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The first scene really spoke to me, as someone who, at a similar event, talking to someone I thought was "Faye's mom" rather than "president of the PTA," suckered myself into producing the musical
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The first scene really spoke to me, as someone who, at a similar event, talking to someone I thought was "Faye's mom" rather than "president of the PTA," suckered myself into producing the musical
It's splendid!
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It's splendid!
Yeah, but I realized recently there was no point in keeping mine when I can't read them again without rage and despair. So out they went.
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Yeah, but I realized recently there was no point in keeping mine when I can't read them again without rage and despair. So out they went.
Sounds fabulous.
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Sounds fabulous.
This is the one that made me go, ohhhhh it's like the Coen brothers, all pastiches of different murder mystery styles. Not an earth-shattering observation, but it let me see it as another book on the shelf in a way.
December 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This is the one that made me go, ohhhhh it's like the Coen brothers, all pastiches of different murder mystery styles. Not an earth-shattering observation, but it let me see it as another book on the shelf in a way.
It's not some kind of Korean rice cake, right?
December 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It's not some kind of Korean rice cake, right?
My favorite is, "There's no need to use language, that's what I always say." From After Magritte.
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 AM
My favorite is, "There's no need to use language, that's what I always say." From After Magritte.
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"if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course" is a fuckin all-timer.
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course" is a fuckin all-timer.
I know it's a typo, but for a second I was like... Dorothy?
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I know it's a typo, but for a second I was like... Dorothy?
I wonder the gender breakdown of people traveling any distance by horse vs by car? I think of women in relatively rural places just being... Stuck.
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I wonder the gender breakdown of people traveling any distance by horse vs by car? I think of women in relatively rural places just being... Stuck.
Is that one a unicorn??
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Is that one a unicorn??
Otoh, I have my boy a name that ranks around #300 for his birth year (family name), and he's only had one overlap in his entire schooling, and it was not a kid in his grade. #300 for girls is a lot more individuals.
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Otoh, I have my boy a name that ranks around #300 for his birth year (family name), and he's only had one overlap in his entire schooling, and it was not a kid in his grade. #300 for girls is a lot more individuals.
It's been a minute, but I believe that's mentioned in this favorite episode of a favorite podcast podcast.app/another-mans...
Another Man’s Treasure: A History Of Trash [rebroadcast] - BackStory
Let’s just call this episode trashy. The Guys pick through America’s history of garbage - from the filth-eating pigs that once ran free in New York City and kept the city clean, to the soda industry’s...
podcast.app
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It's been a minute, but I believe that's mentioned in this favorite episode of a favorite podcast podcast.app/another-mans...
Don't forget when NYC wanted to clean the place up for a world's fair or similar and hired people to swim out into the rivers and spear the floating horse corpses in the hopes that they would sink.
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Don't forget when NYC wanted to clean the place up for a world's fair or similar and hired people to swim out into the rivers and spear the floating horse corpses in the hopes that they would sink.
Also people are relatively conservative in naming boys vs girls, so there's more clustering.
I say relatively because I live in Brooklyn. But still: way more Gus overlap here than anything for girls.
I say relatively because I live in Brooklyn. But still: way more Gus overlap here than anything for girls.
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Also people are relatively conservative in naming boys vs girls, so there's more clustering.
I say relatively because I live in Brooklyn. But still: way more Gus overlap here than anything for girls.
I say relatively because I live in Brooklyn. But still: way more Gus overlap here than anything for girls.
Don't get me wrong, they are fantastic. Smart and long-lived and highly individual. I love how humans and horses and dogs grew up together, in the sense that our lives have been intertwined long enough to envoke evolution. I don't really ride anymore, but just being around them is magnificent.
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Don't get me wrong, they are fantastic. Smart and long-lived and highly individual. I love how humans and horses and dogs grew up together, in the sense that our lives have been intertwined long enough to envoke evolution. I don't really ride anymore, but just being around them is magnificent.
Horse maintenance also has potential for injury, though again, more likely to the person taking care of the horse.
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Horse maintenance also has potential for injury, though again, more likely to the person taking care of the horse.
The more I think about my own experiences with horses vs cars, the more I think horses are going to cause more injury per mile by almost any measure. However, it's true that the person injured by the horse is almost always the "driver/passengers," vs bystanders hit by cars.
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The more I think about my own experiences with horses vs cars, the more I think horses are going to cause more injury per mile by almost any measure. However, it's true that the person injured by the horse is almost always the "driver/passengers," vs bystanders hit by cars.
I mean kind of? I've fallen off horses way more per mile traveled than I've had any problem with my car, let alone problems that caused even minor injuries. I should knock on wood, but at the moment horses have been WAY more dangerous in my own life.
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I mean kind of? I've fallen off horses way more per mile traveled than I've had any problem with my car, let alone problems that caused even minor injuries. I should knock on wood, but at the moment horses have been WAY more dangerous in my own life.
As a horse-obsessed elementary schooler, I bent every ear I could get at on my utopian visions of a world of horse-based travel with the benefits of modern safety equipment. I reluctantly admit there may be some things I didn't solve all the way.
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
As a horse-obsessed elementary schooler, I bent every ear I could get at on my utopian visions of a world of horse-based travel with the benefits of modern safety equipment. I reluctantly admit there may be some things I didn't solve all the way.
If it's compared in a way that includes how many more people regularly travel much greater distances (eg to work/school, also "real" travel), my guess is that the injury rate might not be higher now. (If we are going to talk about, e.g., air pollution health effects, then I bet it's higher.)
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If it's compared in a way that includes how many more people regularly travel much greater distances (eg to work/school, also "real" travel), my guess is that the injury rate might not be higher now. (If we are going to talk about, e.g., air pollution health effects, then I bet it's higher.)