okay now I'm getting sad about the Big Bopper, imagine being a musician and you write a song that finally takes off in August. In January you're touring with Buddy Holly. In February you are dead.

@roryblank.bsky.social did an incredible edit of this concept a couple of years ago.

it's pretty crazy that the Big Bopper answers the PHONE with "hello, BAAAAABY," before he knows who is calling or they know that they've reached him. what if it's the bank. unsurprising that he's no longer with us

The new dating app "trend" is called Bopping. the goal is to set up a romantic assignation using the spoken lines from the Big Bopper's 1958 hit "Chantilly Lace," i.e. messaging "Hello, BAAAAAABBBBY!!!," responding "this is the big bopper speaking," etc. you HAVE to say the line about being broke

big fan of the man and his music and sunglasses but it doesnt feel right that roy orbison didnt die in the big bopper plane crash. feels like the timestream got a little messed up there

if you were friends with the big bopper and he said he had a new girlfriend and you were like oh whats she like and he said "she makes me feel real funny" you'd call the cops. absolutely ghastly shit

Warhammer is Precious Moments for people who hate God

DAVID BYRNE: Same as it ever was LIL JON: What? DAVID BYRNE: Same as it ever was LIL JON: Unh! DAVID BYRNE: Same as it ever was LIL JON: Yeah! DAVID BYRNE: Same as it ever was LIL JON: Okay!

you know what, fuck it. this is what men are going to start taking classes about. we're doing thjs

not now, kitten, mommy's trying to concentrate on her inscrutable designs

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

HELLO BAAAABY THIS IS THE ZODIAC SPEAKING CAN I WHAT DO I WHATTTTT OH BABY YOU KNOW WHAT I LIIIIKE

elected Democrats I’m not expecting an “RIP Bozo” from you today but you can always JUST SAY NOTHING you fuckin worms

As a member of the ruling class my favorite thing about Graham is that I was protected from the many ways he, directly and indirectly, made the lives of people in America and around the world shorter and crueler. Maybe you should consider why my jolly friend hated you so much

Hey the reason why they're doing this is: they fucking hate you. They hate their constituents. They hate democratic voters

not to be like "the evil is defeated!" but it does feel like... if you were trying to steal the midterms these specific guys dying, right now, is going to create a lot of problems for you

: having been in and continuing to be in the CIA

genuinely a moment where he goes into "I'm just a little guy" mode

My ass when Barnes and nobles has criterions at 50% off

Hey this fucking newspaper sucks. You shouldn't buy this newspaper. You shouldn't work for this newspaper. They are actively trying to make the world worse by platforming these nightmares

Isn't the whole thing that there are no actual Italian immigrants living in Little Italy now

deranged question but does anyone know what printing process (like, thermal, laser, offset, UV...) is used for these types of neon paper labels dispensed on a roll (like as used in supermarkets)?

I may not be able to stop my generation as a whole from becoming Boomers, but I can at least resist on my own.

and as someone who has very clear memories of the *volcanic hatred* I felt when I was young and an old person sneered at me for not knowing something, I have to admit that I don't care for it.

My opinion is that an important responsibility of being an Old Guy is never ever shaming a young person for not knowing something. I'm seeing a lot of this kind of thing among my peers these days,

telling the doctor i smoke a "despicable" amount of weed a day and being unable to put any number on it

gotta say... a lot of you are failing to live by the number one rule of dog park

i'm trying to look at it

this is an absurd question but does anyone have a cigarette case I could have. definitely feels like something you might obtain in your 20s and end up moving from apartment to apartment for twenty years. why do I need a cigarette case you might as *lowers sunglasses* to put a tiny ereader in

a good tagline for a movie is "je t'aime.... to die"

I'm not going to read this because I would pay money to never hear about this guy again but like. None of these people can actually explain who would be doing the rat fucking, and to what end!! Is it Democrats, is it Republicans?? Why this specific guy and not any other candidates?

Even if the rape accusation hadn’t come out, you can’t run candidates who have platner’s attitudes toward women and toward sexual assault because you can’t trust their answers about their sexual history. A person who doesn’t understand consent can’t assure you they’ve always had it

They really should let us pin other people’s posts

Prosecution: Did you or did you not smoke weed in cyberspace with Miss Shira Always? Me: No sir. Professor Sirius De’Lusion, who smoked online with Miss Always, is an emanation of my consciousness but not my digital avatar. He is a separate entity and he and I cannot be considered identical

I love working at the establishment and only sabotaging Graham Platner's campaign but not that of Rashida Tlaib, Zohran Mamdani, Summer Lee, Chris Rabb, Claire Valdez, Melat Kiros or Darializa Avila Chevalier.

I keep thinking about this Alex Ross painting of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that is, for some reason, also the cast of 30 Rock

JUST SPOKE WITH MY FRIEND MITCH MCCONNELL, COOP. 20 WHOLE MINUTES. HE SAYS HE’S CHAINED TO A FIREY WHEEL OF THORNS BEING FLAYED BY A RAT DEMON WHO SPITS BURNING SAND. HORRIFYING.

Talking to friends applying for jobs, in various fields, and it seems... extremely obvious that AI hiring software has completely fucked the entire process, to the point where we are probably experiencing an undercapacity crisis that CEOs just absolutely cannot see

i don't know basically anything about the games industry but it seems like a bunch of companies are trying a new business model that is like... if every time Ford made a car they fired everyone immediately afterwards. and... I don't think anyone has really TRIED this model before, for Reasons

Ever since I was a kid i knew I wanted to be in Read Jump Scares

just learned that "Vegetables" is track 15 on disc 3 of the Very Best of the Beach Boys compilation which is somehow extremely funny to me

I usually do not engage with people responding to me in a fighty way, because I am genuinely not good at fighting with people online, but last night I got really mad about a pair of guys who were basically like, oh, these women are just making this up - or not even saying that but implying it

Every few months there’s a big inescapable academic debate about whether we’ve gotten too knee-jerk about rape and women just have to keep going to work through all of it

Me sober walking downtown: this world is an overflowing gutter. A mire of sickening greed and hate Me walking around downtown completely gone off margs: there is so much beauty to behold on this earth. I understand every poem now

“hey darling, you dropped your nametag”

look at that little guy go

I'D RATHER BE DOING WHATEVER IS HAPPENING HERE:

theres lots of guys where, like. I don't know that they're doing tons of coke. but it would actually be more worrying if they weren't doing tons of coke