DirtyOldTown

@dirtyoldtown@mefi.social
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Still in my bag like the fries at the bottom.

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Invisibility? Flight? Nah. If I could have one superpower, it would be to be able to tell insects, "Fuck off or I will murder you," in a way they would immediately understand and take seriously.
We've been in Italy for about 10 or 11 days now and maybe the weirdest part has been the very slowly dawning realization that I am not a clever genius who can see excellent business ideas on every corner. I am someone sick with capitalism whose brain is trained to expect every single thing to be ruthlessly monetized.

"We can't tax rich people because they might leave instead of paying higher taxes"

Bro they're not paying taxes NOW, so what the fuck's the difference?

Tax the rich. They'll either pay their fair share in tax, or they'll leave and stop being a drain on the system. Both options are a win.

The hushed acoustic covers of old pop hits for coffee houses industry must be stopped.
Starting a war after you destroy your relationship with all your allies is remarkably stupid. Is there a Nobel Prize for Most Destructive Idiot?
i can't stop thinking about this

(2/2)

In the cab after, your mom made another friend, talking to the driver about the 80's cop shows she had watched to learn Italian.

I put my hand on your arm and said that one day you'd meet someone who would pick oleander flowers at 4 am and put them into her hair, who would walk through the capitals of Europe with you laughing while everyone else slept.

"I know," you said.

Then you leaned your head out of the car window and let the wind blow through your hair. You closed your eyes and smiled.

"I know."

"Sometimes a door is only closed because it's waiting for someone to smile and walk right through it."

That's what the waiter had said at the all-night caffeterria in Rome. We were jetlagged and couldn't sleep, so your Mom said we should eat. By the time we finished our sandwiches, she and the waiter had talked politics, life, Chuck Berry. He'd seen videos of you singing and playing bass. She tried to tip him, but instead he had pressed his pack of cigarettes into her hand when he realized she was out.

The barricades were up at Trevi Fountain, but Mom said they were just waiting for us to walk through. She smiled at the polizia and led us to the water. We had one of the world's most crowded monuments nearly to ourselves at 3 am.

(1/2)

I realized my profile pic on here was uh, years old. So here I am today, only about 55% of the way to growing out the full Jeff Bridges.
Look COVID, I know you're still out there. You really fucked a lot of things up in 2020 and 2021. And you took John Prine. But you got really close to making up for a lot of that in October of 2020, and I think it's time you gave it another shot.