Octopussy and The Living Daylights, Ian Fleming, 1966

Use of the phrase “master crank” lead to “master cylinder” from Frisky Dingo stuck in my head, I’m not unhappy.

Daniel Craig was announced as the new James Bond 20 years ago today 👴🏼

I gotta be honest I have been historically skeptical of the idea of digital twins but recently I learned that Japan's MLIT built an entire 3D model of every building and road in the country with semantic and underlying use information, so uh... maybe less skeptical www.mlit.go.jp/plateau/en/

“Dressing for Pleasure” also an all-timer cool album name

Not going to piggyback on a moot’s good and tasteful post about the film to say this but one of the things that makes Perfect Blue so good is the (thematically-relevant!) nudity

Recognize this is a bit crank-like for me (and I hate making threads too) but it’s more like “fastest-growing share of the donor class is socially and culturally conservative donors who are scared of economic populism and want to use it as a Trojan Horse for oligarchy.”

When D’Angelo appeared in Questlove’s Sly Stone documentary I sighed with relief knowing he was still the coolest motherfucker on the planet

tom buchanan should have said this to jay gatsby

Celebrating Columbus Day

Who knows about a film, but with a cover like this you know this soundtrack’s going to be good

A less cursed image ... well, maybe not

Yes, finally, a good autumn day in Los Angeles

Theater playing “Fuck bin Laden” in between features

lol has nothing changed with Tigers-Mariners since I started and finished a whole-ass (great) movie?

Just started watching Michael Mann’s Thief and saw an incredible name @cheatlines.co

Some more remade posters, among the others at www.danamania.com/print/ Feel free to download and print in whatever way you like.

Oddly my default answer here’s Everything Everywhere All At Once (it’s okay, not bad but not close to great either)

could we mod up with self-made armor, like Stephen Root in Buster Scruggs covered in pans, in pursuit of our quasi-Mohist strategy of peace even with the unruly?

Feeling old because I had a good edgy erudite quip and thought better of posting it, finally hitting a level of maturity online I achieved irl at age ~14

why don’t the Simpsons use their “union nuclear technician who owns a house outright” wealth to address the root causes of crime instead of dressing up as the Bartman

Saw this picture of a dog and immediately thought he‘d stolen Tom Servo

Fellas, is it sigma to eat crumbs off the floor?

Now listening

“Chicago-style deep dish is actually a type of quiche” is a good synthesis for me (not a big pizza fan, enjoy deep dish, Chicago-pseudo-native, often use French screen names)

creating a social media platform called cluub, going crazy after I get everyone on it and they leave when that migration platform they're on goes down the drain, they'll all go back to the cluub

Doing a Halloween username/avatar thing for the first time ever

As it’s the season I have not seen any of the supposedly-beloved-by-millennials VHS rental Halloweeen “classics” (there’s that one with Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker, plus others that I can’t think of off the top of my head)

Massive gap between quality of music and implications from the title: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i2h...

This man had a LIFE

Also, many people will recognize Victor Wong (Egg Shen) as a great character actor, but did you know: he had a truly incredible life?

Going to be using this as one of those “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra”-type phrases

Fascinating Captain, DCKERS, not DCKERS Unit

Misato Katsuragi as a character is Millennial-coded, so you might want to tone down the loathing.

There better be a well-compensated worm driving that thing around town!

I have never seen a sentence that makes less sense in my life. A true American grocery store is a big local chain founded by a southern European immigrant with a good produce section, a full selection of General Mills cereals, and agonizingly slow unionized deli counter, not a quirked-up Aldi.

Mackinder bros we are so back. And it's so stupid.

Best Rite of Spring I’ve ever been to (and I’ve seen Boulez conducting), and appropriate that I saw it at Walt Disney Concert Hall bc I always see the Earth forming in Fantasia in my head when I hear that opening bassoon line.

I heard you guys like drums

Actually this one’s by AC Martin the big 60s Pereira civic office building’s up on Sunset

William Pereira

Have been looking through old American Institute of Architects (L.A. chapter) newsletters and found a report on a 1979 talk about the Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft, by principal aerodynamicist Peter Lissaman

Paul Schrader just uses the Internet differently from the rest of us

the extwitter mindset is ultimately about a contempt for knowledge. it was never about "science vs humanities." it is about the idea that it is worthwhile to understand the different facets of a complex system even if you cannot provide an immediately instrumental justification for doing so

HAL was made in Illinois, by Bears fans…doomed from the start.

she android on my dream until i electric sheep

Is it just me or did they reverse the position of the cellos for this one (here for Dudamel conducting the Alpensymphonie)