picture of a vintage 90s school folder with a picture of a fluffy white cat wearing a Japanese robe with a plate of sushi in front of him (seems like a him)
This 1996 Raymond Geddes folder was truly ahead of its time re . . . sushi cat memes.
Since we don't have a game today we're revisiting @millbot.bsky.social's essay from the backlist on Sarah McLachlan's "Dear God" (from March Faxness, 2022): open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
More hair metal goodness, because we love you
I've been eagerly awaiting Moira McAvoy's GGD essay, and it does not disappoint!
"All I knew was that I was Different, and thereby I was Wrong, hyper-visible yet totally unseen, and thereby I could not want, let alone be wanted." 💔
if I was running a wizard speakeasy I’d call it STAFF ONLY
Day 4 somehow not a bloodbath for my bracket, a March Sadness 90s Edition first!
This might be the funniest matchup of the first round. Guessing whichever way you lean this is not a hard one for most people. But it is for @angermonsoon.bsky.social
ARRRREEEE YOUUUUU READDDDYYYYY
there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, eat some cheese
Eye in the Labyrinth (1972, Mario Caiano)
OF THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE BUT BY ME What is it I will have left when I leave, little but the milkweed silk, My inky fetishes, my spirit-papers and my urns, like the simpler Despot in Atghanistan— whose only leavings were a small herd Of mostly still unrusted Land Rovers with linen songbooks holding All Islamic hymns and some antique Americana (Judy Garland, Andy Williams, Bing), And just a few blond-gold effigies of self, in the gnarled garden Where he had spent endless hours petting his favorite cow. The half-life of neptunium is 2.1 million years. My moment Is over-the most velvet of the annuals live far less than a year. Regarding loss: I had been its isotope From the youngest age. Not momentous, Just the small bunkers of a child's lack of long-term memory And its greenest lengths of moss. A pet green turtle expired after The long hot summer of my own short-term amnesia, the drought Of my forgetting to water him while I was away riding spotted ponies In the South. Every memory is a death, even the sweet ones: Whatever rabbit eating parsley in the photograph (I was a-beam with joy) in our unkempt yard-where mint grew Tall and accidentally-is gone. But at a certain moment in the middle of the summer dark Standing on the porch in the dotted Swiss of night, if you watch Almost microscopically, you can perceive the orange daylilies then Begin to grow back after death before your eyes. In my opinion, I am not scheduled yet to go, Not anywhere, just now. —Lucie Brock-Broido (1956-2018)
there was a lucie brock-broido poem in the new yorker this week
A week and a half ago the Thunder were on pace for the best season in NBA history and now the Spurs are three games behind them in the loss column.
@joshuacitarella.bsky.social speaks with @frankfukuyama.bsky.social about democracy, neoliberalism, and abundance.
Okay, top 10 Christmas "movies" why not:
1. A Christmas Story (1983)
2. Gremlins (1984)
3. Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964)
4. Black Christmas (1974)
5. Rare Exports (2010)
6. Community s3 ep10 (2011)
7. Bad Santa (2003)
8. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
9. Elf (2003)
10. Krampus (2015)
😂
How did people in 1913 see the world? Scientists trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts—no Wikipedia, no 20/20. The model literally doesn't know of WWI. And it reflects spirit of the times without guardrails reflecting modern-day sensitivities.
This is a terrific research application of LLMs.
The House by the Cemetery (1981, Lucio Fulci)
A couple more words about this Sunday's Tucson Essay Movie Club presentation of 2010's Rare Exports, my fav Xmas movie of all time, over at the @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social substack: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
File under "overheard at the gym":
/ You ever see that movie Corky Romano? /
Screenshot from The Onion, originally published October 9, 2002. Headline: Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches for Grandkids Below it, a photo of a plate with multiple deconstructed sandwiches balanced precariously, vaguely resembling a Frank Gehry building.
Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
i wrote for flaming hydra about my sober-addict relationship to all the drug use in The Last Waltz
flaminghydra.com/issue-454/#t...
I agree: there’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles, which will save many lives. More than 39,000 Americans died in motor vehicle crashes yearly. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
Kilchoman Distillery just announced The 2025 Kilchoman Club %release. #whisky will be available exclusively to club members online at 12 noon Islay time tomorrow (Wed 3rd Dec).
#Kilchoman
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A 10" long plastic piggy bank in the shape of a white Blue Bird bus with blue tinted windows. It's pictured on a wooden table with some cigar boxes behind it.
I listed this 1970s Blue Bird bus coin bank in my shop yesterday and I just have to show it off to more people because it is very cute:
www.etsy.com/listing/4415...
Let's give this another try!
@glasgowdc.bsky.social
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
Whoah
Art teacher: I think you've misunderstood. It's the models who will be nude.
Me: Well this is awkward.
