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AMA Stream #61

🕑 Added 2024-08-23 20:04:50 +0000 UTC

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rk

Love your description of Baudrillard 😂

George White

He was actually Welsh

Cole

Natalie's celebrity children's book when

Darren DM

So I was rewatching this stream and got to the question about whether you think you'd be good at something without justification. It reminded me of a joke by the English comedian from the 1970s, Tommy Cooper: “I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.”

Nick Jones

Why stop the twitter break at a month? How many times does a nonessential thing need to ruin your life before it’s not worth it?

Fiodor

Re: male singers beloved by gay people (or the lack of them) - maybe I'm biased but one token straight male artist is definitely Leonard Cohen, I know his poetry definitely speaks to the lesbian audience (as in screaming crying throwing up bcs his way of describing love and women taps into so many feelings at once). It's not cultish the way gay men treat female celebrities (thank God...) and it's more individual, whereas the obsession with "icons" has more of a collective vibe. Probably has to do with how different queer communities are structured tbh