Joshua Glazer

The “Cocksucker Blues” of our time.

Despite all that, I still love it. 💜

Quote from a slightly younger woman when I showed her Purple Rain for the first time:

“Why is the gay guy on the purple motorcycle being so mean to that woman?!”

Let’s not forget when when Morris and Jerome toss a woman in a dumpster. That was played for laughs.

There are, of course, many differences between the conditions in the 20s/30s and today. We’re talking 300% hyperinflation.

But the dynamic of chastising people until they lash out is consistent, whether it’s AfD in Germany or the anti-woke here at home.

When I first went to Berlin in ‘97, I found myself at a house party where the conversation turned to my being Jewish. The dude I was talking to became very sheepish and said I “must hate them.”

This concerned me, knowing how post WW1 ‘punishment’ of German people eventually gave rise to the Nazi’s

The first post on my Facebook feed just now was a 2022 post from Sven Vath excited to meet Elon Musk at the Tesla Gigafactory.

In case anyone was wondering if the fix was for all platforms.

You can thank my burning home. 😘

And??????

AND we got to see Dimitri From Paris and eat stromboli.

It's not even possible to fill up your gas tank.

In line with my End of Cultural History post, the Jaguar reboot has me thinking our species has truly run out of ideas.

30 years online, 100 years mass media and 300 years enlightenment, and we've hit the wall.

A million monkeys typing furiously and 'all' we can come up with is Shakespeare.

It's as if the End of History wasn't about politics but rather about 20th-century cultural products (movies, music, TV).

a man is holding a can of soda in front of his mouth and says `` time is a flat circle '' . ALT: a man is holding a can of soda in front of his mouth and says `` time is a flat circle '' .

Sequels with a 40-year gap feel fresh, but sequels with a 20-year gap are diminished.

LCD Soundsystem revamping dance-punk was fresh, but The Dare revamping LCD Soundsystem is stale because isn't LCD Soundsystem still au courant?

Nothing beats The Sopranos, even 25 years later.

Hearing bad things about Gladiator 2.

Not saying successful age-gap sequels aren't possible (Fury Road, Blade Runner 2049), but there's some cultural law about how everything made post-2000 is contemporaneous, therefore lacking a sense of innovation on the one hand or nostalgia on the other.

You want the mutual friend to be Donatella Versace, but it’s probably just some crypto bro.

I thought I hallucinated it

The ending of Dinosaur Jr’s cover of “Just Like Heaven” has been jarring people for decades.