I wrote a little story & would be very honored if you should take a moment to read it. If you don't like it, I'll buy you a beer next time we meet. Much gratitude to Wigleaf, @wigleaf.bsky.social, one of my favorite places to read short fiction online, for giving it a home.
I know about 600 ppl at the local renfair who would kill this guy in under 8 seconds in a swordfight where only he had a sword
Imagine seeing a Grimace hit by a car on the side of the road. For us it’s the stuff of nightmares but for motorists in McDonaldLand it is the grim reality of everyday life
Barbara Stanwyck for Stella Dallas (1937).
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
Tony Leung on the far left of the frame, seen from behind (with extremely lustrous, immaculate black hair) whispering into the Angkor Wat wall
working on an exciting booklet essay that I can't talk about yet, need to whisper about it into the secret hole from In the Mood for Love
I was wondering if there's any kind of ongoing global threat that's causing these records to fall, but surely if that were the case it would be mentioned in news stories about these unprecedented temperatures.
*looks at calendar* well well well
Kay Nielsen
A Snowdrift Carried Them Away
People mention front facing Simpsons being horrifying but Smooth Homer haunts me
Can’t believe I’m hearing Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” on a betting app commercial IS NOTHING SACRED
Shadow of a vine behind a leaf
Sun on grass
Sun on grass and a vine
Sun and shadow on leaves and grass
Afternoon pics
I’m making a point of not finishing this, because it’s so delightful.
GET HIS ASS
I just assume this is a feature of the school shooter type, of which these guys are all extremely vivid examples
Dude looks like he's about to call for the destruction of the Jedi
We never had to worry about fake news until we had a fake president.
My dental hygienist and I were talking today about the sharp rise she's (anecdotally) seen in grinding/clenching over the last five or so years. Maybe that would be a telling metric to track, how many of us are cribbing like horses on a fencepost, alongside the economic numbers.
Standing in the yard with my mouth open and drinking 2L of rainwater right from the sky. Took about 1hr 45min
Nowadays, experimental music makes up a tiny percentage of what people listen to. But in the early days of music, 40,000 years back, it was basically all experimental. That was the dominant scene back then, just doing weird vocalisations while someone’s blowing into a vulture bone.
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
Cat Distribution System strikes again
i'm at the [static hiss]
i'm at the [burst of noise]
i'm at the combination [static hiss] and [burst of noise]
Me and my opponent when we argue online
French poster for Robert Bresson's A MAN ESCAPED (1956)
Pauline À La Plage | Éric Rohmer | 1983.
Our happy bouncy sheep Squirrel enjoying a run with Chris
the penne opticon
torn between "we need to soften IP law to stop the calcification of the culture" and "we need to give the Tolkien estate the right to extrajudicially execute these clowns at will"
My phone just reminded me of this photo I took of a furry salmon, allegedly caught by a guy in Rangeley, Maine, with THIRTEEN signed witnesses.
