I'm waiting for one that gives an alert when there's a good cartoon.
Sure, I can have my dad text you, too. But you'll get a lot of false positives.
As long as he doesn't start a substack, he's doing better than most.
When our current New Yorker subscription runs out in 2037, that's it. I'm not renewing. By then, we'll have enough issues lying around to build a cob/New Yorker house.
I'm waiting for one that gives an alert when there's a good cartoon.
Christ, what an asshole.
Fraud tied to MediaLab ?
https://archive.ph/2023.12.07-205449/https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2023/12/07/mit-openag-caleb-harper-research-misconduct.html
I'm still avoiding substack. I don't know how it could happen, but I'm convinced that if I look at it, a process will start where at some point I'll give MY $5.
10: Hasn't happened to me so far. Every once in a while I will start reading a post of his that turns out to be just a teaser for what is behind the pay wall, and for a moment I will think, "I need to read the rest of this!" but a moment later I come back to my senses.
That's like how some people can have a smoke at the bar and go on with their lives, but if I do it, I've bought a carton of American Spirits before I finished one bummed smoke.
Yggles far less addictive than cigs
It's amazing how no amount of blocking, muting, or filtering on twitter could keep me from seeing his stuff (via people criticizing him, generally) but off twitter I barely remember he's still writing and presumably doing well in audience numbers and subscriptions and stuff.
Is substack collapsing or something? No one tells me anything. Or they do and I'm not listening.
To summarize the summary of the summary: People are a problem.
17: It's not collapsing, as far as I can tell from the outside, but it's rapidly transforming into a Nazi bar.
That what people say about Gooski's, but I've never been.
It's not collapsing, as far as I can tell from the outside, but it's rapidly transforming into a Nazi bar.
I really don't think that's true (yet). It's a problem that the management is actively avoiding making a response to the questions about Nazis on Substack, but it would be a huge mistake to see that as representative of the writers.
Good stuff I've read there semi recently
Susie Bright on being expelled from the International Socialists (great writing, very personal): https://susiebright.ink/p/expulsion
Recollection of meeting Dr. Demento (less personal, but very neat to see someone's personal memories of that era of the music industry): https://bradkyle.substack.com/p/audio-autopsy-early-70s-before-dr
Jonathan Katz (who wrote that Atlantic article) had a very good piece about zionism: https://theracket.news/p/out-of-zionism
Thank you for reading!
Regarding substack, I do not like it one bit either, but it's free and the alternatives are so expensive my already money-losing endeavor would become positively unsustainable.
As for the cartoons, those and the poems I review in the paid supplement for 5 a month or 40 a year.
Here's a great modern expulsion narrative:
"So pick your own anachronism. Myself, I got hauled up in front of an ecclesiastical court this summer and formally excommunicated. Really. A genuine heretic, anathematized by the grace of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, also known as the Mormons. (By the way, if you are a Mormon and are reading this, I should warn you that I've touched all the pages in this issue of Telos and the paper is probably crawling with heretic-microbes. Don't let me stop you, but if you suddenly go weak in the knees and develop an irresistible craving to vote the straight Socialist Workers' Party ticket while drinking a cup of coffee and praying to the Blessed Virgin Mary in a swimming pool on Sunday, you'll know what's happened to you. Sorry.) I could wish, just for the sake of completeness, that they had dashed the candles to the ground and all, gone the whole route, and that if I were to die without a reconciliation they would hunt up an unsanctified crossroads to bury me under; but what actually happened--well, what happened comes in the proper course of this story."
http://nielsenhayden.com/GodandI.html
23.Last: Reprinted in Making Book by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
I have the book!
"When I wrote this on-stencil for Telos 3, back in 1980, I thought it was amusing enough--you know, one of those stories about what you've been up to lately. More than a decade later, if I meet someone for the first time and they say 'Oh, I love your writing, there was this one piece...', I figure they've read 'God and I.' I'm glad everyone likes it, but I'm thinking of changing its title to 'Nightfall.'"
Such a delightful book!
I wonder if I ever got hold of Making Conversation.
22: Thanks. I'll have a look once I confirm that you aren't Matthew Yglesias.
Yglesias would have way more spelling errors.
Has it been long enough for that kid who took violins to Africa to have grown up and started a substack?
Let me be the first to say that Parasite is great.
I'm saving Bong Joon-ho's movies until I'm in a better place, mentally.
His Memories of Murder is also fantastic
If only he got to direct an episode of Columbo.
that spam is awful, and I'm not going to be on a computer to take of it (or post) until later in the morning.
I gotta figure out a way to have salmakhan spam Unfogged comments
Thank you for reading!
It's been so long since the author of something we linked showed up that it took me a minute to figure out what was happening. Good luck, Sam Circle! Hope you don't make too many enemies.
33: The Natasha Lyonne Columbo, the Mark Ruffalo Columbo, or the Forest Whitaker Columbo?
I don't like Columbo plus supernatural. That's interesting, but not Columbo-Columbo.
Natasha Lyonne should definitely play Columbo (so should many others, rotating unexplained in an anthology, as proposed I think by Danny Lavery), but Poker Face is not itself Columbo.
rotating unexplained in an anthology, as proposed I think by Danny Lavery
I don't know who originally came up with the idea, but I associate it with Daniel Ortberg"
But how to reboot Columbo, a show (series of miniseries? String of TV movies?) so closely associated with its original star? Of course Peter Falk is untouchable by a magnitude of several light-years as the original Columbo. He need never be imitated; his legacy is entirely safe. The answer, of course, is to turn Columbo into America's Doctor Who (but, you know, good): reboot it every five to ten years with an entirely new detective, a bit more gently grizzled than the detective who came before, but always with the same trench coat and glass eye. Fading movie stars could rejuvenate their careers with a single guest appearance as an upper-class murderer.
I dare you to look me square in the eye and tell me you would not watch Kathy Bates in a rumpled old trenchcoat trying to keep track of her notes among the young and beautiful and murderous. Or Giancarlo Esposito. Or Jake Johnson from New Girl in about fifteen years. Rhea Perlman. Sam Rockwell, that beautiful weirdo. JOHN C. REILLY. Danny Pudi, in about eight years. An unshaven Stanley Tucci. Danny Trejo. Richard Kind. Margo Martindale. John Cho. Each one would bring a different characteristic of Columbo's to the forefront -- his core kindness, his feigned absent-mindedness, his needling slyness, his love for animals, his whimsy, his native intelligence, his love for cigars.
Yes, he changed his surname.
I missed that (and, apparently, he is currently writing on Substack)
He's probably not MY if he's still funny.
43: He's also collaborating with someone else on a vaguely Toast-like blog, though not one aspiring to become an Outlet this time.
Thanks. I didn't know that existed.