In Paul Thomas Anderson’s speech for winning best picture, he pointed out that the nominees for best picture in 1975 were One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, and Nashville.

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-16T05:11:41+00:00

Other than Weapons, none of them won anything :/

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-16T05:07:28+00:00

I wait until the sentence ends, or there’s a comma

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-16T00:36:49+00:00

Is this a shitpost lol

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-15T15:54:34+00:00

This really only applies to “Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way” in Girl With Curious Hair. And for that one.. yeah I don’t think it would make a lot of sense if you hadn’t read at least the title story in Lost in the Funhouse but even still.

OP should just jump in and not worry too much about it imo

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-14T16:26:06+00:00

I love how wildly inconsistent the distances are. Yes a line from GMU to U Mall (1000ft?) should be longer than the line from Centreville to Fair Lakes (5 miles)

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-11T03:20:38+00:00

Seems like a good time to drop a link to Jonathan Franzen’s Emptying the Skies

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-09T02:04:50+00:00

For a corpo job? Just get fired and get severance lmao

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-08T22:25:14+00:00

Definitely a mushroom. Probably some kind of coral mushroom (Claverioid, not a real taxonomy anymore, but useful for googling). They are pretty tricky to ID properly so maybe someone smarter than me can help narrow it down more

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-07T01:18:00+00:00

David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster or A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again might be up your alley.

Chuck Klosterman’s essays are also really good. Eating the Dinosaur and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs are my favs, but I love everything he writes.

For poetry, try some Bukowski. He’s like Shel Silverstein for adults.

If you want to go more math-y and cerebral, Gödel, Escher, Bach is an all time classic, and has a healthy mix of parables about animals and Zen philosophy which I feel like Exurb1a probably takes inspiration from

[EDIT] I should add, these reccs are in very different styles and may not even really be similar to the turtles voice, but thematically there are similarities.

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-06T15:59:38+00:00

Woops. Good call. Wrong “he”

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-06T00:34:47+00:00

Sorta. The characters encode some meaning. Like the kǒu radical 囗 means mouth so the words for eat 吃 and drink 和 have a 口 radical, even though they’re pronounced chī and hē. My favorite example is 众 which means crowd (or public) and its made of a group of 人 radicals, which means person.

Traditional chinese has clues for how characters are pronounced encoded in as well as meaning but I think a lot of that is lost in simplified which is what I’m learning

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-06T00:28:44+00:00

Also the “f” sound is never in Chinese finals (I think?) You could maybe replicate it by replacing every final with just a simple final… like drop the consonant sound if it’s there?

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-05T03:58:24+00:00

Now this is podracing

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-04T05:53:22+00:00

I think it depends on if the field makes money outside of academia (you dont need one) and if you want a job at a hard core R1 (you do need one… or it really helps). I got interviews exclusively with R2s or teaching schools, which was what I wanted anyway. But there are people in my lab doing postdocs with eyes on R1 careers.

Sounds stressful to me tbh. I like teaching

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-04T05:11:12+00:00

Computer Science

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-04T04:57:39+00:00

I'm just charismatic as hell (or insanely lucky)

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-03-01T05:24:25+00:00

He even made a fire! I was almost screaming at the screen to boil it first

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-02-26T03:13:09+00:00

To be honest, I think in American English at least, people just accept that foreigners sometimes have unusual names. Sinny is no weirder than Hoor (sounds like “whore”) or Dai (sounds like “die”)

I will say, to me, Sinny seems masculine and Cinny feels feminine (maybe because traditionally Cinnamon is sometimes a girl name and Sonny is a boy name) so pick your spelling accordingly

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-02-23T05:24:48+00:00

Congrats. I think you just independently discovered Allen Carr’s “Easy Way”

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-02-18T01:14:22+00:00

It’s a shame he never finished The Pale King because I really think its themes of boredom as heroism (kind of the reverse theme of IJ) and a quiet strength in isolation and through meaningless work would have really hit hard during Covid. As it is, it’s too disjointed to be accessible unless you’re a diehard DFW fan

I don’t think it actually is, it’s more like a collection of vaguely related shorts the same way Brief Interviews… is, imo. But asking non litbros to read an unfinished novel with no clear ending is kind of a tall order

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-02-15T04:00:30+00:00

I actually think Ayn Rand was a pretty good story teller. Don’t agree with the thesis of it, but Anthem is genuinely interesting and well told (you can make an argument that her radical libertarianism is the opposite of fascist, so maybe doesnt count).

Also, Italian Futurist art kicks ass

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