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Work-from-home situationist. Agnetha Fältskog photo is unrelated. Return guy for Pyrrhonism. Lyon, France
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Geoffrey O’Brien on Moby-Dick at the Metropolitan Opera

As a Purple Heart veteran of the shop music wars, I can tell you that classic rock was the only thing all parties could agree on during the San Fernando Valley Accords of 2002

Wtf

My kids come and get me whenever they see a "weird" bird. Success.

Well, they've finally found an angle to come for me.

[learning about the concept of a five-star three-star movie] fuck yeah man I love a good crowd pleaser [thinking about the concept of a five-star three-star book] what the fuck is wrong with you. books are either good or bad .

C Doc is Brian Eno of RAP

He must be polling pretty well if the "his platform is too ambitious/unrealistic" pieces are dropping.

"I'm all for Reaper drones to shoot Hellfire missiles at weddings in the Hindu Kush but I draw the line at speed cameras" is today's topic for the absolutely brain-dead

Guy who misses the warm, personal touch of interacting with the fucking pigs.

Returnable bottles are back.

“I actually get my Jeremy Renner imported. From Europe. You’ve probably never heard of the kind I use.”

lol sock puppet ass bullshit

Five favorite black & white movies: The Philadelphia Story The Last Picture Show Masculin Féminin Night of the Living Dead Duck Soup (Wings of Desire and Andrei Rublev have bits of color in them, so that's a different thing.)

It's fun to make fun of the English, but this Benjamin Britten guy may have had the juice.

Another Storm, by Lee Krasner, 1963, 📸 by Adam Davy

I don't post anonymously to keep my identity secret, but because my name is boring.

When asked about the move to France, most people are surprised that my first response is "You cannot afford to live car-free with a family in the US."

(conservative thinking about art) art would be better if artists were normal

Popularism!

BLUESKY RECAP: MAY 26, 2025

don’t worry guys, bluesky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we just need to agree that a bodega is like a 24-hour gas station without the gas

If we want Americans to buy into high-speed rail, we should convince them that bullet trains are shot by a gun.

Speaking of bullying shitbags off of Bluesky...

Here’s a collection of all my best Stereolab writing through the years – including classics from Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Dots and Loops, and Mars Audiac Quintet – along with a playlist collecting the best/most accessible songs from their massive body of work. substack.com/@fluxblog/no...

I'm "ask my wife what beer I like" years old.

Utensil drawer, left to right: knives, forks, spoons, weird-ass spoons

Take the power of films like Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven, mash it up with the sensibility of Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind to create the greatest American film director of all time. We'll call him...Clint Howard.