I have fond nostalgic memories of the TRON arcade cabinet with the custom joystick, which was not so secretly great and I’m not afraid to say it. Take that, Master Control Program!

*if your work was stolen AND your publisher registered the copyright like they said they were going to instead of immediately going out of business.

In the cold light of day, I think using a “slur” for an inanimate object is offensive to the degree it refers to an actual slur for humans and *because* of the actual slur for humans. And it does sound like racists are trolling in this way.

That is what I think, yes.

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

The 4K streaming version of “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid” is gorgeous, I didn’t remember it using low light with bright highlights as much as it does. And the zoom lenses are used in a way less arbitrary fashion than is usual for that era. Way to go, Conrad Hall!

I’m the mortician in Richard Scarry’s Busytown. I’m a dog who wears a baseball hat that says “who let ME out”. I drive a dried up footlong meatball sub that’s also a hearse every day.

lol

A few small beers!

This is how I find out Superman and Batman have died

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

It’s VistaVision time! (In a few hours.)

It’s Musso & Frank, not Musso & Frank’s!

Norwood Pratt, the fictional protagonist of Charles Portis’s beloved 1966 novel Norwood, is being compared by AI creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.

I liked the part where the screen went dark and a nuclear missile hit the theater.

Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?

This is a great account of the development of VistaVision projectors; it seems like it worked on the first attempt, which is kind of a miracle considering the projector has to reorient the film. (I assumed it ran sideways, like a platter projector or 70mm IMAX; it doesn't.)

gotta respect the patience and vision of that wolf who waited for everyone in town to get sick of that kid's shit before making its move

at this rate I estimate that by next March we will be getting six hundred page judicial opinions that resemble House of Leaves

(Alan Partridge voice) John Hubley, fantastic filmmaker. You know who I like even better, and people are often shocked when I say this ... Faith Hubley

I am a sucker for games that pry open a gap between what the player would like to do and what the character is going to do, so Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire top my list, despite not necessarily being the most fun gameplay-wise.

Box . . . thrree . . . spool . . . five. Spool! Spooool! Box . . . thrree . . . three . . . four . . . two . . . nine! good God! . . . seven . . . ah! the little rascal! Box thrree. Spool . . . five . . . five . . . five . . . ah! the little scoundrel. Spool five. Box three, spool five. Spooool!

Yet who would have thought the old Macs would require two partitions, three unique file systems, and a specific order of operations to do simple backups?

as you see construction has started, everyone always wanted it but only i'm doing it ok, even obama, who i disagree with on many things, he said Donald, I wanted to but I couldn't get it done! but we're going to have a big, beautiful white house videodrome with the wettest clay wall we've ever seen

JUICE NEWTON?

Such a strange and depressing day. The point of having a media industry in the first place is supposed to be to keep people like Kaleb safe and happy so they can make the art we all need.

This is the Kaleb Horton piece that deserved to make him the defining voice of today. He was an poet, a comic, and a cultural anthropologist who understood America on a soul-deep level. It's his 2016 road trip to the Constitution Party's election convention in Utah. web.archive.org/web/20160918...

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.

Here’s a passage I always think about when I think about Kaleb Horton, the end of an article about Marco Rubio’s concession speech. A world class eye and ear. web.archive.org/web/20170704...

Put together some thoughts here. In an earlier time he would have been the kind of writer being paid $5 a word by magazines to go write about whatever he pleased. And no one would be pissed off or jealous about it either. www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it. Here are some of his beautiful shots.

Rest in peace, Kaleb Horton. I’ll say the same thing about him he said about Charles Portis: He wrote about the real world and was an expert in it. He did a lot of wonderful work, but I’ve always thought this short article was *perfect*.

Texas Instruments, what were you thinking?

POV: You are about to tell the internet you think Ordinary People is better than Raging Bull.

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

Any good writing about Highest 2 Lowest’s inexplicable score?

Still kind of amazing the Moulin Rouge soundtrack has Beck covering “Diamond Dogs” and Bowie covering “Nature Boy.” You don’t hear much about the movie these days but that record still has a lot of unlikely music.

Bongino: “it’s DA BAT!”

i had a rapture joke around here somewhere but it disappeared, gah hyuck!!! is that the slop you little pigs love. well eat up

and on the pedestal these words appear:

Turns out that Db’s record and Young Fresh Fellows tape are worth a lot of money!

If they ever release GTA IV on modern platforms they’re gonna have to add footnotes. You gotta know about Avenue Q, the Blue Man Group, paying for ringtones, TRL, cold calling other people on the telephone…

Driving a load of old cleaning solutions, lighter fluid, oil, batteries, and various other chemicals to the city’s hazardous waste drop off. Kind of hope I’m in a car accident because I’ll have a decent chance of acquiring superpowers.

Does the Empire train their TIE pilots to recklessly follow their targets into canyons, asteroid fields, caves, meteorite storms, half-constructed Death Stars, and so on? Sometimes there’s clearly no other option, but like, Andor is trying to leave the planet, he can’t stay in that canyon forever.

my brain's just completely fucked today

I had never done this and it’s kind of insane how many articles cite me (and how few of them are topics I know much about). Here’s a list; by the end of this thread you will no longer trust Wikipedia. Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2018–19 Something, Anything…

FYI: Updating iOS to 26 seems to turn off Apple Music’s lossless streaming until you re-enable it. TVOS kept the setting, but it’s possible they haven’t updated Music yet, because I don’t see that “auto DJ” shit yet.