Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

The older I get the more I realise how much luck plays its part here too, but whatever the reasons I just hope everybody keeps on keeping on

"sententious bullshit" = not calling other people a fucking idiot.

On paper 80s King Crimson + Steely Dan should be a winner, but the results sound like a modern-day Jay Gatsby forming a prog band so nope.

(posting here to avoid stinking up an ongoing praise thread)

definitely a trump voter

tbh i'd prefer it if you kids could confine your "gentle right wing Dem" posts to the politics threads cos it's pretty fucking triggering to the rest of us in despair

Dude, no one needs your energy right now.

the gluck-gluck sound every time he says Trump's name is awkward

I mean, unsurprisingly I don't agree, but I respect your point of view - but also I feel there's a lot of things where you are at the intersection of "I know a lot about X" and "fuck X"

Thank God someone was spared that.

They actually don’t get that much benefit because of the phase out for high incomes. It also includes property taxes… not just state and local income taxes

offense is where you take it

My birthplace? Earth place.

hey, at least the man's kinda done his homework

full respeck 4 io's right to be irritated by chintzy garbazio but counterpoint: a lot of people's lives are empty & miserable w/ no escape save death, so if buying a spooky inflatable minion gives them the semblance of a thrill then i think that is poignant in a grotesque kind of way

also i freakin' love flamboyant xmas lights

there was this big house in my old neighborhood that would put up 2 massive wreaths every december, wreaths the size of cars, wreaths as big as god's whole ass, they were at least as big around as one of the house's storeys, just tremendous! and i marveled whenever i passed the house, and it was nice, because december is the butt of the year and i low key loathe everything about it except the sparkly ott decorations. thank u big wreaths 💚🫡

Not big on most holiday decorating but then there’s this guy

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBP20eQJDZb/?igsh=MXMxejU5ZjhydXFiYg==

oh heck yes!!

thank you for saying something cat. i don’t even know what minions are— i am not a child and know nothing about the movies, though i know what they look like— but i just can’t be bothered to get annoyed at people who decorate for holidays.

I'm extremely pro holiday decorations in general, and lots of mine are perennial but i have def also noticed that spying decorations at Home Depot and Michael's is how a many people on the internet seem to anticipate and experience the holidays now. that's upsetting even if I don't think I know any of these people irl

someday I really want to go to one of those walkthrough Christmas light displays they have in some southern states that are not so elaborate, or one of those Christmas museums that are just like some insane person's house filled with antique Santa dolls.

I've been to the jack o lantern blaze in croton a couple of times, I guess that means I liked it enough to go back even though it's fucking far

you don't even have to know anything about the minions, table, there's nothing to know, they are a void of meaning and that's why people feel such kinship w/ the chody lil guys, there is just nothing actually there, a hypnotic semiotic lacuna

my main mouse, ayyyy! having just googled your pumpkin blaze: that is what the fuck i am talking about! all of the colors, all of the sparkle, my eyes hunger for such magnificent spectacle 😻

botanic gardens near me sometimes have lovely light displays in winter. one of my favorite memories is going to one of those on a frigid snowy night with a guy who'd lost his gloves and i had him warm his hands under my shirt, brrrrr. i haven't gone in ages; perhaps this year...

It combines my aesthetic snobbery, aversion to waste, and education in Marxism and Fire codes.

Looking at photos, I'd say that Jack o' Lantern blaze looks both festive and a pretty spectacle, but it doesn't exactly tap into the sense of growing darkness and a nearing of death that was the origin of halloween. It used to be a very primal reaction to those realities of impending winter.

"a void of meaning" is otm but something ain't right about a solo minion, their thing is multiplicity
they are antic but replaceable, the hollow gag their brief bloom before they're suddenly snuffed out by the next in a sequence of jokes
they are hard working though
one light up minion on the lawn is like a firework display with only one kaboom,
you need an army

there used to be a 360 walkthrough of this kinda sad xmas light display somewhere on the internet, it was so beautiful in its desolation but now I can't find it.

aimless, I think it actually does that in person! (the last display before the exit is actually a pumpkin graveyard)

going into trump and aoc twitch streams to spam WORST SPEEDRUNNER EVER in the chat SeemsGood

I WILL PHYSICALLY FIGHT ANYONE WHO DOESN'T VOTE FOR DARKLANDS AND I CARRY BRASS KNUCKLES AT ALL TIMES

MUSICAL FASCISM IN FULL EFFECT

(but automatic is a neat album too+psychocandy obviously roolz)

psychocandy then barbed wire kisses then darklands. everyone knows that!

