If Bill Maher gets one more face-lift his skin is gonna rip like the Incredible Hulk's shirts

This interview with Chuck Tingle (yes, the Bigfoot erotica guy) is so good and touches on so many great ideas about making art youtu.be/NeQobVQ8h8o?...

Me: This objectively bad thing sucks Average Thread user: Sucks? That's some pretty extreme language, maybe you should think about toning down your rhetoric?

The video for "Always on My Mind" by Pet Shop Boys looks really big budget and kind of timeless, not slapdash like a lot of 80s videos, turns out it's a segment from a feature length movie

for the entirety of the 90s, the Federal Reserve chair was Alan Greenspan, an Ayn Rand acolyte who pushed for interest rates that allowed venal stock market traders to flourish, resulting in the sub-prime mortgage bust and dot-com bubble

In college I saw a lot of great opening bands that faded into obscurity. One of my favorites was Murder in the Red Barn, a very Slint-indebted band with a saxophone player.

In the 80s I used to play, unsupervised, in a construction site on the outskirts of the neighborhood. Big holes in the ground, piles of splintery wood, unattended excavators.

Just now finding out there's a George Saunders book coming out at the end of the month.

there's a lot of simple, pea-brained people defending Charlie Kirk simply because he invoked the Lord's name (breaking a Commandment, btw).

well at least Adobe realizes a lot of people have no interest in using any sort of AI stuff, so you can save about $100/year by changing to Creative Cloud Standard.

computers are sold with less than a TB of storage, yet so many apps require high storage capacity that I keep running out of scratch disk space even after clearing out One Drive and only having 1 app open at a time.

Throwing an "lol" at the end of the saddest sentence ever so no one tries to send me on an unplanned vacay

Holly Hunter briefly appears in the Starfleet Academy commercial and for that half a second I keep thinking she's Amy Sedaris

Just made the same noise that Iggy makes at the beginning of Raw Power but I was getting out of a chair.

Jerry Garcia basically re-taught Bob Weir how to play rhythm guitar in a way that complimented his lead guitar, so Weir would fill up more space instead of just churn away at chords

i feel like the young people covering The Magnetic Fields maybe don't realize all of his songs are sarcastic parodies of love songs

trading a scavenged Geek Bar for some rations when they send me to the Re-education Camp for posting a meme about the President

time to fire up Cornell 77

I fear and respect hand mixers which is why I never have an issue with them. Conversely, I do not fear or respect sewing machines, which is why there have been Incidents.

Yes, in the 80s our parents kicked us out of the house on the weekends. Even if we had to pee, we had to make a pretty good case in order for them to open the sliding glass door. I literally played in ditches.

Eternal Torment

curse of the degenerate CD collector: yesterday I found a CD box set that I bought a while ago and just never listened to

decades of reading comprehension lesson plans down the toilet because now every idiot uses AI to write the simplest little thing.

men will kill women for beating them in a game of basketball, of course that nazi shot that woman for not being afraid of him

If you do an ad for a gambling app, your place in hell is secure

theres an Amish store by our house but its usually packed except for Friday at opening, so I went there and got 8 pieces of fried chicken thighs, 2 fried chicken breasts, and 12 potato wedges, for $21. You can't touch any takeout around here for less than $30.

80s music videos were amazing. Commercial directors going wild, musicians who clearly didn't want to be there, and so many fog machines.

I remember @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social on The Purple Stuff Podcast saying MTV was "home base" in the 90s, that was totally my experience too. Turn on the TV, turn it to channel 89 and get the lay of the land.

People who remember when MTV showed videos have fond memories of genre programming like Headbangers Ball, 120 Minutes, Yo! MTV Raps... a little curation goes a long way

got an email with "winter tips for your pets", bro it's 62 degrees outside right now.

finally time for me to get a colonoscopy. My wife gets them every 2 years because she's high-risk, so I know the nuts n bolts of the prep.

The Conversions 3

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Filling out forms at the doctor's office and realized I forgot the order of day/month/year when writing it out. Also forgot how to write.

unseasonably warm week in Maryland while we take down Christmas decorations, then next week it's back to the deep freeze.

I am professionally trained in Gua Sha, that's one of those little factoids I forget to share when people are exchanging fun facts

Seen today at Costco: 1. Guy buying so many gallons of milk that the cashier yelled at him for hitting the limit and trying to pay in 2 separate transactions. 2. Japanese nun in cap & veil managing to get in everyone's way while aimlessly wandering the produce section

Hugh Laurie? The guy that played upper crust twat Lord Monty in series 2 of The Young Ones? Did he do anything besides playing the cuckold in the "Walking on Broken Glass" video?

2026 is the year chugga chugga hardcore with crowd killer breakdowns goes mainstream

Started watching Fallout. Is there a name for the hero archetype like Star Wars' Luke/Leia/Han Solo? Because this show has it mapped to a T

Frank Ocean really trying to see how long he can be famous without doing the bare minimum expected from a popular musical artist

"trip hop girl pigtails" is a haircut, not sure if that's the most accurate name but if you know, you know

RIP Bela Tarr, your most annoying cinephile friend is currently having a bad day and needs your support (i.e. watching a 3 hour long movie)

when you owe a company money: "Fuck you pay me. We got thugs at the ready, willing & able to start breaking kneecaps." when a company owes you money: "whoa hold your horses there, we're but a small family-owned mom and pop business."

people think moby dick is a stern adventure novel heavy on the plot. i can't emphasize how much it's not. it's supergay chaos with 3 plot points. there's an entire chapter that's just a chowder recipe. sometimes it turns into a play. the main character is covered in whale dinension tattoos.

Watching a dystopian TV show on the dystopian shopping app while living in an actual dystopia

every time I read Evangeline Lilly I picture Linda Evangelista in my head

Cover idea for The Conversions by Harry Mathews. Currently reading this puzzle of a book and wanted to try and make a more interesting cover than the ones I've found online.