Miscellaneous Heathen

Probably most everyone over a certain age knows who Parker was, but what I did NOT appreciate until this piece over at Talking Points Memo is his backstory.

This guy’s work is really, really nice, and is the first thing I’ve seen that tugs at my heart a little about my adopted hometown.

This ran in the now defunct Houston’s Other.

So, Glen Hansard died last week.

Do you follow, or are aware of, more than one public figure by the same name?

One year ago today, I took this selfie: This is the story of how I got here.

Bombs over Big Bird is a spectacular mashup of Sesame Street, Hitchcocks’s The Birds, and Outkast’s 2000 banger “B.O.B.”

Two years ago I wrote about Mark Cavendish beating Eddy Merckx’s stage win record at the TdF: Until today, the record for Most Stage Wins in the Tour was held by cycling god Eddy Merckx, a Belgium rider who dominated the sport in the 60s and 70s.

This is just what it says on the tin, and is HILARIOUS.

In 2006, my friends at Infernal Bridegroom Productions collaborated with Austin musician and outsider artist Daniel Johnston to create a rock opera based on his work.

This long article about David Foster Wallace’s sister has been on open for weeks, and I only just got to reading it.

There exist no end of bands that have toured, or continue to tour, well past their sell-by dates.

This blurb at Ars Technica really kind of sums it up — sorta: They go too far in praising Spielberg; I don’t think he’s been an interesting director in a long, long time.

We watched the new Ryan film (it’s bad).

Current Affairs: The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon.

By now most people who read Heathen are, I’m sure, aware of the SNL trio Please Don’t Destroy, which is comprised of Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy.

No, really.

This article about the upcoming film Spider-Man: Brand New Day includes an interesting line: Holland himself has wondered how long it will be before he ages out of the role So I wondered: How old has Spidey been?

Chill mixes by puppets on YouTube.

Friday was my 56th birthday, and for me it was an especially auspicious one because it was the rare birthday of mine that falls on a Friday the 13th — just as my actual birth did in 1970.

Apple haters love to claim that Cupertino swaps connectors out like changing pants, which is objectively hilarious because the iPod/iPhone connector had changed only once until recently: from the legacy 30-pin connector to the proprietary-to-Apple Lightni…

In conversation with a certain longtime reader, it came up that he’d missed a few Early Web Gems.

I always kinda thought they were neat, but also always kinda thought they were a little cringey, so I never bothered before.

See here: The reason we don’t have effective protections for climate change (or functional gun control, or universal health care, or cheap broadband) is because the U.S.

We’ve binged A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms this weekend, and now have only the finale.

I don’t have a diary about it, but I know roughly where I was, and what I was probably doing.

Our first winter in North Carolina is, uh, kind of overdelivering.

Please enjoy the tale of the Dildo Distribution Delegation.

A year ago, I posted this, about the 7-minute trailer for Questlove’s SNL music documentary.

35 years ago, I saw Cornelius Eady read at Alabama.

Ragu unveils sensory deprivation marinana tank

Mississippi Mom Shoots Escaped Research Monkey in her Backyard

Just what it says on the tin!

This is excellent.

Either way, don’t you wanna watch some of these?

Influencers Will Have to Complete a Long Walk to See ‘The Long Walk’: This Saturday, August 30, Lionsgate has invited a group of press and influencers in Los Angeles to see The Long Walk.

More than 20 years ago there was a lot of press for this book that ticked many boxes for me — literary thriller!

So.

How about a reasonably complete scanned archive of BYTE magazine?

Four and a half years ago I pointed y’all to this excellent cover of Radiohead’s “Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box” by piano phenom Robert Glasper.

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996, with Geena Davis and Samuel L.

Look, all you need to know is that it’s Neko Case writing about Sinead O’Connor.

Heathen World HQ is now in a hillier, more temperate, and less hectic locale far from the depredations of Texas’ state government jackholes and Houston’s feckless city government.

A while back I saw a story noting that Royal-Enfield, the Indian manufacturer of excellent and inexpensive motorcycles, sold slightly more than 1,000,000 motorcycles in their fiscal 2024.

I’m pleased to share that notorious grifter, spreader of misery, and prostitution enthusiast Jimmy Swaggert has finally died.

Just use your Horse Pocket.

Thirty-odd years ago, on my “study tour” of the Soviet Union, a common souvenir was a political matryoshka doll of nested Soviet leaders.

Oh, banks.

In 2023, after being disappointed by ASTEROID CITY, I wrote this post wherein I ranked Andersons’ films.

Billy Joel had a hit in 1980 with “You May Be Right,” and shortly thereafter I bought my very first music: a copy of Glass Houses on 8-track.