dan the smooth brained man

a shaky optimist

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

rip bozo

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Sean Grayson, the former deputy who shot Sonya Massey after she called police for assistance, has died in prison.

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

(there are no good ones in Chicago btw I checked)

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

…I’m confused when did people stop liking California burritos?

[elise @yumyumeg]

LA sounds terrible it’s prostitutes all up & down the street u die if u wear ur home team hat & they burritos have fries in them. Fuck no.

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

@PoliticalUklist @reelandroll wow what a connection but it feels perfect when you think about it

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

Jesus christ

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

I think it’s hilarious the Jackie Jr storyline from the Sopranos actually happened

[WPXI @WPXI]

Pittsburgh man accused of leading cocaine-trafficking ring involving 2 Penn State fraternities https://t.co/vuHkCFujfF

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

probably my favorite movie of the year?

[holmes @charlesxholmes]

“SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER” is nuts. kurosawa not playing with y’all anymore. nothing beats solving mysteries with the bros

(11 out 12) highly recommend

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

I wonder if LeBron is gonna make the HoF after all these years

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

Here's the entire 20k-10k-6k Club for career points/rebounds/assists, sorted by true shooting percentage. Nikola Jokić is 31 years old.

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

who is pretending

[p. @sixinchbeys]

when they pretended to care about white toes for like 4 years

[𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎 @hellspatisserie]

Something about this whole affair really feels like it encapsulates this low, dishonest decade: a con artist who achieved a high social position by catering to progress as fashion, bullied into suicide by white nationalists who want to dismantle the concept of progress altogether

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

It’s not “getting kinda weird,” it’s always been weird. She’s been sending bizarre lifestyle influencer shit to her email list for years. Just a narcissist with a broken moral and political compass

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

imagine years. time I will never get back

[Mitya @Discollaborator]

You could spend hours in Indiana. Hours of your life. Precious and irreplaceable. Gone, forever. In Indiana.

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

Calebs got one game leaving the pocket early before I start tossing this out

[Insane Reality Leaks @InsaneReality]

The fact he asked for permission first makes this 10x funnier 💀

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

LeBron is an agent of empire. Full stop.

[Fullcourtpass @Fullcourtpass]

Anthony Davis reveals every team inside the NBA bubble met to decide if they wanted to play or not

Once LeBron James said the Lakers were staying, no other vote mattered

(Via @The_BackyardPod, h/t @cptdankkk)

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

type shit u can do when u have 5 rings

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

DeMar DeRozan explains how Gregg Popovich treated basketball as almost the least important part of coaching

“There used to be days… We’d come in there thinking we had practice… But Coach Pop would show us Something going on in a third-world country… With 13-year-old kids being trained… To be killers with AK-47s.”

“He would say, we get to come here… and shoot a basketball… Make millions of dollars… Take care of your kids.”

“He used to do a lot of things… To put stuff in perspective all the time. That’s genuinely who he was… At all times.”

“It was always basketball last. You as a man first. Family, everything else before basketball.”

“He would tell us, this basketball stuff ain’t nothing. F— wins and losses. F— championships. What’s really important is: How are you doing? How’s your family? How are your kids?”

[MTS @MTSlive]

NYU Prof. Ruby Thelot on why everyone suddenly cares about taste:

"I wrote a book called A Few Essays on Taste, where I make the case that taste is not just aesthetic preference. Taste is a way for people to consume virtuously. The question of taste emerged in the 17th century, at a time where people needed guidance as to how to consume properly."

"In 1688, the Bill of Rights happens in England after the Glorious Revolution, and the nobility's powers are restrained. As they lose political power, they also lose cultural power. At the same time you have the growth of the British colonies, immense amounts of wealth being generated, and suddenly you have this nouvelle bourgeoisie, this new elite. And there's a belief that this emergence of excessive luxury will lead to the decay of society."

"It is in the vacuum, in the reduction of the cultural power of the previous nobility, that the question of taste emerges. What's interesting to me is that we're in a similar position now. We're entering a similar industrial revolution. We're in the midst of immense amounts of wealth being created, and we're asking ourselves, how do we consume virtuously? That is why the question of taste is emerging. It mirrors 17 and 18th century England."
@being_on_line @NYU

[nolan @krrishnolan]

Christopher Nolan explains what happens to IMAX film once it leaves the set.

Watch this and let it completely fk with your brain. Every single frame goes through an insane amount of work before it ever reaches the big screen.

[ christopher nolan's the odyssey ]

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

she’s so hot

[Hunter Schafer Central @schafercentral]

First official look at Hunter Schafer as Cora in ‘Blade Runner 2099’.

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

Jiraiya writing the notes on Pain on Pa’s skin

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Anthony Edwards reveals he FaceTimed KAT before every Finals game to give him advice on the Spurs:

“I’d give him tips on which players like to go where and tell him stuff about Wemby. I gave him a cheat code and he passed the test”

(via @KalanHookstv)

[dan the smooth brained man @pronetodespair]

@o_otegbade TMZ is farming engagement. Basically, an old-fashioned condition to changing your name is to announce it publicly, traditionally in a newspaper. The first article was the name change filing and subsequently, they’ve posted every time it’s been printed in the newspaper