I often find myself stuck between "Good God, I need an editor" and "I love being able to publish myself"
06.03.2026 16:18
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I often find myself stuck between "Good God, I need an editor" and "I love being able to publish myself"
Interesting random Facebook post on Fancy Feast cat food mishaps. Supposedly, this is a chunk of meat that hasn't been cut through, suggesting that the machines in the plant aren't calibrated or sharpened properly. So weird to see things you never had to think about falling apart
We should all be more polite in public, and I proved my own point while annoyed at a violation of my point www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/i-know-i-a...
That's interesting. Haha nobody likes car dealerships and the discretion is often just "price is fake, you have to bargain", but I do think there's a good side to that distributed model too
What's curious to me is whether they totally don't care about the cool stuff that comes in for recycling, which I guess I understand, or whether their hands are actually tied by some liability or other stupid thing. The bigger point is, maybe, the economic opportunity we box ourselves out of
Well, those are manufacturing firms. Small retailers carry mainstream products too (especially back then when there were like four video game/software chains instead of one.)
And the goody two-shoes who think it's actually wrong to save a cool item from the landfill, lol. Like, why would it *not* be okay? It isn't shoplifting, of course by contract the stuff "belongs" to the store because it has to technically belong to someone, but...
When everything is at a corporate scale, where individuals have no discretion and have no capacity to make decisions, we're all worse off. I increasingly think devolving the scale of activity is one of the most important things we can do. Retail, construction/housing, etc.
It strikes me that this is probably an economic concentration problem. These companies are simply too large, abstracted, distant, procedure-bound to behave in a human manner. That is an economic and social problem. It's not about the game systems, that's just a symptom.
E.g. why can't there be a small area where stuff like that can be left or taken, like a little free library? Why doesn't their contract (with the recycler) include some kind of resale element? What the *hell*?
Question about whether electronics dropped off for recycling at Best Buy can be taken by workers or the public.
This kind of thing utterly destroys my trust in the people who run companies. It's insane how little they care about small gestures of goodwill that cost them nothing.
Check it out here: www.thedeletedscenes.com/
Pictured on my homepage today: Rockville and Silver Spring in Maryland, Virginia Beach (the apartments), and suburban Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia.
"One elected official in my home county, who herself lives in a single-family subdivision of standardized homes, calls apartments 'ticky tacky boxes stacking people like rats.'"
it’s so cool how $2000 e-bikes are coded as toys for rich elitists while $60,000 SUVs and pickup trucks are viewed as necessities for the working class
And here's the Kraft Philadelphia label they've been tagged with
Update: now there are more!
What's the name of the place?
People really do think death is a reasonable punishment for jaywalking, don't they
This is the best kind of historic preservation, I think: something dynamic which preserves a sense of what came before, but which puts it to use for what a place demands today.
The idea that George Washington looked out at the Potomac River just a stone’s throw away from this messily transforming, somewhat distressed, culturally interesting place is an incredible thing. I think our first president would be proud.
In some ways, a strip like this is the utter opposite of a place. In other ways, taken together, it's the definition of a place. Different periods, the artifacts of different periods, different kinds of people, all just sharing a little sliver of space.
You might wonder why this old shopping center in the middle of Silver Spring, Maryland hasn’t been redeveloped, even given its historic pedigree. The answer to that is that it has already been redeveloped!
Interesting. Never thought much about the trucks aspect. But that may explain why the product range seems different in store in older spaces. The only midcentury-style grocery stores that still exist are ethnic supermarkets. The supermarket industry is trying to reinvent small format but it's tough
The theater was expanded and renovated but it was part of the shopping center from the very beginning. That was back when theaters had a footprint that could serve an anchor like that, or an urban storefront
Like,
There once was a man in a bar
who's dough didn't go very far
but he asked for a song, Billy Joel went along,
So he left him some bread in his jar
I never realized Piano Man is basically a limerick (also much of Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
Despite many movies at the AFI (which is an amazing thing to have in walking distance), had never considered that the shopping center was linked to the theater in a way
Yes, I thought a bit about that. I read once that a lot of older drug stores are in buildings that were purpose-built as early supermarkets - because supermarkets have gotten that much bigger since the 50s/60s
This evolution of the stores also speaks to a century of changing retail scales. The center point started as a grocery store (Sanitary) but eventually was a local drug store (Peoples). Mergers and footprint growth meant neither could fit there, now restaurants in a post-online retail world.