I feel like an unnerving percentage of the American population would have no problem bringing back the Hayes Code.
— Anything & Everything (@Any_And_Every) November 20, 2021
I think like 80% of liberals and 60% of conservatives would be perfectly amenable to bringing back the Hayes Code — but an even more restrictive version. The lib au courant thinking is that no work should have any “problematic” characters or situations in it.
So many prudes. So much fail.
a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly
— taber (@cakesandcourage) November 18, 2021
Damn, so true.
I’ve broken computers in ways you can’t even conceive of.
Still not quite used to having girls look at me in the grocery store like they want to eat me.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Me: No serial killer will ever lure me into their murder van. I' m too smart for that.
Murderer: pic.twitter.com/ThvagNDZvS
— Patricia Correll (@Author_PCorrell) November 19, 2021
I feel seen.
On a more somber note, I re-watched the scene the other day where Saoirse Ronan’s character in The Lovely Bones realizes she’s trapped with no escape from the killer’s murder den. Damn, that is painful to view — but great acting by Saoirse and Stanley Tucci. Such an excruciating scene.
No hysterics. She panics like most real people really panic. Tucci later said filming this scene caused him psychological trauma and I can understand why.
People are like “masks solve everything!” And then you look at a country’s vax rate and it’s terrible, and see that most of the spread/hospitalization is among the unvaxxed, and you wonder what they are playing at.
Man, “experts.” What do we do about their compulsive need to distort and outright lie “for your own good?” Is there a viable way around it at this point, while not descending into anti-vax anti-science conspiracizing?
I remember this magazine cover from back in the day and it's remained lodged in my memory as 90s techno utopian insanity but hoooo boy is the body of the article a helluva punchline pic.twitter.com/sw59e5HsFQ
— 🌏🐶🦕🥳 Hieronymus Burps 🥦💥 and 68 others (@hieronymus_burp) November 19, 2021
This was the peak of 1990s optimism. I remember this and that Wired cover very well. I read the entire magazine. It wasn’t just Wired, of course, and this optimism wasn’t just techno-; this sunny positivity was absolutely everywhere in the culture then, a cozy blanket surrounding us all.
What a very different world that was.
Nearly every (perhaps every?) memoir I’ve read has been intensely boring. Most people should not write books about their own lives. Perhaps no one should.
I have never experienced jet lag.