Chaos Theory

This makes me happy

Dynasty returns!

Whaaaaat?

This podcast starts out sounding like a fun threesome between a guy, his wife, and his girlfriend. This...is not what you think it sounds like. Spoiler talk below the cut. Let's just say at 17:41, THIS TAKES A TURN FOR THE WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

Lego LA

This is beautiful.

The Flying Starchman

A suggestion for how In-N-Out can deal with vegetarians.

Weirder than midwest fair food, seriously

Really weird Technicolor things you can do with churros.

I need to look at stuff like this to calm me down

Look, small royal children at a petting zoo party or something.

God, we live in a weird world

• Trained falcons take down paparazzi drones.
• What an awesome way to get rid of female chess players in competition!
• 'What does it mean when an Insta-animal stops being merely cute and starts being, say, a lymphoma patient with a few months to live? Is the joy of a few hundred cute cat pictures outweighed by the eventual burden of mourning a creature you never even knew? Does everyone else get this deeply invested in the digital lives of other people’s faraway pets, or do I need to get more hobbies?"
• OH JUST BREAK UP ALREADY YOU MORONS. Also, ewww.
• Fighting Trump with angry beauty queens.
• "But polarization is so intense in the United States today that a cardboard cutout with an “R” on it would get about 43 percent of the vote, and one with a “D” would get about the same." (Washington Post)
• "It’s easy to understand why a viral tale of a passive-aggressive roommate getting called out for her subtweets has delighted the Internet. But the fallout hasn’t, arguably, left any of them much better off. Because a feud between two frustrated roommates so captured the imagination of the Internet, two college students are now justifiably terrified that their reputations will never recover. And even though Jessica has found a satisfying outlet for her frustration, choosing the nuclear option is going to have consequences beyond her viral fame." (Washington Post)
• "After 15 months, the suspension of disbelief has become so ubiquitous that we hardly notice anymore. We are operating in an alternate universe where the geometry is non-Euclidean, facts don’t matter, history and logic have disappeared." (Washington Post)
• "But like its counterparts the blood moon, the super moon, the blood super moon, and so on — all of which have made their way into the popular lexicon in recent years — the black moon has become, for some, a harbinger of the apocalypse. How, exactly, will the second darkening of Earth’s only natural satellite in a 30-day period usher in the destruction of life as we know it? Unclear. But some people have taken the bait." (Washington Post)

Are we just hoping for some kind of natural apocalypse so we can get the hell out of this life? Just wondering.

Don't drop out, kids

This guy used to write about dropping out of college. He's changed his tune.

"I take it all back. It's not that world anymore. Maybe it never was. Stay in school. Get a degree. Learn a trade. The world is a nightmare. The economy is fucked. Life is suffering. Your dreams don't matter to anyone but you. Your quest for independence and self-determination are an illusion born of privilege and a misbegotten sense of what "freedom" even is. There is no such thing as "living the way you want to live." What kind of asshole tells that to a bunch of children?

Maybe the kind who dropped out twice, inspired by the old idea that being true to myself was nobler than working for a boss, then spent two decades living the dream of the working artist/musician type who got day jobs only when it was absolutely necessary. I was in a band for 16 years, had a hit record, acted in a bunch of independent films, saved a lot of money, and then spent it when I didn't make any. In a way, I won the lottery. In another way, I utterly blew it. Most years I can still make a living from art things—as long as I forego health insurance, never say no to gigs, and get used to the uncertainty about where my next check will come from. There are worse lives, but I still wish I had stayed in school.

Success in 2016 is having the means to live with a modicum of dignity and a morsel of comfort. Anything more is a bonus and anything less is the norm. Your specialness should not be your central preoccupation. Staying in school helps prepare you for surviving, for helping other people, for finishing things. If you're an artist, you'll make art anyway; the idea that you deserve it as a job is a glitch of free-market capitalism. People are starving. People are homeless. People are voting for Donald Trump. Everyone who's scared is right to be. Everyone who isn't probably has a college degree."

There is an early advent calendar going on

12 Weeks of Gifting gives you a knitting pattern a week.

i....can't even

“The man took a moped and ran me over because I didn’t entertain his advances. I didn’t swear, I wasn’t abusive, but he ran me over in broad daylight.”