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@arthurwyatt @ardaniel and in how the voice-primary UI is conveyed. beautiful film, self-acknowledging the stage it has defined – 01:15 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @ardaniel still avoiding Black Mirror due to dinnertime. – 01:15 AM GMT
RT: @deathmtn: The goals are the same, too. It will convenient for us if we can stop supporting the legacy litter box! We just need this one user to move. – 01:17 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo noted. – 07:30 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo i mean, he’s sort of weak because he’s insufficiently hopeless. i definitely like him despite his human sympathy. – 07:34 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo like early Clowes is great because he is merciless. Ware’s best stuff lacks any hint of redemptive vision. – 07:36 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo granted, Bukowski is a poet, and Clowes and Ware work in an elevated, more demanding and important medium. – 07:37 AM GMT
@leavittalone wait is todayish your bday? this is viv’s bday weekend! – 07:41 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo meaning, then, me. – 07:42 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo granted, I AM the worst. – 07:42 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo have every first ish from the late eighties era. I find he weakened with Ghost World. Lloyd Llewellyn is tops. – 07:44 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone aw. glad yr better. – 07:45 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt boose! we missed yez. I figure someone should figure how to make a kamikaze with Aviation gin and serve with a car bomb. – 07:51 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo lol well most late eighties threads focus on Watchmen or DK. But I was hardcore Fantagraphics even then. – 07:53 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt viv’s, but yeh. NBD. A crew Gainsbourged. – 07:54 AM GMT
@gjcharlet uh, wet spot GJ cough – 07:55 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo lol – 08:00 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo i think it has to do with his weird Moorcock doubling. MM is explicitly pro this and anti that and not a wizard. – 08:02 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo those would be by and large be American moviegoers, i think. sigh. – 08:03 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo well, among the wizards you’ve met, who claimed the title, and who disputed it? Seems like some sort of razor – 08:04 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo i think we have found a point of media consumption concurrence. – 08:05 AM GMT
@praguepainter lo-rents 2-sink wells. deux-sinques. wells can mean sinks, like in a bar. lawrence dowells. you got this bigtime – 08:54 AM GMT
@praguepainter deux-cinques. deux-cinches. il ya important d’enpense des auxidees. je crois. peut etre. – 08:57 AM GMT
@praguepainter des eaux idees – 09:28 PM GMT
@hell0jed so far maybe it’s best not to – 09:31 PM GMT
@hell0jed tut tut although i applaud you from a socialist persepective – 09:33 PM GMT
RT: @telemetrist: Football commercial uses Chuck Mangione’s Feels So Good for loser guy’s soundtrack, that’s my soundtrack – 09:42 PM GMT
god dammit – 09:48 PM GMT
Oh my god – 11:12 PM GMT
totally crying like a baby. – 11:39 PM GMT
@hell0jed YOU MAY NEVER LEAVE – 11:40 PM GMT
revearse teh kearse – 11:40 PM GMT

Coyote again. She howled earlier. I was able to sight her as she did so, otherwise she just looks like a log. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/​2jmfJuNCpX – 12:27 AM GMT
Being reminded of how I dropped the cake mid-toast at Viv’s 40th. All true. – 03:03 AM GMT
RT: @ccastellanossf: #XFiles2015 – 05:03 AM GMT
heard the coyote howling tonight too – 05:32 AM GMT
@JoeTheDough i have an autographed 1st ed hb copy of Dark Alliance! – 04:29 PM GMT
@deathmtn that’s what I use, when I need that. There’s a companion app named Air(unknown) I use too. – 04:44 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough he was here on book tour. goddamn criminal what was done to him, the fuckers. 1st obvious hint how far gone the US was getting. – 05:52 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough indeed. some of it’s in the book. he was hounded out of journalism, basically. there’s a book & a movie about it, even. – 08:01 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough book: amazon.com/​Kill-Messenger… – 08:02 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough and then of course he apparently killed himself, although with two shots to the head. – 08:04 PM GMT

