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Old Timey Nonsense
Various Workarounds
Artsy!
Comedy Science
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Juxtaposed Images in Deliberate Sequence
Deep Cuts and Rarities
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31 Days of Horror Movies for Halloween
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Six days in and these are all really interesting choices! I’m psyched to see what movies are picked!
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The Buffalo Bills Christmas Hallmark Love Story Movie
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The football Buffalo Bills, not the other ones. The link is to a delightful podcast episode where the movie is discussed by (among other very funny folks) poet of the 21st century David Roth. The podcast is very, very funny. More information about the movie itself and its deeply strange premise can be found on the Hallmark website. I have not and will not watch the actual movie, preferring to enjoy it in podcast form, but I understand that Joe Pantoliano does a terrific job.
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A Sketch Comedy Troupe Singing “Barrett's Privateers”
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No comedy in the video, just excellent sea shanty sung by people who in other contexts are very, very funny. Some pandemic magic.
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Bijan Stephen’s Newsletter
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Stephen is a cultural and critical polymath who writes an occasional free newsletter when not writing, streaming or performing elsewhere. The newsletter is thoughtful and deep, in theory it’s about “the Internet” but in practice it’s about contemporary culture more generally. It comes out irregularly, maybe one to four times a year. Give it a shot!
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Custom Retro Video Game Screens
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Computer wizard Alice Averlong has reverse engineered classic video games to make pixel perfect Castlevania and Mario screens with whatever text you’d like to include. There is a lot of effort, expertise and ingenuity required to make these tools, and they are pretty silly (now you can replace “I Will Get My Revenge” with “Happy Birthday, Brad!” or whatever) and that is part of the fun. Anyway, have a ball! The list of games is gigantic and you can make any of them include swears if you want to.
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Artisanal Goofball Bumper Stickers
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More Etsy foolishness, many variations on “Keep Honking”. Delightful.
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Jo Firestone’s Passionate Newsletter
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Jo Firestone, comedy treasure, sends a short message to subscribers approximately once a month in which she affirms the good things in her life and the lives of her readers. If you like Murder on Sex Island or Sex on Murder Island or that thing where she gets people to rate cookies then you should give the newsletter a shot.
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Preserving Filmstrips for Future Generations
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Mark O'Brien is acquiring, scanning and archiving film strips in his spare time, the kind they showed in schools from the 1960’s through the 1980’s. He posts versions on archive.org so you can see them, they are marvels.
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Dinosaur Comics
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Ryan North, recent author of “The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl” and lots of other stuff, has been producing a daily series of comics using exactly the same almost-clip-art images of dinosaurs since 2003. It’s consistently funny. There is a lot more to Ryan North, early webcomics entrepreneur and guy who fell down a hole, and I also recommend The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl in the strongest possible terms, but Dinosaur Comics are a great place to start with him.
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Minna Kelly
Tune into an epic music history project
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@Minna Kelly with a slam dunk, I have been listening to this nonstop since the rec first appeared. This is what podcasting was made for. Postscript: If you like “giant, decade-spanning comprehensive history” podcasts, you might also enjoy The History of Philosophy Without any Gaps.
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Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee
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More in the Taskmaster vein of getting a bunch of comedians together and lightly humiliating them by forcing them to spell “Capsaicin” or “Phylogenetic”. The highlights are the “assistant” comedians: Chaos Gremlin Sam Campbell in the linked clip, deadpan genius Aaron Chen in an earlier series. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation posts long clips to YouTube and full episodes are out there for those who look.
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Antique 1970’s Soap
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Estate sale soap “from the 1970’s.” Critical context: they are still producing this soap. You could just buy it new! That said, if you do buy a bar of this soap tomorrow, you will be buying a new bar of very 1970’s soap.
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NYT Connections, For Bad Spellers
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I can’t spell for shirt, which means I have trouble with crosswords and anagrams and all of that other literate phone game nonsense. Connections, on the other hand, is delightfully conceptual, and you can complain about it to your other NYT games playing friends.
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Air-Sea Dolphin is Not Apparently a Joke
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The folks who made Homestar Runner made a lot of silly music. As they became more successful, they started collaborating more and more with serious musicians, until Air-Sea Dolphin, a collaboration with folks from “The Apples in Stereo” and “Of Montreal”. There isn’t much of it, and it shows up on a double ep with a fake band they made up, but it’s just era appropriate Indy rock and it works.
