pbs american experience has a three hour documentary on LBJ in two parts for everyone who is a sicko like me
Anti-theft deterrent also means anti-sales. Nice job, eggheads. "Upon discovering that an item they want to buy is in a locked case, less than one in three shoppers (32%) get a store employee to unlock the case." www.retailbrew.com/stories/2024...
Most end up trying to find the product in another store, according to a Consumer World survey.
This might be controversial but I do think that Nintendo should exercise some base line quality control on the eShop. Genuinely very well made games like Grapple Dogs are routinely buried under a weekly avalanche of absolute trash churned out in bad faith. They need to regain control of it.
Doing my bullet points for my upcoming screenwriting lecture and of course I will be using Crowley's definition of magick - "the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the will" - as my opening definition. Because that's what writing is! You have some crazy idea & it happens!
Today’s realization: “sex scenes that don’t drive the plot are gratuitous, so capital-a Authors must have a good reason to include them” is literally just “sex for pleasure is immoral, sex is only permissible for procreation” dressed up as if it was writing advice XD
the number of things that would improve INSTANTLY if we got rid of the electoral college and passed national vote by mail is like …. like all of them. like all the things
I abhor the decision but I respect the enterprising spirit of the guy who keeps reopening the camp that Jason murders all those people at. The comparison is Jurassic Park but that at least involves an awe inspiring amazing thing, the guy who owns the Jason camp is just like “look it’s a decent lake”
OKAY So I see a lot of people just discovering Penzeys which is AMAZING. My mom has been ordering from Penzeys since I was a kid and Penzeys is the backbone of my spice rack. They're also having a 50% off sale on all spices that begin with C or N right now so it is a great time to try them!
When I was in grad school James Earl Jones came to campus and gave a 90 minute talk about the civil rights movement and the first audience question was from a little girl who asked “are you really the lion King?” and he took his glasses off and said “Simbaaaaa” and everyone totally lost their shit.