Charlie Harris

Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 04:03 UTC

Vanderbilt’s chancellor bemoans “polarization” frequently. He also supports rigorous debate from “all points of view” … until he doesn’t like what student protesters have to say. I feel vindicated in mistrusting anyone who says “polarization” a lot.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:45 UTC

back over here after being on the hellsite. It's depressing enough that Nazis are marching in our streets here in Nashville, but doubly depressing the countless number of "it's the feds" responses to anyone who points out that Nazis are marching in our streets.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 04:56 UTC

Shout out to my history-teaching grandmother who took me and my sisters to this ceremony at age 12. Ceremony was pretty damn cool (figuratively) — it was (literally) over 100 degrees.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 03:45 UTC

Just had a thin crust Malnati’s with sausage and giardiniera — found my happy place (later my heartburn place). *Pequod’s remains the 🐐 for me, but it wasn’t in the cards this time.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:26 UTC

me playing Bach fugues to the baby at bedtime*: "When you're listening to this, picture Dracula ... or Jesus." *no, not because of misguided "classical music makes smarter babies" reasons.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 15:28 UTC

imagine if the Swift people enjoyed music as much as they enjoyed online beef-ing (maybe they should thank Dave Grohl for the lifeblood infusion)

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 16:44 UTC

Name a song you hate. "Fly Away" by Lenny Kravitz. one inescapable song that encapsulated mid-90s post-grunge mediocrity. If someone told me they're a big fan of Mr. Kravitz's music, I'd assume they're a bot.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 21:44 UTC

there's NO therapy, like cheMOtherapy, like WHOA therapy with chemicals! (sorry, it's the steroids talking/singing).

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 01:56 UTC

Make a game milder: John Cleese Ate My Neighbors

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 04:17 UTC

I went to a formerly religious school in the south with a bit of a religious hangover. There is no shortage of girls like Liz who are quasi-progressive on 3 social issues, aggressively anti-abortion, and still swear they're not conservative.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 03:14 UTC

I remember a lot of "Bruenig derangement syndrome" comments if you dared point out how much they sucked shit 4 years ago. It was unfathomable to me that anyone could think they were talented, interesting or progressive (at all). Happy to be on the right side of history on this one.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 00:05 UTC

Watching the squirrels play in my front yard and low-key mad that the Sword and the Stone ruined it for me 34 years ago

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 21:33 UTC

solo lunch: katsu at a strip mall Japanese/Korean restaurant. Good air conditioning; standard ginger-dresssing salad/miso combo; only 3 other people in the restaurant. I'm almost too comforted

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 22:22 UTC

my friend refers to him as the perfect mid-level manager. (And he absolutely means that as a positive)

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 19:48 UTC

he was 45 when he married his 21 year-old wife, whom he had met when she was in high school (and who received a college scholarship in his family's name). A handy definition for what "grooming" really is.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 19:45 UTC

thank you for your service... this marks the first bit of news I've ever received about my congressperson that made me laugh (instead of my blood boil). For anyone following along, he lives an 1.5 hours away from Nashville (gerrymandering's a bastard, and so is he).

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

amazing. I knew a guy who walked away from the Babadook thinking the Babadook was like ... a terrifying creature that was physically present

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

We'd all better check our hypocrisy -- we've been programmed to think that crimes that someone actually committed are somehow worse than made-up crimes many people wanted to believe

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 15:43 UTC

oh man... how satisfying was it to scream "it's a brown-eyed handsome man!!!"?? Imagine it might be up there with doing Ghostbusters and declaring "bustin' makes me feeeel goooood."

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 22:28 UTC

his grifter bit is tiresome and predictable, but I still derive joy at how wrong Clay is every damn time he makes predictions about ANYTHING.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

seriously. Not as many bad days here compared to the hellsite, but ppl are falling all over themselves on here to make sure you know they know it doesn't matter and anyone who cared for a half a second is a neoliberal shill wine mom

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 18:05 UTC

Not gonna get me all warm/fuzzy about how great 2012 was, but the "With Mitt" phone app that misspelled America remains one of my favorite election cycle gaffes. (here was my dumb fb post about it)

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 04:31 UTC

Cafe a few blocks from my house has definitely been discovered. And while I’m not doing a “I went there back when” thing, I have mixed feeling because the employees look so harried now! Not sure they’re designed for crowds and ppl with complex coffee drinks.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 21, 2024 at 03:19 UTC

Wonder when the “actually I LOVE the cicadas” people are going to crack. Let’s crank that humidity up and see how much your cutesy take can take

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 17:30 UTC

played Zelda exclusively for a year, and a tad scared to see what happened to my Animal Crossing island. Will be a little disappointed if they didn't go Lord of the Flies and end up roasting that capitalist rat-bastard Tom Nook on a spit.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

I should know better than reading the comments on the other hellsite. But man is it thoroughly depressing that on the Butker thing, there are so many people willing to die on the hill of "that's not what he meant." It's not subtext. He said all the shitty things! They are not misinterpretable!

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 18:01 UTC

everybody's freeeeeeee! Not that there weren't many other transcendent moments, but that sequence has always been the high point for me.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 17:57 UTC

in the middle of doing this and wasn't ready for the emotional gut-punch of the flashback montage of Brock bringing Billy Quizboy home in a duffel bag. Unbelievable universe they created.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 15, 2024 at 21:47 UTC

I can't totally speak to the quality yet because I just said yes to fiber. But comcast has me up to $140 for just internet and apparently won't do anything (besides offer me a higher speed for $150). I'm taking the $70 flat.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 15, 2024 at 04:29 UTC

In this household, we disapprove of and despise “those terrible poop bears.”’

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 21:35 UTC

exactly my concern. Thanks for the intel! Guess I'll just watch Baby Reindeer before bed instead.

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Charlie Harris @chazzwazzle1.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 16:12 UTC

given some of my food-writing background (and a few service industry jobs), I should probably finally watch The Bear, no? But I really don't want the return of in-the-weeds table-waiting dreams. That shit's the worst.

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