🎵 TIL that Metal / Ragga fusion is not just a thing - but has been a thing for a LONG time.
2023 | 06 | 20
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Not a big user of those little apps that create apps out of web sites .. like Unite … wondering if Apple has just sherlocked them?
It also specified that Trump “shall not retain copies” and that he may only review case materials “under the direct supervision of defense counsel or a member of defense counsel’s staff.”
… wouldn’t he already have kept copies? Except he’s pretty dumb. Which is why he wouldn’t. Which is why he would. Which is why he wo …
Oh .. now I see.
2023 | 06 | 19
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🔗 Pilvi Takala and the Art of Awkwardness
The most nonconformist thing about Takala may be her talent for refusal. Sarah McCrory, the director of Goldsmiths, recalls appearing on television with her for an art festival: “They put this terrible makeup on me, and then Pilvi turned up, and I was, like, ‘How come you don’t have to?’ And she was, like, ‘Well, because I said no.’ “
Christopher Lyndon, Sean Illing and Sam Harris .. who else should be in that particular mix of podcasts?
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I liked the Planet Money format. Short. Specific topic. Not too in the weeds. Maybe a little ‘Audio Wallpaper’ … but I’m ok with that … sometimes.
But … now I am done.
It’s not the subject matter, it’s the presenters. Voice, tone, accent … shall I go on? They all affect the listener. For this listener .. badly.
Both of them have voices that leave me annoyed enough to just unsubscribe from the whole thing and move on.
If at first you don’t succeed ….
🔗 The Final Triumph of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)
Cormac McCarthy’s first 5 novels were totally ignored. . . . Even Blood Merdian—now widely considered a modern classic of American fiction—got remaindered after only selling 1,883 copies.
💬 Ted Gioia
Her work explores “how the neoliberal conflation of civic spaces and commerce has created a nebulous boundary that privileges consumer over citizen.”
… Right then.
🎥 Ticket to Paradise, 2022 - ★½
Talk about ‘phoning it in .. not my choice to watch and would not recommend, particularly if you know the Mamma Mia stories … both of which I have not seen, but I think the two sentence summary of the first would be identical to this one.
2023 | 06 | 18
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Talk about cultural appropriation, the F@@KERS are carrying derivative versions of Captain America’s defense system around with them.
Derivative? How about the white cloth wrapped around the heads of Patriot Front members … isn’t that KKK derivative?
Apple Siri Remote … 59 bucks
Amazon - Apple Siri Remote replacement … 11 bucks
2023 | 06 | 17
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