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• Post #4457244

  I'm photographing old scrapbooks, I mean right back to the start, my age zero to age 22 archive. It's fun and painful but always useful. Today, for instance, I realized that at age 54 I still have never really gotten over no longer being in school. In school, you work your ass off, you earn your grades, you finish, you get a standard vacation. Nobody gives me good grades anymore, and I never get vacation unless I take it. "So go buy some self-esteem," you say. Well we'll...

• Post #4223198

  Michael Cimino's "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974) is making me pine damnably for Idaho. Glad I'll be there a month from now

• Post #4222266

  7/18/2026: the "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" spiderweb, The Eagle, L.A.

• Post #4221017

  From Insta, our legend Dusti Cunningham captures me and my new friend at Outlaw, The Eagle L.A., 6/6/2026 #IdahoStateMuseum #OregonTrail #DontDieOfDysentery

• Post #4172200

  If you're feeling trapped by nature, the trick is to use nature against nature and simply grow another arm #AISolutionsForBetterLiving

• Post #4166061

  Dear raccoons having a gang war on my street last night: forgive me friends, but you do sound like the world's angriest mob of squeaky toys

• Post #4101884

  @pluralistic@mamot.fr Have you seen Alan Pakula's film "Rollover" (1981)? Greatest ever econopocalypse flick. The drama isn't hugely compelling (Jane Fonda is on fire, but Kris Kristofferson is a sleeping pill), but the last ten minutes will make your jaw drop. Would make a killer double feature with "Margin Call" (2011). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtzLCmMV_l0

• Post #4016010

  On the occasion of the house of reps passing a bill making Daylight Savings Time permanent, I must pause to note that they've made possible the greatest "stopped-clock-right-twice-a-day" joke in the history of the American political system

• Post #3887875

  I just finished the first item on the Shirtless Pedro Pascal Book Club reading list and it's quite good. Thanks shirtless Pedro Pascal #OlgaTokarczuk #DriveYourPlowOverTheBonesOfTheDead

• Post #3816435

  "Grandpa, are you an acid burnout?" "I hate that word." "Burnout?" "'Are'."

• Post #3791614

  Did you know?™ If a police car's lights are on, but no one is inside, it is legal for a hot air balloon to carry it away. ©2026 Universal Feature Syndicate

• Post #3775568

  @furryskin@woof.group My New Zealand trip planning proceeds forthwith. I'm interested in your opinion about what jumps to mind when you try to think of a thing that is the greatest goddamned thing in the country of New Zealand that no one should miss, else they would be very sad

• Post #3747187

  Cocksock night, Bullet Bar, NoHo 7/10/2026—my dirty book report. Word pictures because it's impolite to take real ones

• Post #3708905

  Neil Tennant, born on this day in 1954. #PetShopBoys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJUU274KTd0

• Post #3654938

  Frankly algorithmic marketing is getting a little out of control when I start listening to Saccharine Trust's "Surviving You, Always" album for the first time on YouTube and literally ten minutes later the Standard store emails me to say SST is reissuing it on vinyl. If all it takes is some AI noticing my interest for a deluxe reissue to pop into thin air, I'll listen to all the Firesign Theatre albums in a row and save myself a year's work

• Post #3652988

  All I got

• Post #3637142

  Thanks @pluralistic@mamot.fr for ruining every gay porn where a guy seduces an Amazon driver, knowing as I now do that not only is he going to get fired for not getting back to his truck in 60 seconds, there are probably infrared sensors reading his blush response & he'll be docked for an unauthorized sex break.

• Post #3619541

  New from Firesign Theatre on Bandcamp: "Caveat Imperator" You can't shop your way to better government, but you can have this brand-new old product for less than the cost of a caffè latte! New from the vaults, it's Firesign live and schticking on KPPC in October 1969 about all those hippie-era things nobody cares about anymore like protests, preemptively jailing the public, the drug war, pornography, censorship, and enslavement to the machines. It's really retro! https://...

• Post #3615172

  New Weirdos "I Want You (I Want Him Too)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFSSqQpj_-g

• Post #3594419

  4K! I bought a 4K TV and player this year. I'm really glad I did. So...why bother? Here's a good reason: "Lawrence of Arabia", a big big film with massive narrative stamina that after 3 hours 47 minutes leaves you sad there isn't any more, has come out in every goddamn home video format there is. Since Robert Harris restored the film in 1989, I've bought them all, from VHS to Laserdisc to DVD to Blu-ray.

• Post #3592556

  Going to the gay bars in my beard and kaftan is the greatest-ever conversation starter. Last night at the Eagle, a very beautiful Black gentleman with a salt-and-pepper beard: "Jesus!" "My son." "You must be all-knowing." "Naturally, my son, I am omnipotent." "Then you know today is my birthday!" "Of course my son. Today, you turn 28." I think he didn't stop cackling for ten seconds. Pretty sure the dude would have gone home...

• Post #3587598

  Pont Neuf / Pont Blanc

• Post #3539819

  "Flame-shdance", an equal-parts mix of "Fame" and "Flashdance", which in many ways were the same movie, would make a great one-sheet, but I'm not going to pay anyone to make it or even ask an AI to make it for me because it is simply too stupid. I have had the idea, I have uttered its stupid name aloud, and that is enough. #Flameshdance

• Post #3514892

  "The proliferation of festivals...and the continuing importance of concert performances, of clubs and raves, speaks to a Nietzschean sense of music as a Dionysiac disindividuation. For many people, and perhaps most, music is community, and the experience of attending a concert or festival is valuable precisely to the extent that it supersedes the separate individualism of Late Capitalist social day-to-day." https://profadamroberts.substack.com/p/matt-thorne-famous-2026

• Post #3454556

  "Perhaps ordinary politics will succeed tomorrow." A Better World Is Not Possible Did the Weather Underground have a point? by Emmett Rensin https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangerous-dirty-violent-young-ayers-dohrn-weather-underground/

• Post #3098958

  Ian Emes' video for Duran Duran's "The Chauffeur". Until watching it tonight all I knew about this video was what American kids in 1982 who'd never seen it learned second- and third-hand from other American kids who'd never seen it either: to quote my sister (age 12) describing it to me (age 10), "It's got a buncha naked women slinkin' around!" #SingBlueSilver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B__8N5d_LA

• Post #3058841

  Burbank, May 29. Watched "Nope" the previous evening. Leave it to our Jordan Peele to give me a (temporary) terror of puffy white clouds. (featuring bonus kitty photo)

• Post #3058622

  @apmasell@mastodon.social How is the ambassador of 4x8 sheets of drywall? I haven't seen him in ages

• Post #3058577

  From "Charles Ives and His Music" (Henry & Sidney Cowell, 1955): a) Charles asserts that love of art & the common man is not incompatible with rugged masculinity b) Charles feels no need to keep up with every bit of music produced up to last night c) Charles has his ass checked out by Mark Twain

• Post #3029653

  The Love Song of J. Alfred Pre-Frock Let us go then, you and I, through the yellow fog past Michelangelo and the stack of coffeespoons to the guy etherised on a table with his pants rolled up. Anyway the frocks are right behind him. You can't miss it.