The most recent album is not shite

bravely stated

people still using "gay" as a slur in 2024 are fucking daft. just fucking stop already.

https://i.imgur.com/vPkA6it.jpg

Remember this fucking cunt? This clip has been lodged in my brain, the open bigoted contempt, gleefully mocking the children being slaughtered

I remember seeing that posted and then clicking on the uspol thread & seeing breathless fanboy liveblogging of the event and it was so grotesque and depressing to me

Put in here because it feels unhelpful to bring up now but I think it all must be said aloud now

Put in here because it feels unhelpful to bring up now but I think it all must be said aloud now

fourth thoughts

Context? I don't know who that is

Put in here because it feels unhelpful to bring up now but I think it all must be said aloud now

Context? I don't know who that is

Open throated

this country was forged from genocide, colonialism, & slavery and oh hey would you look at that

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ0NDAyNDg5OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDUxNjEyMjE@._V1_.jpg

Oh yeah fuuuuuuck that guy and the rest of them doing that shit.

The rot re: the liberals in the US re: Israel/Gaza has been sickening.

Where i live, after a pro-Palestine demonstration got busted up by a contractor at a local festival, the festival terminated him and apologized, and immediately two supposedly people hijacked the thread to point out that this apology made them feel like Jewish people were no longer welcome at the festival.

The propaganda has gotten to where "babies and civilians being massacred is bad" somehow has an opposing side.

I WILL PHYSICALLY FIGHT ANYONE WHO DOESN'T VOTE FOR DARKLANDS AND I CARRY BRASS KNUCKLES AT ALL TIMES

MUSICAL FASCISM IN FULL EFFECT

― lil lurk (Austin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA09DRyOY4w

For the past few months — for most of 2024, honestly — I've been mulling over giving up writing about music other than maybe keeping my newsletter going. I just don't enjoy it anymore, I feel like I've said everything I have to say, I've written about the same records a half dozen times or more, all my references feel stale to me, I'm just sticking with it out of fear of stopping. But I don't know, maybe if I just stop reading truly hideous mainstream journalism — the NY Times, the New Yorker, the fucking Atlantic, NY Magazine, the New Republic, all the shit I let dribble into my eyes this whole campaign — I'll snap out of it in a month or so and be back on my feet by my birthday and ready to plot my escape from the burning pirate ship.

Six more hours to go

xpost the 20th anniversary coverage of records that were talked to death the first time around is going to be the end of me

The endless re-re-re-assessment of Arcade Fire and the Strokes

B-b-b-but there is an entire generation of music writers who haven't gotten to write their thinkpieces about Neon Bible yet, you would ruin that for them?

"But I don't know, maybe if I just stop reading truly hideous mainstream journalism — the NY Times, the New Yorker, the fucking Atlantic, NY Magazine, the New Republic, all the shit I let dribble into my eyes this whole campaign"

If you had read The Nation you might've seen pieces detailing the faults of the Democrat campaign. Maybe get a subs to that.

I remember seeing that posted and then clicking on the uspol thread & seeing breathless fanboy liveblogging of the event and it was so grotesque and depressing to me

― Heartbreaking: the worst novel you’ve finished has a staggering genius (wins), Wednesday, 6 November 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Good on you to post this now wins.

I couldn't even look at the thread then.

The hippest kids are now pitching their pieces on the 60th anniversary of The Beach Boys Christmas Album.

Wins, I don't know who that is

breathless fanboy liveblogging of the event

I truly can't remember what I posted at the time, but I'm not going to apologize for finding fun and inspiration from an event held by the political party in my country that aligns closest with my values. While I believe it was unconscionable that the DNC refused to let a Palestinian speak, I still enjoyed and connected with some of the other speeches, and the roll call is always a good time. And in general, even though I don't endorse everything that the party does, I won't deny myself the positive feelings that events like that can engender.