rhorsman @rhorsman@octodon.social
Oldish. Pretty vanilla in color and flavor, but hopefully an ally? "Lentrohamsanin" from Metafilter, to give that contingent a marker. Michigandroid. He/him
YOUR NAME was solid, but Shinkai is not going to hit the American mainstream any time soon. It's very very anime.
About to go to a morning showing of YOUR NAME. Totally thought we'd missed it but then my wife pointed out it still had some late and early screenings. Sunday morning movies are awesome, especially since the local theater has a coffee bar. It's church.
Okay; maybe every piece on Soylent, but generically I'd say those are tech writing, not food writing.
"People in this culture really love food" is the worst food writing clichés. All cultures love food. Just once I'd like to see an article that starts with "People in this culture despise eating. They consider it a filthy act, done under a cloud of shame. Flavor, texture, and sustenance: all are abominations across the land. The national dish is a hard bread made of sawdust, moss, and penance."
("British food is bad" does not count as an instance of this. That's its own cliché.)
Team Pebble just sent one last update to the official app. The description was basically "Welp, we're boned, but here's a thing to keep your watch working without our services." Think that's the first time a software update has made me tear up a little.
Nice quiet night here in A2. Medium sized crowd seeing Mary Mack at the Comedy Showcase. Vibe is very relaxed.
Two days running I've been reading more at night, and two days running I've woken up in a much better mood. Clear causality here.
Made up a fake Springsteen song that was just "Run through the cars of New Jersey/Run run run run run" over and over.
Dagnabit and cornswarnit: forgot to stay off Instagram and got a spoiler for the World Team Skating that we're DVRing.
@groofay I am following you because you went with Satie as your avatar and therefore must be the right sort of person to follow.
Seriously, though, "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" is so fucking underrated and I DO NOT understand why.
Too Like the Lightning update: still enjoying it quite a bit. It's an interesting world, and Palmer is a great stylist. It maybe relies a bit too much on significant conversations to move the plot forward for my taste, but that's a peril in both SF and political intrigue novels, so probably inescapable. And she's good at keeping those scenes engaging so they're not just data dumps.
Two weeks in I'm still digging Mastodon. it's nice here.
It got better.
Let loose with an involuntary groan when I left the house this morning. Don't think I'm feeling today.
Just saw TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN, a mid 70s low budget attempt to do a straightforward and relatively faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel. It's a rickety affair (they misspell Shelley's name in the credits for starters), but it all somehow acts in the film's favor: a ramshackle production about a careless act of creation and its consequences. It's completely outside the worlds of Universal and Hammer, and a damn sight more interesting than Branagh's stab at a "true" adaptation.
Ah, spring: fresh air, sunshine, Show more
I spend a lot of time thinking about developing and improving my fundamental skills. Unfortunately I spend more time avoiding any steps that would start applying that thinking.
Glad our office is closing early today because I'm deeply religious and need to start watching the new MST3K as an act of devotion.
