Listening to it right now, and I’m pretty sure you could follow that bass to faerie.

ESelsandifer.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 5:44pm

#UncoolTwo50, in which I finally exit the 90s to 1978. First encountered as the theme song to Season Two of The Deuce, with an added female vocal I'll admit fondness for, but the original is still a glorious slab of crisp punk attack, cynical and ecstatic.

This Year's Girl (2021 Remaster)

YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic

There is clearly /some/ logic to when I decide to type out a number, versus when I use the character (six vs 6) but lord I could not tell you what it is... Maybe it's like the white space on a comic page--spell it out when I want to slow the reader down a tic? It's vibes. But now I am curious.

(Not to mention the reenactment of this thing that’s happening:)

Just saw someone literally say that the trans people being yelled over at an event she didn’t go to didn’t affect her day, and I just… no, I suspect it didn’t. That’s how not going to something works, Jen.

There are obvious benefits to working with one's spouse that for some reason always get buried under truisms about it being ill-advised. Nah, this is brilliant.

“His campaign did not identify which English professor friends of his had complimented his style.” has to be one of the funniest sentence-paragraphs I’ve ever read in a piece of journalism.

Motherfucker it’s called psychochronography. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/u...

Meandering? Off-Script? Trump Insists His ‘Weave’ Is Oratorical Genius.

Former President Donald J. Trump’s speeches often wander from topic to topic. He insists there is an art to stitching them all together.

Me, when I read a poorly written professional review that I broadly agree with. At least do me the courtesy of being wrong. 👀😂

a man with long hair and a beard has disappointed on his face

Alt: Hercules yelling the word “disappointed!”

I only have so much will power, guys.

God, Penn, how dramatic can you be about sending an email? Oh, very. Don't worry.