This Excelsior 2024 thread smells like a hot dog

thanking you

Masterful

went slightly book mad and ended up with close to a year's worth of reading:

kafka - stories 1904-1924
grossmith & grossmith - diary of a nobody
somerville & ross - the irish rm
anthony trollope - the pallisers
ivy compton-burnett - parents & children
ivy compton-burnett - a father & his fate
sylvia townsend warner - mr fortune's maggot
elizabeth bowen - the last september
capel boake - painted clay
dali - hidden faces
john berger - g
stig dagerman - games of night
thomas tryon - the other
simenon - maigret sets a trap
henry james - english hours
dickens - selected journalism 1850-1870
stevenson - dr jekyll & mr hyde/weir of hermiston
horace walpole - castle of otranto/hieroglyphic tales
the common muse: popular british ballad poetry
roland barthes - selected writings
cervantes - don quixote
rabelais - gargantua & pantagruel
balzac - cousin pons
gautier - mademoiselle de maupin
flaubert - madame bovary
pushkin - eugene onegin
bulgakov - the white guard
thomas hardy - wessex tales
thomas love peacock - novels of
cs lewis - that hideous strength
michael moorcock - an alien heat
michael moorcock - the hollow lands
roger zelazny - isle of the dead
julian symons - bloody murder
graham greene - a gun for sale
robertson davies - the deptford trilogy
russell hoban - riddley walker
thomas pynchon - crying of lot 49
italo calvino - our ancestors
elias canetti - auto da fe
willa muir - imagined selves
george painter - marcel proust
gerard manley hopkins - poems and prose
joyce cary - the horse's mouth
ralph ellison - invisible man
joseph heller - closing time
deighton - billion dollar brain
deighton - game, set, match trilogy

also a number of pulp/crime/ghost/horror anthologies. now to try and find shelf space for them all.

― no lime tangier, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:41 (two days ago) link

I have come to accept that I do not have meaningful amounts of shelf space left, nor do I have wall space to put shelves against, and I'm just a person who is going to have piles

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:46 (two days ago) link

Carrying all those books will do that to you.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:37 (sixteen minutes ago) link

LOL

who on earth is that tory ad aimed at

― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:18 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Cunts?

― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:34 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Starmer

― nashwan, Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:37 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

My actual first time ever hearing NIN:

I was staying at my Aunt’s house while on a family road trip, and looking through my cousin’s CDs. My cousin is a few years older than me. I was extremely sheltered musically at that point. He had lots of CDs from bands that I hadn’t heard yet: Korn, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Radiohead. I knew Radiohead slightly from the "High and Dry" video, and didn't want to risk straying from what I already knew. So I found that song title on the back of The Bends, put on the CD that was in the case, skipped ahead to track 3, and made it to "Your God is dead, and no one cares" before turning it off in horror.

― jmm, Thursday, April 4, 2024 11:33 AM bookmarkflaglink

^^^~3x typical volume at Domino's adjacent to Pentagon

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, April 13, 2024 1:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

As long as it doesn’t have rocket on it

― subpost master (wins)

According to it, this is the burt Stanton rap music

https://www.udio.com/songs/5YbLhqZ5sZ7vb1QzrUYd5z

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, April 16, 2024 7:13 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is there a more famous budgie fancier? Not sure I can think of one.

― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 12:59 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Siouxsie

― subpost master (wins), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:04 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Since I read that thing about resonating I have heard three separate people (in two different states/time zones) say they resonate with xyz

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, April 19, 2024 10:24 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf I know he can be a bit abrasive at times but he's often otm

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, April 20, 2024 1:28 AM (yesterday)

NO ONE CARES ABOUT HOW MANY FUCKING POSTS YOU HAVE

― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 13 May 2024 20:34 (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is that for those who posted theirs already or for those of us who didn't post ours yet?

― nashwan, Monday, 13 May 2024 20:55 (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's whiney's 4644637th complaint.

― scott seward, Monday, 13 May 2024 20:59 (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

A friend pointed out to me yesterday, when I told them that Glen Powell feels like a scam thought up by Hollywood bizzers who think millennials and Gen Z don’t understand sex appeal or get enough sex, that Powell is a psyop.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, June 11, 2024 5:33 AM bookmarkflaglink

he actually had four eyes in this role, so uh no

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, June 11, 2024 6:09 AM bookmarkflaglink

had this [covid] recently, pretty certain picked up on a train in spain. i felt pretty average and quite tired but the main problem was that i got an infected ear at the same time. which of course *really* doesn’t let you sleep. so a combination of being v tired and not able to get any sleep was not good and although i got over the covid relatively quickly im still managing the overall knock on effects a couple of weeks later.

people have asked how i knew to test and i’m “idk it just felt like covid?” crackly throat, generally run down, sniffling etc. this is my third go round (none of them servere in themselves) and im getting to know the drill.

