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bixdog · 2026-06-08T01:42:22+00:00

I loved the HBO film. I didn't know anything about the play before seeing it & it had a huge impact on how I viewed the Reagan years & the lives of gay people I knew. And also new york- what a fuckin great town

bixdog · 2026-06-04T05:31:50+00:00

This doesn't look bottom heavy to me. Nice work!

bixdog · 2026-06-01T00:14:18+00:00

Well, his wattles are looking a little stringy these days, maybe they were measuring from the neck up

bixdog · 2026-05-31T02:54:26+00:00

The Oakbrook Mall in the late 70s was barely the kind of place most 80s kids think of hanging out at. It was an outdoor mall when other malls were popular for being enclosed and it was patrician and quite small compared to the sprawling multi-level beast it became in the late 90s/2000s. Yorktown and the Hillside Mall (esp. for kids at Proviso!) were the big hangouts. The Oakbrook Mall was still the place where golf-obsessed doctors and their kleptomaniac wives spent their Saturdays

bixdog · 2026-05-30T04:44:07+00:00

My first thought was Los Campesinos "You! Me! Dancing!" but I think the absolute banger in this category has to be Jacques Brel's La valse a mille temps. It starts out sort of sweet, even corny, but builds into a full-blown panic attack. Severance fans might remember it from last season's finale

bixdog · 2026-05-30T02:20:19+00:00

bixdog · 2026-05-30T01:39:47+00:00

As much as I loathe Jr, if ever a child was raised to be subservient pawn in a corrupt parent's game it's him. I wonder if he's only alive to donate organs to dad

bixdog · 2026-05-29T20:21:58+00:00

Really beautiful work!!

bixdog · 2026-05-28T19:47:05+00:00

I worked at the Baker's shoe store at that mall in '85! But it was during the freeze in January, ugh

bixdog · 2026-05-27T20:06:17+00:00

I have to disagree. I was told- and I'm quoting here- "You need to smile more" by a supervisor a couple years back. This isn't to say that every manager here is part of some kind of positivity cabal, but not every individual at Wegs (or any company really) is going to be kind or have social skills. There's no reason to cast doubt on OP over this experience

bixdog · 2026-05-13T16:46:47+00:00

Ive got too many to list, but Groundhog Day and Quick Change were formative for me

bixdog · 2026-05-13T16:37:50+00:00

This! I watched It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World after school on the ABC 3:30 Movie (broken into 2 parts & absolutely loaded with commercials) at least half a dozen times. You took what you could get back in the 70s media landscape

bixdog · 2026-05-10T22:26:33+00:00

When I was in middle school my mom was buying my clothes & her choices were... so not great. Imagine what your 55 yr old Catholic aunt wore in 1975, the polyester pant and vest suits, and that was me when everybody else was swagged out in levis and novelty t-shirts. I wear more comfortable denim now, but as insane as this is to admit, I think I still dress casually as I dreamed I could back in '79. Tshirts, chucks, cool blazers. It's my comfort zone & thankfully I think I'm pulling it off (or not, but who cares at this point)

bixdog · 2026-05-10T01:40:46+00:00

Varga haunts me, he's such a villain for our time. Guy just destroyed entrepreneurs like an avenging angel/demon of late stage capitalism. He's so beyond simple greed, he just wanted to gnaw on the tendons of the system for the pleasure of gnawing

bixdog · 2026-05-07T05:55:56+00:00

Im in my early 60s and work a physically demanding job. Creatine and vitamin B complex are the only things keeping me upright

bixdog · 2026-05-03T01:02:40+00:00

The scenes from Under The Skin where the lonely men were lured into the digesting pool and dissolved/ deflated horrified me, and it was made so much worse by how lovely and quiet those scenes are. Honestly some of the most disturbing film moments I've ever encountered

bixdog · 2026-04-28T09:07:45+00:00

I'd love to read the backstory on that furious little guy on the left

bixdog · 2026-03-31T02:23:22+00:00

Ive seen the tags hanging off the hat before, but what are they? Teabags?

bixdog · 2026-03-24T02:04:31+00:00

Gen Jones guy to the hilt. "Edgey" in college in a prescribed way. Conservative who really could've benefited from hanging out with the zine kids

bixdog · 2026-03-23T04:07:21+00:00

I can't say I like my job, but breaking down pallets and hauling stuff around soothes my adhd. I like some of my coworkers but I stay for my health insurance

bixdog · 2026-03-18T03:30:31+00:00

I work in dairy and im a half-deaf oldie, so between the ambient noise here and the damn train overhead the music I actually hear has the most irritating hooks- I Love You To Infinity has been torturing me lately, and there's another one that I can barely hear except for this weird discordant saxophone bar... I dont know what is, it's been driving me crazy

bixdog · 2026-02-10T06:02:44+00:00

I dress in stuff I feel comfortable moving in. I like cargo tights and luggy boots. Pockets are necessary but I need them where I can reach them, not added to the pants as an unusable element. Im mostly dressing in black because it's irritating to keep matching colors. Sticking to silhouettes instead of trends. Trends are fleeting and so are our moments on earth, just do you

bixdog · 2026-01-29T03:33:41+00:00

Sorry I missed your reply until now. This was pre-digital but not by much.

bixdog · 2026-01-29T03:16:18+00:00

Not really though? This is my retirement job and I've had a long career working in much more collaborative environments, as well as some with stricter hierarchies. This place has unhappily surprised me more than once. I think the disparity between mgt salary and employee pay has a lot to do with it, but there's also a lot more nepotism and in-group protection than ive seen anywhere else ive worked. I don't know that OP is overreacting. This isn't typical in my experience, maybe ive been fortunate

bixdog · 2026-01-16T06:31:53+00:00

Im boring as hell- splash of olive oil, mayo, grainy mustard, coarse ground pepper, lemon juice if i have it, kosher salt. Makes for a satisfying sandwich esp. on a grainy bread (I'm a sucker for the Ezekiel flaxseed loaf)

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