#is that too pretensious

[major-trouble]

Now that there's a bunch of it, maybe I should be self indulgent and make a side blog for my poetry. 'Cause, ya know, Angst.

[wr1t3w1tm3]

Question: why can't Broadway musicals tape their performance and put it up on a platform for rental while the shows still on Broadway?

Obviously you charge a fair price for the rental, make it like 48 hours and cost maybe whatever their general admission ticket costs. Then, after the musical comes off Broadway, you make that original cast recording avaliable to buy permanently (like including downloads) for that general admission ticket price and knock down the rental price.

Now you'd have to either come up with a streaming service or license it out to one which is not ideal, but it would vastly improve the availability of musical theater especially to people who live outside of New England or people who don't have thousands of dollars to drop just to go see a musical. Not to mention it could help make newer musicals more accessible and easily spread, and don't get me started on accessibility especially when it comes to physical disabilities that would disallow travel or actually seeing a musical in person. This would also allow people to see the musical and then maybe go watch it in person, which increases revenue.

It also allows a continuous revenue stream for the creative team and possibly actors (depending on how contracts are structured), particularly in cases of musicals with specific historical or literary settings that could be used in classrooms (think Hamilton, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, the upcoming The Outsiders, or like every Shakespear play ever). Or even if a musical is really popular and gets a cult following like 30 years later, it would be available in a watchable format and not just as a soundtrack. Plus it'd get rid of people going to musicals for the sole purpose of uploading a slime tutorial.

[69-toojay]

I have decided to be a full time Freddie lounds apologist. She did nothing wrong ever because shes a funny gay bitch.

[dracolizardlars]

My brain every time I meet a man about my age who has shoulder length+ hair and is moderately interesting to talk to: "Oh, our perfect mate!!!!"

[birt-art]

Do you think Lydia Tár and Sandra Anatomy of a Fall would be friends.

[terrainofheartfelt]

Again, so many cool things are happening off screen and I honestly think it’s because there’s not enough episode time

Like Ryan being a black market relics dealer? Ace working in the coroner’s office? George taking college courses? Bess being the lesbian witch librarian of my dreams? Nick and everything he does? Carson and Ryan’s secret love?

[slocumjoe]

I do love isadora but my last sole survivor....he just had a zest to him. that lil guy came to me in a period of my life where I was Somewhat Deranged and my boy jesse diederik pieter willem gustav stefan boswel just has so much nostalgia for me and so much weird shit. he was my lil bug. and ive killed him

[trentlife]

I can't send the screenshot anonymously but here's part of what raya anon said:

I have tea on trent, well it's more sweet news that tea. i matched with him on that dating app that may not be names, and he truly is the sweetest gentleman as opposed to his reputation. Though I have to agree the chat lacks for which I lost interest plus he's not usually someone I usually go for but the boy's nothing like most fotballers. he's respectful, kind and not pretensious. Well done to his mama!

Also to add to this whole blonde discourse, no, he doesn't only prefer blondes. he has a strong thing for women who are small (height wise), dark eyes and dark hair too. He likes them Latina or South East Asian/Middle Eastern and older or the same age as him

+

His "type" is so different from Iris and his exes wowza

[remembertheplunge]

“March 14, 2017 Tuesday 2017

Magical. That’s how last night feels. DJ is a delight that comes out of no where. DJ offered to help clean the house. He, too, is family free. He had worked and owned a car. He dresses well. A guy yesterday told him he's too well dressed to be homeless. “What does homeless look like?” He asked me.

Before him, I gave a Trader Joe bag to a late 30’s early 40s blonde man sitting by Tresettie’s. (I later learned that his name was Jeff) I had planned to see a movie around 6pm. So, I must have met him around 5pm.  I asked if he’d like to see a movie with me. His reply “after dark” so that he could hide his shopping cart of belongings.

I bought 2 tickets to the 7:30 Logan movie, which he turned down.

So, I ordered at “T Cup” by Brenden two chicken crapes which were awful. I looked outside and there, sitting on his bag was DJ. I took food to him. Asked him to the movie. He came back into tea cup with me. We ate..well.chicken nuggets I ordered to replace the crape. Also awful. Later boxed and given to DJ.

10:25pm

DJ is here. We are eating cookies and cream ice cream. Post (watching the movie) “9”.

“9” should be called “Nine”, German for NO. “No 9”. DJ just said it. Pretensious Berkeley- ism

The 5 things:

DJ is safe here. He’s not on the street.

End of entry

Notes:

I wrote the 10:25pm part of the entry in my house. I had brought DJ back here for the night.