― Fizzles, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 17:22 bookmarkflaglink

Wonder if the strain in Spain spreads mainly on the train

― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 17:29 bookmarkflaglink

lol

*applause*

Ok yeah that deserves applause

good enough to cure a bout of covid

folks watching presidential debates is not a good or cool or worthwhile thing to do

― ivy.

I was in a hipster coffee shop and everyone was watching the debate on their phones

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes)

ugh that is *not* how the director intended it to be seen

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac)

recently encountered something that was advertised as "if tesla were a wallet"

― budo jeru, Tuesday, July 9, 2024 3:35 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

"...my ass would be on fire"

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, July 9, 2024 3:38 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

might as well get the story in here, my step-dad once made the national news for doing margin-betting on how many corpses they were going to exhume from the house on Cromwell St. That's how he got his nickname "Sicko"!

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 22 July 2024 08:01 (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The over/under taker

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 22 July 2024 08:03 (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well, it's one way to kill horse racing

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 22 July 2024 08:05 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

He was on to a dead cert.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 22 July 2024 08:13 (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

will this be Vance's Swift Boat

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, July 26, 2024 12:24 PM bookmarkflaglink

No one accused Kerry of fucking the boat tho

― laughter is the best weapon (DJP), Friday, July 26, 2024 12:27 PM bookmarkflaglink

the people all said sit down
sit down you're

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Friday, July 26, 2024 12:31 PM bookmarkflaglink

I think the Brent character works because he's a very real type of person, a guy who was probably made to feel fundamentally unloved in his youth, and his desperation for love becomes a vicious cycle of making him less lovable. There's this little vague twinkle of self-awareness of how hard he's trying there, but not enough that he can escape it, because his neediness is just way stronger than anything else. He reminds me of someone I know in this way. Whereas Neil is just the cold, practiced, somewhat psychopathic face of corporate capitalism. Neil is fully absorbed into it and handles it with ease. Neil is impervious to love and people love him for it, or at least admire him in a way.

I was about to post that I suspect the character is a bit close to home for Gervais, and then I looked at his Wikipedia page, and sure enough, there's this: "Gervais has mentioned in interviews that, as an 11-year-old, he asked why his siblings were so much older than he was; his mother bluntly told him that he "was a mistake".["

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 17:17 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

sadly it’s hard not to agree with her

― keep kamala and khive on (wins), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 17:25 (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hillbilly Kennedy, cook us up some vittles

Daylight come and me wan’ go home

― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 4 August 2024 23:00 (yesterday)

yeah Shapiro is on fire

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, August 6, 2024 2:46 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You got my hopes up there for a minute

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, August 6, 2024 5:12 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I also lol'ed

Hahaha

After my 'real job' has ended I'll be forced to whittle little whimsical sculptures and sell them to tourists by the roadside, until death comes for me

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, August 13, 2024 3:52 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

scythe hustle

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, August 13, 2024 3:54 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Someone Walz’s age would have big childhood Nixon in China memories

Strikes me as more of an Einstein on the Beach guy

― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes), Friday, August 16, 2024 8:26 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

curse of the 117 club strikes again

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 August 2024 14:54 (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's pretty incredible how i'm the only person in the world who likes the grateful dead exactly the correct amount

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 21, 2024 11:12 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i like that one song of theirs, "upper mississippi half-step toodleoo"

― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, August 21, 2024 11:23 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I saw Kraftwerk at Sheffield City Hall in '90 . I've never really been a regular gig goer. But that was the first time I had that wow that really is them feeling. Not felt since I saw the pope at York racetrack 10 years earlier

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 31 August 2024 22:54 (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Did he win?

― nashwan, Saturday, 31 August 2024 22:54 (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

loool

a+

That is how it's pronounced here.

― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 15:32 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok this is useless

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 15:33 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

let's hop on a call quick and get this sorted

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 15:33 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

What’s the NC GOP’s plan b if he doesn’t drop out?

― O 'Tis Redding (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, September 19, 2024 12:44 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they don't believe in Plan B

― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes)

back upthread, still blows my mind that anybody still thinks the King James Bible is anywhere near the most authoritative, accurate version

― smears for fears (Neanderthal), Friday, October 4, 2024 12:56 PM bookmarkflaglink

They should have insisted on the Wycliffe translation. It's even older, so in that sense it is 'closer to the original' than the KJV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wycliffe's_Bible

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, October 4, 2024 1:04 PM bookmarkflaglink

Yeah but it’s out of stock till November

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, October 4, 2024 1:06 PM bookmarkflaglink

Nice.

irrationally giddy at what i think is my first excelsior. thanks DJP :)