car culture advertising...

After the third or fourth one I started to think someone was just doing this on purpose.

Some of these are so neat that I’ve a feeling they were done accidentally-on-purpose.  :->

The Cat has its Heart on the Outside

Available as a fanzine in Swedish with a translation note  here.

It's difficult to believe that 6 years ago today, we lost a legend. It'd be an understatement to say that Chester helped an entire generation of teens express themselves through his music and there's not a day that goes by that he is not sorely missed.

RIP Chester Bennington 1976-2017

the "gays" (my mutuals) on twitter are going wild over this tiktok. and uh. yeah

Chuck Tingle Interview with Publishers Weekly

yeahhh I lied.

one more time, HAPPY MOON LANDING DAY!

aaand gooodnight.

I'm not about to argue the finer points of Southern culture with anyone, because I can accept that I was born and raised in the hot flames of a dumpster fire, but I'll tell you gotdamned commie Yankees one thing: I'd rather be dead in the hallowed halls of a Cook Out than alive in an In-N-Out

oh idk I guess ill go scurry up and down the walls a bit and maybe fly into the lights a couple times

what are you doing with that cup and piece of paper

Apparently neopets not only managed to ditch the NFT bros, but with the closure of the Jumpstart brand weeks ago, neopets is now completely independent for the first time since the early 2000′s, got millions in a new investment deal and are currently installing a flash simulator so that all their games and animations work again.

i desperately need like a canopy bed or a tent bed or an in-wall bed or something i need to be tucked in i need to be protected from the elements i need to be in a little hole in a den in a nest im just a prey animal trying to get by

do you get it or do you not know anything

call out post now

one time in my last job a woman came up to the register explaining that when she bought stuff a day prior the clerk forgot to scan a pair of socks worth less than €2 and it was only right for her to bring it back to the store and pay for it proper. unfortunately my manager was directly next to me at the time and took over the register to handle this serious issue. the receipt she had brought with her said which register performed the previous transaction that forgot the socks and the manager could find out who was running that till on that day. poor dude had a manager yell at him for a half hour about how much of an incompetent fuck up he was, he left the job immediately after but i couldnt tell you if he quit or was fired

i think about this moment a lot. the customer seemed like a sweet woman with only good intentions and when she paid for the socks she had a look on her face that said "i feel good because i did the right thing". and a guy lost his job because of a pair of socks. if shit like this ever happens to you and a clerk forgets to scan an item just think of it as a small blessing or that you had good luck or something. keep it.

Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.

The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.

And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.

I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.

Let me tell you a story.

Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a "master-planned community," constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.

Seaside, FL

Seahaven

And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don't exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before,    but there is nothing to compare it to now.

Since this is going around without credit and a lot of the tags and comments seem to take this as an actual piece of propaganda, it’s actually a parody song produced by Robert Davis in 1942.

The Chicago Film Archives link above describes it as “made as an exercise in DIY sound-on-film filmmaking,” and those guys look to me to be barely, if at all, out of their teens. This is basically a 1940s tiktok.

sending your friends terrible tumblr posts is a love language

Well DAMN. Look at this little thing go.

@systlin @gallusrostromegalus Look at this damn sewing machine.

one thing about tumblr users isthat they love to disagree with posts. another thing is that they love to do is disagree with things that were not even in the post as if they were

this is just absolutely not true. people do not normally drink printer ink.