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That's a ... pretty deep cut. Here is the Grey Gardens doc.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:44 AM on May 3, 2024

watching "Grey Gardens" is like being inside a late-era J.D. Salinger story.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:20 AM on May 3, 2024

"Linda was already in the bar when I arrived. She wrapped me up in a hug, and I remembered how much like a bicycle she had felt like in bed." --Erasure, by Percival Everett
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:23 AM on May 3, 2024

I'm on team "Loved Heinlein as a teenager, loved the book, loved this movie."
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:00 AM on May 3, 2024

This is fascinating, and rather extraordinary that it's the first time this has been documented. I mean, where do we think "traditional medicine" came from, anyway?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:54 AM on May 3, 2024

ME, MYSELF AND I – FRANCOIS BRUNELLE AND HIS DOPPELGÄNGER PROJECT [FIND YOUR LOOK ALIKE]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:42 AM on May 3, 2024

In a sense, it is bizarre that estar(ser)—an acronym that, being two forms of the Spanish “to be,” is largely un-Googleable—has become the Order’s public front, mounting lectures and exhibitions across the country.

Lol. Birds aren't real.

I googled estar(ser) and the Third Bird Site is in the top 20 results.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:49 AM on May 2, 2024

Also, they don't print (very many) pictures. So they have to describe things. Including people.

this is, I think, the offending paragraph:

As an academic at the lectern, Burnett cut a curious figure. He was tall, with a graying backpacker’s beard and light-brown hair pulled into a topknot. He wore sixteen silver rings, gunmetal nail polish, and an outfit—T-shirt, V-neck sweater-vest, climbing pants—entirely in shades of light gray. He… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:24 AM on May 2, 2024

naah, it's a NY'er article, everything is overdescribed
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:39 AM on May 2, 2024

Every time I read something on this theme (and this one is a very good exemplar!) I think of that Billy Joel song, "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," specifically these lines near the end:

They lived for a while in a
Very nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter
Of course
And they parted the closest
Of friends
Then the king and the queen went
Back to the green
But you can never go back
There again
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:34 AM on May 2, 2024

Related: The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think)
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:05 AM on May 2, 2024

Lyrics to songs - we have lost some of that, though I have to admit google is pretty good.

Genius is your friend.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:36 AM on May 2, 2024

Fish out of Marillion! Derek Dick? A stalwart of the old Viz. comic
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:41 AM on May 1, 2024

Does it have a page for bloody horses running wild through the streets of London?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:18 PM on April 29, 2024

Keurig sans coffee cup

Keurig sans sounds like a font name
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:41 AM on April 29, 2024

Ungated version
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:36 AM on April 29, 2024

MetaFilter: ...turns out it's from a porno!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:57 PM on April 28, 2024

Maybe the best comparison for me in my own musical pantheon for Taylor would be Melissa Etheridge, who also writes songs about relationships and is generally musically same-ish.

Just for the record:

ETHERIDGE: It was probably 15 years ago when I first met [Taylor Swift]. She was just starting out. That’s when she told me that she came to see me in Reading, Pennsylvania when she was 11 years old and wanted to play guitar.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:24 PM on April 26, 2024

Menu
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New season asparagus x3 £73.50
Fried haddock fillet x3 £73.50
Green herb salad £7
Salted caramel truffles £6.50
Tomato juice £3.50
Diet Coke £4.50
Bottle Eira still water x2 £11.90
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Flat white £4.50
Decaffeinated Americano £4.50
Total (inc service and cover charge) £224.94

The Pet Shop Boys have lunch with the FT. No, really.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:54 PM on April 27, 2024

Ungated version of lunch with the FT
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:08 PM on April 27, 2024

How Taylor Swift Writes About Being Taylor Swift [The Ringer]

In Tortured Poets, Swift likewise asks a lot of her audience. The album begs a close read and rewards fourth, fifth, sixth, and 16th listens. Many songs have third verses, unusual for pop tune packaging. The double album runs over an Easter egg–packed two hours. Swift has more than enough fans who want to do this homework—and who feel rewarded by the excavation—to set streaming record after record.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:27 PM on April 27, 2024

This is excellent, can't wait to read the next installment. Perlstein is a very perspicacious observer of class & politics; Nixonland is brilliant as is Reaganland.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:20 PM on April 26, 2024

For Android users using fingerprint/face unlock, you can quickly and temporarily disable biometric login at ANY time by long-pressing the power key and touching the "Lockdown" icon, after which your next login will require the passcode.

fortunately, my Android phone erratically and randomly and at least once every fucking day will tell me it needs me to enter my slightly complicated password to unlock instead of just opening with biometrics… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:01 PM on April 26, 2024

Am I old?

