Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decadesq of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. anildash.com/2026/04/20/p...
Is chaining Bezos to a mountain and having an eagle gnaw on his liver part of the deal?
Exactly this!
To the MCU fanboys who were screaming in my replies back when I said it was a bad idea for a superhero series to assign homework:
Whatâs good? You doing okay? Do you want some cocoa?
To put it another wayâŚ
If your Mega Blockbuster Sequel requires your audience to read several omnibuses (or your previous film to have a required-viewing bonus scene tacked onto it), maybe what youâre putting out isnât the sequel youâve been promising.
Because they have decades of lore, comic book arcs/plots allow for far more retcons and crossovers than the -universe format can handle.
The MCU has gotten away with what it has by keeping the character-count manageable and mostly lore agnostic.
In other wordsâŚ
Doomsday is going to be a mess.đ˝ď¸
a text that says: We made it - at the airport, through security, having a snack, about to go find a seat for the next 3 1/2 hrs đđ
especially fun to get a nice text from my mom after the last few days of airport discourse on here
a page from Anne Carsonâs âAutobiography of Redâ that ends with the sentence âwhat is the difference between a volcano and a guinea pig is not a description why is it like it is is a descriptionâ
my single favorite piece of writing advice, answer hasnât changed in twenty years
Even Ayn Rand thought President Hoover was a bad idea! (Because he was!)
Thank God for the TVA /
Where Roosevelt let us all work for an honest day's pay /
Thank God for the TVA
âBut the TVA never turned a profit!â
The mandate of the TVA was simple. Provide reliable electric power to the Tennessee Valley, at the lowest possible rate. Along the way, the TVA provided job training, employment, built libraries, mitigated malaria, fought typhoid, provided smallpox vaccinesâŚ
The New Deal brought power to the American South, gave my grandfather a job with the CCC (which is how he met my grandmother), and established the TVA where my mom worked until she retired, but please, do tell me how terrible FDR was.
Especially in this economy.
Who are you people who allow Godâs perfect fruit snack to go bad on your watch? I do not understand!
In this house
we believe
grapes never
have a chance
to go bad
Counterpoint: Without a lick of shame, I will house a 3 pound bag of seedless like nobodyâs business.
Tim Curry. B&W photo taken backstage at The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In makeup as Dr Frank N Furter, wearing a sleeveless white t-shirt with a banana on it. Exhaling smoke.
âItâs not easy having a good time.â
The mind reels at just what kind of private atrocities Karp and Thiel are trying to get ahead of here with this abominable misappropriation of grace.
Was a dinner salad standard when I was growing up, late 70s/early 80s. Southeastern US.
wafting up gently from the street below our window, a loud car horn and then, in reply, in the most beautiful classic new york accent Iâve heard in the wild in years, âyou fuckin stoopid, bro?â live from new york, itâs saturday night!
A sterling reminder that over the last nine decades every white boy blues musician who has attempted âCross Road Bluesâ didnât understand the assignment.
Hungry for better food journalism? New worker-owned outlets like @weareravenous.com are dishing it up. objectivejournalism.org/2026/04/rave...
Not only is this a horribly ineffective means of protest (as a pocket square is meant to be, you know, folded into a pocket), but did it have to be plain white like a flag of surrender, too?
Oh.
A pocket square.
This is brave. So so brave.
Mother Mary (2026) is ambitious without saying anything, is fantastic without leaving Earth, wants so badly to be Phantom Thread and The Red Shoes and My Dinner with Andre without really committing to any of those and takes place in the same universe as TĂ r and I canât wait to watch it again.đ˝ď¸
Just imagining a âPickettâs Chargeâ sheet cake sliced according to Union Army artillery crossfire from Cemetery Ridge.
my Shermanâs March to the Sea layer cake has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the cake
The strike is off!
(Apparently!)
(I hope @32bjseiu.bsky.social got what they needed!)
And you can follow their union (@32bjseiu.bsky.social) right here on Bluesky!