my grandpa once told me "do not tell anyone your business unless it benefits you that they know" as a yapper, i took that advice and never looked back. best thing i ever heard
RIP Kaleb Horton. This is one of the best Portis pieces ever. It is so pointed and beautiful and moving and funny that I was astonished to learn from him that he wrote it on the spot after Portis’s death. That’s how good he was. Everything he wrote is worth your time.
"Elordi plays the creature as a misunderstood...outsider with Oedipal issues rather than as an agent of evil and chaos...the most sympathetic character in the movie[.]"
THAT'S THE POINT!
THAT'S THE POINT OF FRANKENSTEIN!
YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED THE POINT OF THE BOOK!
'This house is a mess. I have so much work to do,' said Toad.
Frog looked through the window. 'Toad, you are right,' said Frog. 'It is a mess.'
Toad pulled the covers over his head.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, county, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in America.
nytimes.com/2025/03/01/opini…
ALT Headline from NYT guest essay written by Brian Goldstone: "America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness," dated March 1, 2025
But hey, at least you can talk to your fake girlfriend and make fake art and read fake posts from fake people on a dead internet that costs increasingly more to engage with while also making you dumber, lonelier, and angrier.