Tyler Hellard

🍿 Sorry/Not Sorry

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A Journal of Innumerable Confusions. / Pop Loser Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4 / Mixtapes / RSS / Podcast

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Previously. / Newsletter #001–78, #79–97, #98–113 (2014–2018). / Original blog (2007–2014) and Tumblr clone (2010–2014).

Learn more about me and this site here.

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Bummer vacation. / I’ve been sitting on this post for three weeks, adding almost nothing to it. It’s so old, there’s a link to Brian Wilson’s obit. I could take it out, but I didn’t. Why? It’s summer. Go away. See you in the fall.

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The Sun / Edvard Munch / 1911–1916

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Confusions. / 🤖 My couples retreat with 3 AI chatbots and the humans who love them. ❝The problem with the trip, in the end, was that I’d spent a lot of time imagining all the ways this getaway might seem normal and very little time imagining all the ways it might not. And so, on the second day of the trip, when things started to fall apart, I didn’t know what to say or do.❞ / 🌳 Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. / 🔤 WarGames terminal fonts. / Nerd Fonts. / 📱 The Endless Doomscroller. / 🗞️ Combine feeds with rssrssrss.com. / 😱 Scream to unlock. / 📻 Wiki Radio. / Music For Programming (and other things, too). / 🤼 The search for Bret Hart vs. Tom Magee. / 🐸 How Muppets break free. / 🎙️ There will never be another WTF with Marc Maron. / 🎾 The art of Roland-Garros. / 🧟‍♂️ Zombie Family Circus. / 🕹️ Finite Atari Machine. ❝This project answers a question no one asked, no one wanted, and is a massive waste of resources: What if I shove a billion monkeys in a GPU and asked them to write a game for the Atari 2600?❞ / 🖥️ absurd.website. / ⚱️ Brian Wilson died. / ✌️

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VOL 4, NO 15

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Pod Loser. / Look At Me (Now), a mixtape. (Podcast feed.)

Featuring: Young Fathers, Homeboy Sandman, Chuck E. Weiss, Blossom Dearie, Tune-Yards, The Limiñanas, Benjamin Booker, Laura Jane Grace, Bad Brains, Danny Brown, Bikini Body, Lambrini Girls, Father Of Peace, Smerz, Chicks On Speed, Lena Deluxe, Grateful Dead, and The Miracles.

Cassette via TapeDeck.org.

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VOL 4, NO 14

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The divine (situational) comedy. / I love sitcoms. True story. I like the format, the simple sets, the patter of the dialogue and that the episodes are more or less contained. I find them comforting. Most sitcoms are bad, a few are good and occasionally we get a great one. (The last “good” sitcom was That ‘90s Show. The last great one was The Good Place.) If we’re ranking the all-timers, my personal top spots go to M\A*S*H* and Cheers, which is not a wildly controversial take.

George Wendt died. Norm was the heart of Cheers — a nice guy who didn’t really want his buddies knowing he was a nice guy (and also a raging alcoholic whose friends did nothing to help him as his health, career and marriage all fell apart). And as sitcom bits go, Norm walking into the bar is probably the greatest ever.

Loretta Swit died. Margaret Houlihan was a total pro and possibly the only character on M\A*S*H* who grew and evolved naturally over the course of the show (don’t give me your Klinger shit, it’s not the same). She started as one of the show’s villains and earned the best kiss on television with her goodbye.

Legends.

Also: Sorry for the lack of updates as we peter out of spring. I’ve been playing an unholy amount of Minecraft and am now behind on pretty much everything.

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Confusions. / 👨‍💻 How the internet left 4chan behind. / CBC has a new podcast from Cory Doctorow: Who broke the internet? / url.town, (another) directory of (real) websites. / 📖 Close reading is for everyone. / They say that when god closes a Pocket she opens a Readeck. / The am dash. ❝A typographic intervention and a philosophical middle finger.❞ / 🎥 Once lost and now found: The Day the Clown Cried. / 📀 The history of album art. ❝The individual discs were bound together in packages resembling photo albums, partly to protect the delicate shellac that the records were made of, partly to increase their sales. They resembled photo albums, so Columbia called them ‘record albums.’❞ / Man interviews mom about her 8-tracks. / Steve Albini’s closet. / Rick Derringer died. / "[Psycho Killer](https://www.youtube.com/watch)" finally got a music video. / 🪑 The chairs of Doctor Who. / 🗄️ Department store catalogues. / ✌️

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New Television Antenna / Norman Rockwell / 1949

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