my tastes were described (I think affirmatively) by a normie friend as "stoner with a PhD" which means I overlap a lot here as well

god this is so hard, the 80s is my favorite movie decade. Top 8 (cont.)

Do the Right Thing
Once Upon A Time in America
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Raising Arizona

for a couple years, we always knew 1 second before our phone rang that our phone was going to ring because of that noise, a little glimpse into the microfuture

renewing this thread for another season

www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Qx...

just think how embarrassed you'd be to tell someone to connect to the Radiowire Speaker

yeah, or some slightly modified version of it IIRC

seriously though, a student presented this as part of their very solid early research report to the class, and I turned into Roland Barthes/Desus & Mero for about 1 minute, a little on-the-spot semiotic exegesis, a little pointing at stuff and cracking up, some will remember it for a week or so

my maimed sons

so proud of my severely injured boys

this is a Questlove bat signal

The lockdown/phone era "being at home a lot more than other generations" explanation makes sense to me (though I'm probably overthinking it) because home and/or bed is where lighting is warm and comfortable and not institutional and fluorescent?

We have a student lounge and every time I go in there (mostly to drop off another jigsaw puzzle I've finished), they are on their laptops or phones with an amount of natural/artificial light appropriate only for moles or carp

how dare they call my beloved wife a "centerpiece"