Just Another Day At My Job
I’ve got a sweet do-nothing gig where I make sure no well-known public figure has endorsed injecting disinfectant into your veins. In all my years on duty I’ve never had to lift a finger, because no one’s ever been dumb enough to even float the idea. Now, to take a big swig of coffee and open up today’s news, and—
Oh.
Oh no.
Uhh…be right back.
You didn’t even have to be lethally online like me to come across the news that, having failed to kill his base with fish tank cleaner, Trump has now moved on to suggesting that people could possibly give themselves a full internal cleanse by butt-chugging suppositories or shining a UV light in there, some sort of ass-related regiment. This required people who would rather be doing anything else to take time out of their days to emphasize that this, in fact, was not a good thing to do, no matter what The Dumbest Man Alive might tell you. When called on it today, Trump took the 100% Flawless Victory “brah I was just kidding look how mad you are” method of counter-attack to try and cover himself, while even the New York Times had to break away from their psychotic dedication to objectivity and apologize for both-sidesing “tying a Clorox wipe with floss and letting it go through your body”.
It really does feel like he’s building to give himself an excuse in November if he loses the general election, although “what am I supposed to do? I killed all my supporters!” isn’t the best excuse for losing, but I’d really like to see him try.
Watch This: APOLLO 11 - available via Hulu
Compiled from a treasure trove of film and audio taken during all stages of the mission that was recently uncovered and restored, APOLLO 11 has a striking immediacy to it, especially during its run in IMAX theaters. While it doesn’t provide much in the way of historical context, it’s a wonderful fly-on-the-wall style look at the teams whose unprecedented efforts combined to put men on the moon. For those looking for a more in-depth background, I’d also add as a supplemental recommendation the podcast series 13 Minutes to the Moon (available via the BBC). Each episode of that series focuses on a particular aspect of the mission, including one about a topic I’d always been curious about: Michael Collins, who manned the orbiter while Armstrong and Aldrin went to the surface, and his feelings about his place in history.
Another day, another TikTok dub of someone dubbing themselves with Trump’s words, this time with the press conference mentioned above, and it really does somehow make everything seem more reasonable. If Bon Jovi still hasn’t made his charity song yet, this would be a good time for a Bad Medicine riff on this.
We truly are cursed with the most interesting times:
Although the story is unverified, the idea that we missed out on an iteration of Limp Bizkit with Eddie Van Halen as guitarist is a real bummer, though it’s helped a bit by the idea that it didn’t happen because Van Halen disapproved of Durst’s weed smoking, and wound up having to hold him at gunpoint to get his equipment back a few days later.
This is a short but interesting thread from one of the members of the Apple Watch team with some interesting facts about its development as well as some of its design decisions.
I’ll never stop plugging the Dorktown History of the Seattle Mariners series, but there were two moments in this most recent installment that made me scream out loud at the screen. I still have to see the MJ series but it’s hard to imagine it being more compelling than this.
Finally, someone kept going out of their way to put down the WNBA, and Natasha Cloud of the (world champion!) Washington Mystics was…not having it.
