Fondor Haulcraft
@dayuan.bsky.social
aka Jacques-Larry David/Jean-Luc Lemur. A god walking among men for being relatively handsome and taking the subway.
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Fondor Haulcraft
@dayuan.bsky.social
· Jan 7
The rewards for being clever are meager and cleverness is no guarantee you’ll be right either.
Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?
Covers both Boston, where I was literally born, and a fictional version of the sort of town I actually lived in
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Covers both Boston, where I was literally born, and a fictional version of the sort of town I actually lived in
Also means I will not be following along and finally understanding(?) all the Steelers-derived memes on my feed
Was looking forward (or “looking forward”) to watching Bears game with my dad only to find it’s not showing in this market because local CBS affiliate does not want to bother competing with the Packers and decided to show Friends reruns instead
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Also means I will not be following along and finally understanding(?) all the Steelers-derived memes on my feed
Was looking forward (or “looking forward”) to watching Bears game with my dad only to find it’s not showing in this market because local CBS affiliate does not want to bother competing with the Packers and decided to show Friends reruns instead
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Was looking forward (or “looking forward”) to watching Bears game with my dad only to find it’s not showing in this market because local CBS affiliate does not want to bother competing with the Packers and decided to show Friends reruns instead
Imagining Tony Judt meeting Paul Dooley’s character from Breaking Away
I always think of Tony Judt on this (though I'd hold the condescension and double down on the public university systems in the heartland)
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Imagining Tony Judt meeting Paul Dooley’s character from Breaking Away
I’m confident that muting the word “humanities” on here will make life much more pleasant
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I’m confident that muting the word “humanities” on here will make life much more pleasant
Thinking of the Coffee 2 post in my parents’ cold house, as they have a good enough thermos for me to still be drinking Coffee 1 in the afternoon.
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thinking of the Coffee 2 post in my parents’ cold house, as they have a good enough thermos for me to still be drinking Coffee 1 in the afternoon.
Arriving in Milwaukee, looking out my window, and seeing a guy jet skiing on the Menomonee River in 45F weather.
This is a great city.
This is a great city.
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Arriving in Milwaukee, looking out my window, and seeing a guy jet skiing on the Menomonee River in 45F weather.
This is a great city.
This is a great city.
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Man,
I hope this email finds you so back, rather than so over
I hope this email finds you so back, rather than so over
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Man,
I hope this email finds you so back, rather than so over
I hope this email finds you so back, rather than so over
Taking an escalator down to board an elevated train just messes with my intuition.
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Taking an escalator down to board an elevated train just messes with my intuition.
I used to be very good at low-grade slight masculine jerkiness and I need to get back in the swing of it.
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I used to be very good at low-grade slight masculine jerkiness and I need to get back in the swing of it.
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Couldn't remember Jon Hamm's name or the name of his character. So I made a discovery
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Couldn't remember Jon Hamm's name or the name of his character. So I made a discovery
The thing with the Hertzberger building is that you only get that image from black-and-white photos of it (possibly unfinished!)—that impression doesn’t come through at all on the actual building.
So much architectural discourse happened through bad photography and we’re all poorer for it.
So much architectural discourse happened through bad photography and we’re all poorer for it.
This is a pretty good description of DC's Hirshhorn Museum building. (Even if it misspells the name.)
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The thing with the Hertzberger building is that you only get that image from black-and-white photos of it (possibly unfinished!)—that impression doesn’t come through at all on the actual building.
So much architectural discourse happened through bad photography and we’re all poorer for it.
So much architectural discourse happened through bad photography and we’re all poorer for it.
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Hmm my impression at the time was that it had all the bad you could expect from a modern interpretation with none of the good of myth.
This may be Hellenic chauvinism but I think Yorgos is the only filmmaker who really “gets” myth and how it mixes the arbitrary with the absolutely necessary.
This may be Hellenic chauvinism but I think Yorgos is the only filmmaker who really “gets” myth and how it mixes the arbitrary with the absolutely necessary.
Watching Aronofsky's Noah, and why are we not all talking about this all of the time?
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Hmm my impression at the time was that it had all the bad you could expect from a modern interpretation with none of the good of myth.
This may be Hellenic chauvinism but I think Yorgos is the only filmmaker who really “gets” myth and how it mixes the arbitrary with the absolutely necessary.
This may be Hellenic chauvinism but I think Yorgos is the only filmmaker who really “gets” myth and how it mixes the arbitrary with the absolutely necessary.
Ordered a cappuccino and gave my name as “[Jacques-Larry] from the North End” to distinguish myself from the other Alex here and what am I even doing (I am a Greek from the Merrimack Valley, not a Boston Italian).
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Ordered a cappuccino and gave my name as “[Jacques-Larry] from the North End” to distinguish myself from the other Alex here and what am I even doing (I am a Greek from the Merrimack Valley, not a Boston Italian).
Unintentional perfect timing to resuming rewatching the Woman Called Fujiko, which has both plots about stealing some French crown jewels and a global plutocratic child abuse conspiracy
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Unintentional perfect timing to resuming rewatching the Woman Called Fujiko, which has both plots about stealing some French crown jewels and a global plutocratic child abuse conspiracy
lol actually just did something like this with a houseguest (The Name of the Rose and a book by R. Buckminster Fuller)
alright let’s get something more pleasant going. what two books would you leave out on your coffee table so a reporter can mention you have them. doesn’t matter if you’ve read them. for me it’s Pale Fire (which I did read) and Ulysses (got like 15% of the way in)
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
lol actually just did something like this with a houseguest (The Name of the Rose and a book by R. Buckminster Fuller)
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People who say Big Dave can't be forgiven because they poked a catgirl are the same people who simp for these folks.
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
People who say Big Dave can't be forgiven because they poked a catgirl are the same people who simp for these folks.
The real kicker in this is about his publisher.
Also “Mr. Ferrari’s readers include his co-workers” makes me think of Croupier, which is one of the all-time great chronically underseen movies and also about whole the “writer making a living at odd hours” dynamic.
Also “Mr. Ferrari’s readers include his co-workers” makes me think of Croupier, which is one of the all-time great chronically underseen movies and also about whole the “writer making a living at odd hours” dynamic.
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The real kicker in this is about his publisher.
Also “Mr. Ferrari’s readers include his co-workers” makes me think of Croupier, which is one of the all-time great chronically underseen movies and also about whole the “writer making a living at odd hours” dynamic.
Also “Mr. Ferrari’s readers include his co-workers” makes me think of Croupier, which is one of the all-time great chronically underseen movies and also about whole the “writer making a living at odd hours” dynamic.
Just saw the woman of my dreams driving an old Acura TLX station wagon
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Just saw the woman of my dreams driving an old Acura TLX station wagon
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Can't quite get my head around what it must have felt like for fans to have somehow against all odds succeeded in saving Star Trek for a third season and then you turn on Ep 3.1 and it's "Spock's Brain."
Also I love "Spock's Brain."
Also I love "Spock's Brain."
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Can't quite get my head around what it must have felt like for fans to have somehow against all odds succeeded in saving Star Trek for a third season and then you turn on Ep 3.1 and it's "Spock's Brain."
Also I love "Spock's Brain."
Also I love "Spock's Brain."
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what else can you say but feliz jueves and possibly dudes rock
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
what else can you say but feliz jueves and possibly dudes rock
People aged differently in the past. This is what a 51 year-old looked like in 1985.
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
People aged differently in the past. This is what a 51 year-old looked like in 1985.