"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism "CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

great article about the failure of the US media chomping at the bit and believing every single piece of bullshit said by CEOs and the billionaire class

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

omg i hope he’s feeling a little better by now

oh they were alive but asleep

electric! and kind of loud. but efficient!

all i’m saying is i kind of understand serial killers a little better now

cut off someone’s limb with a bone saw today, how was your friday

guys you don’t understand these were everywhere

we cannot have a discourse about the 90s without a nod to the venerable and ubiquitous car bra

Front-end bra - Wikipedia

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who remembers car bras

and then right when i was regaining my composure my jaw dropped AGAIN when the other thing happened and it stayed open for the rest of the movie (and then i stayed to see if there was an after-credits scene) (there was not)

my jaw dropped when the thing happened

a screenshot from the wikipedia page for Darla, the Bichon Frise actress who starred in Batman Returns

Thank you for this. Also, Wikipedia really is great sometimes:

a photo of some of the end credits of the previously-referenced movie

I’d pay good money to hear more about “Darla” in the years after the movie. I hope she lived a good life.

There is a man at the ACC tournament screaming Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls while Stanford tries to shoot free throws

Actress with hand glazed by frosting.

My God, look at her. Her whole hand is covered in frosting. She knows what she did.

A scene with a cake from The Silence of the Lambs.

A close-up of the offending thumb, frosting glaringly evident. Cake is clearly ruined.

UPDATE: Looks like they almost blew it. The actress serving the cake got frosting on her thumb. You can see the terror in her eyes, as she wonders if they’ll have to do the whole scene again and deploy the backup cake because she thumbed the edge. Does she lick it off? Nightmare fuel.

Close-up of the FBI cake from the preceding post.

Did they have a spare FBI cake, just in case? Was it delicious? This is the Blu-Ray audio commentary I want more of.

A photo of the delicious celebratory cake emblazoned with the seal of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in the penultimate scene of Jonathan Demme’s 1991 masterpiece “The Silence of the Lambs”

In the penultimate scene of the movie, before Agent Starling takes her phone call, they cut the first piece of a cake emblazoned with the FBI logo - it’s kind of a one-take shot. If they mess up they have to make a whole new FBI cake. (Note: it appears to be pre-sliced, but still a lot of pressure.)

Kind of fucked up that at the end of Jonathan Demme’s masterpiece, “The Silence of the Lambs,” Catherine Martin just casually steals Precious from Buffalo Bill’s house as they walk her to the ambulance. 🐩

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bagel on your meat?

wait this one kind of works

motor on your boat?

pinot on your noir? 🍷 🫦

ok how about $5 and a smooch

would you take $10?

😘

hi, is this still available?

SEMTA plan by Jake Berman

A casual reminder that the federal government in 1974 killed a plan to build a 75-mile, BART-like rapid transit rail system in Detroit, which called for 3–12 minute headways and a 150-mile BRT system feeder system, for being “too ambitious.”

This is the guy who nerfed Tumblr’s usage with the porn ban btw.

a man who bore a striking resemblance to noam chomsky once almost ran me over while riding his bicycle on the sidewalk on mass ave in front of the college there and now i feel even more justified about the total indignation i felt in that moment