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it really depresses me to see conversations about the ‘male loneliness epidemic’ (for many reasons) and i can’t help but notice that the discussion almost always turns into the quality and apparent lack of depth of male-male friendships vs female-female friendships and it seems to be an accepted fact at the foundation of these analyses that men and women are never friends with each other

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Brother Ignatz trying to get out of dish duty by pretending to be a stand of reeds. again.

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two weeks ago, my dad felt he needed to see the Bob Dylan movie in theaters a second time. the closest theater still showing the movie was half an hour away, and he couldn’t drive because he’d had surgery on his hand, but he had my mom take him. except it took too long for my mom to find parking, so they missed the first 16 minutes of the movie. so now that his hand has healed he drove himself a half an hour to a different movie theater, so he could see it in theaters a THIRD time (well, the first 16 minutes only for the second time).

he thinks timothee chalamet deserves the oscar!!

the Bob Dylan biopic may have gotten mixed reviews from critics but i would like to report that it is going over shockingly well with the demographic of Bob Dylan super fans in their late 60s

my dad, who is a big enough Bob Dylan fan that he made us go on a family vacation to Tulsa so he could see the Bob Dylan Center, loved it and said Timothee Chalamet was fantastic. similar review from dad’s cousin, also a Bob Dylan fan since the 70s.

one of my dad’s best friends, who is a PROFESSIONAL Bob Dylan nerd, contributing to the curation of the Bob Dylan center and publishing essays on Dylan, has seen the movie in theaters twice now

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i needed to label some jars at work and didn’t realize the last person to use the label maker had turned on one of the fun font and border styles

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me for 3 years straight: “sorry i haven’t been myself lately”

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as part of my new year’s resolution to read books during my commute instead of watching tiktoks, i randomly grabbed a copy of “the mysterious island” by jules verne. i have never read verne’s work before and i gotta say i was not surprised to learn that they published abridged copies of this that were a mere 90,000 words as opposed to the 195,000 word long translation i am reading

the pacing of this book is like

> something mysterious happens on the island

> cyrus harding says nothing about it

> 4 pages on how felt is made

> 10 pages of geographic descriptions that mean nothing to me as someone incapable of drawing a map in my head

> a list of random animals jules verne thought should live on the island

> 10 pages of everything is going really well. they made tools and there was food and they went hunting and nothing extraordinary happened

> something mysterious happens on the island…. [REPEAT FOR 300 PAGES]

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i'm doing this thing where i almost remember something but not quite and i start spiraling and spend hours fixated on trying to figure it out...

so quick question, does anybody remember what reality tv show c. 2015-2017 sometimes had these two photos of horses in the background, but they were blurred out because the tv show didn't own the rights to the photos??

i can't remember if it's even something i watched, or if i saw post somewhere about the blurring of art in the background of reality tv shows -- i want to say it was something like real housewives, but maybe not.

the only reason it really stuck with me was that while the horse photos were blurred on tv, i knew exactly what photos they were because i would walk past a furniture store that had them in their window display (around the same time the show was airing).

i could picture the weird street positioning of the furniture store in my mind really well, but was struggling to figure out how to word it but somehow with no other information than "it had these horse photos in the window and it was in lower manhattan, where the streets aren't a grid so you approached the store at a weird angle", one of my friends miraculously knew what i was talking about and could ID the store as mitchell gold + bob williams on lafayette st. it looks like they sold this lovely horse art from 2015 to 2017.

anyway i'm gonna go back to googling various reality tv show titles + "interiors" date range: 2015-2017 for the next few days, see you never

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I think about this constantly

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i keep wondering, if barron trump wanted to take an art elective at NYU, would secret service even let him? or does the social media activity of every person associated with the art department precludes him from coming within 100 feet of the art building

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i really appreciate when i watch a video about 3d printing/modeling and the person making the video also has an appalling workflow that uses more programs than necessary

i need to use blender to sculpt irregular objects but i don't like blender's tools for building basic shapes so i build a blocky draft of everything in fusion but i don't like fusion's tools for drawing vectors so i draw any profiles i need to extrude in illustrator

no this does not work well

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just remembered this old clickhole video i used to be obsessed with

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i got a little derailed while trying to find a pillow case for an oddly shaped pillow i own

i find this illustration funny for many reasons but primarily because this kind of gradient coloring immediately made me think of very old neopets images

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IT IS JUST A STORY ABOUT RABBITS ANY RESEMBLANCE TO THE ATTITUDES OF YOUNG PEOPLE POST WORLD WAR II IS SURELY YOU READING TOO MUCH INTO IT

I am reading Watership Down for the first time in my life (I’ve also never seen any of the animated adaptations), and the copy I have comes with this introduction by the author. I already found it very funny that an author would give a disclaimer to not try and read meaning into his text but I am losing my mind as I actually read the story, like hey man you don’t think any of this has to do with living through he horrors of World War II? None of it?

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I am reading Watership Down for the first time in my life (I’ve also never seen any of the animated adaptations), and the copy I have comes with this introduction by the author. I already found it very funny that an author would give a disclaimer to not try and read meaning into his text but I am losing my mind as I actually read the story, like hey man you don’t think any of this has to do with living through he horrors of World War II? None of it?

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I don't post much personal stuff here, but I'm proud of the work I've done for howmanycigarettes, so I want to recommend that people check it out.

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Quiet joys w/ Marge