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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The Beatles are undoubtedly a huge part of music history and a huge foundational piece of rock and roll. That being said, listen to what you like and like what you like.

    I have trouble watching a lot of classic movies and find them boring. I’d like to think that’s fine!




  • lobut@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneyikes rule
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    4 months ago

    I haven’t read the book either but I heard this Lolita podcast series and it was a great breakdown about how it was misinterpreted. I couldn’t believe everything I knew about it from mainstream media was off.

    Will definitely be checking out your video!



  • lobut@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneCow Rules
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    11 months ago

    Here we go:

    Larson took the unusual step of issuing a press release, explaining the joke:

    The cartoon was intended to be an exercise in silliness. While I have never met a cow who could make tools, I felt sure that if I did, they (the tools) would lack something in sophistication and resemble the sorry specimens shown in this cartoon. I regret that my fondness for cows, combined with an overactive imagination, may have carried me beyond what is comprehensible to the average Far Side reader.[1]

    Years later, in The Prehistory of the Far Side, Larson further explained that he was inspired by the idea that tool use was the characteristic that separated mankind from the rest of the animal kingdom

    I mean, ok.