“9” was a movie about Modesto’s 9th Street homeless.  It was shown at the State theater downtown. DJ and I must have seen it together. In my memory, I went alone and walked out half way through it was so bad!. It apparently was shot by Berkeley film makers, thus my “pretentious” comment about their work.

I wrote the 5 things I was  grateful  that  night before bed.  I still write “the 5 things” each night before bed.

DJ was the first homeless person to stay in my house . Maybe 10 homeless men in all stayed with me in my house between March to October 2017. They stayed independently of one another for days or a week.

[taylortruther]

bit late to it but i think of pretensious as someone who associates themselves with certain cultural markers and takes themselves too seriously. it is the taking yourself too seriously (with a dash of joylessness) that is the marker imo. not the consumption

being a human being is an inherently absurd thing. like you said - lighten up!

tbh i think the biggest part of pretentiousness is how obvious it is that you're TRYING. like saying a color is "blood orange" when "red" would've been just fine (and more accurate.) boasting and otherwise behaving like you are better than others.

so yes.... lighten up. sometimes it really is just red!

[pacifymebby]

what does a24 mean? x

Theyre a film production company, they did Midsommar and i think parasite? Or hereditary idk i get the "elevated" horror movies confused. Theyve done some really good films though, I think they did Ladybird and The Lighthouse too? Some of their stuffs incredible and some of its just pretensious u know?

X

[beacarrot]

May, 2024.

I took a long while to put this in words, 'cause the truth was unclear,

I remember your magnetic entrance, but how you left and it's not near,

I promised a song,

But you do it better,

So I'll keep that pretensious promise strong.

This time I was there,

I can touch this photograph with care,

Freeze it in a frame,

Safely hidden, out of woods,

And let it be,

Where I can place it to move again, eternally,

In slow motion,

It wasn't like pictures stuck on my wall,

We went wild without a single stall,

Turning glasses, that were discarded on the floor,

The crowd trembled with every word you swore,

My heart beat with a single unease,

The appeal that adorns the wish that this is was the very first page,

Not where this story takes its flight.

Not where this story ends.

I'll die a little each day feeling your absence,

It was the first time,

But today I felt I’ve missed you all this time,

You showed me a world anew,

I’m stuck because now I don't want to undo,

I can't go back,

I’m desolate because I can’t live without you, not being safe and intact,

When the lights came on, I scraped my knees on the lawn,

Spending life waiting for you to return before dawn,

Declaring you with my intoxicating lover,

I’ll hate myself more, deep down from core and above,

'Cause no word in the world will ever be enough,

And blaming my creative spark for being fault and rough,

I always knew deep down, I wasn’t the resilient type like a tough,

And all I can say,

Is that while I live,

I’ll remember,

And while I die,

I’ll still love you.

Who’s gonna stop us from dancing through the flames?

Above the wires where crows and gulls alight,

Every word stored, every night, scarlet smoke’s light,

They passed through our peripheral sight,

Slowly boarding every moment away,

Seeing you,

I was like a deer ahead of headlights, astray,

Like that tatto above your scar,

And this story will be written by my hips too.

What a folly, I thought I’d found my life’s sense,

Then I realized,

I was golden, but you were an eternal blue expanse,

Then you touched me, and suddenly,

I felt I could breathe once again,

Everything comes back to mind,

14 years, the world was black and white,

For me to paint with colors matte or bright.

A dreaming boy, a storyteller’s aim,

Hoping a big city would catch his name,

You knew how to beat all theories so lame,

Playing records backwards, not the same,

Never found your shadow,

With your heart trapped in a London booth,

And every time we forgot why to love you,

You make sure to remind us.

I hope my painting's in your hands,

And it could sliding through your fingers, where it stands,

And you can feel each pulse spended of my veins,

From my false courage,

From an unintended free fall,

I hope the translation meets my emotion’s demand,

Capturing the essence of my one-sided passion,

But deep down, I know it might not land,

Words are shallow, and art is pretty, but not as a heart so opened.

And all I could say,

Is that while I live,

I’ll remember,

And while I die,

I’ll still love you,

'Cause there I was again that night,

Dressed in that little black dress so tight,

The same old, tired, and lonely heart in sight,

With my vacant eyes, drumming,

I saw your face,

Contrasting each overlapping study,

Countering every studied embrace,

Danced on my room’s laminate floor,

On the way home, I saw sparks I couldn’t ignore,

Wonderstruck,

Wishing you on my doorstep’s place,

Would you have read my letter’s trace,

I’d open the door and you’d know,

That I’m enchanted to meet you.

