January 9, 2022

The Death of Dobie

Dwayne Hickman has died, age 87. Protagonist of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (where his bestie was Bob Denver as the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs), early co-stars also included Warren Beatty and Tuesday Weld -- here they all are in this clip. [more inside]
posted by Rash at 10:43 PM PST - 26 comments

What MasterClass Online Courses Pay to Lure Hollywood Stars as Teachers

Sources familiar with the company’s deals say instructors make about $100,000 up front when they begin working with MasterClass and receive 30 percent of the revenue their classes generate.
posted by folklore724 at 7:30 PM PST - 30 comments

"Life’s hard enough, and I’m looking to make people feel better"

"I had no idea I did a 2 hr set tonight. I’m happily addicted again to this shit." Bob Saget did a standup set in Jacksonville, Florida Saturday night and was found dead in his room this afternoon. [more inside]
posted by jessamyn at 5:18 PM PST - 89 comments

Interview with Stromae

An interview with musician Stromae on French TV news channel TFI that turns into something incredible [more inside]
posted by maggiemaggie at 4:17 PM PST - 14 comments

Roots do not always run deep

A collection of drawings of the root systems of various plants. Some background in this Washington Post article. Plant roots previously on MetaFilter.
posted by a feather in amber at 2:58 PM PST - 13 comments

It's time to declare this sinking OVER.

What you alarmists in your lifeboat bubbles don’t realize is ordinary people don’t care about life jackets or buoyancy or physics, and when you talk about those things you sound out-of-touch.
posted by signal at 2:40 PM PST - 81 comments

The difference between live and dead butterflies

Please, enough with the dead butterflies! [more inside]
posted by youarenothere at 1:03 PM PST - 23 comments

Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality

Hostility and chronic stress are known risk factors for heart disease, but they are costly to assess on a large scale. A cross-sectional regression model based only on Twitter language predicted AHD mortality significantly better than did a model that combined 10 common demographic, socioeconomic, and health risk factors, including smoking, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
posted by COD at 9:36 AM PST - 32 comments

"Are you a robot?" "No." "That's exactly what a robot would say."

Stevie Martin and Lola-Rose Maxwell make sketches about the frustrations of dealing with technology, work, and everyday situations, like verifying that you're not a robot, buying food online, working "for exposure", every time you try and go on a website, when you forget your password, trying to print something and others. [more inside]
posted by AllShoesNoSocks at 5:05 AM PST - 21 comments

Musik-Beilage zur Neuen Musik-Zeitung: obscure piano pieces 1880-1928

"The earliest issues of the Neue Musik-Zeitung were anchored by short musical compositions, typically two pages in length for either solo piano or voice and piano, appearing on pages 2 and 3 of each issue... Beginning in the second year, music supplements were added in order to separate the notated music from the text. It is in these supplements that most printed music, advertisements, and the occasional catalogue can be found." [more inside]
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 4:32 AM PST - 4 comments

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