Peter From Queens, Not Queensland

I've been to Australia once, in 1998, and nothing that's happened there since is my fault. flic.kr/s/aHsk69iRWf

@DisgracedProp Is this a regional thing? I can't think of a single supermarket with seating outside.

The under-analyzed third space in America is the waiting/eating areas outside of grocery stores. All grocery stores have them, a sort of aimless series of tables or chairs screwed into the concrete outside the store, from Erewhon all the way down to discount grocery, and if you pay attention you'll notice that these areas are always full of people just hanging around. For example the Mexican discount grocery will have a sleeping cowboy, while the Erewhon will have a black man reading a book in a purple suit. These people stay there for extremely long periods of time and seem to buy nothing from the actual store. Grocery stores emit a strange warmth that weirdos are attracted to

@LTKAK @walterkirn loudersound.com/bands-artists/…

I’ve always thought that particular case has more to do with weather/lack of Vitamin D. You don’t see a lot of angry DIY music coming from S. Florida, AZ or NM. Granted there was a lot of angry DIY music coming out of California and New York, but there is a different kind of rebellion in areas with a lot of cloudy days. I would probably add Minneapolis/St.Paul and Chicago. But NE Ohio and Pacific NW are similar in that sense.

One of the puzzles I find myself mulling over -- too often -- is the question of why artistic genius springs up in geographic clusters rather than in some broad, roughly predictable way. So many great musical talents from Seattle all at once? Whatever may be behind this phenomenon, it doesn't seem to operate with AIs, whose outputs don't arrive in this irregular, qualitatively "lumpy" fashion.

@uncledoomer Fonzie lived in an apartment over the Cunninghams' garage, and those were happy days.

am i the only one who feels like "you can rent a shed in someones backyard" is less of a big win as far as housing affordability goes, and more of an unsettling harbinger of our backslide out of prosperity?

@therapy69420 @brollAmerican @ferald_gord Oceanside is not beside the ocean

@brollAmerican @ferald_gord This is a real Long Island tweet. Port Jefferson has a port, lynbrook has a brook and Oceanside it’s in the name.

Hicksville being a suburb of NYC on Long Island is honestly a major L for nominative determinism

@johnbcrist Hofstra is in the tournament, but it's not a Christian school

Christians schools in the NCAA Tournament

@littleapostate The grandparents were pretty much here on the next flight, and they were certainly helpful, but it turns out that we would have rather had a few days to ourselves first. A bit of resting and recovering would have been nice. But others feel differently, so 🤷

I am scared to ask twitter this but I am also very curious when you gave birth, did you allow family to come visit immediately? Or did you allow space for just you and your baby to bond? Or is it evil to want to space for you and baby to bond????

@Jeremybtc This is exactly why I didn't choose a career in modeling.

Nobody tells you this when you pick a career. Every profession has a different finish line. Athlete - peak is 24. Retired before 30. The sport moves on before the body does. Model - peak is 22. Career lasts 3-5 years. The industry finds your replacement before you find yourself. Soldier - prime at 26. The body starts losing the argument at 35. Twenty years in and the pension follows you out. Airline Pilot - spends 20 years in a co-pilot seat. Reaches captain in their 40s. Mandatory retirement at 65. Surgeon - peak performance is 35-50. It takes a decade of training just to get in the room. Hands and eyes start losing the margin for error after 65. Lawyer - peaks at 50. The courtroom rewards experience. Every year you practice, the credential compounds. Plumber / Electrician - peaks at 50. Recessions, AI, outsourcing, none of it can reach them. Landlord - no peak. Tenants pay the mortgage while you sleep. Investor - Buffett made 95% of his wealth after turning 65. Most people think it's too late by then. Most people pick a career without knowing where it actually leads. Know the game before you decide to play it.

@4SigmaSmarter @politicalmath @DK_Able Shrek isn't bad, but it absolutely shouldn't have won over Monsters, Inc.

@politicalmath @DK_Able Shrek won an Oscar? I guess I forgot that, it is actually a really bad movie with a questionable moral theme. (Now other more modern animated films such as Zootopia are also quite bad, but they fulfill all the Hollywood rightthink checkboxes, so I understand how they won)

The KPop lady said "I'm sorry it took so long to see us in a movie" so I decided to chart who was the protagonist in every Best Animated film since the award was created

@timothyjphelan (People have said in various forums online that they might offer an English mass for Easter regardless, but I can't prove that from their website.)

@timothyjphelan We went to an English-language Mass at the cathedral in Kyoto for Easter last year and it was packed. We were hoping to go again when we're there this year but they only do English Masses every other Sunday, and Easter this year isn't one of those Sundays 😕

Mass tomorrow is at 9:30. It's the only mass of the day. About 40 parishioners will attend. Their average age will be around 75. A missionary priest from Mexico will celebrate the Mass in fluent Japanese. By 10:30 it will be over. Soon after, the parish council will meet. There will be Japanese tea and sweets. God will be there.

@dsonoiki Tom Petty told the crowd (cheerfully, no attitude at all) that he knows we paid good money to see him play his hits, so that's what he's going to do. A fun moment in his concert that I'll always remember.

so annoying when a musician has a song that MADE them their hit song a song that’s made them millions and they act like playing it is such a chore and they hate playing it so so so much

@traptinhm @dsonoiki I love when he told us at a concert "Don't worry that I'm going to play any new shit, I don't *have* any new shit!"

@dsonoiki Billy Joel pretty much openly acknowledges at every concert of his

@ThabithaSpeaks @1ssve

@1ssve Imagine having to say 'The Honorable Judge Bubbles' with a straight face😭

I think some parents forget they’re naming a future adult.

Japanese society is so civilized that the fires simply drive themselves to the fire station

@hoboken_gary @nazzobetweeting Are *you* going to tell John Wick he can't pump his own gas?

@nazzobetweeting In the opening scene of John Wick, you can see the GWB in the background as he fills the tank of his Mustang HIMSELF. As a NJ resident, I turned it off right then & there.

i was reading a book by a british author that takes place in NYC and the author wrote “the flight from London landed at LaGuardia Airport” like no. no, it didn’t. no it did not do that.

@HomersBestBits My dad literally did this walking out of The Force Awakens, talking loudly about how he can't believe [name redacted] died at the end. I don't know if anyone waiting to get in heard him because I quickly rushed to get out of there.

Season 3 Episode 12

@magyardemon @dontreadnyc @dwaldenwrites I have a friend who drives her daughter from the Village to the UES every day because her daughter doesn't like the subway. I think that's kind of crazy, but she tells me she's not the only one.

@dontreadnyc @dwaldenwrites how do they get to school then? because you're not gonna lie and tell us that kids in brooklyn and manhattan drive to school (they don't)

Most children in New York City ride the subway and bus to school every day. It is extremely safe; indeed, New Yorkers are extremely protective of children on public transit and will usually intervene very quickly if an adult is harassing them.

"i need a vehicle to deliver the mail that lasts half a century" grumman: "no problem" "i also need a heavy strategic bomber that uses low observable stealth to penetrate enemy air defenses" grumman: "you are not gonna believe this"

@DigiHasTakes x.com/i/status/20279…

Whoever designed my algorithm to be full of half-naked, and oftentimes fully-naked, anime women has made it very difficult to scroll Twitter in public

@dazexiang Newark at night... flic.kr/p/2r6kqpu

Newark new jersey