{"id":16288,"date":"2025-05-15T08:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=16288"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:55:20","slug":"thursday-links-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/thursday-links-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more links to pieces some of you may be interested in.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I love thinking about how this will delight some <em>Star Wars<\/em> geeks, and make others super angry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-phony-physics-of-star-wars-are-a-blast\/\">The Phony Physics of Star Wars Are a Blast<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Sadly I didn\u2019t find this recent interview with Bob Mould until after I saw him last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>What are your feelings right now about the state of the country?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s the end of an era, this great experiment we put together. I don\u2019t know how we get out of this. I\u2019m 64. I\u2019ve seen a lot. Nothing like this. I don\u2019t even know where to start. Every single person, whether you stand up against the MAGA movement or whether you\u2019re part of it, you\u2019re going to feel it, unless you\u2019re in the very tippity, tippity top of the one percent or maybe the top two percent of income earners in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/bob-mould-interview-husker-du-trump-wrestling-1235286509\/\">\u2018THIS IS WAR\u2019: BOB MOULD ON AGING INDIE, HIS MUSIC\u2019S LEGACY, AND WHERE THE U.S. GOES FROM HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The headline for this piece is hardly an original thought &#8211; I\u2019ve had it many times over the past nine-ish years &#8211; but there\u2019s never a bad time for giving Carl Hiaasen some attention and props. So many of his books are similar &#8211; if still enjoyable &#8211; that I haven\u2019t read a new one in years. I\u2019ve added his most recent to my list.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet even the most detestable characters are more complicated than they appear at first glance: Hiaasen aims to create, as he once put it, villains whom \u201cpeople don\u2019t want to shoot right away.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2025\/06\/carl-hiaasen-florida-fever-beach\/682577\/?utm_source=apple_news\">We\u2019re All Living In A Carl Hiaasen Novel<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Perhaps this should be a launching point for a longer piece by me, but I figured it\u2019s better just to link to the article and share a couple thoughts about Myles Turner. It\u2019s hard to believe he\u2019s been in Indy so long. His career has been odd, as mentioned in the piece. But a funny thing happens when a player hangs around long enough: they become beloved. That he\u2019s in the center of the success of the current edition of the Pacers is as satisfying as it is surprising.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ipacers.com\/2025\/05\/09\/myles-turner-made-me-cry-on-his-decade-long-journey-with-the-indiana-pacers\/\">Myles Turner made me cry: On his decade-long journey with the Indiana Pacers<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Fantastic news! Although this begs the question as to why NBC even exists anymore if they are going to hide this on Peacock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/parks-and-rec-amy-poehler-mike-schur-peacock-comedy-dig-1236209522\/\">Amy Poehler, Mike Schur Reunite for Peacock Comedy \u2018Dig\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I feel seen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/this-five-hundred-word-bumper-sticker-on-my-tesla-explains-why-im-not-a-bad-person\">THIS FIVE-HUNDRED-WORD BUMPER STICKER ON MY TESLA EXPLAINS WHY I\u2019M NOT A BAD PERSON<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more links to pieces some of you may be interested in. I love thinking about how this will delight some Star Wars geeks, and make others super angry. The Phony Physics of Star Wars Are a Blast Sadly I didn\u2019t find this recent interview with Bob Mould until after I saw him last week. What are your feelings right now about the state of the country? It\u2019s the end of an era, this great experiment we put together. I don\u2019t know how we get out of this. I\u2019m 64. I\u2019ve seen a lot. Nothing like this. I don\u2019t even know where to start. Every single person, whether you stand up against the MAGA movement or whether you\u2019re part of it, you\u2019re going to feel it, unless you\u2019re in the very tippity, tippity top of the one percent or maybe the top two percent of income earners in America. \u2018THIS IS WAR\u2019: BOB MOULD ON AGING INDIE, HIS MUSIC\u2019S LEGACY, AND WHERE THE U.S. GOES FROM HERE The headline for this piece is hardly an original thought &#8211; I\u2019ve had it many times over the past nine-ish years &#8211; but there\u2019s never a bad time for giving Carl Hiaasen some attention and props. So many of his books are similar &#8211; if still enjoyable &#8211; that I haven\u2019t read a new one in years. I\u2019ve added his most recent to my list. Yet even the most detestable characters are more complicated than they appear at first glance: Hiaasen aims to create, as he once put it, villains whom \u201cpeople don\u2019t want to shoot right away.\u201d We\u2019re All Living In A Carl Hiaasen Novel Perhaps this should be a launching point for a longer piece by me, but I figured it\u2019s better just to link to the article and share a couple thoughts about Myles Turner. It\u2019s hard to believe he\u2019s been in Indy so long. His career has been odd, as mentioned in the piece. But a funny thing happens when a player hangs around long enough: they become beloved. That he\u2019s in the center of the success of the current edition of the Pacers is as satisfying as it is surprising. Myles Turner made me cry: On his decade-long journey with the Indiana Pacers Fantastic news! Although this begs the question as to why NBC even exists anymore if they are going to hide this on Peacock. Amy Poehler, Mike Schur Reunite for Peacock Comedy \u2018Dig\u2019 I feel seen. THIS FIVE-HUNDRED-WORD BUMPER STICKER ON MY TESLA EXPLAINS WHY I\u2019M NOT A BAD PERSON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-16288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16290,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions\/16290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}