I can’t account for International Datelines or any of that, but I reckon that 30 years ago, give or take a few hours, I was celebrating New Year’s Eve at the Gas Panic in Roppongi.
Best NYE I ever experienced
“Ideal”, “emblematic”, “exemplary”, “quintessential”, “prototypical”, “distinctive”, and “singular” are just some of the words that can be used instead of the clichéd and overused “iconic”
One of the bets was meant to be an obvious Ball (and it was thrown that way), but it cost the bettor $4,000 because Andy Pages will swing at anything (and miss)
RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.
His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.
A massive loss 💔
Make a Tron movie with, you know, Tron in it and I might go watch it.
The best thing about these new movies is we got two solid albums out of them.
This dude was born in 1979. He's only in his mid 40s.
I'm older than him and he looks ten years older than me.
I haven’t heard any trumpets sounding from the east yet, but just in case I wanted to state for the record that Gronk should be in the booth and Brady should be at the Fox NFL Sunday desk
I don’t think the people who stumbled all over themselves to follow an antichrist when he appeared are the best predictors of when the Rapture happens, but I guess the blasphemy of presuming to know the mind of god goes along with all of that
And like after 35 years the mystery's solved and the sheer amount of satisfaction I feel right now feels so good.
Whenever it starts replaying in my head, I can at least have the words now and I can get rid of it quickly instead of it going on for hours or days
I can't emphasize how much in shock I am that this was a real song I probably heard only once on MTV at like 2AM and only a bit of the melody got burned in.
When I get something stuck in my head the only way to get rid of it is to listen to it over and over again, and I couldn't do it with this
I'm genuinely in shock, I can't even say. For 30+ years, I'd get a song snippet in my head that I didn't even remember hearing. I didn't know the words, just a few bars of the melody so I couldn't search for it.
I found it by accident this morning looking for something else
Last year, I documented my experience going to a dual-boot set-up for Linux after deciding to hop off the WIndows train.
I posted an update with where I'm at now (spoiler: still using linux)
paulie.cool/tech/posts/l...
I found some old signed papers from when I was 18 while going through some stuff in the garage today, and I laughed when I saw my signature. I used to spell out my entire name.
Over the years it got shorter and simpler and now I literally just sign the letter P because who cares at this point
Didn’t see anyone mention “The Great Waldo Pepper” as a good movie to watch in the aftermath of Redford’s death. It was the closest to a cult classic among a lot of the crowds I ran with back in the day.
Check it out, it’s a great movie set during the early years of American aviation
I’m gonna have to expand my “Time to Favre” metric to non-Packer games I guess. He just got name checked in this Bills game
(TTV is how long it takes for a commentator to mention Brett Favre in a Packers game. It’s rare for them not to)
My god, 1995 was such a banner year for tech. Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
I remember downloading this and using it for a few months before moving to Japan and being off the net for awhile, but I have fond memories of it.
FRAMES!
It should be fixed now. I created a sub-folder for thumbnails that should be served up on the page (linked to the full image).
Also created a gallery concept as part of it paulie.cool/pics/gallery...
Watching again and they’re back in a proper arena, so it must’ve been an anomaly
Thanks, I appreciate it. I’ll add it to the list to fix (It’ll likely be part of a whole thing to deal with images overall)
I've been overhauling my website the last several weeks and it's finally in a state to deploy it. I've still got some things to touch up & more things to add, but it's usable
No more Wordpress, Javascript, or anything else for that matter. Just straight HTML/CSS edited in a text editor
paulie.cool
All those people who've said, "You know it's fake right" over the years about professional wrestling are suddenly confused by the supposed good guys in the establishment media cutting promos to praise a slain heel
The free speech absolutists love it so much they want to keep it all for themselves
It perfectly bookends the period with the Matrix. Something dry recitations of history can’t express are the amalgamations of fantasies and ideas that existed in the imaginations of different subcultures, and these films capture them in a way that many recognize as "true" even if they’re not factual
Hackers was released in the USA 30 years ago today. Dullards will tell you the movie is dumb and unrealistic, but it's got style and it's more a fantasy of how hackers imagined themselves, mixed with a heaping helping of good old-fashioned 90s techno-utopianism and a great soundtrack
Finished the last two episodes of Strange New Worlds and I think they finished fairly strong.
Great Ortegas episode.
Good Kirk/Spock stuff for the slash writers.
Felt like the last episode could’ve been a two-parter. The Pike/Batell sequence merited a full episode
Not that I'm a piece of shit who'd be targeted, but if I catch a stray memed-up bullet, I hope it's at least something funny that I know about.
Bad enough to be killed, but to be so out of touch I wouldn't even understand the meme that took me out would be adding insult to injury
Sometimes it feels like our entire economy revolves around the ability to serve ads
Sometimes the sudden, unbidden memories are good ones.
My mind for whatever reason dredged up the late, lamented Suck Dot Com from the depths of memory. One of the highlights of the early web.
You can still access some of it through the Wayback Machine
web.archive.org/web/19961220...
I haven’t watched AEW Dynamite in forever, but I’m seeing it now and it looks like the old AEW Dark. Small studio, small crowd.
They used to be in arenas. Is this the norm now?
