Glen, The Film Optimist

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Broadcasting positivity and encouraging serious analysis of not-so-serious things, Glen encourages you to "Watch like it means something."
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Show threadGlen, The Film Optimist5d ago
@unrealfred I have no idea what I was expecting (aside from "I bet it's 'Wichita Lineman."), but that's pretty awesome.
Glen, The Film OptimistMar 17
đżđ’¶đ“ƒđ’¶ "not yet begun to fight"Mar 16

ME PRE-TRANSITION: ahhhh music is so sick!
MEN: ha ha yeah bro

ME POST-TRANSITION: ahhhh music is so sick!
MEN: actually little lady music has been shown in multiple scientific studies to have legitimate medical healing properties in this essay I will—

Glen, The Film OptimistMar 17
The Public Domain ReviewMar 17

Happy birthday to Irish artist Harry Clarke, born #onthisday in Dublin in 1889 (on #StPatricksDay no less). Here he is in a self-portrait as an absinthe drinking Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust.

More in our essay "Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass" https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/harry-clarkes-looking-glass #OTD

Glen, The Film OptimistMar 13
How's your knowledge of lyrics? I have 10 just waiting to be identified. Well, 7 - someone already got to three of them. https://filmoptimist.blog/a-bleach-blonde-mama-with-a-streak-of-mean/
A bleach blonde mama with a streak of mean

Last week, two of ten lyrics were identified -- resulting in a tie between John and Fred. The answers are up now -- including in a nice, simple YouTube playlist you can enjoy at your leisure! The other 8 featured a lot of favorites, a couple of problematic favorites, and the man now known as...

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Glen, The Film OptimistMar 12

RE: https://mastodon.online/@unrealfred/116213591920191049

Agatha Christie's The Mouse J-Trap
#PlumbingBooksOrPlays #HashTagGames

Glen, The Film OptimistMar 12
With K$H trumpeting a "historic" summit between the FBI and the UFC, it feels like a good time to link to Super Eyepatch Wolf's video on conservative and Trump darling Andrew Tate and the padding of his MMA record.
https://youtu.be/ieJOBFpS_lc
Andrew Tate is an Embarrassing Loser

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Glen, The Film OptimistMar 11

RE: https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat/116207153189527755

Also, I'm trying to imagine if you bought your favorite Vermeer in the world and, after it was stolen, the art dealer said, "But don't worry! I selected a random painting in the same category and of roughly equal value for you!" If there's no aesthetic or personal choice to NFTs, can we stop pretending it's anything at all like art collecting?

Show threadGlen, The Film OptimistMar 11
@unrealfred Pretty sure at least three of them are dead. Kinda feel bad for those guys.
Glen, The Film OptimistFeb 16

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thudfactor/116080529411101457

Absolutely this. When I lived in Columbus, the library system had a policy that if someone requested an eBook from a list of recognized legitimate publishers, it was an automatic purchase. Otherwise, it was case-by-case. But I don't live in Columbus any more, and my local library system -- while well-funded -- doesn't have a massive eBook budget and can't answer a lot of requests to add to Overdrive.

Glen, The Film OptimistDec 18
clara "parasocialist" sparksDec 18

i unironically do want “transgender for everybody”

name changes that don’t mess up your credit. hormones and abortion pills over the counter. standards of “looking professional“ that aren’t patriarchal and white-supremacist. hell yeah

you don’t need to *use* transgender but you should be allowed to *have* it