I do appreciate how impossibly hard Kanye West has made to listen to Donda 2. It’s like Schrödinger’s album.
What ever happened to the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention?
Crime in Tugun: Cromulent. A new issue of The Tugun Pause is in inboxes.
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Day three without a shower and bathroom and I’m considering starting using Lynx Africa.
I impulse purchased a Stem Player a while back because I convinced myself I needed something this weird in my life. Now I’m probably one of like ten people in Australia who will be able to listen to Kanye West’s new album. What a time to be alive.
Most of you wouldn’t know about the disappointment I carry that my first personal computer was a 486SX and not a 386DX. All my friends had 386s and my dad rented a Packard Bell with a 486SX.
Our bathroom, a photo series.
Sometime around the turn of the century (before we owned it) vs. 7am today vs. 11am today.
It’S TWOSDAY! Tuesday 22/2/22.
Guy in a Palm Beach cafe this morning:
“Anything north of Mermaid Beach is Logan, love”
In my humble opinion, one of the most under-appreciated literary works of the past 25 years are Chuck Lore’s vanity cards
One day boomers are going to learn about Option + Shift + Command V and then us Millennials are going to be really screwed.
Dear Vanessa Carlton,
Despite your willingness to walk a thousand miles to see me, I regret to inform you that you cannot fall into the sky.
“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome”
– Charlie Munger
If NCIS: Sydney can get off the ground
Blue Heelers: New York. Surry Hills, 2010. ER: Covid Ward. Buffy the Prime Minister Slayer. Law & Order: W.A. Unit. JAG: Garden Island. Grey’s Anatomy: Brisbane-Team. 3rd Rock From The Border. Everybody Loves Dan Andrews. The Ibrahim’s. It’s Always Sunny in Adelaide. Orange Is The New Black (a travel program about going to Orange, NSW).
And I just want to point out without bringing too much attention to myself, that Sweden, Poland, Israel, Germany, India, France, Chile, the Czech Republic, Canada, Finland, and the god damned United States of America have had their own versions of The Office.
The Office (Australian TV series).
Successful Man 2022 BC: Killed animal for family to eat.
Successful Man 2022 AD: I’ve emptied three of my four email inboxes and there’s only seven emails left in that one so they can wait til tomorrow because it’s almost 11pm.
Good and new music alert: Ben Abraham - If I Didn’t Love You
Smiling for photos is largely the result of marketing campaigns
From this week’s Dense Discovery email:
When looking at older portraits (first painted, then photographed) you would notice that very few subjects smile. As this piece explains, up to the beginning of the 20th century, “a grin was only characteristic of peasants, drunkards, children, and halfwits”. In the first half of the 21st century, camera company Kodak tried to make the experience of having your photo taken less awkward and more fun, and thus created a marketing campaign to emphasise the pleasure of photography. The photographic smile became a byproduct of an increasingly sophisticated advertising culture focused on telling cheerful stories about products.
René Girard in Wanting:
“Humans don’t desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic – we imitate what other people want. This affects the way we choose partners, friends, careers, clothes, and vacation destinations. Mimetic desire is responsible for the formation of our very identities. It explains the enduring relevancy of Shakespeare’s plays, why Peter Thiel decided to be the first investor in Facebook, and why our world is growing more divided as it becomes more connected.”