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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 30/09/2026

sure but he also said you're not a real actor unless you play spiderman

Andrew Garfield and a friend stand shoulder to shoulder in a white-tiled subway station, both wearing dark sunglasses and grinning wide. One has long, swept-back hair and a full beard; the other has a mass of dark curls and an arm draped over his companion's shoulder. The station's fluorescent light reflects in streaks along the tiled wall behind them.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 25/09/2026

if she responds with NO YOU DID then I may have to join the swifty army or whatever it's called

Screenshot of a Pitchfork article header on a dark background. The headline reads “Todd Rundgren: Taylor Swift Ruined Music,” by Alex Suskind, dated September 25, 2026, at 12:32 PM. Below are two side-by-side photos. On the left, Todd Rundgren stands on a dark stage in a black shirt flecked with white, wearing tinted glasses, pointing upward behind a microphone. On the right, Taylor Swift, with long hair and bangs, looks toward the camera outdoors against blurred trees, one hand raised near her face.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 25/09/2026

tbh a bit gobsmacked by the NYTimes' reveal of the no. 1 spot in their Best TV Shows of the 21st Century list

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 24/09/2026

that NYTimes list is bullshit

NYTimes erroneously rates Deadwood as the 24th best show of the past 26 years when everyone knows it's number 1. What a bunch of hoopleheads.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 18/09/2026

yesterday on the way home from the beach we decided to check out the motherfuckin' shell museum … a few photos:

A curved gallery at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum. A long, S-shaped glass case winds through the room in the foreground, lit from within, holding a row of conch and whelk shells that shrink from large to small. Beside it is a black bench with round blue cushions. Behind them are backlit wall cases full of hundreds of shells, under signs reading "Beauty & Diversity," "Time & Evolution," and "Sculptures & Colors." One visitor stands looking at a case.

A three-bladed boat propeller stands on a post, its hub and the inner halves of its blades covered in dense clusters of small striped zebra mussels. The outer edges are still bare bronze with green patina. Behind it hangs a photo mural of a marina with docked boats and white pilings.

A museum wall panel with a black-and-white photograph of a boy and a man in a park. Both wear Pearly King suits and caps covered with thousands of white pearl buttons sewn into grids, flowers, and diamonds, and the man wears a row of medals on his chest. The caption beside it reads: "LEFT: East End Pearly Kings. Photograph by Steve Lewis, ca. 1965. The 'Pearly Kings and Queens of London' represent a charitable tradition dating back to the 19th-century Victorian era, when an orphan named Henry Croft sewed himself a suit covered with pearl buttons to collect money for charity. Families of 'pearlies' continue the fundraising and good deeds to this day. Photo: Getty Images." A label below it is cut off at "BELOW: Freshwater Mussels and Mother-of-Pearl."

A framed vintage newspaper clipping headlined "What The Teen-Agers Are Doing," with the subhead "Youth Has Hobby Of Collecting Sea Shells, Rocks." A grainy photo shows a young boy in a "Green Special" sweatshirt standing beside shelves of specimens. The article reads: "A veteran collector is Bill Hodge who has devoted a quarter of his life to collecting rocks. Bill, eight and one-half years old, started his rock collection at six and at seven began accumulating sea shells. He began his rock collection as most youngsters do, walking along the driveway and discovering pretty stones and pebbles, but he did not lose interest as is usually the case. He now has more than 300 stones. The collection of rocks and shells are arranged in orange crates made into stands and on small tables. His grandmother and aunt in Ashland, O., were responsible for his collection of sea shells. Last summer when he was visiting his grandmother and aunt in Ashland, his aunt gave him some shells to start a collection. She has been collecting shells for some time…"

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 14/09/2026

has this ever been documented or is it apocryphal? I feel like it's the latter because the C&T song was only a modest hit in the UK rather than in the US where it was ubiquitous asking for my aunt via → lithub.com/behind-one-t...

