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FinancialYou4519 t1_j7ks1eb wrote
Reply to comment by Landlubber77 in TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by SAT0725
Jawohl mein führer
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ITeechYoKidsArt t1_j7kk4oo wrote
Reply to comment by NecessaryHuckleberry in TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by SAT0725
He was popular with the same kind of people maybe, but he wasn’t anything like Kinkaide. Kinkaide would have used his kids blood in the paintings if he thought he could sell more of his shit. He was a shameless huckster who used other people to do the work for him and made it abundantly clear he thought the people who bought his trash were morons who deserved to lose their money. There’s a segment from 60 Minutes with him and it’s very obvious what kind of guy he is even though they edited it down to make him look less of a turd.
z7q2 t1_j7kje49 wrote
Reply to TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by SAT0725
Gene Ween did an album of only McKuen covers, it's good.
https://consequence.net/2012/04/album-review-aaron-freeman-marvelous-clouds/
negcap t1_j7ki870 wrote
Reply to TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by SAT0725
There is a song by Too Much Joy that references him. It’s called, “Good Kill.”
-DementedAvenger- t1_j7ki0yl wrote
Landlubber77 t1_j7khut8 wrote
PerNewton t1_j7kgnep wrote
Reply to TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by SAT0725
TIL George Santos was a poet in a past life.
tomcat_tweaker t1_j7kfqre wrote
Reply to comment by NecessaryHuckleberry in TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by SAT0725
Burned with a class VII flamethrower.
Cocoononthemoon t1_j7kemdk wrote
NecessaryHuckleberry t1_j7kdrqz wrote
Reply to TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by SAT0725
Looks like he was poetry’s version of Thomas Kinkade
KombattWombatt t1_j7kdq2e wrote
Reply to comment by thegoodrichard in TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by SAT0725
Appropriate.
Landlubber77 t1_j7kdony wrote
Reply to TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by SAT0725
We who gather here today shall not allow his name to be lost to the sands of time! Each one of you who sees this post, go out into the world today and speak his name. Tell one person about his deeds at work, in the drive-thru, during a polite bank robbery or home invasion, while buying nails to finally hang that goddamn frame that has two hangy things on the back instead of just one in the center so now you have to make sure the nails are perfectly level or the picture is gonna be crooked and drive you absolutely fucking nu--just tell somebody, anybody!
RalphWaldoEmers0n t1_j7ka138 wrote
Reply to comment by CupcakeAssassin in TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee
My dad dreampt of fighting in his dreams and would punch in his sleep - we would joke for years about it and then he got Parkinson’s
SimilarLee OP t1_j7k2v28 wrote
Reply to comment by ThatOtherFrenchGuy in TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee
Awareness of the dreaming state (while maintaining sleep paralysis), aka lucid dreaming, is not the same as physically acting out your dream (losing sleep paralysis).
ThatOtherFrenchGuy t1_j7k2bxt wrote
Reply to TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee
Wait, you are speaking of lucid dreams right ? aren't they pretty common ?
onewobblywheel t1_j7jznn1 wrote
Reply to comment by Raffo05 in TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee
I just added a long post to this thread that might interest you. It starts with "I am reluctant".
onewobblywheel t1_j7jzmya wrote
Reply to comment by CulturedClub in TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee
I just added a long post to this thread that might interest you. It starts with "I am reluctant".
onewobblywheel t1_j7jzg5a wrote
Reply to comment by atx00 in TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee
I just added a long post to this thread that might interest you. It starts with "I am reluctant".
onewobblywheel t1_j7jzfac wrote
Reply to comment by thefairlyeviltwin in TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee
I just added a long post to this thread that might interest you. It starts with "I am reluctant".
onewobblywheel t1_j7jzerh wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee
I just added a long post to this thread that might interest you. It starts with "I am reluctant".
onewobblywheel t1_j7jz8d1 wrote
Reply to comment by Mollybrinks in TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee
I just added a long post to this thread that might interest you. It starts with "I am reluctant".
onewobblywheel t1_j7jz5o3 wrote
Reply to comment by bigstressy in TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee
I just added a long post to this thread that might interest you. It starts with "I am reluctant".
[deleted] t1_j7kt4r7 wrote
Reply to TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by SAT0725
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