Been a weird day for my search history. It’d be a significantly weirder one if I followed the suggestion.
Recently bought Animal Well after listening to (thankfully) the vaguest possible Besties podcast about it, so was expecting a bit of inscrutability.
‘Wow, these weird glitched screens where you need to really study the map and just inch your way across in absolute blindness are a bit hardcore’.
Dear reader: the game isn’t available for the Mac, so I was playing it via emulation. The glitches aren’t actually supposed to be there. I was too spoilerphobic to google it until about 5 hours in.
A baby Jack Black was in an episode?! 🤯
I’ve heard the Weird Al version so many times that Gangster’s Paradise just sounds wrong to me now. See also: Ridin’ Dirty.
One of this morning’s background tracks while working cut a little more deeply than expected…
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I saw a photograph, Cologne in ‘27And then a postcard after the bombs in ‘45Must’ve been a world of evil clowns that let it happenBut now I recognise, dear listenersThat you were there and so was I– Port of Morrow, The Shins
Michael J. Anderson in Season 2! In the first episode I remember being self-awarely comedic too. Really makes me wish there’d been more Carnivàle.
Getting massive Professor Professorson vibes from John Savage in the Død Kalm episode of X-Files… and this may be the nichest possible toot.
The subtle skill of backtracking in micro-bursts through whole unrecognised tracts of the audiobook I fell asleep listening to, without accidentally spoiling something for myself.
I think a cat may just have been demolished and scattered to the winds by a gang of seagulls on my roof. Or a group of large, rowdy men may just live there now.
The kind of rain that a hardboiled detective would comment on.
Also Janice-from-Friends and Admiral Jarok from TNG show up! Harder to see a continuity through-line there…
I didn’t realise how many Twin Peaks reunions there were in the X-Files until this rewatch. Michael Horse and Don Davis already in the first season. Both playing suspiciously similar roles.
Turns out I may actually be able to predict a General Election.
Headaches before thunder may be the least impressive of all party tricks.
All of human endeavour as tinnitus.
Early morning heat-baked air above and the water–at this depth?–may as well be cool. Early morning white above and the water–at this depth?–may as well be night. A continuity of life, swarming things, and the background hum of men.
Birdsong—delightfully—clearly and perfectly audible through lawnmower-cancelling headphones.
Clearly as apt as anything else.
I clearly have the slogan for my inevitable t-shirt merch.