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John Moe’s “What Your Favorite Sad Dad Band Says About You”
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A little Father’s Day magic.
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Wikipedia Category: Fictional Music Groups
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Let’s be real, this category and its sister category “bands with fictional stage personas” are missing a lot: I didn’t see Buster Poindexter or Sloshy on either list (and the Wombles are on both). That said, there is (conservatively) hours of potential fun here. Jabberjaw! Sonic the Hedgehog was in a rock band! Bennie and the Jets! Maybe add Chris Gaines to one of those lists if you’re the editing type.
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70’s Kitchen Fantasy (Steven Weill)
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A complete room full of alien objects of postwar plenty. There are paths out of this kitchen into alternate universes where everybody wears cups that are also necklaces at dinner parties. There is also a bunch of stuff I want in my own kitchen.
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Hand-Drawn Game Guides
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Hand drawn guides for old NES games. They are delightful. The artist has posted a bunch of these on line for free (for example, here’s a guide for The Original Legend of Zelda, there are others linked in the page if you scroll down a bit)
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8-Bit arrangement of the Pacific Rim Main Theme
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PACIFIC RIM is the best movie about action figures fighting ever made, and we were robbed that it came too late for a Nintendo version. This arrangement is how that wonderful opening theme was always meant to sound in our hearts.
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Matt Levine, a Comedy Banker
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I could not be less interested in finance. I don’t have any finance background beyond living through financial crises. I don’t listen to Planet Money. BUT. Matt Levine is hilarious, does not require that his readers are bankers, has an even temper and journalistic reasonableness that makes the punchlines hit very hard indeed. I wish I was this funny about anything. The newsletter is free to sign up for although the archives used to be paywalled.
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Daniel Lavery’s “Now You See Me”
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Daniel Lavery has adapted the movie “Now You See Me” (2013), apparently more or less from memory, into a dynamic full cast audio experience-slash-happening-slash-adventure. Lavery perfectly captures “… the heart of a heist movie and the brains of a heist movie trailer as described by a child” You will snort milk out of your nose if you listen to it while drinking milk.
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@verycarrie is a “disciplined maximalist”
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Keep your eyes on people who have keen design sensibility and have also passed a statics course, they will continue to surprise you.
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juniorhoncho on BlueSky
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Good at posting nonsense, which we know is the highest form of posting.
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@Moonbase Does Cool Design
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Thoughtful design inspiration from futures past. All bangers.
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Today in Tabs, a Beat Newsletter
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Not beat like “evocative of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg“, but beat like when Kerouac described a “beat generation” - Today in Tabs is both truly defeated and kind of musical. Reading “Today in Tabs” makes me tired, but then I look forward to it. It’s a comfortable darkness, most days. Don’t make it your whole thing, but it’s very good internet.
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3Blue1Brown: Popular Math Videos
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Sanderson has developed a whole visual language for mathematics that is now finding its way into classrooms. It’s really, really hard to write popular mathematics content that isn’t either super shallow or deeply incomprehensible (or even both) but 3Blue1Brown regularly threads that needle.
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Bruce Sterling, A Historical Futurist
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Bruce Sterling has been doing social media since before it was social media, and internet since before there was an internet. He’s one of the fathers of cyberpunk and a thoughtful, design focused futurist, one of the few “futurists” that make any sense. I’ve linked his BlueSky but he’s also on Substack (and Bandcamp? And The WELL, and a zillion paper books)
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3D Printable T-Rex Skull
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This is free to download, a pretty easy and reliable print, and if you print it using purple plastic then it will be purple. I printed a lot of random junk when I got into 3D printing but many years later my big plastic T-Rex skull is the piece that brings me the most joy.
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David Roth’s Columns at Defector
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David Roth has spent a lot of time understanding bad sports owners, folks who are where they are due to inheritance or exogenous circumstance rather than suitability but whose whimsy has a large effect on you, a Mets fan. It turns out this apparently niche interest has broad applications. Here is Roth understanding why a random guy in a fancy Nashville suburb might go out of his way to pick a fight with the giant guy who plays Jack Reacher on “Reacher”
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Never Not Nervous, Brooke Barker’s Newsletter
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Barker is down to Earth, a professional writer disguised as your neighbor who plants tomatoes in their front yard. She presents an aspirational, intentional lifestyle that is neither fancy nor particularly Aquarian. It rules. This episode is all about a bridal magazine found in a little free library.
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