Four Computer Buffs part 2 : 270s

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

good timeline pair

Any time I do the thing where I pick which musician's death I would prevent I always wind up going for Nick Drake, Otis Redding or Kurt Cobain... I just can't mess around with Ian Curtis's death because it would change the 80s so fundamentally that modern life would be unrecognizable. Sorry Ian

computer, increase my stupidity… increase… increase. INCREASE

In 2022, while finishing up my book, I asked Cage's longtime manager about this. He burst out laughing and said, "I've been trying for YEARS now to reverse the tide of N-I-C. That is not the right way to spell his name!"

(mc hammer backing vocals voice) too depressed / too depressed to jerk

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

Last night I had a dream concerning "Goonbubbling" which was some kind of online pervert subculture where they would put fortune cookie style slips of gooning instructions inside plastic vending machine capsules and distribute them to other perverts. I believe this is a million-dollar idea.

i hope a bunch of old crackers are taking their last breaths to this halftime show

One thing I loved about 30 rock is they never wasted a second of Buscemi’s time… any time he was on the screen they had him socking dingers out of the park over and over

oh my god. please don’t

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

"the perfect is the enemy of the good" mainly comes up when the "good" thing on offer is extremely not good

I loved reading this. I didn't know Dan well, but this showed me that the weird little friendship I had with him over the years was part of a huge tapestry of weird friendships. He found something we both loved, he zeroed in on it, and he used it as a way to keep in touch for 15 years.

Chart C49 May 95 : 1838s

i was reading some old 90s books about dialup cybersex BBSes on archive.org and i learned about tom terrific who owned the pleasure dome. thank you, tom terrific, for owning the pleasure dome.

Even considering that the world was a different place in 1971 and culture moved more slowly, and even considering his age at the time and how time seems different when we’re younger, I bet it hadn’t really been that long a time since Robert Plant rock and rolled

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

here's a summary of my political views: if you're younger than me, you don't know shit. if you're older than me, you're stuck in the past. and if you're my age, the bitch fell off

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

fyad was 95% saying that one guy was old and had a pool and that another guy had a bike and a long face and 5% telling people they weren’t funny and the latter has psychically traumatized entire generations into thinking it’s responsible for the modern internet

Live and Kicking 2001 : 1s

In memory of the great writer Dan McQuade, I wrote about how we spent about fifteen years sending each other really stupid press release quotes. I'll miss him.

Announcing the new book from one of the greatest music writers of his generation, @simonreynolds.bsky.social Still in a Dream, out this June, is the definitive story of the slackers and shoegazers who reinvented rock, as the music they created reverberated through the late 80s into the early 90s.

Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Tom Homan looks like a guy whose sole thing is getting impotently angry at two of the Marx brothers torturing him at his lemonade stand

I'm hearing reports that Greg Bovino has been reassigned to Lake Wobegon

A single tear of Democrat pride rolls down my cheek as I'm pinned and then executed face down in a gutter, but now my killers have barely-visible QR codes on their vests

MicallefLanesChicken : 4s

the mood is not subtle

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

Some personal news: I've accepted a role as a guy who sits at a big bank of surveillance monitors in a security office. My responsibilities include yawning, reading a magazine, and failing to notice a beeping warning on one of the screens that says "UNUSUAL ACTIVITY DETECTED"

This era of MSP isn't my cup of tea musically but this morning I woke up with this song in my head. Probably because simple, plainspoken antifascist anthems somehow have increased relevance right now www.youtube.com/watch?v=22HT...

Spox: The President is headed back to Andrews Air Force Base due to a minor electrical issue in Air Force One, and will be switching planes to the Lolita Express, financier Jeffrey Epstein's private Gulfstream, to continue onto Davos.

americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys

TBS Sign Off (JOKR-TV) : 61s

Russell Crowe loves using his powers for good

The HBO "Music Box" documentary series is usually pretty solid but the new one about the 1983-1987 period where Anita Pointer bought a handgun and ended every Pointer Sisters encore by "popping a few into the crowd in the dark" barely touches on the music at all. Rights issue?

I'm always seeing people on here saying they're waiting for "it" to happen and we all know what "it" is. Well, I've got some great news: it finally happened

what a legend lmao

Whiskas New Recipe Ad CBS/WJW 8 1993-01-10 : 1s