March 2017

Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking

While assessing the significance of Flynn’s and Sessions’s meetings with Kislyak, an ambassador, consider this:

The label ‘intelligence official’ is not always cleanly applied in Russia, where ex-spies, oligarchs and government officials often report back to the intelligence services and elsewhere in the Kremlin.

What Is Race?

A good crash course on race from Whit Taylor.

Pissed Jeans: Why Love Now

I’ll probably have this… See more →

A crash course on the history of Emoji, the Unicode Consortium, and how Emoji expansion could be democratized. thenib.com/who-makes-emoji

And here’s a good reminder of what makes Bob’s Burgers great. twitter.com/robweychert/st…

Bad Tina (S02E08)
OT: The Outside Toilet (S03E15)
The Frond Files (S04E12)
The Equestranauts (S04E17)
Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl (S05E01)

Bob’s Burgers is leaving Netflix at the end of this month. Here’s a list of some of my favorite episodes you should watch before Saturday:

Pretty fucking thoroughly disgusted, FYI.

If you answered yes and are willing to explain, I am genuinely interested in what you have to say. twitter.com/robweychert/st…

A&R guy: “Maybe you could incorporate some harmonies?”
Bananarama: “Unison exclusivity clause or we walk.”

Learning that Sammy Hagar recorded an Otis Redding cover is the stuff morbid curiosity is made of, but I won’t give in.

Sad we lost original Boston drummer Sib Hashian, but glad he went out doing his thing. RIP. pitchfork.com/news/72441-ex-…

In my dream, there were private subway cars about ⅕ the size of a regular subway car. Antithetical to the subway ethos but still super cute.

Traffic is backed up. It is either routine congestion, or the cause is unclear. Do you use your horn?

Working late, starting to fade, when this sonic coke bump appears out of nowhere to deliver the necessary jitters. staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/all-of-t…

Alice Lowe was already well into her pregnancy when she was approached to make a film, and she managed to write, direct, and star in Prevenge before she gave birth, which is amazing. And there’s a lot to admire about its surrealist fusion of horror, comedy, and drama. But the final product doesn’t quite hang together.

Reminder: Planned Parenthood is mostly preventative care. Defunding will likely result in more abortions, not fewer. thenib.com/march-for-life

In honor of the forthcoming release of Trainspotting 2, I reevaluated Underworld’s “Born Slippy.”

Still sucks.

Hi. I share this song because I like it. It has no relevance to the current federal healthcare and budget proposals. youtu.be/sgpa7wEAz7I

Hey NYC friends, I have an extra ticket for the @TRTS show at @thehallbrooklyn tonight. Who wants to go with me?

Jordan Peele’s uncommon wit, keen perspective on racial identity, and perfect cast are unfortunately no match for Blumhouse’s insistent blandness.

Oh nice, not only is @creativecloud now doing notification spam, it’s also giving us opportunities to work for free!

please stop the ride i want to get off twitter.com/nytimes/status…

I learned a bunch about projector throw ratios this weekend and am now available for your corporate seminars and school assemblies.

I cannot stop laughing at this. twitter.com/lrgmnn/status/…

I liked the right better when they were Luddites. theguardian.com/politics/2017/…

If you are taking up space in Manhattan, you are in my way.

I just don’t see why I should need two hands to perform the most basic functions of this pocket computer.

You had me at “miniature retro papercraft synthesizers.” thisiscolossal.com/2017/03/miniat…

The Rush album ended and then I put on The Birthday Party and this is why I’m not a DJ.

For two truly fascinating seconds, this headline led me to believe a Swiss thrash metal band had unique insight into George Michael’s death. twitter.com/TheAVClub/stat…

A nice roundup of policy proposals to help the increasing share of the workforce being displaced by automation. nytimes.com/2017/03/07/ups…

None of the 10 fatal attacks by Islamist extremists in the US since 2001 would have been prevented by Trump’s ban. washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati…

I think “Comic Sans helps dyslexic people read. Cool, right?” might be better than “Fuck you for not liking Comic Sans” but what do I know? twitter.com/hj_chen/status…

A magnificently dark crime thriller with equal attention paid to tense plotting and nuanced characterization, spread out across a sizable and capable ensemble. The urban underworld of The Asphalt Jungle is as vivid as it is bleak.

I’ll probably have this on repeat for most of the weekend. pissedjeans.bandcamp.com/album/why-love…

A good crash course on race from @WhitTaylorComix. thenib.com/what-is-race