good morning
#nofilter #clouds
#musicMonday Echo & the Bunnymen’s Songs to Learn and Sing (1985). standout tracks: Do It Clean, The Killing Moon
…trivia we noticed in Princess Kaguya: the English dub actors for bamboo cutter & his wife, Caan & Steenburgen – also the parents in Elf
summer of Miyazaki #15 (& last): The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) – Ghibli, not by Miyazaki, but such a beautiful film. a favorite
summer of Miyazaki #14: The Wind Rises (2013) – another we hadn’t seen. good, if slow. without knowing the history, somewhat over our heads
progress on the patio
summer of Miyazaki #13: From Up On Poppy Hill (2011) – we hadn’t seen this one before; it was interesting. a well-done romantic melodrama
a very flatly trimmed Texas Sage in bloom
ferocious. Tina Fey on this week’s Weekend Update, “sheetcaking is a grassroots movement, Colin”
versions of this story have been going around, for good reason. THIS is how we fight them, not with fists & clubs
please give this 11 minutes. whatever people claim they symbolize, the reason these CSA statues were put up is clear
troublemaker doppelgänger
#musicMonday Cool Choices (2014), latest by S. standout track: Vampires
pro-tips if you’re blocked by “please subscribe” interstitials by WaPo:
1. fucking subscribe to WaPo, wtf
2. just use private browsing ok
in case you felt at all bad for the Google anti-diversity memo guy, or thought he somehow wasn’t a total shitbag
Deep Ellum’s “Darkest Hour”
⭐️⭐️⭐️
#saturdaybeer
Quora answer on biology of that anti-diversity screed: “the argument in the document is, overall, despicable trash”
#musicMonday Clueless soundtrack (1995). skip Counting Crows but 2nd half is good 90s; start with Need You Around
dumb time zone mistake made me miss the first half (& 4 goals!), but all’s well that ends well: a deserved trophy for #NED in #EURO2017
Waxahatchee
ordered some eclipse shades. Amazon’s a wasteland of knock-off junk, or sold out; this place seems legit.
Stone Brewing’s “W00t Stout”
⭐️⭐️⭐️
#saturdaybeer #onfriday
The Onion: “Well, I’m not even three days into giving optimism a shot, and it already sucks”
Taibbi: “An alien crashed on earth & given a 2-minute tutorial on dealing w/reporters would have done a better job”
for #musicMonday: Nikka Costa’s Everybody Got Their Something (2001). standouts: So Have I For You; Like A Feather
summer of Miyazaki #12: Secret World of Arrietty (2010) – book adaptation, like Howl’s; good story & characters in another interesting world
summer of Miyazaki #11: Ponyo (2008) – Little Mermaid adaptation some fun moments, but it’s too simple, even juvenile, to be a favorite
Samuel Adams’ “Thirteenth Hour”
⭐️⭐️__
#saturdaybeer
considering adding Slack reaction-pic eval to our hiring process. “no, we don’t whiteboard code, but suppose someone has a work anniversary”
Gessen: “queer rights are anything but a distraction: they are… the frontier in the global turn toward autocracy”