Critical Nostalgia

Same with folks calling themselves "classical liberals."

C'mon.

I'm very tired of these articles, this endless parade of them.

"Mainline conservatism is dying."

Counterpoint: it's becoming what it always wanted to be, perceiving that there will be no blowback for taking off the mask.

If this comes across your timeline, you have received an o m e n .

President Ready Player One

Owning this car might fix me.

*Bob Eucker voice*

"Just a litt-le off."

Dang he was good. And look at the colors on those pages.

is it the first brainrot war or they have all been brainrot wars

NYT headline from 8:29 AM: “Strong Hiring Likely Continued Early This Year”

NYT headline from 9:11 AM: “US Employers Cut Jobs in Sign of a Shakier Economy”

Shot. Chaser.

I loathe the Gnostics. I used to be interested in it as a subject and philosophy and the more I read, the more I came to understand it was just more high priests intermediating *and* reduced life to something less than even a nihilist mess. And once I saw it, like the Matrix, couldn't unsee it.

I accidentally came across this recent interview with tech nutter fascist Nick Land, "The Apocalypse Has Already Happened", which makes the same point, it's chock full of tech-gnosticism and as far as Land is concerned, AI has won & the human era has already ended:
archive.ph/jMjER

Frank could do it all.

Absolutely. That world would look more like Marshall Law than Watchmen.

But using this stuff as fiction to explore characters? That's the good stuff. Just go wild. Go crazy.

Again, everyone's been Watchmen/DKR-brained and think it's about being realistic when that's missing the whole point.

Huh. It's not war in the middle east that's causing producers to cut production but storage being full up and that's a very different thing.

If I could sing like any guy, I'd wanna be able to sing like Phil.

Death In the Morning YouTube video by Phil Alvin - Topic

Happy 73rd birthday to Phil Alvin! From his 1986 solo LP "Un Sung Stories," here's a tune written by Rev. Anderson Johnson called "Death in the Morning."
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 220:
youtu.be/ds54CpyH3x4?...

So, instead of "oh, the Cosmic Cube" is fixing everything, it's "I've gone through a journey and have learned how to live with myself no matter how weird that is". Again, Grant Morrison/Richard Case Doom Patrol undefeated here.

Or just go full whackadoodle cosmic, but Everyone's too chicken now.)

The hill I'm going to die on is that the sorts of seriousness and observation most of these dudes are shooting for in superhero comics are aimed at the wrong level. It's not about grand observations of society, but more personal ones.

Hey!

Oh, okay. It's a fair cop.

This Porky's remake suuuuuuuuuucks.

Geoff Downes – L.A. Freeway YouTube video by Radio Orlog

Bringing this one to the attention of @brucelevenstein.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X26w...

*smashes the buy button*

For some reason, Vanishing Point got written off as exploitation trash and Two-Lane Blacktop high art when they're both kinda the same, only one's a bit grubbier.

When did they give Draenei toe beans?

I'd like to go there and visit. Maybe chat and have a nice afternoon cocktail.

"You've taken a perfectly average LLM and given it anxiety!"

This didn't happen, but it's a funny joke if you recognize that this didn't happen and instead is a reflection on what the prompter is prompting for. Some deeply internalized shit.

Curséd image.

[Three RCA output ports, red, white, yellow. They are labeled ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard and not right, left, video]

Trying to think of how many waves of weird western comics have washed through since I published mine in... 2008.

I get it. The Youngs think they're the first to experience anything. I was a Young once too.