December 2015
Month archive / 40 posts
In a segment of the disabled community, there is a battle between reason and emotion that has finally drawn blood. nytimes.com/2015/10/25/mag…
An engrossing profile of the legendary animator / visual effects pioneer Phil Tippett. youtu.be/VTGQ_K0DBPo
RIP Lemmy. May we all wring as much life out of our short time here as you did.
Trying to use @stamp_importer to move my music from @Rdio to @Spotify, a task that will apparently take several lifetimes to complete.
Do I Sound Gay?
Help settle a dispute for the missus and me. Which is a shittier band name: Can or Leftover Salmon?
Excellent analysis of the GOP’s inner turmoil by @davidfrum. If you want to understand Trump’s surge, it’s all here. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Double Down
The Karate Kid Part III
The Karate Kid Part II
The Karate Kid
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The shuffle is killing it today. last.fm/user/cowpiesur…
With each begrudging use of Word, I am invited again to embrace an inverse definition of “automatic.”
I shrug off most @BoltBus snafus (you get what you pay for), but selling me a ticket for a Xmas Eve bus that doesn’t exist? Fucking COME ON.
As you make year-end charitable donations, remember: the Red Cross isn’t doing a great job. propublica.org/article/the-co…
The best article I’ve read to date about music’s failing marriage to capitalism. stereogum.com/1848677/stream…
Since, like, no one else is talking about it, I posted some brief thoughts about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. letterboxd.com/robweychert/fi…
Ben Carson’s perfect circle of a goatee is basically a mouth tonsure.
We all admire @propublica’s investigative pedigree, but I worked here for three whole weeks before they discovered my air guitar career, so.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
As I’ve mentioned before, I am wary of the seductive power of nostalgia. The original Star Wars trilogy loomed so large in my generation’s childhood that any meaningful attempt to revive it was going to be met with uncritical optimism. So as I cheered along with a packed theater on the opening night of The Force Awakens, I remembered that I had done much the same thing sixteen years earlier for The Phantom Menace, which,… See more →
Stop toying with me, ticket stub!
Able-bodied people who take the elevator to the second floor make Rob something something.
This chilling, heartbreaking story is a window into why only one in three rape victims ever go to the police. propublica.org/article/false-…
Thanks for the memories, @Rdio. rdio.com/farewell/ #RdioFarewell
Spotlight
On an emotional level, the aspect of Spotlight that had the biggest impact on me was its journalists’ team dynamic, and the team’s (mostly) unfailing trust in each other to do the job right, even in the middle of the highest-stakes investigation of their careers. In a discussion about the film, this was described with a colloquialism I hadn’t heard before, and which I found too perfect not to make a note of here: competence… See more →
There is the Force and there is the dark side of the Force. Is The Force Awakens trying to make “light side” happen? I shake my fist. 👓
Once I was cold, but now I am warm, having recently consumed a heated, liquid form of chocolate.
My music was interrupted by a treatise on Angry Orchard Refreshing Hard Cider With Attitude. An unceremonious end to my @Rdio subscription.
Sometimes I wonder if the ever-proliferating torrent of misinformation online is all a massive conspiracy to drive traffic to @snopes.
Dreams of half-forgotten secret spaces from my youth reawaken old curiosities.
“It is not the smile of someone who is ashamed; it is the smile of someone who finds us adorable in our outrage.” bellejar.ca/2015/12/03/bei…
Having always been dismissed from jury duty, I want to be selected, but this thoughtful essay makes me ambivalent. medium.com/@jurornumber5/…
The Most Dangerous Game
The historical/philosophical detective story of how @AlisonGopnik got her groove back. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
ATTN MISOGYNISTS: Setting aside the nonstandard spelling some feminists use, the singular is “woman,” the plural is “women.” It’s not hard.
Mass shooting deaths in 2015 (under the broadest definition): 462.
Black men killed in gun homicides in 2013: 5,798.
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“They’re using violence and the fear of violence to accomplish a political goal. That’s terrorism.” propublica.org/article/for-ab…
A magnificent six-point plan to fix online privacy, followed by an epic rant on Silicon Valley’s misspent privilege. idlewords.com/talks/what_hap…