Tootfinder

Owl City has been an interesting recurring character for a long time. He fundamentally makes kinkade music, but in many instances there's something unintentionally captivating about watching a sheltered autistic christian man trying and failing to emulate the sterile neurotypical inhumanity of late 00s commercials, attempts at sincerely becoming what the squeakiest cleanest presenting factions want giving birth to an entirely different surreal alternate reality from the one he professes …

International Congress on Narrative and Aesthetics in Film, Series, TV, and Audiovisual Experimentation https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/11/international-congress-on-narrative-and-aesthetics-…

„Hinreichender Klimaschutz ist ein Partikular­interesse einzelner Interessen­gruppen, die allen aus egoistischen Motiven den Spaß am Leben verbieten und die Wirtschaft ruinieren wollen“ (und keineswegs ein elementares gesamt­gesellschaftliches Interesse).
Das ungefähr ist das emotionale Narrativ, das viele auch große Parteien fahren. Natürlich spricht die Union das nicht in der Form aus,¹ aber jede Wurst, die mit einem „jetzt erst recht“ Gestus auf den Grill geworfen wird, jedes Herzie…

A look at French indie game studio Sandfall Interactive, whose critically-acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 5M copies with a budget of less than $10M (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11…

How Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Became a Gaming Tour de Force
Without a blockbuster budget or much experience, the creators of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 astounded the industry with an emotional narrative and old-school design.

The next segment of the widening of Highway 101
—from Hermosillo to Salinas
—will start in the spring
and take at least three years.
An email from the Montecito Association says that both Hot Springs/Cabrillo exits, northbound and southbound,
will be closed from the spring of 2026 to summer of 2028
(“The Cabrillo Boulevard Interchange will be reconstructed with two new bridges and right-hand freeway ramps,
including a new southbound on-ramp [above].”…

International Congress on Narrative and Aesthetics in Film, Series, TV, and Audiovisual Experimentation https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/11/international-congress-on-narrative-and-aesthetics-…

Recently reminded of Straight to Hell, the 1975—20?? zine featuring porny gay stories that were often real life narratives. Transgressive and important documentation. The Internet Archive has PDF scans of 5 edited book collections!
Harvard man, Harvard man,
blond for no reason. I'd
sure as shit quit the Quad
for him, scratch every dance
from my card for him; kiss
sunshine goodbye to open
his fly; trade clothes
for sheets, miss other meets
for him, for him

Da ja nun der @… die virtuellen Ausstellungen weggekürzt werden, wollte ich fragen, ob jemand Ansätze aus dem #wikiversum kennt, mit dem Objektgruppen in einem narrativen Kontext präsentiert werden können. @…

From her confinement in a remote detention center in Louisiana,
Bruna Ferreira recounted all the ways she said she has tried to maintain a friendly relationship with the family of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
After all, Ferreira shares a child with Leavitt’s brother.

The Brazilian immigrant selected Leavitt to be her son’s godmother.
She signed off on her son’s trip to the White House Easter egg hunt this spring.
And she said she “moved mount…

Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.

Global Indigeneities and Life Narratives: Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly—Deadline Extension to Dec. 12 https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/02/global-indigeneities-and-life-narrativ…