well @harper knew that i grew up doing children's puppetry...
@amyhoy@dylanreed well @harper knew that i grew up doing children's puppetry at birthday parties in the family puppet theater, and @dylanreed makes puppets, so one day a box arrived
I left to teach a class and they put the puppet of me on my...
I left to teach a class and they put the puppet of me on my new boots. That's the DuoLingo owl face-down behind the puppet; it was watching and fell over. We do work for the Fortune 100. twitter.com/...
I finished an essay last week, and I know that people will...
I finished an essay last week, and I know that people will find it problematic on social media, but it won't be published for a few weeks, so I am in a state of extreme banticipation.
When McWatters says he's looking for input and feedback...
When McWatters says he's looking for input and feedback because he's re-designing this, he means it. He's working hard to build the simplest communication tool he can and he listens very intently. If you are on the spectrum/have folks on the spectrum give him your thoughts. twitter.com/...
You know people are always talking about how ancient...
You know people are always talking about how ancient sculpture was painted to be lifelike and that sounds kind of cool? And then I saw this. twitter.com/...
Here is the snake that just bit my wife. Both snake and...
Here is the snake that just bit my wife. Both snake and wife seem to be okay. We (meaning also me and the kids, not the snake) went to the emergency room just in case. I hope everyone else is enjoying their vacation. twitter.com/...
Right? It made me love people even though some individuals...
@ryanvailbrown Right? It made me love people even though some individuals were bad. Whereas I end up loathing humans on here. Maybe it was that we were trying to accomplish something together even though it was just helping them log on?
I miss interacting at a personal level with hundreds or...
I miss interacting at a personal level with hundreds or even thousands of people via email. Twitter is broadcast, not the same. When you're emailing with hundreds of people you can just ask them whatever crosses your mind and at worse they'll ignore you.
It makes me realize one thing I loved running the web and...
It makes me realize one thing I loved running the web and building the archive at Harper's: Responding to hundreds upon hundreds of actual bananacakes enraged help requests. Sometimes I'd ask, "Do you have a grandchild? They can help."
One thing about actually advertising our company online is...
One thing about actually advertising our company online is that I now get lots of emails with body text like WANT BUILD ASS and I just write back and go, "hey, James, good to hear from you, what kind of ass are you trying to build?"
My wife just sent me a picture of my son's weird blister so...
My wife just sent me a picture of my son's weird blister so now I'm on the bus looking through all kinds of blisters for the closest match and may throw up.
NYC: I know we were going to talk but I gotta file these...
NYC: I know we were going to talk but I gotta file these briefs and the car alarms won't stop going off. (Drinks bottle of wine, one gulp). I'm gonna be at work til midnight. FML.
Philly: Cool I'm gonna roller blade down the street in the middle of the day looking great.
I need help. Sales help. Coordination help. So much help....
I need help. Sales help. Coordination help. So much help. There's much inbound. Help me. Apply for the sales coordinator job. I am a respectful boss who has learned to firmly ask for what he needs. I also take feedback. We respect families. #open-positions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://postlight.com/careers#open-positions
Every essay is like making a new friend. The article where...
Every essay is like making a new friend. The article where the tree fell on the house, I'm pretty sure that happened to me now. I think I see the badger at the 7-11. No one else trusts their readers and writers this much.
Dearest Umberto, I hope this email finds you still living...
Dearest Umberto, I hope this email finds you still living and that you or your heirs won't mind the intrusion on this very sad day, and I am sure that if you are alive you must be very busy, but I was wondering—again, only if corporeal—
I mean...he has a MacArthur...but to your point he's kind...
@Greg_Lindsay I mean...he has a MacArthur...but to your point he's kind of on a techno-economic-realist island that got subsumed by poppier stuff that put its genre influence on its sleeve (Cloud Atlas) and always was just a few lines down from DeLillo in the Big List. The market is fickle.
The Democratic nomination race is like watching the first...
The Democratic nomination race is like watching the first five minutes of a Wes Anderson film where the camera keeps moving up and down and through walls to introduce the characters but it's slowed down to last a full year.
I like to send them to our "vendor intake form." I also...
