September 2016

Fear of a Female President

To understand this reaction, start with what social psychologists call “precarious manhood” theory. The theory posits that while womanhood is typically viewed as natural and permanent, manhood must be “earned and maintained.” Because it is won, it can also be lost. Scholars at the University of South Florida and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reported that when asked how someone might lose his manhood, college students rattled off social… See more →

I appreciate that climate policy is most important to Obama’s legacy, but I kind of wish he had concentrated more on banning vertical video.

I tried out the current season premiere of the Simpsons. Man, that thing isn’t even running on fumes anymore.

A thought-provoking, refreshingly non-Luddite take on mental and spiritual health in the “era of mass distraction.” nymag.com/selectall/2016…

In 2013, Edward Snowden provided proof that the American government’s scope of surveillance around the world – including its own citizenry – was even more massive and pernicious than most of us thought. The revelation landed, more or less, with a thud, largely because much of the news media focused more on the size of the leak than the substance of it.

This wasn’t without reason.

With the increasing overreach of the Patriot Act and… See more →

My dad is gone six years this month. The hardest I ever heard him laugh was at The Naked Gun. Thanks, @r_emmet. twitter.com/r_emmet/status…

Wait, Son of Zorn isn’t about a kid trying to survive high school and meet girls despite his dad’s constant avant-garde jazz intrusions?

Get the sad residue of last night’s bloviating heap of sentient Cheeto dust out of your eyes and ears with this. vimeo.com/182987414

do the right thing america i cant listen to this pile of excrement huff and puff for five more minutes let alone four more years pf3p982hnfj

“[T]he important thing is to watch out for either candidate being graded on a curve, to spot it when it happens, and to account for it.” twitter.com/TheAtlantic/st…

Do women vape?

A Trump staffer acknowledges what his candidacy is really about: “Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump.” twitter.com/halvorson/stat…

“What Thiel calls the ‘oxymoron’ of ‘capitalist democracy’ is resolved – by jettisoning democracy.” theguardian.com/technology/201…

“It’s more surprising that everyone in the Valley doesn’t support Trump than that Thiel and Luckey do.” theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Six years. v5.robweychert.com/writing/guide-…

A thoughtful essay from @seanoneal on Corey Feldman and the internet’s blurred line between bullying and criticism. avclub.com/article/corey-…

The best fit for conservatives threatening to leave the US in the event of a @HillaryClinton presidency? Pakistan. quora.com/Its-2016-Dad-s…

I dusted off my @Luludotcom account to buy @bearskinrug’s long-awaited Ambidextrous Collection 3. You should too. lulu.com/shop/kevin-cor…

I’ve never procrastinated on anything in my life, and I’m not going to start now.

Much love for the takeout places with decent napkins.

I had fun making animations for @JuliaAngwin’s story on Amazon’s questionable practices. propublica.org/article/amazon…

Three days of perfect weather, fantastic food, great music, old friends, and new friends, all in one of my favorite cities on the planet. 💕

Tonight I saw the actual Misfits play a whole bunch of Misfits songs. My voice may never come back from this one.

I wanted to share with y’all a video of The Hold Steady playing all of Boys and Girls in America front to back, but I was too busy dancing.

Wheels down at MDW. Did you miss me, Chicago? I missed you!

xkcd’s timeline of Earth’s average temperature is an extraordinary (and frightening) visualization. xkcd.com/1732/

PSA:

Present tense: lead [lēd]
Past tense: led [led]

Unrelated soft metal; homonym of present tense, homophone of past tense: lead [led]

Oh man, this @FullFrontalSamB profile of the Latinos for Trump “taco truck on every corner” guy. youtu.be/cYgo4gsD-38

I want to make an animated time-lapse map of all my design and tech friends’ and colleagues’ NYC and SF migrations over the past ten years.

Fear not, oppressed white dudes. In the age of prestige TV, there’s still pedestrian programming to ease your pain. nytimes.com/2016/09/18/art…

Has anyone ever had a better answer to the question “What have you been up to?” than the crew of Mad Max: Fury Road? youtube.com/watch?v=dfm4gv…

“‘One could look at this patient in two ways,’ Giordano said: ‘as an idiot or as an astronaut.’” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

I’m not 100% cured yet, but I’ve severely cut down on hate-reading shitty people’s Twitter feeds, and I think I might actually survive 2016.

Written documentation of last night’s Wolves in the Throne Room fan who solemnly held aloft a single invisible orange for several minutes.

Put my list of options together for next week’s @RiotFest.

“Growing paranoid is easy when, because of your gender, people really are out to get you.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Overheard: “Look, I’m 25 now. In another two years, I won’t be relevant.”

how does anyone ever get anything done

The highlight reel of comics roasting Ann Coulter has some well-deserved jabs but a lot of unadulterated hatred couched in humor. It’s ugly.

After upgrading my tv this weekend, it is my sworn duty as a citizen of the internet to express my disapproval of the new Netflix UI.

Mister Softee to the rescue.

I love me some @essl.

Miller’s Crossing is my favorite movie, and somehow I haven’t seen it in years. Gonna fix that toot sweet. Johnny Caspar quotes all weekend.

RIP Jon Polito, one of the Coens’ best secret weapons, another great gone too soon. Let’s imagine his exit thusly: youtu.be/lCEAqSXb5-4

Apparently they’re rebooting MacGyver, as if Breaking Bad didn’t already do that.

I could not have anticipated the despair that would envelope me upon discovering that my @maple delivery did not include a cookie.