Glen

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Likes to talk about movies, sometimes even sees them. Frequent pusher of road cases, occasional pusher of faders. He, him

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Glen@bigsigh· 26d

She points out that bans don't work (and cites a study showing 85% of teens in Australia are still on it to back that up). She continues that argument by pointing out that clandestine use means teens are less likely to seek help.

She notes that social media has positive effects as well.

She suggests that taxing big tech to fund more third spaces for teens would be a positive alternative.

Glen@bigsigh· 27d

Bluesky in meatspace.

A sign asking people to keep their dogs on leash that has been defaced to argue cars are the greater menace, and then defaced once more to shame humanity for their wildlife killing ways.

Glen@bigsigh· Jul 8

Ideally you'd see I Saw the TV Glow on a TV, duh. But I think this is the second best way. (I did not change the RGB for this.)

Glen@bigsigh· Jul 4

Interestingly, Gunn did lose out on at least one major point: The movie's big, climactic needle drop, a goofily somber cover of "The Middle," wasn't Gunn's pick, but Gillespie's; the Guardians Of The Galaxy auteur wanted a cover of "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," which also sounds, if we're being honest, terrible. (Nobody, apparently, pitched that a largely incoherent battle sequence slowed down to a moody pop cover might be a bad way to end their movie.)

Glen@bigsigh· Jul 1

Took a pet like, no problem.

A chocolate point pat accepting neck stritches

Glen@bigsigh· Jun 30

Pradipa Rasidi, who at the time worked for the youth wing of Transparency International in Indonesia, noticed the phenomenon when he was researching social media during the election.“At first glance they appear normal but then they mostly only tweet about politics," he said.

Glen@bigsigh· Jun 18

are we sure this isn't sketch comedy they're trying to pass off as an interview

But please listen a little bit. It's even worse.

There is not was, is a very good plan to replace the regime. Not one hundred per cent. Not eighty per cent. But most likely.

So, like, ninety per cent, maybe?

Let's be honest. No one can say if it is seventy per cent or eighty per cent.

Glen@bigsigh· Jun 16

Visibly uncomfortable, having trouble focusing

Noticing we're noticing, he pardons the glitch

Says, "I'm sorry but it's vital I depart from the script"

To where? You had one job

John Something, something's wrong with John Something

Something's on his mind, he been searching for the words

Even standing at the plate, I ain't anticipate the curve

He go, "Last night I saw this new documentary

And I can not understate the extent to which it's affected me"

I'm on the edge of my seat

He said it's called "When We Were Kings"

Glen@bigsigh· Jun 14

Living a 10min walk away from this continues to be life-saving.

Glen@bigsigh· Jun 12

My Dad has spent a lot of time getting pretty dang good at photography.

The lushest panorama imaginable featuring a green field, stone fence and dramatic hills. Taken in Cumbria.

Glen@bigsigh· May 31

Really neat as an exercise in voice that's less about a particular tone or cadence and more about how analytically the protagonist processes his relationships. (Also it's incredible that she gets so granular about race and class in Australia without bogging down the narrative.)

Learned Behaviours by Zeynab Gamieldien.

Glen@bigsigh· May 22

Has a cute conceit whereby the singular narrator is actually two separate (albeit joined at the hip) people. It works more or less like Persona in literary form? (Although, thematically it has much, much more in common with Promising Young Woman.)

Glen@bigsigh· May 16

Was a little thrown off by it being pulpier than anticipated (yes, it's a novel about immortals but someone shoots a coyote from horseback). Warmed up to it once it revealed its theme of what it means to live a good life. Also appreciate the author doing a little gentle gentrifier self-criticism.

I'm holding a copy of Casey Scieszka's The Fountain.

Glen@bigsigh· May 15

www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2026...

May 15, 2026
1516: Citrus Paradisi by Arah Ko
TRANSCRIPT

I’m Maggie Smith, and this is The Slowdown.

Every September for as long as I can remember, I’ve gone apple picking with my family at Lynd’s Fruit Farm in Pataskala, Ohio.

The tradition started with my parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins when I was a small child. When my sisters and I had children of our own, we continued our annual apple-picking outing with about fourteen of us. Every year, we take a family photo of my parents and all of the grandkids in a comically giant red Adirondack chair — the kind designed especially for novelty photos.

I have fond memories of eating apples straight from the tree after shining them on my t-shirt. I remember climbing the small trees when I too was small and then letting my kids climb when they were little. They’d pick the largest apples and hand them down to our waiting bushel sacks one by one.

Now, only a few of the kids are still small enough to climb. But the crisp sweetness of an apple plucked right from the tree is something I’ll never outgrow — and … it’s poetry. It links our individual experience directly to the environment. It connects the beauty in our perception to a universal narrative. Apples are front and center in some of our best-known stories, parables of knowledge and truth. Fruit itself is a reminder of the land, trees, bush, and vine that grew it. Of how the earth works so hard to make life, and to make life that is sweet.

