March 2020

When the night falls, my lonely heart calls. #quarantunes

Had some help from my buddy @username_final.final_final on this one, as well as some last-minute EQ magic from @larrylegend. 🙌🏻

They just wanna. #quarantunes

Some girls like to buy new shoes and others like driving trucks and wearing tattoos. There’s only one thing they all like a bunch. Girls, they wanna have lunch. Girls just wanna have lunch. #quarantunes

If Robo Vampire has a script, it reads like something a 6-year-old wrote, which makes it a compelling argument for child labor. Somehow this is my first exposure to the hopping vampires of jiangshi folklore, and only the second Godfrey Ho movie I’ve seen. It won’t be the last.

what if the cure is just to eat soap

The premise is a bit too clever for its own good, and its foundational recontextualization of horror cliches sees fit to bask in said cliches for far longer than is tolerable, especially considering its satirical scares are blander than much of their source material. Cabin in the Woods is at its best during its early peeks behind the curtain, before Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins’ charming rapport is displaced by a too-thorough accounting of the… See more →

RIP Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, an artist as unadulterated as they come.

Of the first 50 tweets in my Twitter feed this morning, 18 were from accounts I follow. All but three were more than an hour old.

every unmuffled sneeze is a dagger in my ears

I’ve never watched Schitt’s Creek, but this is the kind of internet I signed up for. twitter.com/lynnandtonic/s…

New Yorkers who like fun should come get stupid with @usairguitar at @saintvitusbar tomorrow night: eventbrite.com/e/the-2020-us-…

I’m a talking head in this short doc about former @usairguitar champ Georgia Lunch, but you should watch it anyway. youtube.com/watch?v=_kWmDT…

It’s just fucked up that the reason we don’t disengage is we don’t know how to operate on the outside anymore. Like a convict facing parole.

I guess it was naive to think asynchronous friendships could work at scale and/or be compatible with a business model that does no harm.

I’m off Facebook. I use Instagram and Twitter begrudgingly. The only social network I actually like is @letterboxd. How long will that last?

Twitter is now mostly write-only for me. My feed is too junked up to read anymore. Whatever FOMO I still have can’t abide the algorithms.

I now end Twitter visits at first sight of a reductive character assassination from someone I don’t even follow. Visits tend to be short.

So I took @tweetbot off all my devices and am now at the mercy of Twitter’s algorithms. And friends, it feels like the beginning of the end.

@tweetbot made Twitter tolerable but – like any native app – too available. You know the drill: any spare moment, out comes the phone.

For years, I’ve stemmed the tide of Twitter’s algorithmic poison by using @tweetbot to keep things chronological and focused.

From last night’s dream about Zuck looking for new sources of training data, the phrase that’ll stay with me is “quivering stack of ham.”

I wonder how many small businesses in Austin will go under because of this SXSW cancellation. 😞

My site redesign is starting to look like a thing! v7.robweychert.com/blog/2020/03/v…

Though it’s mostly taken place in scattered, stolen moments, I’ve made a lot of progress on the UX of the timeline section, much of which was still a disconcerting mystery not so long ago.

With the help of the data categories and content inventory I established in the previous post, I’ve settled on a binary timeline concept: each post is either small or large. Small posts consist of up to 100 words and/or up to… See more →

Today is Karen Carpenter’s 70th birthday. We didn’t deserve her. youtube.com/watch?v=sdHyzG…