It is quite distressing to me that the "joke" gift I was given this past Christmas, an eyeglasses cloth that is patterned after several strips of bacon, given to me as I was an Epic Bacon type of guy in my youth, is the best eyeglasses wiping cloth I have ever owned
listen to shelved by genre
The only person I call Sir is my dog when he is misbehaving
I will fully admit I find it charming when touristy places have a clearly artificially aged, carved, wooden sign, remeniscient of a "Beware, death follows all that proceed from here" warning sign that proudly declares "Free WiFi"
Really funny hearing Zach Barash on Limited Resources this week after having heard him on Lucky Paper Radio previously. I have some fondness left for the LR guys but it is truly like seeing Barash use 10% of his power out there lmao
Jesus Christ I forgot about this
I know people know LRR mostly for magic content (especially here) but we also spend a lot of time making bonkers sketch comedy, like this video about how to kill a rock.
youtu.be/-BZjRtXjs6w
wait, fuck, this is gorillaz
"but michael," you say, "often you are yelling at people who overlook closely reading art in order to project their preferred context onto it" yes and notice how both of these approaches treat the work as a kind of box that holds your politics for you rather than being things you personally own
A wind waker mod where Link is replaced with Kiryu from Yakuza
found the perfect mod
this is, all else being equal, easily the funniest thing the director of inside out could have said
Has Brennan seen these Make Some Noise prompts before? 👀
so much cultural and political effort gone towards making a project of pacifism and an end to war seem like a soft, prosaic concern of comfortable people rather than an essential part of the project of justice and human flourishing
And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12."
Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.
i haven't slept and forgot it was pokemon day
i would argue the exact opposite. it is only by working for the NYT that you could possibly say this with a straight face
6 that mechanically "care" about dragons; 9, if you include actual dragons. You get up to 15 if you include cards with dragon in the name
Is this still funny in 2026? Please do not answer
New profile pic who dis
Good to know the Puckett family has been involved in people being locked in that storage closet for generations at this point
tbt when i read that post to actual damon albarn www.vulture.com/2021/11/damo...
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Think you're thinking of a different guy, Embo is the one with the hat, and is very much alive as of the new Republic era
(Learning that Embo is in the Dave Filoni Star Wars movie) Oh wow. I mean, just, wow. That is... That's... just the least surprising thing I have ever heard.
That’s all Folks
Hey Michael think you have a real winner here, my wife loved this one lmao
Unwinnable subscribers saw an excerpt of this last month, but here's the much, much longer convo I had with Autumn back in December about cultural criticism, my process, and a long, ongoing battle with alienation from my own taste and craft. A little rambly, apologies
unwinnable.com/2026/02/11/a...
It continues to be so funny that my man Genndy Tartakovsky just straight up lied about what Primal season 3 was going to be, all seemingly so that the wild twist of this season would be a surprise. King shit, honestly
