The only song I knew by McCarthy before now was "Red Sleeping Beauty", which is about rising up (or not) against Margaret Thatcher
See, I posted this without even knowing one of his rockets exploded yesterday.
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/11/21/spacex-starship-explodes-elon-musk/
When I am looking to buy a car, I highly prefer ones that are obvious death traps, with lots of sharp corners so that it is for all practical purposes a heavy, high speed knife.
Fuck what Ralph Nader said with that unsafe at any speed crap. My car shall be pointy and lack any way to escape when it crashes.
thinking about the destruction of 5pointz this morning
5pointz was this massive set of beautiful graffiti murals in New York. It was on an old building that had been converted into a bunch of studios, and it was visible from the 7 train in Queens.
in 2013, in defiance of appeals to the contrary, the landlord decided he didn't want 5pointz anymore, and he wanted to convert that building into condos. He whitewashed the building overnight, and that was that.
AMA new policies on trans health care
The authoritative American Medical Association announces new policy initiatives impacting #transgender #healthcare, including a ban on conversion therapy. #AMA is developing legislative proposals for states and federal government https://www.healio.com/primary-care/practice-management/news/online/%7Bddf807fe-8e6d-43ac-a0d9-2befb9f87795%7D/ama-announces-new-policies-on-conversion-therapy-transgender-ehr-practices
Trump gov't websites erasing #transgender folk
Across the full range of US Government websites, references to and data about #transgender and other queer folk are being expunged. An example: CDC replaces #LGBTQ with LGB. https://www.fastcompany.com/90434456/the-trump-administration-is-canceling-lgbtq-people-on-government-websites
How to recognize AI snake oil (an appreciation, with critical notes, of @random_walker@twitter.com's MIT presentation)
woody allen
Like, oddly, it's less the nerdy neuroticism, as much as the vocal cadences and Alvie's more surreal punchlines. Like, Griffin would not make a joke about polymorphic perversity, not least because it's 2019. But he would totally make a joke with his wife about feeling up her teeth and kneecaps.
woody allen
Listening to clips is making me think Griffin McElroy's comic persona some sort of Appalachian Woody Allen, which both tracks and is something I'm not sure what to do with.
The way Woody hits, "We never have any laughs anymore, is the problem," is both a very Yiddish-influenced sentence construction, and very Griffin.
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.