me watching the first couple figure skaters: "wow can you believe human beings can even do this"
me by the fourth figure skater: "hmm looks like she had a little trouble with the landing on that triple triple combination"
honestly respect for the ad thatβs just like βpokemon are cool.β they are cool
I always spend four years having zero interest in sports whatsoever and then every Winter Olympics I discover anew a passion for curling
imagine working at a company where your new ceo addresses the entire staff for the first time and the first thing they show you is this picture
I heard the nearest Whole Foods was a zoo this afternoon and it is so funny when people in New York City in particular do this en masse, because Iβve lived here through plenty of worse storms than this one will be and people stay inside for at most 12 hours before they decide to walk to a bar
One might say that thereβs not a lot of reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last.
teacher teacher look I completed the homework for the year boxd.it/Rv2n2
Fil check your email I just forwarded you something very important
frankly I don't know if we will ever top this episode art
Itβs incredibly funny people flipped out about a guy running the most standard ass municipal government policy playbook imaginable.
One of my favorite covers ever: Harry Nilsson drunkenly screaming his lungs out to Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross"
I did appreciate the overrepresentation of Intolerable Cruelty and The Good German in the Clooney montage, based choice by Baumbach
As basically anyone whoβs talked to me since the summer knows, Iβve been working on this for months. Thanks to everyone who shared their insights. (Iβve got a lot more to say in the future, too.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
auto-tuning children has become very prevalent (see: Wonka (2023)), but it should be a criminal offense. the Sesame Street theme rocks because it's full of secondary dominant 7th chords, so no matter how flat the kids sing, it sounds hip and even bluesy. let kids' voices be pitchy!!!
Wishing a joyous 83rd birthday to the legendary Martin Scorsese!
-"you let ME handle the board"
-"you're either incredibly smart or incredibly stupid"
-"I did it just to see the look on your face"
-"what are YOU doing here?" "saving your ass"
-Tarkovsky
We are entering a phase when it will be very important to not hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
iβve said this before and i remain convinced itβs true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is βi am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a passβ
it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
Peter Hujar's Day!!!! I loved it!
I started a newsletter, it's very very naval gazey in a way that might get literal, it will only exist for one week, here is the first one: dressedlikeme.beehiiv.com/p/i-dressed-...
hell yeah this is awesome, amazing rec... need them to come tour the States ASAP
lotta colors and textured clouds over the Manhattan skyline
feeling sorry for all the millionaires and billionaires who didnβt get to see this perfect NYC sunset because they fled the city forever today. π
it's 3:50pm on 10/31 and I'm only just now seeing my first drag Aunt Gladys costume of the season???
Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10.
This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.
in a still from the film "One Battle After Another", Leonardio diCaprio is angrily on a payphone call. The text reads "All of our operators are assisting other customers. Please stay on the line. Your call is important to us."
tomorrow on @99pi.org
saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever
I'm going for round 4 of OBAA tomorrow (twice 70mm IMAX twice VV), but I'm impressed that Junglepussy went SIX times
sounds like triangle wave with portamento, slightly slow attack on the amp + filter envelope, and a little bit of overdrive. doesn't feel analog; I'm pretty sure it's from a sampler, one of those workstations like a Triton, or a VST like Trillian that samples analog synths
