in the Epstein files.

Very sorry you’re going through this. It’s an impossible burden in many ways. I hope you’re able to take advantage of any opportunity, small or large, to take care of yourself. And yes, I’m talking about playing Chrono Cross.

*Jeff Foxworthy voice* If you have a significant rash-like injury on your neck…

Ah, a human centipede if you will.

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The antisemitic blood libel: it's been around for a thousand years but the Epstein Files are offering kindling for another flare up, and these flare ups usually lead to terrible violence against Jews.

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Artists, it’s time to get to work. As soon as my new bottle of fountain pen ink gets delivered, I’m writing a poem that, once he reads it, will make Donald Trump shit himself to death.

Busy making magazines! Issue 19 is finally here!
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Short Story Roundabout–Cheever, O'Hara, Shaw & Schulz: RGBIB 549 YouTube video by Scott Bradfield

Here's some books we took onto the roundabout over the last few months:

The Stories of John Cheever
The Horse Knows the Way, by John O'Hara
Short Stories: Five Decades, Irvin Shaw
The Complete Peanuts Volume 3 1955-1956

youtu.be/1BnIcmBz3oc

My five month old son has now seen Caligula: The Ultimate Cut.

We took our baby to the zoo for this very reason today. Trying to teach him that the cages aren’t so bad if it’s nice outside.

John Roberts just cleaned up on Polymarket.

Jandek should join the Traveling Wilburys.

I wish we had all dressed soup.

Can’t prove it, but I think they’re putting fewer bags in the rolls of poop bags.

I'll be happy when Trump finally takes his trip across the rainbow bridge. But Lieu is talking about summaries of ludicrous bullshit from deranged callers to the FBI tip line. This is disingenuous grandstanding on his part and does nothing but muddy the waters when it comes to credible crimes.

A running issue with actors in these sorts of iconic roles! I don’t know it for a fact, but I suspect the third season was able to course correct a bit because he was just too tired after S2 to cause much trouble. My understanding is he’s the reason Michael Chabon left after S1.

You may know this already, but when I worked in post on this show it was an open secret that the more bizarre creative decisions were mostly made by the star.

As someone who has been in arts education an embarrassingly long time, I know there’s always been a lot of tension and animosity between artists who MAKE things and wannabe artists who are desperate TO HAVE MADE a thing. But AI enthusiast culture has really lathered these losers up.

Step one of this recipe is instructions for making the “wolf tooth potato strips” but it says you can skip the step if you’re using crinkle cut fries…

Point taken, but I guess I’m also a ghoul.

Friendship expert?