Fibonacci Sequins

@brentwaggoner

Monocule. Socialist. Coder. Christian Liberationist. Neurodivergent. He/him. Partnered w Liz. I like to read many books and I also have a Telecaster. I am one half of the Fifty Books Project. pfp by @imagining-sisyphus.

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Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jul 9

Watching Something Wild, a movie I know nothing about, and the name of this band at the prom is The Talking Heads.

A very young David Byrne dressed in a brightly colored T-shirt playing at a high school reunion.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jul 1

Fiddling with my new EHX pedal. Good stuff.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jun 29

Found a goofy picture from 2021 and I'm now wondering if my gray hair in 2026 counts as a glow up.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jun 19

You just... don't.

A Facebook post for a group where non Jewish people can ask Jewish people questions with a linked article from the Guardian with a photo of a cute little Black baby.

Headline of the linked article is:
Mississippi officer put on leave after killing baby in car outside Walmart

Body of the post is:
So, I know Cohen is not a name we can use, but how do I gently tell the bl@ck community that this babies name is appropriation, without getting called out for missing the bigger picture of police brutality?

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jun 13

Bit Brigade (again!!) with the kids, this time playing Mega Man X. Some really tough music in this one, such a tight band. Chatted with both bands after, really nice guys.

The band Bit Brigade playing in front of a giant screen where a band member is speed running Mega Man X.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jun 13

Seeing Curly Blue at the Radio Room, never heard them before, great half drunk college rock.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jun 11

For example (OBSESSION SPOILERS IN THE IMAGE TEXT), not one of these things needs an explanation at all and I have no idea why anyone would want one.

A Reddit post:

Obsession, have these things been explained?
Nikki acts weird the entire time of the movie EXCEPT when we see a montage basically of them in their relationship in the beginning. So why did she act normal then but then act weird afterwards
Also, was it explained why she hid in the corner and moved weird? Why she grabbed the plant covering her face also moving weird.
And definitely why she walked backwards and in slow motion towards the end of the movie.
And why she fed Bare the cat
Why the real Nikki was heard screaming during the phone call. Where was she and why was she screaming.
Those are the things from the top of my head

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jun 4

Entering the Circus!

Me and my kid standing outside the theater.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jun 4

First page of Persepolis is an all timer. RIP.

An image of the first page of the graphic novel Persepolis, called The Veil. It is a short vignette about how all of the girls in Iran after the revolution have to wear veils. It has a very striking interlocking L high contrast layout.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jun 3

Bummed to learn that my Classic Gaming group is run by a transphobic dipshit. Trans and other queer people have carried half the industry on their backs since day one.

The administrator of a Facebook group called Classic Gaming MS-DOS posting a screenshot where a user named Jacob Bijlma keeps posting "ban all this trans crap" and the admin, Steve McGeorge, is asking "Why do people keep reporting this?"

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jun 3

Happy 12th birthday to my middlest child, truly the sweetest kid I've ever known.

My middle kid who just turned twelve. He's a sweetheart.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· Jun 1

Will probably delete this shortly but my teen's new style is extremely cool.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 31

One cool bonus was hearing Al and the band perform a completely straight cover of Suffragette City by Bowie.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 31

Saw the man himself, Weird Al, with the family. Fantastic show!

Al onstage with a bunch of Star Wars characters.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 30

Went the retro arcade for my middle kid's birthday and I gotta say, I assumed Goldeneye multiplayer would have aged poorly but they loved it.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 30

I watched Smithereens and this one is the coolest movies I've ever seen that also makes you not want to be cool.

The cover of the Criterion edition of the movie smithereens. It features a black and white photo of a woman wearing large yellow and black checked sunglasses and gritting her teeth.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 27

Love that Terry Pratchett has a feature article in The Atlantic. Hate that it's by notorious TERF Helen Lewis. But everyone *should* read his books.

Atlantic headline: I Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett

Subhead: One of England'd funniest writers is in danger of being lost to history.

Byline is Helen Lewis, who is a huge transphobe.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 25

This seems fair, except that I have no idea who Maurice is.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 22

Princess Caroline from Bojack Horseman, who wrote headlines like this.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 21

Entering my dash cam influencer era.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 20

My oldest won the theater achievement award for her whole time in middle school at her 8th grade graduation tonight and I'm very proud.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 19

Are we not doing phrasing anymore

Facebook group post reading: Melissa Villaseñor casually doing 17 celebrities in 90 like it's nothing.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 19

Not 100% sure what's happening here but this comic strip by my kid is something.

A crudely draw comic strip. First panel is someone under a table with BOOM as a caption. Next panel is something coming through the wall. Third panel is a stick figure saying "Dad!" to another stick figure who's lying on the ground saying "I am leaving for Cuba." Next panel has a trumpet and something else. Last panel is several people on a boat.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 17

Yes, Virginia, Alanis Morrisette's Song Ironic Is Ironic.

An except from Why Alanis Morrisette Matters about the song Ironic:

Dualistic dismissals of "Ironic" foreclose its vivacious, nonbinary complexity. "Irony does not involve the simple substitution of the opposite for the literal meaning," said Barthes in Elements of Semiology. "It is a form of semantic pivot which overturns the hierarchy of language, bringing into play the signified and the signifier, the explicit and the implicit, the internal and the external, the present and the absent." By Barthesian standards, "Ironic" is ironic. This is especially true when Alanis questions whether life can be a little too ironic. The Greeks conceived of irony as pass/fail, but Alanis considers irony to be a spectrum, and she slides from side to side across the examples in the song in a manner that is definitely akin to Barthesian play

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 15

This isn't really graphic but I hate when I come across injuries in my timeline.

Two long marks on my arm that look like burns, one of which is older.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 14

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 12

This can of Waterloo Raspberry Nectarine Sparkling Water is clearly actually full of Waterloo Coconut Sparkling Water.

A can of sparkling water that is lying to me, as described in the post.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 7

Safe.

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 5

Our mantises hatched!

Fibonacci Sequins@brentwaggoner· May 5

Took the very rare morning shower this morning so this picture doesn't have the stench most of them do.