(P.S: This text I wrote inspired by the day I went to Louis' concert, the gig was unreal, but the next day it drove me crazy with the feeling of emptiness. In the song there are some snippets from Taylor Swift's song "Enchanted". Thanksss!!!!!!)

Signed: Beatriz Ranzonni. 🩵

[miraruinada]

"ALL THIS INTERVENTION HAS TAUGHT ME IS THAT MY STUDENTS ARE ALL FAILURES! MY SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT AND IMPERATIVE WAS 'KNOW THYSELF', AND THIS IS WHAT MY TEACHINGS HAVE GIVEN YOU?! IOVAN, YOU ARE TOO FUCKING ARROGANT AND PRETENSIOUS! IGNACIO, YOU'RE WORSE THAN A PEASANT, YOU'RE A FUCKING DOORMAT WEAK TO PEER PRESSURE! HUGO, YOU HAVE LITERALLY NO PRESENCE! JEHTIN, YOU'RE A FUCKING DISCIPLE! ANACAONA, YOU ARE TOO MELANCHOLIC AND ATTACH YOURSELF TO PEOPLE OUT OF LONELINESS!"

"Ohoho, I sure am."

"DOORMAT?!"

"No presence..."

"Mi Comandante, can I kill him?"

"Oh..."

"ALL MY STUDENTS ARE MORONS! MY LIFE'S WORK WAS FOR NOTHING! NO ONE UNDERSTOOD ME, AND THE ONE PERSON WHO UNDERSTOOD ME DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ME! I'M GOING INTO MY STUDY AND CHIEFING TEN CARTONS OF CIGARETTES!"

"...What did I miss?"

[cksmart-world]

SMART BOMB

The Completely Unnecessary News Analysis

By Christopher Smart

June 4, 2024

BONKERS OVER VERDICT — MIKE LEE WANTS PAYBACK

Utah's Sen. Mike Lee has had it with all the injustice done to his hero Donald Trump. The Biden White House just convicted Trump of 34 felonies for falsification of business records and Lee's not going to take it. The toady-for-life has joined with seven other trumpriots: Sens. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who will hold their collective breaths until all meaningful work in the U.S. Senate crawls to a stop. “The White House has made a mockery of the rule of law and fundamentally altered our politics in un-American ways,” they wrote in a letter sent by stork to the big judge in the sky. President Joe Biden and his minions have weaponized the legal system that led to 34 unanimous guilty verdicts issued by a jury of Trump's peers. “Those who turned our judicial system into a political cudgel must be held accountable.” Some hinted he may toilet-paper Jenny Wilson's house, since the Salt Lake County mayor is one of the only Democrats in Utah. But what about that thing where Trump could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. Well, no more — and you know it's gotta be Biden's fault.

FLYING DRIVERLESS TAXIS, OH MY!

Here's a recent headline from the Deseret News: “Would you get on a flying taxi without a pilot?” (Expletive deleted) No! We're not kiddin' about this Wilson. They're coming and there's nothing we can do about it. And you thought The Jetsons — the animated futuristic comedy of the 1960s — where people got around in flying cars would never happen. Never say never. Still, if the driverless automobile taxis in San Francisco are any indicator, we could be in for some scary rides. The San Francisco autonomous taxis malfunctioned regularly causing massive traffic jams all over the city; they blocked streets impeding emergency vehicles; they drove through wet cement and generally scared the hell out of everyone. The California DMV finally suspended their use. But get this: An outfit called Project Alta says it will have operational air taxis in Salt Lake City in time for the 2034 Winter Olympics. (No site of the 2034 Games has not been selected, although Salt Lake City is in the running.) You're right Wilson, it does sound like pie in the sky. And what if the pie falls out of the sky? What's the polite way to say squashed bodies. Collateral damage? On a positive note, the sky taxis could be a perfect compliment to the proposed space-age “entertainment district” downtown — The Jetsons would love it.

LORDY, THEY'RE WEAPONIZING THE FLAG, TOO

No one in their right mind could possibly think that an upside-down American flag flying at the house of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito could mean he supports Jan. 6 rioters, election deniers or Donald Trump. So said Alito in a pretensious letter to Sens. Richard Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse regarding their plea to Chief Justice John Roberts that Alito be recused from the case of Trump v. United States. It's like this, Alito said, “My wife did it!” He asked her to take the flag down but she told him to stuff it. As to the “Appeal to Heaven” flag flown at his beach house, well, “My wife did that, too,” Alito said. (Both flags have been adopted by MAGA and election deniers.) Alito's wife, Marth-Ann, has First Amendment rights, too, he barked. And she's quite the battle axe so he doesn't like to mess with her. Dems observe that Alito clearly has the appearance of bias in favor of Trump and his claim of total immunity when he directed a mob to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6. Balderdash, Alito exclaimed. No reasonable person who is not motivated by politics or ideology could possibly think he's biased because he keeps his Christian Nationalist predilections to himself. Democrats have weaponized flags and other stuff, Alito said, like the free vacations he gets from billionaires. It totally sucks, right Martha-Ann.