Today’s poem takes as its inspiration the grapefruit, which is fleshy and juicy and as bitter as it is sweet. I was drawn to this poem because it is so packed with sensory detail: smells, sights, and textures. The poem itself is delicious.

Citrus Paradisi
by Arah Ko

In Chicago, the sunny kitchen smelled like grapefruit, wood dust, wool coats. The
windy, wide paved streets felt empty, even when they were full. The oro blanco
grapefruit tasted richest in the coldest months, separated into perfect, jewel-toned
triangles…

Glen@bigsigh· May 6

Parasocial relationships with (ex)politicians are a very bad idea but... Damn, the contrast between the way Albanese talks about the arts and the way Bandt talks about them is telling.

HAPPY: What's the ideal length of a club banger, and when does the drop come in? Or do you prefer your tunes drop free?

ADAM: Ah, the big question! Melbourne DJ Mike

Callander recently played this amazing track Mouth to Mouth by Audion, an old one I'd never heard before, it goes for almost 13 minutes, and it feels like the big drop is always just about to come but never quite does. It's immensely satisfying.

Glen@bigsigh· May 3

Haha well the actual conversation around it here seems fine but the concept is... interesting.

Glen@bigsigh· Apr 26

I admire how free Patti Smith feels to respond to everything as an artist; to just feel, react and transmute without overthinking.

Glen@bigsigh· Apr 20

Huh, so this is free and, yup, the conversation bit is with Mr Diaz himself.

GoMA is screening Magellan this Thursday with Lav Diaz himself in attendance

Glen@bigsigh· Apr 18

The long gap in entries is partially explained by a book I'm not posting and also this one's sections on Lacan and the incest taboo. I made it though - thanks to a half forgotten soc sci degree - and I appreciate it tearing down the idea of any natural or pre-discursive sex.

Judith Butler's Gender Trouble held by a hand decorated with chipped red nail polish.

Glen@bigsigh· Apr 11

The Horrors are a good rock band and, also, I had forgotten how many of their songs are break-up songs.

Faris and Rhys (yeah I'm on a first name basis) of The Horrors in lurid blue and red lighting. They are leaning in opposite directions.

Same guys but silhouetted dramatically in blue and green.

You know who it is! This time in dark blue and Faris is leaning down in such a way as to make him look headless.

Glen@bigsigh· Apr 9

Glen@bigsigh· Apr 7

Seeing as you're evidently not going to read the article here's the relevant part so you can at least understand what the author was getting at instead of just having a kneejerk reaction to the headline. You're welcome.

It's also worth remembering that video games themselves aren't an industry, and it's an unhealthy starting point for any resulting discussions if that's all you think they are.

They're a medium, a vehicle for art, product and play all at once. Every game ever developed has involved at least one of those three things, regardless of where in the world it was made or what platform you played it on.

As a result, there is a universe of different industries selling games that offer wildly different products to often very unique audiences.

Glen@bigsigh· Mar 31

March's listening. Everybody (four people) who heard me playing the Heartworms album was immediately into it. Urgh is still incredible and is probably gonna wind up as my favourite album this year. The Charlotte Cornfield (can you believe that's seemingly not a stage name?) is a real heartbreaker.

A collage featuring albums by Aesop Rock, Wednesday, Metric, Heartworms, Maria BC, Deadletter, Ladytron, Rosa Faenskap, Jason Isbell, Ryan Lott, Neurosis, Deafheaven, Mandy Indiana, clipping., Kiss Facility, Art School Girlfriend, MT Fog, Charlotte Cornfield, Oathbreaker, Domhain, Ritual Disorder, 070 Shake, Oklou and Lauren Aueder.

Glen@bigsigh· Mar 31

Is this pink enough?

A poster for BPM. The textbis hot pink as is the Act Up triangle on the man's shirt. But... the rest? Not so much.

Glen@bigsigh· Mar 17

I was a rabid Vangelis album fan in my teens. I never found a way to acquire Direct on CD but the library had a copy on tape and I would borrow it regularly and insist on playing it in our car's cassette player.

The cover art for Vangelis' Direct. Two heads are linked via a wire emerging from their foreheads. Their very red mouths gape open.

Glen@bigsigh· Mar 5

The mystery is satisfying but... despite being set in an empire, and explicitly being about empire, it doesn't really have any special insight into it; the prose is very plain; and the various inspirations that serve as ingredients for its world-stew have not been smoothly blended.

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

Glen@bigsigh· Mar 5

It's like the Domino theory, but in reverse.

Yeah, yeah. Exactly.

Glen@bigsigh· Mar 2

Is this environmental storytelling.

An open Pelican case. It contains audio gear, and an open packet of breath mints and another of condoms.

Glen@bigsigh· Feb 28

The set for a dance performance called Baleen. Large bones, like those of a whale's rib cage, encircle a drum kit on a floating stage. They're lit up orangy-red. There are oil barrels in the foreground.

Glen@bigsigh· Feb 27