@surlygourmand so thanks! no dirty joke? she’ll be heartbroken. so will my mom. – 12:14 AM GMT
@surlygourmand hey, that place used to was Gerard’s! Be interesting to try it after the transubstantiation. – 12:18 AM GMT
checking the transfer of a friend’s 30+ year old demo. damn do I love these songs. – 12:38 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn @juniusworth “H” esta Habana Leones. ¡Que bueno! – 01:17 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn oop, the grey one – 01:17 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo on our way to Warsaw at xmas we stopped at a shopping center in Pburg on a Sunday and I was flummoxed by noon opening – 01:19 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo i misapprehended the closed store to augur no booze on sunday, per my childhood home state Indiana – 01:20 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo moments later, dropping some cards in a mailbox, the store was open. about 20 people were in line inside already. – 01:21 AM GMT
@brownpau yikes – 01:21 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo merkrismus – 01:22 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo in fairness I went in and bought my xmas gifts for family yet unmet and barely known – 01:24 AM GMT
.@mcgee_gorgo Sun2hine. Sunshin3. Suns4ine. 5unshine. Sun6hine. Su7shine.borrowed this from someone here recently. sing out for credit. – 01:45 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo ooh we might try that over dinner. or stick with Space:1999 for a tried and true dystopia. – 01:46 AM GMT
@wasta have you heard of the outdoors? i understand that was a popular option among primates for many years. – 01:52 AM GMT
@wasta but that is indeed fucked up. you should take a cab to your hotel and make sure they pay for it. to pee. – 01:54 AM GMT
@wasta doesn’t get any more sensitive than that part, no sir – 01:55 AM GMT
I mistrust Amazon so hard, but this PKD High Castle pilot is so promising and disorienting – 03:46 AM GMT
ok. PKD MHC AMZN 107 char review: Decent, want more, wife uncomfortable, Asian racial identity cringe factor INTACT or even MORESO from book – 04:37 AM GMT
Further, wildly unquantifiable reaction to use of identifiable Seattle location shots as elements of SF occupied San Francisco 1962 – 04:38 AM GMT
Finally, Amazon *itself in specific* is the unknown invading and occupying force in the American landscape of 2014. Strange choice of show. – 04:40 AM GMT
@poupou /eyes dilate – 04:43 AM GMT
@jabonmusic wait is this now? i m dum – 04:44 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt for the love of god. The kid’s name. Just. I just uh – 04:45 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo That guy’s last name was Kyle, see, not Malarkey. That fucking poor kid, see – 04:47 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo /pounds bar, causing PBR to fountain – 04:47 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt the what now? they have herds and ranking runs?@mcgee_gorgo – 04:48 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo at least that other kid isn’t patronymed “Bigscam” or “Gullibilbait” or such. Do you think they have Amazon Prime? – 04:52 AM GMT
@DearSplenda typo, I think. “They Drive by Night,” iirc. but could be totes rong – 04:58 AM GMT
Viv just asked what the M in MILF stood 4 & I said “you, baby. Except for the M part. Matron? No, that’s just wrong. Um” Then I was struck. – 06:24 AM GMT
@TKateness all superior options. i thank you. – 06:37 AM GMT
Green Bay and Catan. wsj.com/​articles/​the-p… /// LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU WSJ LA LA LA – 01:49 PM GMT
RT: @jndevereux: The Google street view car seems to have caught R. Crumb and family in Sauve, France: goo.gl/​maps/​qYCUc – 09:47 PM GMT
yo @earinc twitter.com/​jndevereux/​sta… – 09:48 PM GMT
.@sumit @kittypurrzog geez pic.twitter.com/​HK5lIfoqqD – 09:50 PM GMT
@cstross possible explanation for the chopper noise overhead at this very moment here in northern Seattle – 09:57 PM GMT

