David Erik Nelson's Blog, page 25

This is an extremely intense song about getting the proper amount of sleep…

(i told you)...

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Flashback Friday: The Jimmy Hold

Straight talk: this still cracks me the fuck up.

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The title sorta casts the whole thing in a new light…

I mean, a severed Russian head is a pretty dope thrift-shop come-up.

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I was never a “Union Forever” kinda guy . . .

. . but Elon Musk’s breathtaking lack of shits to give for human life and limb pretty much makes me want to perpetually barf down his throat. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose factory in Fremont, California, has more OSHA violations and fines than the big three automakers combined from 2014 to 2018, announced that he was moving the company’s corporate offices to Austinsource I recently spoke to an...

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Flashback Friday: Halloween Edition 🎃🦇🔪

A seasonally appropriate list of creepyscarry links: Teddy Has an Operation (short film)A Researcher’s Descent into Madness (short film)Actual pages from an actual children’s book from the American “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s (absolutely factual historical info; not fictional in any way, except for in that thoroughly un-fun mass-hysteria-and-the-delusions-of-crowds way)

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May We Be Brought Back from the Mouth of Annihilation

8220;After the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting my coworker at the Hebrew school admits she wishes we had less windows” by Joshua Elbaum ​​I bet birds wish the same thing. That anyone would take the sky, crack it, put its pieces where they don’t belong, astonishes them. The birds fear our foolishness. We who dare to choose between gifts the sky offers: light without rain, heat without hail...

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Happy Halloween, everyone!🎃👁😱

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HALLOWEEN TREAT 🎃👻🦑💀: “Mitochondrial Assimilation” by Khalifaziz @NightlightPod

This story resonates with me tremendously as a Jew. It captures the ambivalent, ecstatic trauma of becoming part of the thing that is America in a way that perfectly matches my lived experience. NIGHTLIGHT (A Black Horror Fiction Podcast) # 422: “Mitochondrial Assimilation” by Khalifaziz They also have an interview with the author, Khalifaziz, that’s well worth your time.

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I sorta love local investigative reporters…

yes, they are cheesy showboats—no doubt—but they are cheesy showboats performing what is likely the ONLY FUNCTION most folks ACTUALLY want out of the Fourth Estate: to warn them about shit that might harm them on a regular day-to-day basis. A huge portion of “news” focuses on opinion and “analysis” (which is just another kind of opinion) and “commentary” (a third name for opinion).

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Hold Up: Is that emblematic 1967 Armour hot dog commercial an homage to Ingmar Bergman’s classic film SEVENTH SEAL?

I mean, it’s weird that no one talks about the obvious visual similarities between the beginning of hot dog ad (top image) and the final image from Bergman’s Seventh Seal (bottom image), right? The opening frame of the classic ’67 “Armour Hotdogs” ad The final frame of Bergman’s Seventh Seal, often referred to as the “Dance of Death” by scholars Are we to...

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