Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 1hLauren informs me we call this "angrl numbers," but I am too middle aged to understand. 010
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 1hThink the plan is to win elections, but that's really not all that reassuring. 110
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 2hI wouldn't vote for her. But you could say Biden and Al Gore were not serious contenders, they ran very poorly in contested primaries before being Vice Presidents. HW Bush on the other side. There's a path, no clear frontrunner. 000
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 3hFriendly reminder for all the homies:static.klipy.comBand Of Brothers MeehanALT: Band Of Brothers Meehan 130
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 4h"There are so many cool Italian-Americans, I say. "Why Columbus? Wasn't even American?" Much performative wailing ensues. Frank Rizzo's ghost appears. Who the hell knows what he's saying. 130
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 4hThis is not idolatry, they insist. There are inpenetrable Catholic-type reasonings. They all feel very aggreived, for similarly impenetrable reasons. Nobody has parked legally. 240
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 4hIn honor of Columbus Day, I have driven to an IHOP, lodly insisted it was a Bob Evans, built a fort in the lobby, set about taking hostages, etc. Many fatalities. The dumbest motherfuckers imaginable have built me a statue in South Philly, and now stand arm in arm protecting it. 1161
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 5hHistorically, continually runningbfor President after losibg several times never works ou...static.klipy.comJoe Biden: It's Wrong, It's Un-AmericanALT: Joe Biden: It's Wrong, It's Un-American 130
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 5hDoes put you in a spot, yeah. I worked at a corner store before I was 21. Had to get the manager to ring up people for beer. Which just annoyed everyone. 000
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 5hLauren has a feud w/ specifically the third base gate at CBP, b/c they are more stringent about bag policy, which is ridiculous and awful, and keeps changing. But I've mostly ridden the subway to the games, for decades, so it's *my* gate. Other gates feel wrong. 020
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 5hMy parents bought a house that had been apartments. For YEARS, Mrs. Arnott would see us on the street and look like she was gonna say something nasty. Never did, but she hated our colonizer asses. 100
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 5hTo be middle aged is to accumulate petty little feuds. My dad would be continually feuding w/ his dry cleaners b/c they'd starch his shirts even though he'd very carefully explain he didn't want that. Change dry cleaners? Why should he have to, he'd been going to Warwick for years. 100
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 5hI get it. When I was a kid, we tried to adopt a dog. Brittany spaniel named Coco. Went to another family. 30 years later, Morris Animal Refuge can catch these hands. Still mad. But you move on. I got a different dog. Gordo. Long since dead and gone, but I never would've known him otherwise. 110
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 5hRich person demands, DEMANDS! ti be allowed to buy a thing at a shop. Shop declines to sell it. Unless it's like... on the basis of sex/race/creed/sone other form of discrimination, shop is within its rights, no? Morally, I mean. Didn't like hearing "no." 230
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 6hSo yeah. Sure. High gas prices. What a fucking dumbass reason to drop Trump, but thanks? 000
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 6hNo, filling out the right forms in tge right way at the right times will not change that. Sorry. 100
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 6hThere are obviously umpteen different issues that have been driving this. Latinos are not a monolith. Cultural conservatism, the idea that Republicans are the business party, etc. But like... they hate you. They HATE you. 110
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 6hI have to admit. Can be a bit frustrating to be crystal clear on how much Trump and most white Republicans hate Latinos, to be infuriated by that, only for so many Latibo people to willingly side w/ the party that hates them. Trump got 41 of the Latino vole in PA. 41 percent. 160
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 6hIf Mad Men is an unrelenting critique of the spiritual emptiness of a certain sort of aspirational manhood, what do we replace that aspiration with? I think men, broadly, need better goals/missions/aspirations, better things to live for. Culturally. 020
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 6hThere is a lot of content out there that is appealing and unchallenging to men. In a world in which a lot of men seem to feel, rightly or wrongly, that ways in which they want to be men are less celebrated than the they think they ought to be, I think that reassurance is meaningful. 110
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 6hI think... the algorithization of entertainment? is at work here? There's that bit in Mad Men where Draper is saying "whatever you're doing... is okay." He's obviously a guy who is doing many, many things that are not okay. He knows this isn't true, but he can believe it. Has to believe it? 110
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 7hhow the FUCK did nobody tell me I was autistic until I was in my 30s??? 010
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 7hI had to work on the humorous part. Literally, I figured out how to be funny b/c I wanted to be more fun to be around. As I figured it out, figured out how to make just about anybody laugh, I realized I loved doing that. Nevertheless. The urge to pedantry persists. 120
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 7hMy thing is being a humorous pedant. Something for everybody. 130
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 7hI keep hearing OF him, but he just never crops up in my life. 120
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 7h"And don't look. You're not allowed to look." If you're not staring, you are likely fine. Understand that women often feel vulnerable at the gym, for so many different reasons. Have a feel for that, don't make things worse. You are making us all look terrible, could you fucking not? 020
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 7h"he didn't say they were whores. He said they were dressed like whores." Is really not much better. Like, I'd just never say that. The hell is wrong with you? 140
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 7h🎶Oooh wee ooh, I dress up like Garibaldi Oooh wee ooh, you like Mussolini more. I don't know what this says about us anyway, I don't care 'bout that.🎶 042
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 7hSeems like a very "I read a 2-paragraph AI summary of Stoicism, and have reoriented my whole life around it b/c I can misunderstand it in such a way as to justify ignoring my feelings." 150
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 7hThe only real issue I have w/ tanking is that I don't want it to affect Hurts' relationship w/ the org. or the city/fanbase. We really are dumb enough to run him out of town in a no-win situation for catharsis reasons. 110
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 8hI think, as men living in a time in which gender roles are going thru a long, messy process of change, it's just extremely urgent to reimagine what manhood is. For us. For people around us. To do better. To care. Art I see as a medium of exploration and imagination. 220
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 8hNovels are read mostly by women. Been that way for quite some time. I don't see this as a problem, necessarily. But I do think that The Dudes have not been (in general) searching for meaning in good directions. Are not being reflective, introspective, about ehat our manhood means, now. 240
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 8hYou've got these macho dudes exploring their essential emptiness across vast, wide-open spaces. Searching for things. In many cases, for each other. The whole cattle drive happens essentially b/c Call is bored. Wants to do something meaningful to him. And that gets people killed. 140
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 8hSo far as Lonesome Dove goes... It's a very rich text. Do many different ways to be dude in there. Many of them not great. It bugs me that most people's reference point is the miniseries. Which does not seem to understand the subversiveness of the text. 210
Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 8hI think, as a general thing, The Dudes are in crisis. Too many dudes behaving abominably. Not enough dudes being Good Dudes. And the books/movies/music/art in general are not exploring that crisis, are not compelling enough to enough men, in positive ways. And I think that's really important. 1120
