flaming moe's

'some things are so wrong that not even their opposite is true'

it's insane to me how good this ad is. i need to see don draper pitch it. 'elaine may as a waitress flirting with mike nichols as a kangaroo who's only interested in her for beer'

i think i'm at a point with jazz guitar where i won't really advance without throwing myself into a jam and risking embarrassment to experience how this music actually works

you can find me in the pub, pint full of bub

I did what I could (nothing)

jazz practice is kind of a struggle against reification

people are very excited by the idea that "things are going to get bad" and I think it obscures the fact that it already did. you can say "nothing ever happens", but if you showed this world to someone from twenty, ten, maybe even five years ago, they'd ask: "what happened?"

a tragic day for sucka mc's

trench comic

louis althusser writes worst prose ever, asked to leave marxist canon

louis althusser's preface to Reading Capital youtu.be/F8CJezPcCuc?...

This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time

or else we are served Engels' unfortunate pudding

louis althusser's preface to Reading Capital youtu.be/F8CJezPcCuc?...

Ed Ruscha, OOF, 1962-63 www.moma.org/collection/w...

she's all hopped up on crap from the store

what the jerk store's supply chain issues tell us about the looming recession

there's no version of kurapika that i dont love. original manga. 1999 anime. 2011 anime. whatsapp sticker. gacha game. official kurapika soda. it doesn't matter. im there

imagine having a beer with this guy

i'd like to be the Gerhard Richter of guitar

improvised passage — Eb

Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

He once bought a yacht from Richard Arlen and called it the "Merrie Melodie" with a little dinghy on the back he called "Looney Tunes". One day I said, "Mr. Schlesinger, when are you going to take us out on your yacht?" And he replied, "I don't want any poor people on my boat"

'alright but you gotta pay me overtime.. I'm a union man and I only work 16 hour days' 'a union man works 8 hour days' 'i belong to two unions'

Another shot of Alain Delon & his pigeon friends, by Jack Garofalo, Venice, 1962

thanks for the bon mot.. now scram!

i complain about my noisy neighbors a lot but i have to remind myself they're not the ones who cook breakfast to ornette coleman

nice to see beautiful women still get photographed

he's been eating that phony fruit

if i was living in omelas i would simply walk away from that shit

This is a number that's worth having in your head to get a sense of the scale of the issue here. The same amount of need. One tenth of the support. That's not business as usual. That's a sudden and utterly preventable cataclysm.

we study marx because he braces us for a lifetime of disappointment

walked by some ugly apartments and my inner monologue turned into Minima Moralia for a minute. cooling down with a cookie now

waged showers

Petiteness of Soul grassyvalley.thecomi...

Sister Corita Kent, 'daily', 1967

don't watch the anime if you haven't read the manga

Thinking about that post from the mtg illustrator with the photos of their friends posing for what became iconic cards. possibly my favorite post of all time

David Sipress New Yorker, February 2, 2024

obviously I understand the ideological character of moderation but it's a bit hilarious to me to get outraged about filters hiding extremist and threatening posts

had the honor of joining Ross Douthat for a roundtable on women in the workplace. big shout out to the production team who gracefully assisted Mr. Douthat as he sweated through multiple shirts. unfortunately the video footage was not salvagable

a masterclass

“SO HAPPY!” the defense attorney exclaims upon exiting the courtroom. “I hope you are happy too,” she says to the media liaison for the court, who replies, “Well, I’m the media liaison for the court.”

machines

a possible advantage of a social media network that broadly shares your politics is it could encourage you to clarify more narrow distinctions in your personal ideas, or talk through the big issues in a mode other than dramatic disagreement