The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince

"There is no safety for honest men, except by believing all possible evil of evil men."

Edwin Burke, via Thomas Sowell

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@DanielTurnerPTF North Carolina taxes my Tesla Model 3P plenty of extra annual tax to make up for no gas tax.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@GangsterCinema Whoever did the English voice over for Chow Yun Fat in his earliest film(s) did him no favors with a high-pitched fast voice, but later they gave him a cool deep slow English voice and that made him a Western star.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@Cernovich We provide free coffee at our office, even the expensive whipped lattes, yet I still have staff get Starbucks delivered by DoorDash.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

Democrat pitch to billionaires: “We are going to kill you and take your stuff.”

Republican pitch to billionaires: “Just please stop hiring foreign labor over Americans.”

Median billionaire: “I’m voting Democrat.”

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@airmainengineer Ground effect.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@jerrycurld Col. Jeff Cooper said beware the man with only one gun, because he probably knows how to use it.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

He's using the power of government to open 1 grocery store, in the year 2029.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@MovieKessler Well the idiots in The Killer kept going through the church door a few at a time.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@mask_bastard @StephenKing @MickGarrisPM The fun conspiracies say Kubrick was telling a different story altogether, one based on his own experiences. I've read the book and compared the changes, and they have an interesting argument.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@Caol_MacCormaic Starship Troopers is always a winner in my book.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@Caol_MacCormaic I really liked him in Manhunter, but thought he overacted in TLADILA.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@bendreyfuss @faceuh8 I love Tenet, and even watched my Blu-Ray the other night. I wanted to see Elizabeth Debicki again since we just finished Night Manager.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@BlaiseInKC I love that song, and its super-cheap music video.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@EsotericCD Also... and this is very important... don't play on your phone while watching the movie!!!

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@EsotericCD Too bad, because The Truman Show is a terrific movie. If you let it work its magic, you will feel wonderful at the end. And isn't that all you want from a movie?

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2016. Guy McPherson (a climate change expert, scientist, and professor from the University of Arizona) says that there will not be any humans on the planet by 2026 due to the effects of climate change.

Trust the scientists. 😜🤣

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Another point about our cultural decline. We started watching the show Widow’s Bay. It’s really good. Fantastic writing. Perfect blend of comedy and horror. Last night’s episode was legitimately one of the finest episodes of television I’ve seen in years.

If this same exact show came out in 2002, we’d probably remember it as an all time classic. But in 2026 most people haven’t even heard of it. It’s a blip on the radar. Another piece of content in the endless sea. You see it, or you don’t, and then it’s forgotten.

It’s not that good stuff isn’t made anymore. It’s that even when good stuff is made, we don’t have any shared experience of it. There’s plenty of good music you can find on Spotify, recent stuff, but you experience it in your little algorithmic silo. Almost nothing breaks containment to become a bonafide cultural phenomenon. That’s what made Project Hail Mary so unique. Severance maybe also achieved escape velocity. But even in those cases the escape is fleeting.

For the most part we experience the culture through the narrow pathway constructed for us by the algorithm. It might intersect with other people’s pathways, but only briefly. When we feel nostalgia for the Before Times, this is why. It’s not simply that we had a “better” culture back in the 90s or whenever. It’s that we had a culture at all.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@irrationalfanof @matthewdmarsden @EWErickson Hey I love Tenet.

[The Tourist Formerly Known as Prince @GordonGartrell9]

@matthewdmarsden @EWErickson I used to say, "Even Ron Howard has Ed-TV!" But then he made The Dilemma.