Subtly downgrade a band: Ben Takes Five Out of the Drier, Puts Them in the Hamper, and Puts the Hamper on His Bed

“So I says to Mabel, I says…”

Just saw A Gardener’s Year, which is not a direct adaptation of Karel Čapek’s essay collection of that title, but which uses its text as a framing device. It was wonderful and difficult without teetering into easy bleakness. Some of the most amazing, subtle performances I’ve ever seen on film.

CHOTINER: …Well? VILLAGER: We *did* do the nose. CHOTINER: The nose? VILLAGER: And the hat. VILLAGER: Oh, but she’s a witch! 🧙‍♀️

Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice: A Tribe Called Rehnquist

I go to a themepark for the shows. Point me toward the radiator

Slightly diminish a book: Friend Request with Rama

“Lucky” = won in a raffle Not this

If we’re going to be talking about A.I. this much, can we at least gain the ability to change the iPhone display font so the uppercase i is distinct from the lowercase L?

I know it really doesn’t matter but somehow, despite being a college writing professor, this is the A.I. balderdash that I took personally:

This is all my fault. I solved the golf-tee puzzle in an eldritch configuration and inadvertently freed Barrel Bob

I forget the museum, but daily I think of the touchscreen “What Would You Be In the Middle Ages?” display I once saw. Visitors could carefully enter their skills and their interests—and irrespective of any of that it just told them “Peasant.”

We must increase bands. Bens Fold Five

As someone with an irrational affection for square numbers, I hate that 2025 is the only square I will live through.

Wallace Shawn gets home. A shadowy figure disturbs the narrow beam of light from the window. “Debbie?” Wallace asks. “No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol. “I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”

Wallace Shawn gets home. A shadowy figure disturbs the narrow beam of light from the window. “Debbie?” Wallace asks. “No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol. “I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”

Almost daily, I think of that episode of SLIDERS in which there’s a totalitarian government that the gang takes down by putting a .jpeg of the original Constitution online.

TFW you envy the customer service in SNOW CRASH

Sometimes I punch myself Hard as I can Shouting “Nobody cares” Hoping someone will tell me how Wrong I am

Been busting out some old PS2 RPGs, and although that was one of my favorite eras of gaming, I really hate the “everything is secretly missable” design choice that dominated back then.

Poetry.

I want to see a full evening of the symphony accompanied by WinAmp visualizations.

UHF is one of my absolute favorite movies. Weird Al said in an interview that he went ham with evil broadcasting magnate RJ Fletcher’s comeuppance because we so rarely see justice served to corrupt execs in real life. Also kindled my socialist heart at 6 with Channel 62 going to the community!

Yo! One like, one book I loved!

21. City of Heroes should not have hewed so closely to the then-established conventions of fantasy MMOs. Having to unlock travel powers and earn capes might have made sense in relation to similar parallels in the MMO genre, but was at odds with the superhero milieu.

So my new business is basically a food truck, but no food. It’s a mobile, free-standing porch that I drive to apartment complexes, and for $20 a pop, people sit on it for 10 minutes watching the traffic while I play recordings of cicadas.

So my new business is basically a food truck, but no food. It’s a mobile, free-standing porch that I drive to apartment complexes, and for $20 a pop, people sit on it for 10 minutes watching the traffic while I play recordings of cicadas.

A Model UN-type exercise set in the Warhammer 40k universe. Is this anything?

Question for all #FirstYearWriting teachers: Do you teach research? Are you spending more time on the fundamentals of academic writing and reading? What kind of institution are you at? How many semesters is your composition class? #AcademicSky

Question for all #FirstYearWriting teachers: Do you teach research? Are you spending more time on the fundamentals of academic writing and reading? What kind of institution are you at? How many semesters is your composition class? #AcademicSky

THORIN OAKENSHIELD: My grandfather was King Under the Mountain, but Smaug has taken our lands and seized our assets. But you can help me, Biblo: a small deposit of 1 hudnerd gold pieces will allow me to unfreez my assets adn pay you back tenflod…

Are there any persistent livestreams of the inner workings of interesting clocks? I would love to put such a video on and have it playing in the background, like one of those 8-hour train rides from southern Norway into Antarctica. Yes, I do have a box of fidgets on my desk, why do you ask?

Are there any persistent livestreams of the inner workings of interesting clocks? I would love to put such a video on and have it playing in the background, like one of those 8-hour train rides from southern Norway into Antarctica. Yes, I do have a box of fidgets on my desk, why do you ask?

Alt text is good. I have my account set so that I can’t post images without alt text, which is also good. Sometimes this discourages me from posting, though, and that is the greatest good of all.

used to be when you mass-scale experimented on students to make them fluent in hallucinating they at least got some acid out of it

Fortunately, they don’t have any of the *real* snakes

If Chuck Mangione inspired you to become a musician, what are you planning for the high school marching band this year?

One of the most annoying thoughts to be woken up by is “Ah, I’ve finally started to fall asleep!”

One of the most annoying thoughts to be woken up by is “Ah, I’ve finally started to fall asleep!”

Went to see The Accountant 2 with my mother-in-law yesterday, and it was with the cost of admission just to read this trivium afterwards:

My mother-in-law, staying with us, ran to Starbucks because she couldn’t figure out my grinder-and-pourover setup. Is this what it feels like to be the one person in the house who can drive stick?

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

How many Book It books to get an indulgence?

I really didn’t think Cassian Andor, as a character, could carry a show. I was as wrong about this as any Saul Goodman.

i don’t understand when my fellow thirtysomethings panic about no longer understanding what the kids like and how they dress. the most perfect serenity ever devised by man or heaven is within reach and you’re pushing it away with both hands

I watch a lot of video essays and @princesmweekes.bsky.social has the best outro music by far. Probably the only outro music I would just listen to recreationally.

I get regular calls from my blood center. We should hang out

Sir, I exist!

My Life As Hotel Art