Niles H. Frasier

PhD candidate in film and media, co-founder of miscellany. Too lazy to work, too nervous to steal

[GLP-Diddy @mattytalks]

I know I have a lot of Canadian friends and followers on here. I thought Canada was a chill country. You guys need to calm the fuck down.

[microplastics rectifier @facetedcarapace]

Acting as if there is no future and the world is definitely ending is an extremely good way to avoid feeling accountable for things but unfortunately you guys are still going to be around in your 70's too, and the world will be way worse by then because you preemptively gave up.

[Niles H. Frasier @MTisempty]

@credenzaclear2 I wonder if previous generations had sentences like this, whose denotative meaning could change entirely, depending on whether one was [whatever the past equivalent to being deeply online was]

[Niles H. Frasier @MTisempty]

But it’s annoying when people online turn Knicks fever into a form of bodega posting. The Knicks are an older form of New York megalomania, a pre-Twitter and Tik tok type that feels quaint now. If you have ever taken a photo of the Myrtle ave Popeyes, Go watch the nets.

[Niles H. Frasier @MTisempty]

Knicks fans comprise 3 groups: normal New Yorkers who haven’t attended a game in 15 years but follow religiously, rich people who can afford $100k tickets, and celebrities who started in the first bracket and ended in the second.

[Niles H. Frasier @MTisempty]

I respect all these groups. I think it’s admirable when the ultra-rich commit to civic pride, which includes spending six figures a year to watch a team that was bad for 20 years. To suffering through halftime shows involving Dolan’s blues-rock band.

[Niles H. Frasier @MTisempty]

If you moved to Brooklyn, you should be banned from rooting for the Knicks. The Nets are your team, geographically and spiritually.

[bennny @Driftwould2]

The hipster music discussion has devolved into 35 year olds trying to out-cool each other with what they listened to and frankly that’s the hipster spirit, right there

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

bro

[Well Worn. Worn Well @wwornwwell]

Clothes are not real life and they do not shape any Maslowian conception of being. They do, however, serve as a meaningful symptom of the broader opinions, anxieties, and trajectory of culture, especially in cultures that have previously held the global throne. Prognosis dire.

[Peter Raleigh @PetreRaleigh]

A lot of people are annoyed about this post for multiple valid reasons but I do think "our narrative conventions have been shaped by a material world our daily experience no longer resembles" is actually an interesting problem

[Christopher R. Weingarten @1000TimesYes]

Mason-jar bros were “hipsters” like Blink-182 are “punks.” A term slowly evolving long past its original intention into a useful shorthand around an idea. 2002 trucker-hat guys and 2012 mustache wax guys weren’t the same people but they both represented cool-chasing to normies.

[Alexander Thatcher @ThatchEffendi]

You guys are such cliches. He has no idea what he's wearing. He's buttoned both buttons on a two button jacket, which is basically never acceptable. He's wearing a tie pin with a waistcoat. The collar is wrong and it's unbuttoned. Combining 1920s hair with a Victorian moustache is gauche. He looks like a waiter at a try-hard artisanal cocktail place in 2014.

[Niles H. Frasier @MTisempty]

Buy miscellany. It’s great. I’m biased.

https://t.co/368dLBZgWU

[Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @RossWBermanIV]

They're calling the run from Minority Report to Munich "the most anyone has ever processed 9/11 ever. "

[Niles H. Frasier @MTisempty]

Someone should make a buddy comedy based on Louis and me

[Niles H. Frasier @MTisempty]

Watching a movie

[Archy✝️ | Richard Nixon Democrat @ArchysLife]

The "little club from North London" has consistently had a higher net annual spend than said state-funded sportswashing project in France, by the way.

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

Show us the trade negotiations. Don't just tease us with the promise of trade negotiations and then have it immediately turn into a bunch of mindless action

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

I worry that Wembanyama will get caught up in the distractions of New York City, like the Rose Reading Room at the public library or the upcoming conference on participatory futures at The New School