By & large, this website blows but I'm v thankful 4 the ability to read the perspectives of people I may not encounter often IRL

After the one-two punch of Glossary episodes, I wanted to get back to basics for Volume 95 of the We Own This Town podcast (that's the Nashville area focused podcast I've been running for ten years). Serendipity led me to place Yon Ort and ONLY back to back - a track that claims "What you feel, isn't real" followed by a track that claims "we all die!" It's a haphazard goodness that I can't take credit for but I'm happy to bring to you.

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The Los Angeles Times is following in the footsteps of Serial and Missing Richard Simmons with their episodic podcast series Dirty John. I wouldn't want to give a single thing away by discussing any of the details (seeing a photo of the subject is probably more than enough) but it's a compelling listen filled with questionable decisions and alarming twists.

Episode 1 is embedded below but I suggest firing up your favorite Podcast app and subscribing for the full six episodes.

Vintage Halloween is, inarguably, the Best Halloween so it's great to see Retro-a-go-go! keeping the vibe alive with their Vac-Tastic Plastic Masks designed by Doug P'gosh. Each of these retro looking masks is about 2 feet tall, which means wearing them will be awkward and bizarre - aka perfectly weird. I love that the designs range from a Mars Attack alien to a Zombie Astronaut to a suave Dracula. A little something for everybody.

via Jessica.

A weird part of toxic masculinity is not knowing how to poop properly. https://t.co/P3ilrIGsxT

here is a rabbit playing in leaves to brighten your day https://t.co/Sa8AMK1nJX

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It's Friday the 13th! The world is already plenty strange so maybe don't go too nuts in celebration but maybe just stare at this page for awhile and remember the good things.

Have you seen the #ThisSongWillChangeYourLife meme? It's pretty wonderful and I hope it makes its way to YouTube.

• Curse Walk + KXVO Pumpkin Dance - Paul made this Shaboi / Pumpkin Dance mashup a few years ago and while it's not technically perfect, it's pretty damn perfect.
• Alex Jones explains Twin Peaks - I can't believe I'm saying this but this works unbelievably well.
• The Last Fry (SNL) - a digital short with Gal Gadot that was cut for time. It's unfortunate because it's some of their best work.
• Grizzly Bear - Mourning Sound - have you seen this video yet? It's refreshing to see men get objectified in a video, particularly in a non-kitschy way.
• American Psycho - #ThisSongWillChangeYourLife - it's a long clip and you see it coming but it still works.
• No Pomegranates - have you seen this teacher losing her mind? My only hope is that there is a story behind this that makes it amusing, otherwise it's just terrifyingly weird.
• Floppy Disk - this isn't from Tim & Eric but if you like Tim & Eric, you will love this.
• Corgi Troll - have a great weekend.

Eight years ago on this day, Friday, October 13th, 2008, the one and only release from Shaboi was unleashed on the world. Curse Walk is ten songs of Halloween tales spanning an absurd number of genres - country folk, rap, electronic instrumentals, spoken word cautionary tales and even an R&B lament for spiritual freedom. Given that it's mid-October, now is the perfect time to dive back in. It's streaming everywhere or you can buy the digital version if you're looking to throw some appreciation towards the ghoul responsible for it all.

the good 25% of men are just now learning the other 75% are bad

@AshSpurge Which means the "good" are mediocre at best so, sorry guys you're all pretty terrible.

Hi everyone I wanted to tell you that Chuck Norris memes are 10x funnier when you crop out the bottom caption https://t.co/g56xY6dt4H

me about everything in 2017: https://t.co/gWqQnhGaVe

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@bpendy @charliekirk11 Only old phones can join the Rotary Club.

@yewknee Looks like the new Coupler album is featured on @Bandcamp! https://t.co/5ccET39llJ

It's hard to say where to start with the work of Peter Mendelsund. His massive archive of Book Cover Designs is page after page of inspiring designs running an insane gamut of styles but I suggest starting with this PRINT magazine interview in which he runs through a massive list of "rules" by which to work by. There are some quality gems throughout:

Remember that all marketing knowledge is retrospective - it tells us what has worked in the past, but not what will work today or in the future. Design should concern itself with manufacturing desire. There is no science to this. But if you study the culture (readers/viewers/consumers) you will glean some of its wants and needs (again, not what the culture's wants and needs were, but, rather, what they are and will be).

And some that are good advice but only work if you've already achieved respect and authority:

Minimize the institutionally calcified practice of "uglification." Uglification is a process in which designers -by request or demand - make their work uglier, one detail at a time (Can you change the font?; I don't like red; Can you use a different picture...? etc., ad nauseam, ad absurdum.) Uglification is what happens when final decisions about how something looks are made by people not qualified to make aesthetic judgments.

All and all, it gives some excellent perspective as you steer into the full body of work.

All things being equal, the British sitcom Peep Show had an excellent run across it's nine seasons. David Mitchell and Robert Webb have always pulled off the modern day Odd Couple quite well. So, it's great to see them re-united in Back, a BBC undertaking that pits them against one another as estranged brothers. It's got a bit of a Step Brothers vibe to it but with a, ya know, British spin.

Long story short, watch the trailer and hope it lands on a Hulu or Amazon sometime soon.

absolutely perfect