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Their a capella version of Riu, Riu, Chiu is on my Christmas rotation.  Lovely piece.

Sometimes the simple act of putting [OUT OF ORDER] stickers or post-its on vending machines can cause ripples when it’s time to collect or cost somebody money when they gotta call in a field tech to come out and look at it.

“The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.”

Yesterday, a small group of minimum wage-earning kids formed a union at a coffee shop. This photo says it all to me:

The inevitable outcome of depriving the actual human majority masses their rights to affect the system through voting, will be that we use mob justice. First electronically, then with blood. C’est la vie.

Lesser than 1940s unions is sOciAliSt

You know, there are times where things feel so hopeless, i.e., Man, no matter how many laws are passed, no matter how many elections are won, the corporations will just find ways around it—especially with the Supreme Court gladly lickin’ private-sector boots.

“Nothing is scarier to a business than organized labor,”

There’s a great anecdote in Nesmith’s final book, Infinite Tuesday, about the first screening of Repo Man for the studio suits. In attendance was a young woman who very much got it, and when the suits just sat in bewildered silence after the credits, Nesmith states that she stood up and shouted with exasperation,

And let’s also not forget that he was one of the people that gave us Head!

Repo Man is the best thing anyone has done ever.

How about for every Gabby Petito story Jezebel publishes, you publish two stories about BIPOC women who are missing and/or murdered?

I know nobody cares but THEY FILMED THIS IN MY CITY AND IT WAS COOL, THERE WERE OLD-TIMEY CARS EVERYWHERE, felt like I was in Midnight in Paris.

Bella fulfills her role competently enough in the current movies:

Twilight directed by Del Toro would actually be worth a watch.

Well, I’m sold.

I wasn’t raised in a super-religious household (mom was Methodist, dad didn’t go to church), but my mom watched the PTL Club. I would usually see it in the mornings before school. I was an independent thinker at a young age, and I recognized Jim and Tammy Faye were grifters, but Jim Bakker could straight-up preach.

It’s about time somebody hosed off Daryl.

I see a lot of arguments that this movie is glorifying or apologizing for the shitty things they did (well, mostly Jim did), but I don’t think that’s the case. It’s easy to reduce them to caricatures, just like it’s easy to reduce every televangelist to caricature, but that wouldn’t explain why they still rake in