Martin McClellan

Did you know that in 1993 Prince wrote and produced a musical called Glam Slam Ulysses, based on the Odyssey? Apparently, it was advertised as "The Homer-Erotic Odyssey of Ulysses and His Gang". Carmen Electra starred.

I've not tried the CBD+THC tincture yet, but I'm gonna order some. I regularly use Milk Barn Farm's CBD tinctures for sleeping and such, and the spiced salve for sore muscles. They're the best. Highest rec. Also, follow Derek on TikTok for pepper, goat, and blooming corpse flower (now a tree!) vids

We must imagine Charlie Brown happy.

One of my favorite movie memories is walking past the Cinerama and noting that Skerrit was sitting for a Q&A on a screening of Alien that day. Bought a ticket on the spot, it was the best (both his stories and watching it on a huge screen).

Some of my favorite artists show me again and again why they are my favorite artists. What an absolutely beautiful work of storytelling and memory.

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

@naomialderman.bsky.social Thank you for The Strangers. I cannot believe the kismet timing of your pub date vs our collective Jimothy enthrallment. Surely I’m not the first to mention this, or the last, but when the universe presents Mimmothy, best to note it with gratitude.

Given the Vatican's important historical contributions to meaningful and beautiful typography, this letter disappoints.

Buy your digital comics from Sweet. It’s beautiful and run by people who love comics and are more interested in good design and good features more than selling out.

When it comes to wholesome videos, nothing is better than babies putting on glasses for the first time.

Playing “I want to be sedated” at 7:12am in the airport is a baller move, Cleveland.

Did I cry at great-grandmas funeral in 1997? Why do you ask?

Apple UI team blazing conjugation like bosses

Literally the plot of @lailalalami.com’s The Dream Hotel.

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions https://theonion.com/historians-politely-remind-nation-to-check-whats-happen-1819572992/

A pivotal moment in how I understood the world was noting the difference in what I was told Gloria Steinem's message was, and what she was actually saying. The gulf between the two was rather her point. She always spoke in a clear, direct way. It's almost like it took work to misunderstand her.

A most apt typo

“We’re occupying a strange political moment in which humanities work is both massively undervalued and everywhere extracted as a valuable resource.” https://defector.com/humanists-have-done-nothing-wrong

Maybe Mary really meant to say "You do not have to be food" since that seems like powerful words for even domesticated geese if you ask me

Not sure if it is me or them, but I sure am failing a lot of captcha checks these days. What is a motorcycle, anyway? Is a bridge really so obtuse?

First of all I don’t know how to “quality” something. Second of all, eww.

A good day to rewatch one the strangest videos to emerge from the mad MTV early days and see what details you missed last time. youtu.be/lcOxhH8N3Bo?...

I'm going to be at SDCC for the first time this year. Any real-world friends here going? DM me if you want to cross paths! Any great tabletop, or TTRPG, or artists you love that I should check out?

Consistently the most meaningful and grounding read on the internet, to me. Mandy's work reminds me of the best parts of the early promise of the internet made into a beating, living, and modern textual body. Here's to eighteen more years.

This is amazing. The kids are alright + also have access to 90s video segment technology

This has been the overwhelming opinion of everybody I've talked to, sports fans and haters alike. I think we all just wanted our city to feel fun, again. Seattle is a really fun city that feels like it's been struggling to wake up since lockdown.

I wrote about how I discovered that a new site for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig's long-running Tumblr project-turned-book, was a bootleg made by a marketing agency. They published the complete book verbatim, then added AI-generated art and new AI words, entirely without permission.

Hell yeah, why experience a meaningful daily ritual for a few fleeting years, when you can instead outsource it to something sterile that has never thought or felt or lived? Sometimes I get sad for people who don't realize that time is all any of us has. www.theverge.com/tech/947871/...

Introducing Melted: A Messy Ice Cream Game! No kickstarters this year! Preorder on my website now! Coming in July! Art by @wildkatstudio.bsky.social !

Breakout French-Canadian math rock duo Angine de Poitrine, British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks, and garage rocker Ty Segall headline the lineup for the KEXP BBQ on Aug. 22 at Seattle Center. Tickets are on sale now. www.kexp.org/bbq/

Now that’s a welcome collab I don’t see coming.

What's the over/under on an AI model being named "Baudrillard" sometime within the next few years?