RE: mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116349581557679731
The main side effect is impotence
French is a more expressive language, obvious even when reading the English subtitles. Also these are the real deal, I suspect some of their appeal isn't just the complex-but-accessible music but in the fact the entire package is a great foil to late-late capitalism, calling back to similar prior eras and art, sure, but made for this one
as usual, this anonymous guy with crazy radio voice quoting philosophers into a camera on the $BB video platform is rearranging my brain like a cult leader
It's not an april fools: I updated my site tagline for the first time since its creation in 2001
RE: hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/116325250698561808
'...trying to extract it after the fact is still "PhD thesis that ends with a shrug" territory' made me chuckle
I searched a bit for info on this play and found almost nothing...like this poster, though!
There are travel blog posts and then there are travel blog posts
RE: mastodon.social/@jwz/116291370691087026
"These are both stupid disaster movies...that...believe people are fundamentally awful, vicious monsters. Their thesis is that if anything goes wrong, everyone will immediately fuck each other over as quickly and as hard as possible... It does not brook even a second's reflection. It was very hard watching this bullshit during the weeks when the people of Minnesota were presenting us a realtime rebuttal to this cynical, evil worldview..."