The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
Me: that guy I met at the party was pretty cool, maybe we can shoot some hoops sometime
That guy: *writing a letter to a former lover that years later will be included in a best selling curation of his correspondence* tonight I met a man without substance
one thing about the early sabbath albums — like say funhouse or the bad brains cassette or a handful of others — is that if you're a kid first hearing them years or decades later you might think "well it can't be that heavy, it's old" and then you get your brain liquefied
I would love to read a general interest book about how pretty much every major world cuisine as we know it was completely reinvented over a period of 50-100 years in the wake of the Colombian exchange--chilis coming to India and China, tomatoes to Italy, etc. etc.
It is really incredible that the Fabelmans ends with Greg Grunberg saying "do you want to meet the greatest director to ever live?" and then the movie brings out David Lynch
David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.
Like this is not a brag ab being oh so precocious it’s about how exciting adult art feels when you’re first being introduced to it. There is a joy to witnessing something beyond your understanding and slowly coming to terms w it over YEARS.
if you can read and write at a college level you're living in a qualitatively different world than the vast majority of the US population, but somehow this never comes up when people start talking political strategy or theory/practice or etc
my theory about jk rowling is that she basically outed herself by writing a massively successful fantasy of transmasculinity and now has to spend the rest of her life denying it or else feel like she's giving in to the male abusers on whom she blames her gender dysphoria
It will likely get much worse for some and only marginally worse for others. Democrats only speaking to the former group and refusing to acknowledge the latter, due to their complicity, is partially how we got here