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Shiny

I am reminded of the old Benny Hill sketch with the leather pants and the leather sofa. I can’t find it anywhere, so I’m starting to believe I hallucinated the whole thing.

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This Was Toasty Even For Us Natives

But the thing is, from past experience I can tell you once it gets hotter than 117 there’s not that much difference. It’s all the same from that point out.

I told you it was going to be a heavy post day.

And with that, I bid you all good-night.

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IMHO…

Festival (Boris Midney) – Disco Evita (1979)

…still the best rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita score. Back in the late 90s my housemate Michael picked up Madonna’s interpretation and after one listen, shaking my head through the entire performance, I dragged him down to a music store at Stonestown Galleria and picked up Boris Midney’s version. “This is how Evita is done,” I told him.

Yes, even at my age, I’m still very much a disco dolly.

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That Didn’t Take Long

And the vultures descend…

Fortunately I already had it archived in iTunes.

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hexandshadowchronicles: Tim Curry never needed to be the hero to become unforgettable.

He gave darkness a voice, mischief a smile and the strange among us permission to take centre stage. From Dr Frank-N-Furter and the Lord of Darkness to Pennywise, Wadsworth and Long John Silver, every character became larger, stranger and more alive the moment he appeared.

For generations of outsiders, horror lovers and midnight cinema souls, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was more than a film. It was a doorway into a world where being different was not something to conceal. It was something to celebrate loudly, fearlessly and in magnificent clothing.

Tim Curry did not merely perform cult classics.

He helped create the reason we call them cult classics.

Rest peacefully to the man who made villains irresistible, darkness theatrical and strangeness feel like home.

Tonight, we do the Time Warp in your honour.

Tim Curry
1946–2026

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Pass This Around

addielamarr.sh: I’ve been preaching this stuff for years and I’M TIRED GRANDPA. So here’s a few ways I personally poison my own data. 

A loyalty card you signed up for at 17 still describes you (in GREAT DETAIL). An app you opened 2x is still deciding what gets sold to you 1 yr later. And the delete button turns out to be a request that a data broker is allowed to decline.

Fine. If we can’t take it back we CAN make it worthless.

Swap your grocery loyalty card with a stranger, and the profile stops describing anybody. Run AdNauseam, which blocks ads and theN clicks ALL of them, and which Google threw out of the Chrome Web Store in 2017. Fake a pregnancy, because it’s the most expensive category you can be sorted into, the one Target built a 25-product model to catch. Give every company a slightly different version of your info, so when the junk mail arrives you know exactly who sold you. Ask Alexa about things you’d never buy, because advertisers bid up to 30x higher on someone who talks to a smart speaker (peer-reviewed, ACM IMC 2023).

BONUS STRATEGIES:
Open Google’s My Ad Center and tell it you want MORE ads about things you would never purchase in your life. It’ll believe you.

TrackMeNot fires randomized searches from your browser all day so your real ones sit buried in the pile. Built at NYU after AOL leaked the search history of 650,000 people.

Glaze and Nightshade alter your photos so AI scrapers read them wrong. Glaze has passed 6 million downloads.

All of it’s legal, and it works better the more people do it. A million corrupted profiles = a broken product.

Send this to someone who’s tired of this bs timeline too.

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90skidthrowbacks: For generations, Curry was so much more than an actor. He gave us characters we could never forget like Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pennywise in It, Darkness in Legend, Rooster Hannigan in Annie, Wadsworth in Clue, Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island, and unforgettable voices like Sir Nigel Thornberry and Hexxus.

He terrified us, made us laugh, and left a mark on pop culture that will never fade. Thank you for the memories.

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Birds Of A Feather FLOCK Together

brendannorth: These dangerous anti-surveillance saboteurs have really done it this time. Placing a live bird directly in front of a Flock Safety camera forcing its motion activated sensor to record hundreds of useless photos and video clips? Absurd! 

“Birds of a Feather De-Flock Together” is my latest protest art piece that attempts to draw parallels between a canary in a cage and the mass-surveillance apparatus being built up around us. 

Cameras on every corner. Data collection in our pockets. Algorithms watching what we buy, where we go, who we talk to, and what we believe. Every day, more bars are added to the cage. We only escape by fighting ba

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