Did you know Cormac McCarthy stopped reading new novels after Infinite Jest and referred to @JoyceCarolOates as "the goggle lady?"
My definitive takedown of Jest, MFAs, and the coinage of a new term "publishing-inudstrial complex" to explain it all :)
https://t.co/lwl9ZPtc0y
Star Wars making the central figure of their new movie a 50yo baby constitutionally incapable of growing up is a little bit on the nose as critique of their fans
Apple claims to have a feature that screens spam calls, but every time they hear I’m being offered a no questions asked $50,000 loan they let the call go through. This happens 12 times a day.
@GDess Apple needs to step their game up screening. It’s fucking annoying. I know everytime I’m alerted that they’re screening a call that it’s going to go through and interrupt whatever I’m doing on the phone
You cannot make this up. Peer-reviewed authors make the case to promote Alpha-Gal syndrome and have large populations become red-meat intolerant. @stinchfield1776
when there’s a plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes to collapse the population but it’s a private corporation doing it with little public comment period
Look Homeward, Angel is gorgeous and surprisingly makes a great case for immigration: there is nothing more depressing than ceaselessly morbid and lonely 19th century Protestant Americans. An Italian in America would never be so sad and lost as Mr. Gant. We really love life :)
As the cybernetic world increasingly crushes away one’s active mind during the day, getting really drunk at night may be the last refuge where one can reliably do original thinking.