I have this theory that the Japanese don't have this uncanny valley dread because their introduction to robots was Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy - while we in the West got killer robots.

I think of Max Beerbohm's avant-garde poet Enoch Soames when I get delusions of adequacy. So inspiring. Ahem.
Probably the funniest story I've read.

Yeah, they were great. This was not. Standard camp fire strumming and flabby singing. Not experimental nor underground.
I do feel guilty for censoring people, but the rule is to post each piece just once. And no Nazis - which seems to cut out half of Finland's noise musicians...

Denny Hamlin led the season's last race until a caution came out three laps before the finish. Everybody pitted. Hamlin got four tires, Kyle Larson just two. So Larson won the NASCAR Cup.
NASCAR's races are on Youtube. Way more entertaining than F1. So many different winners each race.

Future archaeologists will call our times the Plastic Age, as everything else we make will have rotted or rusted away. They will look at rock strata and find one stuffed with microplastic.

Like this fellow. I bet he never played a good guy in his career. He has 'criminal' written all over his face.

Absolutely. Good one.
But how about one where the actors who always play criminals are heroes?
There is Peter Lorre. Usually the monster, he played Mr. Moto, a Japanese American agent. That was before the war, obviously.