That sound you hear is everyone trying to get original TV shows made jumping into the river

Crowd size and the exact minute count of ovations at film festivals are extremely important now.

Are there any goofy billionaires in pop culture now? Any real idiots with money? In TV/film comedies? There seems to be such reverence toward billionaires now. They’re depicted as evil, but that’s still a type of respect.

What I Got Wrong About "Shock Therapy" , by Matt Taibbi open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/w…

This reminds me of the MG author who said more adults should be reading middle grade books.

Lou Reed & his trans girlfriend Rachel Humphreys in the mid 70s

Small town sees large number of refugees arrive. The refugees proceed to...work and contribute to the community. This is everyone's greatest fear?

Just read Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury. A passionate defense of classic books, ideas, poetry, that need to be carried through the ages and protected. A brilliant metaphor in this dystopian novel of a protagonist, a fireman, who instead of putting out fires, burns books.

Dan Therriault “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

This is how Italians were seen in the early 1900s, it was almost the exact same stereotypes about immigrants today, people saying they are criminals, fugitives, lazy, they are a dangerous criminal class. These were "white" people by the way.

"Quand vous mettez la barre à gauche ça va à droite?! Ca me plait ça!"

What a nightmare.

The Fukang meteorite, found in China, 2000. It is a pallasite, a type of stony-iron meteorite filled with olivine crystals. It is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old.

Vance says, I don’t like that this is a fact of life. There’s so much to attack him on. You don’t need to misrepresent what he says.

If Kamala is making a play for the center, she has to hope that the center holds.

This is why most of these ideas fail, as they don't understand human nature or even take it into account.