links of the moment
Nov. 3rd, 2017 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidenas always, thanks to my awesome circle for pointing me to many of these.
an AskReddit thread about favorite/memorable fully instrumental songs, with lots of links to music.
the drama behind online mattress reviews - kickbacks, lawsuits, reselling samples...
remembering Robert Guillaume via his performance in SportsNight*
Anthony Bourdain on "meathead culture" in restaurants. it's good to see how much he has grown up.
a neural network designs Halloween costumes.
remembering the original dirtbag climber, Fred Beckey. glad i got to see the doc about him at SIFF.
the best Monty Python sketch is 50 years old. oh, and it's not actually a Monty Python sketch.**
discussion of Season 1 of The Good Place from a Jewish POV. spoilers for season 1, super-interesting and i think it might speak to some endgame theories.
laid off coal miners refuse free job retraining because now they think coal mining is coming back. of course they're in PA. *headdesk*
*i'll never stop hating The West Wing for killing that show.
**C and i share a deep love for this sketch; the article led to a discussion with C about which performance is "my" Four Yorkshiremen. for me, it's from home video of The Secret Policemen's Other Ball, for C he thinks it was from The Final Rip-Off album. apparently that album was a beloved household item.
my memory of The Final Rip-Off was that a friend at CTY had it on tape, and a group of us were sitting on the lawn, listening to it and laughing until "I Like Chinese" came on and the Chinese-American girl in the group stopped having fun. none of us had the tools to deal with the situation. i don't even remember exactly what happened after that except that i hadn't heard the song before and the white guy who owned the tape clearly never thought about it before and i think we laughed at the song even though she was visibly uncomfortable and she was hurt and i still wish that i could apologize.
an AskReddit thread about favorite/memorable fully instrumental songs, with lots of links to music.
the drama behind online mattress reviews - kickbacks, lawsuits, reselling samples...
remembering Robert Guillaume via his performance in SportsNight*
Anthony Bourdain on "meathead culture" in restaurants. it's good to see how much he has grown up.
a neural network designs Halloween costumes.
remembering the original dirtbag climber, Fred Beckey. glad i got to see the doc about him at SIFF.
the best Monty Python sketch is 50 years old. oh, and it's not actually a Monty Python sketch.**
discussion of Season 1 of The Good Place from a Jewish POV. spoilers for season 1, super-interesting and i think it might speak to some endgame theories.
laid off coal miners refuse free job retraining because now they think coal mining is coming back. of course they're in PA. *headdesk*
*i'll never stop hating The West Wing for killing that show.
**C and i share a deep love for this sketch; the article led to a discussion with C about which performance is "my" Four Yorkshiremen. for me, it's from home video of The Secret Policemen's Other Ball, for C he thinks it was from The Final Rip-Off album. apparently that album was a beloved household item.
my memory of The Final Rip-Off was that a friend at CTY had it on tape, and a group of us were sitting on the lawn, listening to it and laughing until "I Like Chinese" came on and the Chinese-American girl in the group stopped having fun. none of us had the tools to deal with the situation. i don't even remember exactly what happened after that except that i hadn't heard the song before and the white guy who owned the tape clearly never thought about it before and i think we laughed at the song even though she was visibly uncomfortable and she was hurt and i still wish that i could apologize.
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Date: 2017-11-05 02:34 pm (UTC)pedant insists that if no one's singing, it's not a "song". pedant may not be worth listening to.