A long time ago, people (moi included) would spend good money buying Japanese vinyl because it was significantly better than American pressings (thick as a book and crystal clear.) An added bonus was that the records always came with lyric sheets, which U.S. pressings often didn’t, and were riddled with the most…

The nexium story (it kinda delights me that this cult shares a name with an antacid) isn’t all that interesting or deep. People got grifted into joining a cult, and the cult treated them horribly. It’s sad, but it’s also pretty funny - the idea of trapping insecure people with platitudes and business-speak would be…

The more surreal part to me is finding out that Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves contains a big speech on how we need to respect sexual boundaries. 

Shoah needed 9 hours.

To give the devil their due, nexium really helped me with my acid reflux.

But they are never content with simply keeping it going. At some point they seem to feel all-important and invincible, and that’s when the Diety complex comes out.

It was quite a surreal experience revisiting Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves on Disney+, and discovering it was actually Allison Mack who played the girl who gives a big speech about how people need to respect sexual boundaries.

He definitely deserves some credit for that, but a lot of that aid work comes in the form of telling governments how to spend foreign aid budgets, which he refuses to contribute to. He’s been caught time and again tax dodging (moving residency out of Ireland Panama papers, etc) and is totally unapologetic about it.…

this is like that post where the guy is like “girls are so immature why can’t they hold their periods in” imagine thinking being an adult means your body always behaves exactly the way you want it to. smug about pooping on the internet? couldn’t be me

Pretty sure he’s reading the same book in the restaurant bathroom when Pumpkin and Honeybunny start their robbery that he’s reading on Butch’s toilet when he dies.

Oh look at you, with your fancy functioning bowels! If I could just decide to get all my poop out before leaving home I would, but my butt does not listen to my brain, it just sends the brain an emergency signal that says “you have 30 minutes or less to poop, get to it!”

At last! The perfect Wormhole to read on the toilet! Now if you’ll excuse me...

U2 has some fucking banger openings. Joshua Tree, War, All That You Can’t Leave behind and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb particularly. 

“Supervixen” by Garbage. The full first phrase runs about 11 seconds, but honestly, within two measures and a count-in the wall of sound and sudden brakes, my heart just stopped.

Instead of Nirvana, I’ve always loved the start of Hole’s Violet— it feels like I’m immediately on a runaway train, and the pace just keeps increasing.

“You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge...”

I assure you I did not, and I’ve watched it several times over the years to see if I was being too harsh. My view is probably less strident than the manner in which I expressed it, and it’s moderated a bit over those subsequent viewings, but I do still consider it slanted toward the Southern perspective on the war,…

I googled “Shelby Foote Lost Cause” after posting (perhaps should have done so before) and uncovered a lot of let’s say not great statements he made over the years, so I can certainly see why you’d object to him being included. Which is too bad because I really did enjoy his contributions to the series even if it…

I agree. The series tried to give equal time to the two sides and that’s going to be a much less popular position now than it was when the documentary was made. Equal time doesn’t mean equal judgment, though. Even as someone whose family roots are primarily Southern, I finished the documentary still thinking that…

I love Prohibition. By Burns’ standards, it’s a breeze - about 5 hours across 3 episodes.