@mulegirl I like to send them to our "vendor intake form." I also write back with nonsense questions like "do you have any experience with CRM for salmon farming?" and mute the thread. It's sad that the entire world is a 411 scam right now.
But that's exactly it how often are we forced to just...
@nicksrockwell But that's exactly it how often are we forced to just contemplate the weird lives of others? You have a whole life, friends, family, and I just assume you're at the NYT barking orders like I SAID BRING UP 150 A1.4XLARGES WE HAVE HOT COLLUSION PDFS FRESH OUT THE OVEN.
Does Mark Knopfler have a favorite pierogi place? Or it...
Does Mark Knopfler have a favorite pierogi place? Or it more like, there is this amazing Azerbaijani restaurant on Długa. How many guitars does he bring? Has Danzig played Danzig?
I love how you'll dig something like Dire Straits up in...
I love how you'll dig something like Dire Straits up in Spotify and it will tell you that Mark Knopfler is playing in July in Gdánsk. It's perfectly irrelevant and I can think of nothing else. Do Poles freak out for Telegraph Road? Does the tour rider accept Żywiec?
In my 20s I saw successful people in my orbit as fraudulent...
In my 20s I saw successful people in my orbit as fraudulent sellouts who didn't deserve their success. In my 40s those same people are as often as not...my friends. Just a little #WednesdayWisdom.
This elf blessed my timeline yesterday and looks a...
This elf blessed my timeline yesterday and looks a little/dresses a lot like my wife, @maureenflaherty, so I sent the picture to her and said "Your ears look good in this photo," but now she wants to know where it's from, and you can't find anything on Twitter. Does anyone know? twitter.com/...
Democratic presidential candidates on Twitter is...
Democratic presidential candidates on Twitter is unbelievably bad. It's just pure hell discourse and worse, I see which friends liked what, and am becoming alienated from my peers in silence.
Now that I've seen Captain Marvel I want a ridiculous movie...
Now that I've seen Captain Marvel I want a ridiculous movie with Jude Law and Cate Blanchett as hot supercilious villains on a galactic Kree/Valhalla rampage. You could call it GATTACArol or...I won't do better than GATTACArol.
i was so absolutely fucking exhausted right then that i...
@theodoreross i was so absolutely fucking exhausted right then that i don't remember writing those pieces and when they come up on twitter i'm shocked by them
I'm trying hard to stop saying smushy bullshit like "do you...
I'm trying hard to stop saying smushy bullshit like "do you have that task?" when I'm talk/slacking with people who work with me, and instead just go "I want you to do that. What do you need to accomplish it and when can it get done?" and i suck at it. I am a soggy asker.
Friends, @PostlightStudio keeps growing. I am responding to...
Friends, @PostlightStudio keeps growing. I am responding to lots of RFPs and juggling many leads. But I am not a TODO person and I need help. Would you like to be a SALES COORDINATOR and write proposals and go to meetings with me? postlight.com/...
Friends! Lots of folks are coming but we'd be glad to see...
Friends! Lots of folks are coming but we'd be glad to see you too—the “live podcast” is a half hour of fun talking and then we hang out and nerd around for a few hours until the head of HR plays CLOSING TIME by Semisonic. April 11 at 101 5th Ave at 6PM. meetup.com/...
Friends who need an extremely light API-powered...
Friends who need an extremely light API-powered CMS-in-the-cloud should check out Liftoff, an open source Labs experiment built on top of @airtable by @PostlightStudio engineer @fdsimmspostlight.com/...
This piece is from 2017, but it's the only thing about...
This piece is from 2017, but it's the only thing about Brexit that ever made sense to me and I've been thinking about it since. prospectmagazine.co.uk/...
I don't know if you enjoy reading ridiculous standards for...
@EmilyGorcenski I don't know if you enjoy reading ridiculous standards for entertainment, but the ICALENDAR spec is a special level of cultural-technological disaster mashup and one of my favorites.
Today is the greatest day online, both a great day for...
Today is the greatest day online, both a great day for unfunny, self-congratulatory tech dorks and for exhausting, sanctimonious scolds of all sorts, on a platform almost perfectly designed to amplify your mutual unbearability.