RT: @AndrewLiptak: Amazon’s pilot of PKD’s Man in the High Castle is now up: amazon.com/​gp/​product/​B00… – 06:00 PM GMT
Thinking about the irony of “Sniper” getting a nomination at the expense of “Selma”, I started googling on snipers in Iraq. Just curiosity. – 07:40 PM GMT
Immediately found this long 2006 NPR piece on a civilian shot by a US sniper (who was not acting as a sniper). npr.org/​templates/​stor… – 07:41 PM GMT
Impossible to read that piece and look at the diagrams and not think of Ferguson. The sniper was found to have engaged properly. – 07:42 PM GMT
That’s not saying Cooper didn’t turn in an award-worthy performance, or that Eastwood doesn’t make thoughtful movies about violence. – 07:45 PM GMT
but, uh, MLK was shot in the head from a distance. – 07:49 PM GMT
@agent_cooper that’s my impression, based on the 2013 NYer piece. or possibly war-damaged and compensating. or both. newyorker.com/​magazine/​2013/​… – 10:18 PM GMT
@surlygourmand Viv wants French tomorrow. I’m, of course, talking about dinner. Where should I take her? /braces for it – 10:28 PM GMT
@surlygourmand Northgate area, Seattle. – 10:47 PM GMT

@sculpin hell yes! – 12:10 AM GMT
someone on Fb posted this: julianbevan.com/​the-jockey-clu… /// attn @johnpstrohm @misskeli @AlpacaQueen77 – 12:53 AM GMT
I was at the Cramps show with the gold lame jacket stage attire for Lux. Many of these shows preceded or followed by next-day gigs in Bton. – 12:54 AM GMT
@misskeli @johnpstrohm @AlpacaQueen77 several of these shows were day-before gigs for bands headed north through Bloomington or Indy ’84-85 – 05:09 AM GMT
@misskeli @johnpstrohm @AlpacaQueen77 JFA gig for example. JFA that year was also 3/4 Sun City Girls, who played the same shows. – 05:12 AM GMT
@misskeli @johnpstrohm @AlpacaQueen77 3/4? Parts, at any rate. Think that drummer is Charlie Gocher. – 05:13 AM GMT
sleeping dog issues long, deep, not-kidding-around growl – 07:09 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm @misskeli @AlpacaQueen77 On FB someone noted that Mike Heminger is visible in the Henry Flag shots, so Scott must be there too. – 03:35 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm who needs furniture? i ask you – 03:44 PM GMT
RT: @DanEngler: @mwhybark GREENWOOD MURDER ZONE. spdblotter.seattle.gov/​2015/​01/​14/​to-… – 08:54 PM GMT
@mubay wasabri? – 08:58 PM GMT
Certain other people I live with who shall remain nameless never, ever enter their financial data in our records: a PITA at tax time. – 10:16 PM GMT
Naturally, all our financial institutions are cutting off parsable data downloads at X months where X is less than a year. YOU FUCKERS. – 10:17 PM GMT
Hopefully tabula.technology will resolve things. But fuck you, you anti-transparency fucks – 10:17 PM GMT

@ElSaborAsiatico heEYYYo – 12:12 AM GMT
side effect of Banks jag: desire for dopey non-combat hex game app concerning Culture and Special Circs. – 12:25 AM GMT
JUST REALIZED “BANKSY” MUST HAVE TAKEN NAME DUE TO IAIN M. BANKS FANBOINISS – 12:39 AM GMT
@mubay HE’S A GAEL – 01:16 AM GMT
@mubay wei – 01:18 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 brian’s kind of a sweetheart. he posts tons on FB. brianwalsby.net/​BrianWalsby.ne… – 01:22 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 he did, i would guess, hundreds of Flag riffs in 2013. That one was prolly for merch sale at a (non BF) show. – 01:24 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 to wit: google.com/​search?q=walsb… – 01:25 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 as I understand it, Ginn hates everything and everybody. Brian hasn’t gotten dragged into the fracas, afaik. – 01:27 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 here’s a good ‘un: blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/​uponsun/​580713… – 01:27 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 ah, you found it without me! awesome! – 01:27 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 the LP format mashups w/ color done on the road with the Melvins IIRC. He was doing something like ten a day on foamkore. – 01:29 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 oh, for sure. He did the 7 Seconds “Walk Together, Rock Together” cover illo back in the day. HC4L. – 01:31 AM GMT
IN BED MOTHAFACKAS hell yes new team best – 02:53 AM GMT
@anticdent indeed sir – 02:06 PM GMT
RT: @JoeTheDough: Untitled Woody Allen Problem – 02:40 PM GMT
remember what i said about orbital columbariums? um pic.twitter.com/​DsFlzN2VgS – 03:06 PM GMT
that was the ipad app. here’s the biz site. elysiumspace.com – 03:07 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough aye, guv – 04:56 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough also “innit,” “enit.” i blame the innerwebs – 04:57 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough io9.com/​5939480/​the-ps… – 05:03 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough okok maybe it’s brain damage actually – 05:04 PM GMT
uh, let’s see… Mad Men, Orphan Black, GoT, Wolf Hall… think I’m missing one, what is it? – 07:10 PM GMT
is there a space joint? – 07:13 PM GMT
@middleclasstool @JoeTheDough si, ese – 11:20 PM GMT
The chicken stew is edging into range – 11:21 PM GMT

