Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

@zbarocas yes!! Very much in this vein. Araki also often deploys this Kind of Guy

Is this actually a thing or did I just make up a kind of guy

Do you have any idea how hard it is to search for "skinny guy in movie whose hair is a little too long and usually is maybe a drug dealer or a stalker but also maybe likes poetry and is sensitive???"

@philnelson Phil it haunts me

Mitch from Dazed and Confused: shoulder length hair, innocent
Ziggy Sobotka from The Wire season 2: mostly in "overdue for a haircut" territory, more pitiful than villain but still kinda sucks
That guy in the Arkangel episode of Black Mirror: basically bottom of the neck, absolutely a predator

Further research is needed

Developing a theory of the Skinny Rat Boy archetype in which there is a precise length of too-long stringy hair that shifts the character from piteous but maybe hot?? to Villainy

Went to the cfpb "informational picket" this afternoon and the chants were so wholesome ("1 2 3 4 workers are worth fighting for 5 6 7 8 Dodd Frank is pretty great")

look I know it is trivially easy to find footage of Elon Musk and Sam Altman in the same room but nevertheless it is funny to imagine that Sam is what emerges when Elon takes The Substance

@texhewson bad pr and a tendency to come indoors

Saw a rat moving real slowly and clumsily on the street outside a brownstone. I think it had been poisoned and I felt an obligation to hang out with it a little while as it died. What living thing wants to die alone? Eventually he crawled behind a trash can I guess for privacy and I started crying which is a little embarrassing.

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-111/ this week in sentences: 300mg, physical collapse, space rock, frosting, tooth waiting, mauport, laundry detergent, comedy, smooth silver-gray, to be bombarded, made out of crabs, innovations, to be a beast, que sí

My therapist said I was the calmest client she's seen all week, trying to process this

a petty delight for me: I don't really love Chloe Zhao as a filmmaker BUT we have a terrible toxic ex in common which makes me root for her regardless, so her showrunning the Buffy reboot is very funny for me personally

Hoping I radicalized the woman sitting next to me at yoga class tonight when I told them Lululemon is Canadian and going to get even more expensive

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-110/ this week in sentences: not very bright, orgy of grievances, always reflexive, mecha, lack of seriousness, sad lioness, cloacal superpowers, élan, other research, classically damp

I did get a very sincere apology from this friend after I reached out and it helped so there's that