Post script — That'a a wrap for another fun-filled week here at Smart Bomb where we keep track of presidential polling, so you don't have to. Well Wilson, Trump was found guilty of 34 class E felonies. Now, the BIG question: Will it help him or hurt him in the Nov. 5 election. Some pundits say it will give him a boost because it will energize his base. Within hours of the guilty verdict his campaign took in more than $60 million in contributions. But other observers say, not so fast — undecided voters might not want a convicted felon in the White House. Yes Wilson, that would make a good bumper sticker: Let's Put A Felon In The White House. It's funny how that works in a backwards kinda of way. Biden and Trump will square off in debate on June 27 and that could, according to Dan Balz of the Washington Post, bring into focus two questions undecided voters must ask themselves. One: Which candidate poses the bigger threat to the future of the country? Two: which candidate will make the lives of Americans better than they are today? On the other hand, if it turns into a WWE wrestling match, well who knows... Titan Trump with his signature bodyslam vs. Batman Biden and his sneaky snake chokehold. Get the popcorn, Louise, it's going to be The Thrilla in Atlanta.

Well shucks Wilson, poor old Martha-Ann Alito, she's been havin' a time of it and of course so has her Sammy Pooh. So the staff here at Smart Bomb is wondering if you and the guys in the band don't have a little something up your sleeve for the couple of the moment:

When a man loves a woman, Can't keep his mind on nothin' else, He'd change the world for the good thing he's found. If she is bad, he can't see it, She can do no wrong, Turn his back on his best friend if he put her down. When a man loves a woman, He'll spend his very last dime Tryin' to hold on to what he needs. He'd give up all his comforts And sleep out in the rain, If she said that's the way It ought to be. Well, this man loves you, woman. I gave you everything I have, Tryin' to hold on to your heartless love. Baby, please don't treat me bad. When a man loves a woman, Down deep in his soul, She can bring him such misery. If she is playin' him for a fool, He's the last one to know. Lovin' eyes can never see.

(When a Man Loves a Woman — Percy Sledge)

[rabchunter]

Back at the Gloucestershire Agriculture Education Centre, this time called in to deal with a wood pigeon, feral pigeon, corvid, rat and rabbit vermin/pest problem especially around the grain mill and barns.

New Air Rifle day for my Professional Pest Control Rounds.

As with everything I stock in my gun room I make sure they do the job first before my clients get to have them.

I like to make sure everything in my shop does what it says on the tin, where the metal meets the meat

This Reximex Pretensis is awesome, shoots as smooth as silk with a deadly humane strike on target, damned accurate too.

I fitted a konus pro scope and standard mod from stock, then took it on my private range and zeroed it before heading out on this professional pest control job.

By golly it was almost pin point accurate right from the box, I never dropped a shot on target once zeroed, I would expect to pay 3 times the price for something of this quality.

A fine addition to my collection, you will be seeing more of the Reximex Pretensis in the future I telle.

All products for your sporting needs or Professional Pest Control are available on the website link below 👇

www.reallywildadventures.co.uk

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[rainingmbappe]

You are Yellow, Goldenrod, Mahogany, Ruby, Pink and Green ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Are we... in love

Yellow - every time i see you on my dash you're always so happy and it's so lovely!

AWWWW you're being suspiciously sweet but same here 🤨🫶🏽

Goldenrod - i really wanna sit next to you and watch a sunset/sunrise. or maybe just look at you.

KEKEKSKWKEWDOA pls let's. I legit do that almost everyday and I think you'd be great company. And we may be in love bro shit

Mahogany - let's go on a late night drive together and listen to one of your playlists.

YESSS my mom sometimes takes me and my sister for late night drives and let me tell you. That shit heals the soul from the bottom and up. And my dreampop/shoegaze with the occasional frank ocean Playlist is locked and LOADED

Ruby - you are such a gem, you deserve so much better <3

Says YOU. Ur amazing.

Pink - biting you biting you biting you biting you licking you biting you biting you

YOU THINK IM NOT GONNA BITE TOU TF BACK???? oh you have smth else coming for you. And I'm notorious for tickle attacks too so you just wait 😏😏😏😏😏

Green - wanna go touch grass with me?

Lawd knows we both need it. We'll real deep and pretensious too while at all cause why not

Daniel is my top g yall DO BETTER