every now & then I notice the 2011 drawing of my now-dead dog Rocket on my header, and I’m like, damn, *I* did that? pic.twitter.com/​zOmoSkrepw – 12:06 AM GMT
man on NPR in handwringing tone says “looks like they got something” re waterboarding, then goes to detail how they got nothing. Fuck you. – 01:16 AM GMT
@deathmtn “gladsiding” excellent – 01:43 AM GMT
@zipties i have in possession (wait, maybe it’s at my folks’) a 1950s Stratego and it, original though it is, in no way resembles this – 01:49 AM GMT
huh, the grey-box wooden-piece Hasbro Stratego set I grew up with is internet-invisible. – 01:54 AM GMT
@zipties ours was a longbox with an allover grey-burlap pattern and some vague red and blue military imagery. – 01:56 AM GMT
@zipties plastic pieces appear associated with an MB license circa 1962. Hasbro boxes associated with the wood pieces more deluxe than ours. – 01:58 AM GMT
@zipties a ha! ours was an MB version, first image here. ultrastratego.com/​history.php – 02:00 AM GMT
@mathowie @maxsparber my wife, who has “everything is awesome” as her ringtone, says, “oh i believe that” with sincerity – 02:23 AM GMT
@maxsparber @mathowie it’s wurra purty, and very ambitious. we were knocked out. @arthurwyatt said he liked HTTYD1 better. – 05:18 AM GMT
watching a *quite* peculiar pelicula, “The Ruling Class,” 1972, produced by and starring Peter O’Toole. Holy shit, what the fuck is this? – 05:24 AM GMT
RT: @naxuu: reminder that a bunch of tech bro douches named their company Genius – 05:30 AM GMT
seriously, this movie is NUTS – 05:54 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt well actually – 08:08 AM GMT
@alan_maguire amazon.com/​Space/​dp/​B000T… – 11:59 AM GMT
@alan_maguire spoiler: everybody dies – 12:00 PM GMT
Pretty sure if you care you worked this out already, but this is helpful: blogs.mediapart.fr/​blog/​olivier-t… – 05:11 PM GMT

@mighty_flynn the TOR games here this year are premium $, BOS is not (based on 20-g flex plan $) – 02:32 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn yeah, since they introduced premiums, it has always been NYY / BOS. TOR games here always sell out though. – 02:36 AM GMT
RE London Zero-Gee Jets: scifi.stackexchange.com/​questions/​2280… – 03:24 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt little songs? – 08:24 AM GMT
two books into what promises to be a big Banks jag, then back to Western Hemisphere economics and trade in the 15th-18th centuries – 08:28 AM GMT
reading about the Culture is kind of like a mind shower – 08:28 AM GMT
RT: @DunkingBaby: Take the FoxNFL poll! Text SEA1 to 3466 if u think Seattle will win the SuperBowl. Txt HELP to 911 for all other teams u are having a stroke – 06:49 PM GMT
@DanielWickham93 epic. when a storify goes up, make it known. – 07:12 PM GMT
Storify of @DanielWickham93’s epic roll call: storify.com/​tometty/​staunc… – 09:50 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt but beloved! – 10:03 PM GMT
@poupou ? – 10:03 PM GMT
@poupou wow, he should have a fansite. – 11:50 PM GMT
white guy workout: changing the cushion covers on your ikea lilleberg sofa suite – 11:52 PM GMT

