Fondor Haulcraft
@dayuan.bsky.social
aka Jacques-Larry David/Jean-Luc Lemur. A god walking among men for being relatively handsome and taking the subway.
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Fondor Haulcraft
@dayuan.bsky.social
· Jan 7
The rewards for being clever are meager and cleverness is no guarantee you’ll be right either.
“George Coe, why does that name sound so familiar…” I thought to myself before making a loud and profane exclamation
February 5, 2026 at 4:59 AM
“George Coe, why does that name sound so familiar…” I thought to myself before making a loud and profane exclamation
Not me I’m constantly running out of cumin
America might be the only country on the planet where most every home cook will frequently end up with a pantry full of staple seasonings from the rest of the world, but that you personally will use infrequently. Some people would regard that as bad for some reason
why are we like this in america
February 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Not me I’m constantly running out of cumin
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the Westminster winner's full name is ConnQuest Best of Both Worlds and I don't think it's a Popstar reference based on the breeder's website but also what if it was
February 4, 2026 at 10:56 PM
the Westminster winner's full name is ConnQuest Best of Both Worlds and I don't think it's a Popstar reference based on the breeder's website but also what if it was
Recently rewatched rewatched “The Arsenal of Freedom” and:
1. Geordi pronounced T’su’s (24th century Wade-Giles?) first name as “Lee Anne”
2. At one point she moves her head in such a way that her hairdo looks like it’s being blown back, like the explosion sent a shockwave through the viewer
1. Geordi pronounced T’su’s (24th century Wade-Giles?) first name as “Lee Anne”
2. At one point she moves her head in such a way that her hairdo looks like it’s being blown back, like the explosion sent a shockwave through the viewer
Nice! I just remember the actors complaining about season 1 tng chairs being way too reclined!
February 4, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Recently rewatched rewatched “The Arsenal of Freedom” and:
1. Geordi pronounced T’su’s (24th century Wade-Giles?) first name as “Lee Anne”
2. At one point she moves her head in such a way that her hairdo looks like it’s being blown back, like the explosion sent a shockwave through the viewer
1. Geordi pronounced T’su’s (24th century Wade-Giles?) first name as “Lee Anne”
2. At one point she moves her head in such a way that her hairdo looks like it’s being blown back, like the explosion sent a shockwave through the viewer
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Just saw an absolutely spotless fd rx-7 being driven by a woman in her 60s or 70s
February 4, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Just saw an absolutely spotless fd rx-7 being driven by a woman in her 60s or 70s
When I have an Event to go to but forget to get a haircut
February 3, 2026 at 7:40 PM
When I have an Event to go to but forget to get a haircut
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4854 West Lake Street
February 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM
4854 West Lake Street
Prokofiev’s first piano concerto feels like it was composed in an earlier century than the rest (which I guess it was, in a Hobsbawm sense)
February 3, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Prokofiev’s first piano concerto feels like it was composed in an earlier century than the rest (which I guess it was, in a Hobsbawm sense)
Dad’s side: Easier place to be a refugee than Beirut or Athens
Mom’s side: Assumed there’d be more/warmer opportunities for blacksmithing than in Finnmark
Mom’s side: Assumed there’d be more/warmer opportunities for blacksmithing than in Finnmark
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Dad’s side: Easier place to be a refugee than Beirut or Athens
Mom’s side: Assumed there’d be more/warmer opportunities for blacksmithing than in Finnmark
Mom’s side: Assumed there’d be more/warmer opportunities for blacksmithing than in Finnmark
Megan Jasper has OPINIONS on Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
February 3, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Megan Jasper has OPINIONS on Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
Chilling like a shrimp
February 1, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Chilling like a shrimp
I have done this accidentally with a couple of other movies but for the first time ever I saw someone do intentional cosplay to a film today (Ryan O’Neal in The Driver, which is both a deep cut but also *just* over the line of “I’m wearing this normally” plausible deniability).
So when I first saw Taxi Driver in my early twenties and (somehow) went in almost totally blank, not realizing that young Robert de Niro looked *a lot* like me and that I was almost doing unintentional cosplay going into the theater.
February 1, 2026 at 1:52 AM
I have done this accidentally with a couple of other movies but for the first time ever I saw someone do intentional cosplay to a film today (Ryan O’Neal in The Driver, which is both a deep cut but also *just* over the line of “I’m wearing this normally” plausible deniability).
January 31, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Imagine driving down the Miracle Mile in 1967 and seeing this in your rearview mirror...
Fear not, it's just sculptor Howard Ball in a VW towing one of his fiberglass mammoths to be installed at the La Brea Tar Pits.
Fear not, it's just sculptor Howard Ball in a VW towing one of his fiberglass mammoths to be installed at the La Brea Tar Pits.
January 29, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Imagine driving down the Miracle Mile in 1967 and seeing this in your rearview mirror...
Fear not, it's just sculptor Howard Ball in a VW towing one of his fiberglass mammoths to be installed at the La Brea Tar Pits.
Fear not, it's just sculptor Howard Ball in a VW towing one of his fiberglass mammoths to be installed at the La Brea Tar Pits.
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The example that I would use is Showa Era Totalitarianism and Yukio Mishima. The antithesis—and I’m being very serious about this—is Godzilla Minus One.
January 30, 2026 at 9:43 PM
The example that I would use is Showa Era Totalitarianism and Yukio Mishima. The antithesis—and I’m being very serious about this—is Godzilla Minus One.
“people who expect that their efforts can move the dial—who have that generalized sense that problems are soluble—cope better with shocks, persist longer in the face of difficulty, and actually end up healthier and richer over the life course.“
braddelong.substack.com/p/dan-davies...
braddelong.substack.com/p/dan-davies...
Dan Davies Demonstrates for Immigrants: He Returns Home Worried About How Hopelessness Powers Xenophobia
Is the real threat not open cruelty but a corrosive conviction that rich societies are too broken to solve solvable problems. Dan Davies describes Britain’s anti-immigrant protesters as people...
braddelong.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:21 PM
“people who expect that their efforts can move the dial—who have that generalized sense that problems are soluble—cope better with shocks, persist longer in the face of difficulty, and actually end up healthier and richer over the life course.“
braddelong.substack.com/p/dan-davies...
braddelong.substack.com/p/dan-davies...
She is so good in After Hours, standing out in a whole cast of character actor stand outs
January 30, 2026 at 6:52 PM
She is so good in After Hours, standing out in a whole cast of character actor stand outs
Thank you Bloomberg for still doing rss feeds for us old-heads, all…uh…two of us:
January 30, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Thank you Bloomberg for still doing rss feeds for us old-heads, all…uh…two of us:
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Law & Order: KGB. Reposted because Kevin asked. I made these like ten years ago or something.
January 26, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Law & Order: KGB. Reposted because Kevin asked. I made these like ten years ago or something.
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Okay, one more.
January 26, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Okay, one more.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."