Probably older than you think. [Also, Pope is Catholic, Bears shit in the woods, &c...]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:14 AM on April 26, 2024

put on Pearl Jam and the kids noped right out of the room and for a glorious half an hour we had peace and quiet

"let's put on some Pearl Jam for the peace and quiet" is ... chef's kiss
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:14 AM on April 26, 2024

The "Portugal Model" has come under fire of late, mainly because the initial enthusiasm and almost instant, largely persistent results have started to fade over time (20 years!) and now there are new & different drugs, new & different users and new & different dynamics. But there is anecdotal as well as hard evidence that the mix of non-aggressive policing, decriminalization & community care as described in the FPP dramatically reduced the number of chronic users and… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:59 AM on April 25, 2024

I still have a soft spot for the Susan B. Anthony dollar, a much unloved coin that, while round, faked it with an eleven-sided internal cut design.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:04 AM on April 25, 2024

This just in: Portugal must 'pay costs' of slavery and colonial crimes, president says
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:26 AM on April 25, 2024

Did they bring their shark repellent wombat-spray?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:46 AM on April 24, 2024

Her voice is really interesting. At my first listen (watching the "Heaven" video) it sounded masculine and felt like she was lipsynching to a man singing. But then the voice got to me and it felt like I mentally shifted and it all clicked and now the voice is just ... hers.

Lovely stuff.

Is there any way to hear the World Café program linked above? The link on the site just goes to the World Café page with the playlist, but I can't find a link to hear it.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:27 AM on April 24, 2024

Periodic, though off-topic, reminder that The Atlantic is edited by David Frum, who is implicated in war crimes committed by the regime of George W Bush.

The very littlest Caesars
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:34 AM on April 23, 2024

The Man Who Trapped Us In Databases [via this kliuless post and also mentioned in this FPP] is an excerpt from McKenzie Funk's The Hank Show which is an eye-opening & nerve-wracking book about exactly how governments and corporations have been collecting and (ab)using personal information [financial, medical, commercial, intimate &c &c] since not long after the dawn of computing.

This shouldn't undermine mine Maarten's point about being extremely careful… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:39 AM on April 23, 2024

The Flying Carriers(Part 1) & The Flying Carriers (Part 2) & The Flying Carriers (Part 3) & The Flying Carriers (Part 4)
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:13 AM on April 22, 2024

I'm waiting for Phish to get stuck on a floating platform in the exact center of The Sphere.

I mean, they did it at the Square Garden, why not at The Sphere?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:58 AM on April 20, 2024

Let A⊆R2 be a set of n points with minimum distance equal to 1, chosen to minimise the diameter of A. If n is sufficiently large then must there be three points in A
which form an equilateral triangle of size 1?

I got 99 problems and this is one of 'em.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:03 AM on April 20, 2024

Mr Irons said both birds had shown no interest in rooming in with their own species.

I hear ya, birds...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:19 AM on April 20, 2024

Maybe they could rebrand the Bitcoin "halving" as the "dilution" instead
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:22 PM on April 18, 2024

maybe he'd get distracted trying to establish the idea of order at Key West

Don Pepino, you win my Internet for the day!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:05 AM on April 18, 2024

Cake news!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:45 AM on April 18, 2024

2024: pivot to audio
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:12 PM on April 17, 2024

The Verge article (which is great!) also mentions this essay, Rethinking Repair [PDF], by Steven Jackson, which I found to be fascinating.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:46 AM on April 17, 2024

Alicia Montgomery, Uri Berliner

NPR has been both a beacon of thoughtful, engaging, and fair journalism for decades, and a rickety organizational shit show for almost as long.

in other words, it's a newsroom...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:31 AM on April 17, 2024

More Herero: (Re)visions of genocide : narratives of genocide in Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gravity's Rainbow
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:42 AM on April 16, 2024

chavenet, I get a Forbidden notice at that link.


huh, now I did too. Try this [PDF]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:22 AM on April 16, 2024

As a result the further you travel the greater the errors build. Pretty quickly you have no idea where you are.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:18 AM on April 16, 2024

Sous les pavés, la plage!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:13 AM on April 16, 2024

I used to think the hurdy-gurdy was mentioned in Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light," given all the mention made of out-of-control music-makers mentioned ("madman drummers," "brimstone baritone," & "go-cart Mozart," plus the "very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing" as the "calliope crashed to the ground").

But no, it was "just little Early-Pearly" ... "in her curly-wurly...… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:37 AM on April 15, 2024

one of these in one of these = one of these
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:57 AM on April 15, 2024

People keep pretending hard mode doesn't exist.

Also that Wordle is about "winning" or "optimizing" rather than "fun."
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:05 PM on April 14, 2024

as a sign you think this person was an asshole, a la Kurt Vonnegut.

Just to make it perfectly clear, Kurt Vonnegut was no asshole. But he did suggest the asterisk (*) as the sign of the asshole. ~

So it goes...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:29 PM on April 13, 2024