tomper.bsky.social
Cleaning, and the search for meaning
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I saw you @andrewhickey.500songs.com at the Bradford Pictureville showing of 2001: a space odyssey and I have never seen a gents/ladies loo queue disparity like the one there at the intermission. And yes, these were older males too.
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Are there songs? I am imagining a trad jazz theme around Ward and his set, but as things reach their climax and a new world emerges from the old, something much more Beatles-y (A muppet 'Yeah, yeah, yeah') juxtaposed with Dusty Springfield style melancholia for Keeler/Miss Piggy.
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Are you sure he's not making a blend of tap water and water he gets another way e.g. distilled water?
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Two different things are conflated by the term 'small talk'. 1/ expressing interest in someone (either getting to know them or checking that they're ok). 2/ filling a void of silence when you are thrown together by some eventuality. 1/ is not too difficult and valuable. 2/ is to be avoided!
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Well, now you come to mention it, there is something else I can offer... 🍈🍈
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The Leicester seat in which I grew up voted for Peter Bruinvels, the Tory MP who once said he would volunteer to be a hangman if the government reintroduced hanging.
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Vic and Bob vibes, again.
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🎵 Got me a movie, I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know
Girlie so groovy, I want you to know
Don't know about you, but I am un
Chien Andalusia, I am un
Chien Andalusia, I am un
Chien Andalusia, I am un
Chien Andalusia, wanna grow up to be
Be a debaser
Debaser 🎵
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The party has to stand up to McSweeney. Surely they know this?
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Run of the mill
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Has Been by William Shatner, and I claim my prize.
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Surely "Paul is dead" theorists think this is a good thing. Just look at all the great work Billy Shears did from 1966 onwards.
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Great work as ever, gents. But in the light of the ep's content, I feel seriously gaslit by Ian at 7:50. "We would not pick, and will not ever do, Donald Trump for Origin Story".
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He's watching Richard Simmons on his laptop.
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I kind of feel that Lynch became a brand with Twin Peaks (the TV series). At the time, it was greatly enjoyable. But there's a formula. The movies are more of an honest expression of his creativity.
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The Endarkenment
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I saw an acquaintance get radicalized online. When she became transphobic I thought "she has some crazy ideas". When she became Islamophobic I thought "she is spreading hate". Only then did I think "why did I not react in that way to the transphobia?". I was so ashamed that I became a trans ally.
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Fair, but the same is true of many great movie actors: Harrison Ford, Charles Bronson...
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Leslie strikes me - an occasional reader of his substack - as someone too much in love with "ideas", lacking the critical distance from them that a proper intellectual has. There's a general tendency to fix on a neat template for understanding something, and to over-generalize its implications.
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But Liz Truss is not a Tory MP
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kwasi kwarteng vibes
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There's a headline generating template here. There's a place for BLANK, but BLANK chaos takes it too far.
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You should check out the stuff from a couple of days ago on how, er... "Mid-April marks the beginning of the season of occult ritual sacrifice by fire".
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vorsprung durch technik
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The ship of the damned
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The Sunblest also rises
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I like it, but it overstays its welcome, and seems to slow down towards the end, as if even they are getting bored of it. (I can't remember if I noticed this myself or if it is mentioned in Revolution in the Head).
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I'm looking forward to reading this also, but the implication that Lennon and McCartney's story has never before been properly told is absurd hyperbole, and an insult to the very many other great books about them.
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Eric Carle vibes
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it's about 'black swan events': things that no-one got near to predicting but in retrospect look inevitable.
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Agreed. But almost every actor in the Toy Story films (at least in the initial trilogy) does their greatest work, in their greatest role there.
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I'd say it is a great roundworm (the tune goes round and around).
And a tapeworm (it was played from a tape).
And a hookworm (it has a good hook).
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My favourite film genres:
5. Is he good, or bad?
4. Time travel
3. Protagonist gets something they have always wanted
2. Protagonist learns a deep truth
1. Protagonist sacrifices themselves out of love (for a person, or an ideal).
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For a long time, I went to bed early. And then the bears moved in.
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I find this 2011 piece by Murray on Christopher Hitchens telling archive.md/7URfB. From his mentor and role model, DM has learned only the rudeness and dogmatism. He can't do the wit, erudition, charm or moral clarity. (Of course, CH is a problematic figure, but he did have those positive qualities)
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Hmm. Isn't it in keeping with the last 25 minutes, all of which is dream-like in a Mullholland Drive kind of way? Think back to the head injury...
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Peep show
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When I find myself in times of trouble
Peter Hitchens comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom on Letby
And in my hour of darkness
He is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom on Letby
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I agree. I remember how eye-opening it was seeing Andrew Neil interview Alex Jones. I had expected Jones to be maybe a *bit* to the right of Neil, but he was a whole different category.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-2...
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Disagree. First, rates of bankruptcy among lottery winners are the same as they are for non-lottery winners. Second, fame is seldom *simply* a matter of luck. In most cases, you have to want it too. And, sadly, *some* people urgently want it because they are damaged and/or want to damage others.
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When you say you'll bring a jug of tap water now, well, when exactly do you mean?
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Jesse Norman's face
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I had more than one female friend who (at my invitation) spent the night with me - sharing a single bed - but with zero bodily contact because (I don't know) it didn't seem to be an option.
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You can do a lot worse than look at Best Picture Oscar winners from the period: Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Unforgiven (1992), The English Patient (1996)
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84 Charing Cross Road
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Eat Drink Man Woman
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Babe
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Mona Lisa