RIP, Clarence Carter.
In 2023, Billboard ranked ‘Strokin’’ (1986) at #79 on its list of ‘The 100 Best Pop Songs Never to Hit the Hot 💯’, a track simply too filthy for radio to touch.
Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England
Lowkey hilarious how it looked promising during Obama’s years then down only during Trump’s first term, then sideways during Biden and then a sharp decline again in Trump’s second term
he is such a cartoonish cliché of an end of an empire leader that if it were a movie you’d criticize it for being hyperbolic
Kids will never feel the gameday pressure of having to start an essay at 2am and finish it by 8am before the deadline. Totally lost. Absolutely no evolutionary pressure towards a clutch factor anymore.
President Donald J. Trump meets with Harry Potter of Hogwarts in the Oval Office, during which Mr. Potter presented the President with his Triwizard Cup in recognition of the President’s extraordinary proficiency in the dark arts of misinformation, illusion and reality distortion. ✨
The ending of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is so iconic it almost overshadows the rest of the film. Leone spent 3 days shooting that standoff, timing every cut and Morricone cue to perfection. Pure cinema distilled into a few breathtaking minutes.