Twitter is in a period of decline. The site still functions, people are still using it, but there’s a familiar stink that lingers on the website. It reminds me of the twilight days of two other social media platforms I’ve used: LiveJournal and Tumblr — onetime vibrant communities that grew in popularity until everyone seemed to be using them, which then began a long, slow death.
Gasp. Did you know we're dead? That tumblr's dead?
Pop onto LiveJournal and Tumblr today, and you’ll still see inscrutable blogs, endless GIFs, and earnest writing. But something is missing — although there’s still content and posters, the sites no longer feel like the communities they once were.
The Verge goes on to explain that tumblr died in 2018 when the porn went away, and things here never recovered. It's just been a slow, sad, nipple-free death spiral into oblivion.
Huh.
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put in the tags the one song you relate to the most. the song you feel was written specifically for you.
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Over the years, film critics have often expressed confusion as to the point of Dan Aykroyd's single scene in Goncharov, portraying a loud, obnoxious American tourist who has a one and a half minute monologue (according to Scorsese and others, improvised by Aykroyd on the day of filming) that is abruptly cut short by Goncharov being spotted by hit man Jacob Papageorge and the ensuing chaos. Speculation has run rampant as to why this broadly comedic moment, so out of place in a film whose comedy is otherwise confined to the bleakest of gallows humor, was even in the film at all. Was it a favor to Belushi to allow his best friend to appear? Was Scorsese attempting to jump start the career of a hitherto little known Canadian comedian in whom he saw great potential?
It turns out that the answer is simple: this was a setup for a scene at the end of the film in which Aykroyd's character is revealed to be Elwood Delaney, an undercover INTERPOL detective working with the Sicilian police, who was portraying the brash, "ugly American" tourist to make himself appear harmless. Delaney arrests Papageorge while the latter is hiding in a phone booth.
This scene proved highly unpopular with test audiences, who had found the character of Papageorge to be one of the most sympathetic in the film, and so it was cut and unfortunately the negative has long since been lost, although a single still of a rehearsal for the scene (seen above) was recently discovered. Aykroyd's character was reduced to the single scene, and Papageorge's ending in the film is left ambiguous as he is last seen fleeing the warehouse where Goncharov died.
However, the lost scene had great impact on Aykroyd's future career. As Papageorge is dragged out of the phone booth by Delaney, he claims to have be a businessman about to make a very important phone call. Delaney smiles and asks, "who you gonna call?", a line which later appeared in both The Blues Brothers (1980) and, most famously, as the catchphrase to the Ghostbusters franchise (1984-present).
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This dog opened her mouth to bark and I expected a prophecy to come out, or perhaps a curse.
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You’re disgusting whore
I was hoping there was a typo in this so I could hit you with the *you're but sadly you spelled it right
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“But creation doesn’t happen through gimmicks, technology and distribution. It doesn’t even happen through work. Creativity is frankly adjacent to mental illness and overlaps with it substantially. A lot of talented people [k-word] themselves and all of them are miserable”
WHAT. WHAT. This is a similar conversation I had earlier when discussing how much I want to “end it”. I am being mirrored again?
edit: in the tags i vent of how my sis’ and i were discussing such things
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I don't know what it is about snow that always puts me in such a great mood?
I caught myself dancing around the kitchen for absolutely no reason just now, and only when I was walking past a window that didn't have the blinds down yet, did I see that it's snowing outside.
So it's not just me being happy about the snow, because it also works before I even know there is snow to be happy about.
Maybe atmospheric pressure or something?
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why can i hear my suitemate breathing through the door and why does it sound like my dog
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