in french Spongebob is translated literally as "bob l'éponge", while patrick star is, of course, "patrick étoile" but squidward, for some reason, is called "Carlo".
I am devastated. My students—who have only experienced education systems which value grades and testing and nothing else—do not come to my class with a liberal humanist mindset seeking education and culture for its own sake.
discovered /r/gooncaves. top posts of all time suggest it’s total amateur hour. they’re supposed to be craven maximalist porn addicts and the best they can manage is playing porn on three monitors and haphazardly placing porn posters on their walls. no sense of artistry. boring!.
film camera nerds are always like shot on 200 year old kodak gold 900 that i found in the black sea and dried on a tree in chernobyl and had developed on the international space station. and then the pictures are just empty midwestern parking lots.
marxists are mad that nolan's oppenheimer attributes 'property is theft' to marx after claiming to have read all three volumes in the original german but it's honestly really marxist of him to posture like that.
Pop philosophy books in America: 48 Rules to Extract Wealth from Your Friends and Relatives.Pop philosophy books in France: Le Manifeste of the Left-Nitzchéen Spinoziste.
while it’s funny and easy to work around on a website, the law is actually quite evil as immigrants won’t be able to receive public services in english after their first 6 months here which is completely deranged.
It’s so funny how whenever bookish people visit NYC they go to the B&N in Union Square or The Strand when Albertine literally exists and is across from the Met
What's a tweet that's so canonical in your mind you make shorthand reference to it, even if people might not know what you're talking about? (I sometimes just say "uh oh y'all it's gettin' kinda hazy" expecting people to get it)
québécois people in the sixties discovering fanon, memmi, césaire and then choosing to believe they were the “white n-words of north america” will never not be hilarious.
from what i understand goon culture is all about parallel play: from gooner:porno (the gooner parallel plays with porn, which itself literally plays in parallel with even more porn ), but also gooner:gooner (the gooner plays in parallel with other gooners via reddit).
suddenly remembering i’ve been to this kind of country bar once outside ottawa and it literally felt like being in twin peaks. there was a mechanical bull.
want to write a think piece on the way the term "twink" has become completely meaningless in its adoption by bookish intellectual men who want a proximity to hotness.
just saw 3 schoolgirls running a lemonade stand. didn’t buy anything, of course. you don’t want to encourage petit-bourgeois inclinations in suburban youth.