I’d never noticed before how much speedrunning is a form of dance

Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon - SF that takes place over billions of years (&light years) and was loved by Borges, Virginia Woolf, and Arthur C Clarke alike? So beautiful, so bananas

His rival, Sunni Labeouf

Definitely also some notes of A Matter of Life & Death (1946) in the Tom and Jerry

Including the “why is this so hard for me” spiral

For me this phenomenon is linked to the paradoxical motivation problem of ADHD - if i try to motivate myself with a reward for a trivial task, the bigger the reward, the more friction in dealing with the initial task; same thing with how a task being more important makes it more daunting.

I don’t know if it’s a fair choice, since they have a whole album of quasi country ones, but I’m partial to this one by the Magnetic Fields (as well as of “Papa Was A Rodeo)

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There’s something that really spooks me about the Errol Morris interview with him about the movie.

Watching someone walk right up to the threshold of the door he will never enter

youtu.be/aeQOJZ-QzBk?...

Pope? yes.

But it was the spear that gave him those ripped abs

“Listen all o’ yall this is SANTA CLAUS”