"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

felt the exact same way about the movie. It's not tragic, it's not heroic, it's frustrating in that not a whole lot is accomplished and that's the point. And there is a lot of humanity there.

Jonas Salk died in 1995.

Thirty years later:

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Tweet from @cowboy_postbop being recommended to stop using em dashes because ChatGPT uses them a lot Scene from Office Space: "No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."

Fucking feels

Locked in.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is 78.
Danny DeVito interviews Arnie, who proceeds to have a massive existential crisis at the end interviewmagazine.com/film/arnold-sc…

For Christ's sake, tomorrow is the 4th of July!

happy first day of summer ☀️

The Pacers are so funny

The deeper meaning behind "almost no healthy children die of the measles" is that, when children do die of the measles, it's only ever because they were already ill. And the deeper meaning behind that is "well, we can't save 'em all." And that's just...17th century thinking.

Billie Lourd shares a photo of her kids watching their grandmother, Carrie Fisher, in ‘Return of the Jedi’ on #StarWarsDay

SINNERS: Get your ass into one of the best movies of the decade. Ryan Coogler directs the hell out of this movie, and the soundtrack absolutely rips. There’s an IMAX aspect ratio transition that had my theater cheering, and it wasn’t the only moment to inspire such a thrill.

Anthropometry (ANT 132), by Yves Klein, 1950, 📸 by @AlexSlitzPhoto

Why are they airing Severance tonight I do not understand. Stick to your schedule.

Please call her @nicklutsko.bsky.social

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9 JACKSON, MS—Seeking to assuage consumer concerns about dwindling supplies, the nation’s egg companies reportedly assured shoppers this week that a dozen has always meant nine. “While we have seen some...

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9 theonion.com/egg-companie...

I am not a screenwriter (I manage a theater) but I do consider creative programming, marketing, and problem solving a key part of my job. I will spend weeks daydreaming before what most might consider “action” starts and I think it is pivotal to the process

MIKEY

I’ve never been into fashion. But I really enjoy reading these primers into the cultural history of fashion and fashion concepts. Why clothes are the way they are and what they have represented. It also makes me want to dress nicer and gives me ideas but that’s really a secondary thing.

My favourite Harrison Ford interview.
Drier than the Sahara desert.
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Finally he has a good idea

Becoming Led Zeppelin starts tonight at IMAX Indy. You can catch the film and two guitars generously on loan to us from the The Jim Irsay Collection (one from Jimmy Page and one from Pete Townshend) on display in the lobby through February 13! www.tickmarq.com/sites/indyim...

in retrospect I think it may have been a mistake to make the work machine and the procrastination machine be the same machine

I’ll believe it when I see it… but oh would I love to see it

David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

excerpt from Catching the Big Fish - "CURTAINS UP Know that all of Nature is but a magic theater, / that the great Mother is the master magician, / and that this whole world is peopled by her many parts. - UPANISHADS It's so magical - I don't know why - to go into a theater and have the lights go down. It's very quiet, and then the curtains start to open. Maybe they're red. And you go into a world. It's beautiful when it's a shared experience. It's still beautiful when you're at home and your theater is in front of you, though it's not quite as good. It's best on a big screen. That's the way to go into a world."

David Lynch on the magic of movie theaters