Self Improvement

I really hope the Sony suits are listening.

People in Viking garb

People in Viking garb

Y’all know that saying, “Spend your life doing strange things with weird people”?

These are from my choir concert last night:

#panoramicvoices

Obsession Teaser Trailer #2 (2026) YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Trailers

New "Obsession" Trailer!!

I've given up having any chill about this movie. It was the best thing I saw at Fantastic Fest and I am eagerly anticipating seeing it again <3

#FantasticFest #Filmsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgng...

CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece The Justice Department alleges that CBP officer and supervisor Andres Wilkinson had been living in Laredo, Texas, with a woman who had overstayed her visa and is now in the U.S. illegally.

www.cbsnews.com/news/cbp-off...

One of those headlines that just keeps getting worse...

From Politico: The expiration this week of a core U.S.-Russia arms control treaty could touch off a global nuclear weapons race for the first time since the Cold War.

As a Gen-Xer, one thing I really appreciate is that at leas we don’t live under my generation’s constant looming threat of—oh, wait.

ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.

"agents initially claimed [the victim] purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall"

I used to take calls for Child Protective Services. We would call this "Injuries Inconsistent with Explanation." It meant we were dealing with a violent, abusive liar.

apnews.com/article/immi...

Drawing from DnD 1e

Ah, yes. The half-orc that looked like a Gerald Ford caricature…

I mean, I know that when I whip out my phone to do something simple like order food, I NEVER get distracted and start checking my texts, my chat groups, that video someone sent me, oh shit—a work email, gotta at least take a look at that…

#filmsky #alamodrafthouse

When you’ve lost Elijah Wood, you’ve lost the film community.
#filmsky

'I won’t go back': Alamo Drafthouse fans react to mobile ordering change In a statement, the company said the change will not affect its strict talking and texting policy.

Well, fuck. Sony bought Alamo just 7 months and they’ve already announced their enshitification program: Fire the wait staff and have people use their phones during the movie.

www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken. “The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

Also, I forgot to say that I pulled the data from the BLS May 2024 numbers

Also, athletes are even worse--I had to take them out because they broke the chart. I have theories about why that is

Ideally, this would be a Lorenz/Gini curve, but that would be a whole lot more work. Also, note the lack of granularity--the top 10% of musicians combined make a fair amount of money, but I'll bet the top 1/10th of 1% makes the vast majority of it.

Graph showing the 10th, 25th, 50th 75th and 90th percentiles of hourly income across five different professions

I was thinking about how some professions have relatively equal income distribution and some very much do not. Like, the highest paid fast food worker doesn't make a whole lot more than those at minimum wage. But with plumbers the top 10% make about double the bottom 10%

OBSESSION - Official Teaser Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters May 15 YouTube video by Focus Features

"OBSESSION" has a release date! May 15th!

Y'all--this is far and away my favorite film from Fantastic Fest 2025. I love it for so many reasons, not least being it's like a master class on how to make a great movie with a minimal amount of money.

#FantasticFest

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G5C...

So, it's not just me, then...

Photoshopped military-style image of a yacht exploding with the caption "Venezuela Bombs American Drug Yacht, Wiping Out Entire Sackler Family Cartel"

Sauce for the goose, etc..

Furry Lewis - When I lay my burden down YouTube video by vleb

tfw you're listening to a song like "How is he doing that? WTF is he even doing with his left hand??" and you google up a perfect video and then you just sit there with your mouth open watching his left hand...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCqb...

Since people liked my junk-sourced electric slide guitar (since named The Dancing Bear), here’s a video from when I built it a couple of Thanksgivings ago…

I think IKEA has the patent on those bolts… ;-)

Here’s the video from when I first made it a few years ago. I’d given myself carpal tunnel in my left hand by squeezing too hard and I was desperate to find *some* way to play guitar.

Anything worth doing is worth doing badly!

Stress mode

What was your first car?

Mine was a 1974 Ford Maverick that I got for $500 in 1983 or 84. It was not quite this color, but a weird bronzer-orange I can’t find a good pic of.

Post your first cars—I wanna see them!

Did I just replace the pickup on my junk-sourced electric slide guitar using denim scraps and rubber bands? Hell, yes.

Moulin Rouge (Dieselboy, Kaos & Karl K Remix) YouTube video by Dom & Roland - Topic

WTF is wrong with my brain that listening to something like this makes it soooo much easier to concentrate on a tricky spreadsheet???

I mean, I know--ADHD. But still. wtf.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjma...