C.T. Cooper
@ctc3d.bsky.social
Computational forester, data munger.
Doomsplaining -- 5¢
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Subclinical not otherwise specified.
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C.T. Cooper
@ctc3d.bsky.social
· Feb 9
Years and years ago I started work on a book about totalitarianism. It had been provoked by reading Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism during my lunch breaks at AOL, around the time when they believed they had acquired Time-Warner.
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Watched last night (second try): Police Story (1985). Rejected. Chan fans, but no. Gilligan's Island with better action scenes. Thought I'd seen it before but apparently not.
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Watched last night (second try): Police Story (1985). Rejected. Chan fans, but no. Gilligan's Island with better action scenes. Thought I'd seen it before but apparently not.
Watched last night: Wake Up Dead Man. Rejected. Not about humans.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Watched last night: Wake Up Dead Man. Rejected. Not about humans.
Watched last night: Pluribus. Rejected.
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Watched last night: Pluribus. Rejected.
Morning #earworm:
Believe it or not, George isn't at home
Please leave a message at the beep
I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone
Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home.
Believe it or not, George isn't at home
Please leave a message at the beep
I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone
Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home.
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Morning #earworm:
Believe it or not, George isn't at home
Please leave a message at the beep
I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone
Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home.
Believe it or not, George isn't at home
Please leave a message at the beep
I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone
Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home.
Watched last night: It Happened One Night.
As good as it's supposed to be, but the problem with Capra is that both the comedy and the sentimental interludes are always saying "Chee I'm glad we're not different from this," where Sturges is always "Well here we are...".
As good as it's supposed to be, but the problem with Capra is that both the comedy and the sentimental interludes are always saying "Chee I'm glad we're not different from this," where Sturges is always "Well here we are...".
December 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Watched last night: It Happened One Night.
As good as it's supposed to be, but the problem with Capra is that both the comedy and the sentimental interludes are always saying "Chee I'm glad we're not different from this," where Sturges is always "Well here we are...".
As good as it's supposed to be, but the problem with Capra is that both the comedy and the sentimental interludes are always saying "Chee I'm glad we're not different from this," where Sturges is always "Well here we are...".
December 2000; for the first time I didn't have to go home for the horridays. XMAX day, very baked, went to a matinee of 2001 A Space Odyssey at the Castro. It was on this occasion that I realized it's a comedy and HAL is the comic. Peak.
Christmas Night 1997, I’m home and out with some high school friends all on break from our first year in college, and we go on opening night to a full, drunk, high, and mostly Black Detroit theater to see Jackie Brown
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
December 2000; for the first time I didn't have to go home for the horridays. XMAX day, very baked, went to a matinee of 2001 A Space Odyssey at the Castro. It was on this occasion that I realized it's a comedy and HAL is the comic. Peak.
Morning #earworm: Nothing to start but then a self-inflicted reprise of "Simple Man". Have now drifted to Eno, "Needles in the Camel's Eye" for no apparent reason.
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Morning #earworm: Nothing to start but then a self-inflicted reprise of "Simple Man". Have now drifted to Eno, "Needles in the Camel's Eye" for no apparent reason.
Watched last night: Bullet In The Head.
First third, another A+; then it's just a whole lot of disorganized kapow.
First third, another A+; then it's just a whole lot of disorganized kapow.
December 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Watched last night: Bullet In The Head.
First third, another A+; then it's just a whole lot of disorganized kapow.
First third, another A+; then it's just a whole lot of disorganized kapow.
Watched last night: Ashes and Diamonds. Another A+; two in a row -- we're on a roll!
December 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Watched last night: Ashes and Diamonds. Another A+; two in a row -- we're on a roll!
And if it's no longer possible for you to get that, goddamn.
To those of you in the year 2100 for whom the word "impactful" is just an ordinary word, understand that it began as a sure sign that the person using it had given up on organized expression in favor of giving off utterances that were more impactful.
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
And if it's no longer possible for you to get that, goddamn.
To those of you in the year 2100 for whom the word "impactful" is just an ordinary word, understand that it began as a sure sign that the person using it had given up on organized expression in favor of giving off utterances that were more impactful.
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
To those of you in the year 2100 for whom the word "impactful" is just an ordinary word, understand that it began as a sure sign that the person using it had given up on organized expression in favor of giving off utterances that were more impactful.
Watched last night: Palm Beach Story. Practically the best movie.
December 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Watched last night: Palm Beach Story. Practically the best movie.
Morning #earworm: "Your Own Comes First", Van Dyke Parks; unprovoked.
So, Granadians for Granadians
Jamaicians for Jamaicians
Even Barbados take the same route
Trinidadians, buck up and follow suit
So, Granadians for Granadians
Jamaicians for Jamaicians
Even Barbados take the same route
Trinidadians, buck up and follow suit
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Morning #earworm: "Your Own Comes First", Van Dyke Parks; unprovoked.
So, Granadians for Granadians
Jamaicians for Jamaicians
Even Barbados take the same route
Trinidadians, buck up and follow suit
So, Granadians for Granadians
Jamaicians for Jamaicians
Even Barbados take the same route
Trinidadians, buck up and follow suit