Jesse Raber

a certain classic video game

put me in, coach. i can reopen the strait

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Murders in the Rue Morgue was a parody, I have found the post and the website about it!

The site linked is here
wdl.mcdaniel.edu

And it's really rather good fun, some eyebleedingly bad prose, of course

the Rainbow Road cam especially rainbow roady tonight

I wonder if we rely on trucking for more of our internal shipping, too.

It seems like "Talmud," for lots of idiots, means the part of Judaism that isn't part of the Christian heritage, which Christians can therefore hate without self-contradiction.

This scene from The Magnificent Ambersons hits in a whole lotta ways rn

Looking up other elements, who knew that ...

helium: from sun (helios)
sodium: from soda
potassium: from potash
carbon: from charcoal (originally named in French as "charbone")

This is that type of shit that causes your Late Bronze Age Collapses.

well for starters they have Cow Tools

Dan Harmon

Markwayne Mullin is for Trump – and Indian Country - High Country News The Cherokee congressman, who is hard-right and white-passing, may not seem like an Indigenous lawmaker, but he’s no anomaly.

“Mullin is an ultra-conservative, white-passing Cherokee who has been an advocate for both tribal sovereignty and for encouraging tribes to assert that sovereignty by allowing private energy production on their lands.”
www.hcn.org/issues/51-21...

Thank you humans of Washington Island for documenting my efforts to make my own Half Dome and shove ice out 🌊🌊

Self-made real estate macher in NYC Chinatown; Harvard dropout kibbutznik. I'm also distantly related to Trotsky via a grandmother. These three mighty streams of the modern Jewish saga now meet in me, a guy who walks his dog a lot.

could add Zoom, possibly. bosses and commercial landlords have been eager to roll back remote work. but it's done wonders for many workers' quality of life.

I stand by my theory that they're vice-signaling in inverted Hollywood genres because they've "noticed" that Hollywood is Jewish. They think they're reclaiming a style of authority that (((they))) perfidiously repressed.

How I arrived on BlueSky

I dunno, teens downtown, sounds dangerous

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

an unfired porcelain lamp with incised giraffe decoration

makin more lamp

that's called the Protestant Work Ethic

"AI refusal is classist," the greatest thread in the history of forums, etc etc

There's a Saul Bellow line about how Midwestern landscapes make you a "connoisseur of the near-nothing."

"With a clear eye I looked at a clear scene," it goes on; "I appreciated the red sumac, the white rocks, the rust of the weeds ..."

True prairie heads know this mood ...

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

overheard at the convenience store:

"I'm on a really strict diet. Just until St. Patrick's Day."

i didn't know enough to see it growing up but honestly calvin's dad has a pretty sweet setup here

Wonder if there's some kind of deeper math about what size stars tend to have what size planets at what orbital distances, and what size satellites those planets tend to have, etc., such that this result could theoretically be somewhat common? But I don't even know how to properly ask this question.

a Chinese lion dancer does its thing in a toy store

Caught some New Year lion dancers in the Chinatown Square mall. Here seen doing their thing in a toy store.

A closeup photo of a dragon at Chicago's Lunar New Year parade. A blue sky with thin clouds is in the background

A photo of people walking at the Lunar New Year parade in Chicago. The person at the front is wearing a yellow coat and holding a large bladed weapon. Behind them are people in dragon costumes.

Things are really dark right now so it's important to find joy where you can. Chicago's Lunar New Year Parade was a really good choice today.

The Song of the Lush: CLHOF’s Annual Cocktail Party Fundraiser Chicago Literary Hall of Fame hosts its annual literary cocktail party! The theme of this year's cocktail fundraiser is a play on Willa Cather's great 1915 novel, The Song of the Lark, a title which i...

Chicago!

I'll be giving a little talk about Willa Cather's Chicago and *The Song of the Lark* at this party on Saturday:

www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

It's a fundraiser for the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, which does great events and runs a nice website. Come! (And HMU for a discount code.)