Punk and post-punk had an almost reflexive distrust of the pop love song. Joy Division's first chart hit, however, wasn't born out of belligerence, but heartbreak. Yes, the song's title is a bit of a piss take: squeaky-clean husband-and-wife team the Captain and Tennille had a #1 hit in 1975 with "Love Will Keep Us Together," and while that song, or at least the optimism it channeled, did keep its performers together for nearly four decades, Curtis seems to have had little time for its saccharine "just say no" prescription for the seven-year itch.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 08/09/2026

am I the only one about to lose my mind on this site

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 05/09/2026

there's a rainbow suspended in the sky

A partial rainbow and towering gold-lit thunderheads over a calm lake at sunset, the water mirroring the orange sky; lily pads and marsh grass in the foreground beside a weathered post.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 04/09/2026

yet another example of the Times's negligence — not once does the word "Thunderstruck" appear in this article

Screenshot of a New York Times article page on a black background. The headline reads: "Toronto Stadium Is Severely Damaged by Thunderstorm Ahead of AC/DC Concert." The standfirst below it reads: "The music venue, which opened in 2025, was built specifically for large concerts. The fate of its next show, featuring AC/DC, is unclear." Beneath that is a play button labeled "Listen · 2:17 min," alongside "Share full article," share, and bookmark icons. The top edge of the article photo is visible at the bottom: an overcast gray sky above a dark structure with blue stadium seats and floodlights on poles.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 02/09/2026

I have a bad feeling about the Lucas Museum

Bronze sculpture at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: Jabba the Hutt sprawls across a low circular plinth, his wrinkled bulk filling the frame with his tail curling toward the left and his head raised at right. Princess Leia stands braced on his back in the metal bikini and braided hair, leaning away as she hauls a chain taut across his neck. Clear blue sky above, green trees and low buildings behind. I think I'm going to be sick.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 27/08/2026

this one was a bit of a challenge — lots of moving parts, and this is my first time making a Spanish-influenced (Valencian) dish — but totally worth the trouble (+ it was fun, tbh) … delicious fideuà with charred sweet peppers and soy curls, made with toasted broken linguine + allioli on the side

A wide dark skillet filled edge to edge with finished fideuà, shot up close from above. Short lengths of toasted linguine, deep rust-brown from the ancho and paprika sofrito, tangle beneath broad slack strips of yellow and orange sweet pepper and scattered chunks of browned soy curl. A whole sprig of rosemary sits in the left of the pan. Flakes of finishing salt catch the light across the surface. A slotted metal spoon rests at the top right, and the black grates of the stovetop show at the edges.

A portion of fideuà served in a pale sage-green speckled ceramic bowl on a granite countertop. Rust-colored toasted noodles and browned soy curls are topped with torn fresh cilantro and strips of orange and yellow pepper. A generous spoonful of pale allioli sits at the right edge of the bowl, with two lemon wedges at the front.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 26/08/2026

just received an email about an event I've been invited to attend and I am very excited

Screenshot of an email template with every field left as an unfilled placeholder. The text reads: "Check out the upcoming tour dates:" followed by three identical lines running "[Date] - [Venue], [City]". Below them sits a large orange button labeled "Get Tickets." Under that: "For guest list or press accreditation, please reply to this email." A horizontal rule separates that from the sign-off, which reads "Best, [Your name]."

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 08/08/2026

thrift stores remain precious

Caroline holds up a large fleece blanket printed with a Hobbit hole doorway, dragon, and "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" title, her face peeking over the top.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 18/07/2026

when you go to the page for TÁR … nicely done, Letterboxd

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 18/07/2026

before you react to this like it's an alarming headline I'd wager the percentage was higher in the 1980s

NME headline: 41 per cent of people in the UK haven't listened to a full album in a year, poll shows

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 15/07/2026

supposedly this movie was a response to the 1956 American film adaptation of War and Peace which if so would make it sort of like the movie equivalent of this:

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 08/07/2026

via → www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/naot...

A cast metal sculpture by Naotaka Hiro: a fragmented human torso, head, and outstretched hand lie flat on a white pedestal, surfaces rough and unfinished where the body dissolves.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 06/07/2026

via → www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/eliz...

Digital painting by Eliza Douglas: a green, cat-eyed creature's face emerges from smoky, rust-toned abstraction, bared teeth lower right, a white glowing shape above like a halo.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 04/07/2026

pretty much how I feel about America rn

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 03/07/2026

a hot summer addition — Caroline is setting out a daily cooler with ice and water bottles for our postal person and various delivery drivers

White cooler with a bilingual sign taped on, "DELIVERY PEOPLE: TAKE A DRINK!" / "LOS REPARTIDORES: SE TOMEN ALGO!", set on a yellow rattan stool on a brick porch.

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 03/07/2026

going through random + unlabeled files on my hard drive and ran across this short video I took of The Comet Is Coming playing at SXSW 2019 🔥

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 27/06/2026

❝ Something usually afforded to heroes of activism and sports has been bestowed upon Ra and his Arkestra for becoming a mainstay of the community, be it on Earth or in the East Germantown neighborhood band clubhouse that Ra has made his home since 1968. → www.jazztimes.com/reviews/live...