Our planet is buried in convenient shit. Bad but easy food. Bad but easy art. Bad but easy narratives, followed by bad but easy conclusions. Prioritizing convenience disincentivizes the slow work of contemplation. Perhaps, even, of questioning. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/cheap-fast...

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Think obedient.

The Trump Gaza AI video looks like the kind of surreal, absurdist art that CRASS would've put in their records in the 80s.

But even they would've found it too extreme and depraved as acceptable satire.

The Tesla Chainsaw Massacre

Granted, this is low on the list of terrible facts about Trump, but consider that he’s a Boomer who grew up with all the incredible music of the 60s, 70s and 80s, and his favorite song is “YMCA.”

I DO understand how Roman numerals work, but it’s a shame that Super Bowl LIX isn’t Super Bowl 69.

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My son will never understand how we endured the entire ARP Odyssey break in Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good To Me So Far" on the radio and accepted the tyranny of it all.

It's not a bad song, but I challenge you today to just listen from 2:52 to 4:36 of the 8:56 song, and not riot in the streets.

Doesn’t this mean RFK is a DEI hire? Like those they are trying to ban.

Elon's mom knew exactly what she was doing when she chose to name him an anagram for Lone Skum.

You don’t suppose that my insistence on teaching our 6-year-old my level of boundless sarcasm could ever come back to haunt me in 10 or so years, right?

The plural of vinyl is records.

Elon's mom knew exactly what she was doing when she chose to name him an anagram for Lone Skum.