it’s so wild that the best lyric in pop music history (“tell your boyfriend / if he says he’s got beef / that I’m a vegetarian and I ain’t fuckin scared of him”) and the worst lyric in history (“do the hellen keller and talk with yo hips”) are both from the same song (“DONTTRUSTME” by 3OH!3). just. crazy how that works
Vinyl records are circular because it’s an efficient use of space: the grooves that encode the music are laid out in a spiral on the disc, so that the needle only has to move as far as the disc’s radius to read the entire thing. Before this clever idea was thought of, the grooves were instead laid out in a straight line, and every LP was a narrow rectangle more than a thousand feet long. To flip an album to side b at least two people were needed, one at each end, coordinating via shouted instructions.
“Incredible. Er, if I may ask, what does this ship use for propulsion?”
“Uh, turpentine, mostly.”
“Turpentine?”
“Distilled pine resin.”
“… distilled pine resin.”
“And acid. For oxidizing. Sometimes we also use ethanol fuel, but turpentine is easier since it doesn’t cut into the food supply as much.”
“Oxidizing… as in, combustion?”
“Uh, yeah? You can’t burn stuff in space without an oxidizer– but uh, you knew that, obviously, I mean, you’re a Nomai, you guys have been in space way longer than we have–”
“Your ship is powered by highly flammable liquid explosives. Which are also edible.”
“Well, not really. I mean, I guess sap wine is technically a kind of turpentine, but it’s not the same stuff, exactly? This is way more concentrated. Plus I think it comes from, like, a different kind of tree? Tastes pretty similar though, even if Porphy swears it doesn’t.”
“Every time I learn more about your methods of spaceflight, I grow more impressed your species has survived this long.”
I’ve always thought it’s too bad that disco is the only kind of dance that comes with an artifact. It’s compelling that disco has a Ball. I want to know what secrets will be revealed if I gaze into it. There should be a hip-hop Cube. A ballroom Amulet. A swing Diadem.
ballroom has Dance Cards!
they’ve come in different shapes and levels of fanciness throughout history, but the general concept is always “thing to write the names of your partners for the different dances.” whether to keep track of them in the moment, or to remember the night afterwards
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