@suedyourdad@RobertSecundus@10milezHi You mean quality? You’d imagine hotshot TV execs can get the best the market can offer, so do you mean that weed’s more popular and it’s making writers sluggish, or something along those lines?
@TW1NKD3STR0YER It’s a lot to react to. But he’s just saying you were a cut above the rest in the torrid/poetical ways of a literary scholar. You had to have known that already though
@ItsGutsNotGatsu@JimJarmuschHair Well no one's unassailable, but what's wrong with picking out Bergman as the creme de la creme of directors? The tweet's saying "given that Scorsese sucks, let's acknowledge he's not all that; he's no Bergman." Not saying Bergman's an angel, just that he, by contrast, IS all that
@SpaghettiKozak The song doesn’t say they onlyyy fight defenceless natives, they’re just throwing it in their face that they massacred people armed with spears (and then bragged to the world about it). So good news, this banger is fully intact
"Twitter" was the original, perfect name: evoking the twittering of birds, always in the background, constant & continuous like a Zen river; celebrating what is past, passing or to come as infinity moves past & through us without ever stopping for long; here, then gone; but also here again, & gone.
kind of incredible that they are creating a panopticon with ring cameras because nobody wants to be watched by big brother but everybody wants to be big brother so making everyone build their own local surveillance networks was an easy sell
@Joeporterrr@artwithinpod Russell Crowe said Robin Hood was the last movie he did like that — and apparently things were changing so fast at the time he had the wherewithal to think “this is probably the last movie like this I’ll ever do.” And it turns out it was
People who rely on rules will get you killed. People who immediately say "this is illegal" "this is against policy" "they don't have the authority to do that" these are people who will get you killed. Not only will they get you killed, they will watch you die.