@surlygourmand ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, VA, MD, NC, SC, GA – 12:23 AM GMT
@protectedstatic @surlygourmand d’oh! Sorry Jersey. And Delaware, hung up on Maryland stuff I guess. – 01:17 AM GMT
vague remembrance of anxiety dream in which my Ethiopian cooking was dismissed as inauthentic due to being “too lacy.” – 05:50 PM GMT
RT: @brownpau: More on potential “Mad Men-D.B. Cooper” connection by @lindseymgreen: medium.com/​@lindseymgreen… – 05:59 PM GMT
@brownpau @LeavittAlone nice! i remember worrying that thread but a couple seasons ago, I like that analysis. – 06:00 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt certainly less than $100 to fix. jcdrepair.com – 06:06 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt just thinking of the children – 06:10 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt but also viv had a stuck home button and a stuck volume button and they fixed those easily – 06:11 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt by attempting to get our phones to 7 years, i’m hoping area field sensenet holography will be a key feetch at reup. 3 to go. – 06:15 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt that or the actual full-on gold-cased pocketwatch with a flipout holoscreen. – 06:16 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough like it! – 06:18 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt exactly our sitch. although someone (my mom?) is running latest on iPad 3, similar era. minimal app/data load, though. – 06:22 PM GMT

@ElemPenguin @misskeli and there is that *shudder* scene in “SE7EN” – 05:22 AM GMT
beer good – 05:29 AM GMT
@kelliebob a twitter app on my phone did that to me during a trip this spring with, like, five tweets, over and over, for several days – 05:31 AM GMT
@kelliebob naturally, the majority were @ replies. eventually the recipients started replying to each repeat tweet, futilely shaming me – 05:33 AM GMT
@the_hereford enjoyed this one on your behalf. it was hoppy and cool. “Hop King,” Bridgeport, PDX. HEY OKONOMIYAKI FOR LUNCH 2MORROW MAYBE – 05:35 AM GMT
@middleclasstool isn’t that maybe more Scooby-Doo? – 05:36 AM GMT
@middleclasstool well, no, that is more Herculean – 05:37 AM GMT
@middleclasstool just thinking they would have gotten away with it if not for these meddling kids, but the firm tap of a silverheaded cane – 05:38 AM GMT
@naxuu and released as six 20-min online-only webisodes with tie-in merch and direct prop sales – 05:43 AM GMT
@manwhoyells @DanEngler i started here. nytimes.com/​2006/​11/​08/​din… – 06:25 AM GMT
yeesh, rough patch there NPR – 01:18 PM GMT
@esinclai well, it was partly the desk host literally unable to accurately grasp the information her remote was clearly saying in English – 01:26 PM GMT
@esinclai @azender that is certainly unusual. cringey. not quite Blitzerian, because there was no booming attempt to convey false clarity – 01:29 PM GMT
@esinclai it was the national feed, they broke in with a live remote due to breaking news of 2nd hostage situation. male anchor away at 1st – 01:49 PM GMT
@esinclai part you heard was after he came back into the room to save, flailing, stuttering colleague. painful. – 01:51 PM GMT
@esinclai er “save flailing, stuttering” – 01:52 PM GMT
@esinclai ah could be. I posted during segment as male desk came on. not using names (or @ npr) because irrelevant, just a bump in show – 01:57 PM GMT
ooh! irrelevant – 01:58 PM GMT
RT: @sumit: It actuially is, though. (Sort of.) azcentral.com/​story/​news/​loc… – 02:03 PM GMT
@DanEngler at least it wasn’t Dylan Cody – 11:21 PM GMT
pic.twitter.com/​Yfyvvw7Q2K – 11:24 PM GMT