July 2019

why are tall people

I don’t know how CSS quantity queries escaped my notice for this long, but I am pleased to make their acquaintance. alistapart.com/article/quanti…

Biggest difference between tonight’s @bssmusic show and when I last saw them in 2004 was the woman next to me doing a crossword on her phone

Veronica Mars S04: Unsatisfying, but better than S03 and the movie, and hopefully we can assume Piz’s absence means he’s dead, so overall 👍🏻

@trysmudford @adactio Have you run into this? twitter.com/robweychert/st…

i still don’t know wtf the difference between popular and trending is supposed to be

Trying inline SVG in CSS. Works in property/value pairs but Sass chokes when I try it in custom properties á la adactio.com/journal/15075. 😕

Black Midi is amazing and I am old. tinnitus.robweychert.com/2019/07/18/bla…

“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else’s privilege.” theatlantic.com/entertainment/…

Teenagers have shown us on many occasions that they’re capable of making fresh, exhilarating music, but that music is usually rooted firmly in an existing paradigm: hip-hop, punk, etc. Teenagers are students and students are formalists. One of the most striking things about Black Midi’s fresh, exhilarating, teenage music is its lack of an obvious reference point. It is at times reminiscent of Slint and their math rock descendants, and the funk-tinged post punk of… See more →

“Every contest involves the invention of a desired status where none existed before and none needs to exist.” alfiekohn.org/article/excell…

I truly never expected to see this in my lifetime. This is the President of the United States. Absolutely sickening. twitter.com/Yamiche/status…

I swallowed my pride and went to a Phish show. tinnitus.robweychert.com/2019/06/29/phi…

For years, Alice Cooper couldn’t put his finger on what was missing from his first draft, “School’s Out (for Presidents’ Day).”

[The Heights (1992) intro plays]
Me: [saxophone sounds]
Her: Put the sax away
Me: You’ll never learn to talk to an angel with that attitude