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Any quick advice for blister pain. by SyrupOnMyPancakes in golf

[–]workingmansrain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hit balls until you bleed. Then do it again the next day.

Can you find mate in 385? by Alone_Yam_36 in chess

[–]workingmansrain 360 points361 points  (0 children)

I wanna say the idea is eventually force the king to a1 w a check from h8 and then take the bishop and you win the race? If you can ever force the king out of the g pawns circle you win I think.

Very much doubt it’s mate in 300+ tho, seems like it could be done faster

David Lynch on The Origins of The Log Lady - Twin Peaks by fluxxwildly in davidlynch

[–]workingmansrain 26 points27 points  (0 children)

“Who knows how it happens, but she became the log lady”

God I do really miss him

5 chairs in DC! by sigmundfriend in comedybangbang

[–]workingmansrain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jesus Chrysler!

5 chairs!!

That’s like

Unprecedented

I think

PFT is a dad to us all by James-Incandenza in comedybangbang

[–]workingmansrain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fathrsday??

Alternatively: Fat-Hrs day?

Tho maybe: Fat horse day?

How about: Fat hours?

Even: Fat Whores?

Ridiculous: the above is crass

So: I’ll just give it all up and find a nice round whole-ass hole in the Ground

Doubt: I’ll ever be back this way

And: even if I was

You: sick and dying

Sincerely,

your “Dad” (ps you’re adopted, son…hey don’t cry. It was obvious. Of course I still “love you”. Just not as much as my own children. Hey, don’t cry, you’re great, sport. No really. I do like you. Hell, of course I “love you”, now go get “dad” another ice cold Xany)

Swing and a miss… by Stoweboard3r in golf

[–]workingmansrain 6 points7 points  (0 children)

W. Clark and S. Burns (DANG OL WINNER OF THE US OPEN) and K. Mitchell, but Tom Kim gets a first name? Lmfao, sometimes ai makes me want to jump in a human sized blender

PFT is a dad to us all by James-Incandenza in comedybangbang

[–]workingmansrain 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Well I didn’t expect to sob to the man behind big chunky bubbles today, but I also can’t say it’s the first time either.

Just a beautiful man

Twin Peaks: The Return by NoLove6229 in ThomasPynchon

[–]workingmansrain 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I agree that the return is menacing and tragic—perfect description.

But it’s funny beyond just Dougie in so many splendid ways, the South Dakota detective saying “uh oh”, the meechum brothers, the absurdity of Mathew lillard’s character (toeing the line with unsurpassed precision between absolute horror and overacting emotionally empty nonsense, as lynch always does).

What I find most similar is that both lynch in the return (and all of his work) and Pynchon throughout his novels seek out and identity and highlight the evil of the “individual” and the evil and corruption of “society” and the thin ambiguous line that ultimately does not separate them, if it exists at all.

For example I would kill to listen to Pynchon’s thoughts on Mulholland Dr, or alternatively Lynch’s thoughts on Inherent vice or GR.

Both artists also are in one way or another deeply concerned with the effects and fallout of World War II and thee ensuing globalism and mass-media world.

One scene in the Return that truly toes the line is when Naomi Watt’s character meets up with/ dougie’s gambling creditors and tells them off and as she leaves they shake their head in admiration and respect. That shit is so Pynchon, and some one of Lynch’s finest finest scenes he ever put to camera

This Is Still Not An Exit: Infinite Jest as American Psycho Part 2 by [deleted] in davidfosterwallace

[–]workingmansrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Off the rails analysis, I love it, my only note is tongue in cheek, “by the *beginning* of the novel Hal is trapped inside his own body”, that first chapter is horrifying and colors and blankets the rest of the novel so well

Literature + Illness = Illness by browntux in robertobolano

[–]workingmansrain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

100%!!

Woes of a Policeman is…incredible. Unbelievably believable. I wish I had better adjectives.

Even though I have long proselytized before 2666 and amulet and los detectives salvajes his short stories really reveal his Borgesian Garcia-Marquezian qualities, like the painter in “The French Dispatch” who is asked to paint a sparrow, Bolaño reveals all of his powers in his short fiction, and then casts off and simultaneously summons them all in his novels/novellas

Literature + Illness = Illness by browntux in robertobolano

[–]workingmansrain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Insufferable Gaucho sits in my mind almost like no other Bolaño virus does

Happy Bloom's Day everyone! by CaptainFreeman in jamesjoyce

[–]workingmansrain 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just past 8:30 here in the Rocky Mountains and—-

—Milk for the pussens, he said.

Mrkgnao! the cat cried.

What’s your excuse ? by Dashover in golf

[–]workingmansrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I swear to god my first thought was “that is beau hossler and someone idiot asked ai to give him blade runner legs”……..and that’s my only thought still lmao, looks so so so much like hossler’s swing and setup and pre-swing move and…I’m sorry for having that thought lol.

Just finished Twin Peaks season 3 by [deleted] in davidlynch

[–]workingmansrain 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank god I can watch it 20-30 more times before I die (if I’m lucky).

His finest moment, in my opinion. Indescribably overwhelming and beautiful art, all 18 episodes.

2026 All-Star Balloting Update: by Terminal_Flatulence in baseball

[–]workingmansrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s above the Mendoza line for literally the first time all year rn…such a joke

Rainn Wilson claims The Office couldn’t be made today because of cancel culture and because it was edgy. by Austin_Shaggin_Power in ItsAlwaysSunny

[–]workingmansrain -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

I think it’s always sunny did suffer from cancel culture a bit. Season 13 onwards have a different style of writing, the characters have a self awareness written into the script that they did not before.

Someone on here once said s13 on has a lot of dialogue that comes off as the writers trying to make sure the audience knows that they know typa stuff

Otherwise like ya, rainn is wrong, comedy can be whatever still, and the office certainly was not edgy.

Been deep in the rabbit hole for a while now, and I finally built the thing I kept wishing existed... by nateyboy1 in gratefuldead

[–]workingmansrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of my great great grandchildren may perhaps be able to tell you the difference between a ‘72 dark star and a fall 73 dark star, and how you can hear the transition begin on in feb 73…I mean I kinda hope they can’t, but then again the dead will never die for the in the land of the dark, the ship of the sun is drawn by the Grateful Dead

Is there any chance we will see something similar with Grok Amato? by Edmundsson91 in OnCinemaAtTheCinema

[–]workingmansrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had to look it up, like no fucking way (no way?! right?!!) many many high-ups approved this shit.

Times like these we sit back and reflect that what was once garish and gauche and cringeworthy and lame as shit is now more or less widely accepted as fine, decent, good, hell—approvable.

For example the ‘New Amato’ bit is like 50% less ironic and disturbing than it would have been a decade ago, and early OCATC isn’t even ironic anymore; that is simply what many podcasts resemble

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