This really sad article (cached) on how the author lost an older loved one to the unbelievable racket that’s Amway contains the most hopeful passages I’ve read about the current times. Emphasis and exorcism mine: It’s hard to leave a delusion behind. In the run-up to the 2024 elections, I noticed t…
One could use one’s talent and platform to speak of issues that really matter in a few ways. One is to settle a juvenile ‘beef’ on a national stage, making sure to pepper your tantrum with the small amount of lazy symbolism needed for it to be construed to be something more than what it was: a creat…
I decided to log into my old Twitter account after many years on a whim. I follow no one and have 39 followers. I saw nothing on my feed but its owner’s boosted posts, a ton of crypto content, Pepe and anti-woke incendiaries, and heavily lopsided political ragebait. It felt like looking through my S…
Perhaps a bit embarrassing since I’ve read the book so many times1, but I had no idea that The Count of Monte Cristo was based on a real life story, thanks to this video. And am a sucker for all things revenge.↩︎…
Perhaps not as incredibly astounding as this overlay of Spectre1 on the opening credits of the movie but this one of How to Disappear Completely over a few scenes from Lost in Translation just fits somehow. From the comments: “It was a wise decision to go with Sam Smith’s Writings on the wall. A med…