Josh Dobbin

Don't know if this raises or lowers me in the ranking, but I ALSO have this other prize possession from 1979; a Dungeons & Dragons coloring book.

Ha! Low bar, to be sure, but I'n flattered. ☺️

if this place had video, you could see him in action.

yep!!! BIG TRAK. And he still works! (Except rotating in one direction doesn't go so well as the other.) I have the manual with the "programming language" and everything

weirdly, he's kinda a butch Mike Pence.

it's actually Mattel's bootleg answer to the 6 Million Dollar Man, PULSAR, THE ULTIMATE MAN OF ADVENTURE. The 70s were weird.

I just so, so love your work. It's just joyful to me that it exists, looking at it.

how was this guy EVER married?

I was just having this conversation about how Cameo makes me really uncomfortable, turning people's attention into a commodity and low-level fame into a kind of gross Uber-service that has cute, cool uses (unique gift, etc) but is just dirty on a foundational level.

If someone uses the word "colonialist" I stop thinking of them as anything worthy of my time, or even the dignity of my contempt. It's functionally as much of a tell as when an incel 4Chan dude says "psyop" or calls someone "soyboy."

some of my nerdy treasures

that's how they get'cha

my grandma was a big clipper-of-articles in newspapers; she'd sort out articles by topic & keep them in labeled cereal boxes. (She was kind of a kook) I remember MANY boxes labeled "Mt. Saint Helen's."

Crooked Strand of Hair Emily

what's the path to monetization? All the rides he gives on it are free.

It did come around the corner and punch me in the stomach.

officially not twitter anymore. The URL redirects to the embarrassing-in-1998-era-internet x dot com

I had just turned 7; my grandpa was OBSESSED with it.

Why has it become so common for heavy exposition first person voiceover narration led openings? They're the laziest things.

Usyk just won me a buncha money.

Those are called "failure meals" in our house, and my kids were always like, "Could we please have a failure meal tonight?"

My Little Peony: Friendship is Magic

Leather Tuscadero is the She-Ra to Fonzie's He-Man.

A thing I have learned that I love about Ukrainian culture is that they really, really love cats.

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He's such a valueless piece of self-serving dogshit.

Can't. She is undetectable until it is too late, and mouth-foaming has already onset.

Ironic that it's the ONE successful instance of "de-colonization by an oppressed and marginalized people" that they all claim to be all about.

Weird that an upshot of BABY REINDEER is that now that awful Piers Morgan is stalking Richard Gadd.

We are, as of yet, even unable to gain an accurate estimation of her size or color, although troubling findings have determined she is the center... OF IT ALL.

Despite all our advancements and theories, we can't fight it.

What a fantastic run for Dabney Coleman. One of my favorite VHS finds was 1980's PRAY TV, where he was (as always) brilliant; it also features a pre-Pee-Wee Paul Reubens. Seek it out.
Also loved CLOAK AND DAGGER & 9 to 5.

Rest in peace.

But that's the thing, it's an item made to exactly LOOK LIKE a food thing, but then in no way taste like that food thing. Like how a stick-bug looks exactly like a stick, but is actually another thing altogether.

Is there a word, like how a Skeuomorph is a derivative newer version of an older thing that keeps some of the form factors of the old that USED to be function or necessary factors (like, say keeping a "bell sound" for a digital alarm)-- is there a word for this, in the opposite direction?

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On The Road Again, Turn the Page, Jukebox Hero, Rhinestone Cowboy, Wanted Dead Or Alive, I Write The Songs, Band On the Run, Into the Great Wide Open, Johnny B Good, etc etc

Songs about being a singer are right up there, tho.

Lancelot Link ALMOST made this happen

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gave him a bath and blow-dried him, but he's forgiven me.

This guy's first video was funny and great but ye gods. It's now all very much the BLACK MIRROR "Fifteen Million Merits" episode ending.

The whole organizing principle of these "MCs"' are race-based fascism.

The gross romanticization of biker-culture makes me so sick. My town is infested with these sloppy, classless fucks with their stupid fucking wanna-be tough vests with patches, like asshole boy-scouts.

Living on the edge.... of the toilet.

Bravo! So much Redefinition by Misapprehended Inference begs the question* : what are we to do about it?

(*- this misuse is my biggest peeve. Even super-smart people use "begs the question" like this, when it really means "assumes a given that has not been debated yet.")

you can show us what it's like!

giving someone a small item and using your other hand to close their hand over it. Not only does no one do this; TRY it in real life. It feels SO CREEPY and invasive.

d.ly @dly.bsky.social

what is your biggest cinematic pet peeve?

one of mine is when characters brush teeth w/o toothpaste and suds

3 days ago