# end oak (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover end oak. Page: Feed: --- ## [The best song intros](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/the-best-song-intros/) _2026-08-20 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Listening to Ron Carter’s bass part on “Excursions” for the 200th time on a plane last week, I envisaged a project whereby I looped the introductions to favorite songs, forever. Some of these below are brief. The most fraught and delicious ones (“I Need a Lover,” “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” “Mother of Pearl”) have \[…\] ## [Art damage: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/art-damage-teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma/) _2026-08-20 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ An ambitious queer director, Kris Williams (Hannah Einbinder) gets sent by the studio, in search of profitability for “woke,” to the Pacific Northwest to make a reboot of Camp Miasma, the title for a series of Friday the 13th-inspired cheapo horror films. Kris’ problems with the series’ transphobic presence do not mitigate her affection for \[…\] ## [I need to score: Songs about drugs](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/i-need-to-score-songs-about-drugs/) _2026-08-20 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Bernard Sumner of New Order and about 6000 rappers can write about the highs and consequences of drug-taking, which means I could easily quadruple this list. I listen to these tunes most because they’re catchy and their musical complements catch the contradictions in this foul behavior. 1. New Order – True Faith 2. D’Angelo – \[…\] ## [Dems in array?](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/dems-in-array/) _2026-08-19 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ We tried the moderate old former Republican in the 2022 gubernatorial race. We’re trying the moderate old former Republican in the 2026 gubernatorial race. Let’s try the younger Black leftist woman for Senate. It can’t hurt. I have no illusions about Florida. Treebeard’s lament from The Two Towers rolls around my head often: “It is \[…\] ## [I won’t give up on my life: Songs about the night](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/i-wont-give-up-on-my-life-songs-about-the-night/) _2026-08-19 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. When the sun goes down, rock ‘n’ \[…\] ## [The inequities of adjunct professorships](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/the-inequities-of-adjunct-professorships/) _2026-08-18 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ I knew adjuncts worse off than me two decades ago: in the years before online courses they’d wake up and remind themselves which of three college and university campuses they had to visit in one day. Lucky enough to work in an administrative position, I regarded this part-time teaching as extra but essential money. Adjuncts \[…\] ## [The best songs about actors](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/the-best-songs-about-actors-2/) _2026-08-18 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Readers will look at the top entry and think, ‘lol wtf.’ But John Grant’s thick rattling synth jam reconstructs an actor’s image in queer form with the thoroughness of a Pet Shop Boys approach to same, and as of 4:30 p.m. EST it’s the song I want to keep listening to. The list: 1. Cornershop \[…\] ## [Purgatorial: ‘Her Private Hell’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/purgatorial-her-private-hell/) _2026-08-17 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Calling Her Private Hell a bad film does me no favors because this is the kind of “difficult” film I want to defend against pedants who prefer biopics starring Judi Dench. I should have expected no less from Nicolas Winding Refn, the wannabe perv who made Drive (whatever) and Only God Forgives (Hague-level offense) and \[…\] ## [Out Now 676: The End of Oak Street](https://thecodeiszeek.substack.com/p/out-now-676-the-end-of-oak-street) _2026-08-17 · Aaron Neuwirth · The Code Is Zeek_ They're walking our streets, and podcasting in our homes. ## [The best songs alluding to Shakespeare](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/the-best-songs-alluding-to-shakespeare-2/) _2026-08-16 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ A couple weeks after reading Clinton Heylin’s Despite the System, I needed a monthly excuse to revisit Orson Welles films. In an hour I’ll re-watch Othello for the first time since a 1992 reissue sent a bowdlerized yet accepted edition of Welles’ Shakespeare adaptation to theatres; it earned good reviews anyway. Please watch Welles’ own \[…\] ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wkwilZLNo5en) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Dave Marsh — RIP](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/dave-marsh-rip/) _2026-08-16 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ If readers in 1990 lived in a small town or in a small town like Miami posing as a city, the B. Daltons and Waldenbooks at the local mail saved your life. Dadeland and International malls carried three books of rock criticism: Christgau’s Record Guide: The 1980s; The Trouser Press Record Guide, edited by Ira \[…\] ## [Phuket’s Orange Season is Here!](https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-orange-season-is-here-101246.php) _2026-08-16 · Phuket Life_ I awoke to a nondescript July morn. As it was ‘nondescript’, I won’t try to describe it… other than to say that after a night of continual rain, it was dull, gloomy and dreich (an old Scottish word meaning… well… dull and gloomy.) There, that’s enough description! ## [Ranking #11 U.S. edition: 1967-1969](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/ranking-11-u-s-edition-1967-1969/) _2026-08-15 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Every time I post a rundown of hits from the sixties I have to say, Goddamn it and restrain my nostalgia, but, really, any chart with Mother Popcorn and I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) and Is That All There Is will draw attention. Immune to Simon and Garfunkel, I placed Scarborough Fair \[ \] ## [Walk the dinosaur: ‘The End of Oak Street’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/walk-the-dinosaur-the-end-of-oak-street/) _2026-08-15 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Had my screening of The End of Oak Street taken place at night instead of 9 a.m., I hope the audience would ve applauded loudly when Ewan McGregor turns into an amuse bouche for an Allosaurus. The latest film by David Robert Mitchell, director of the excellent It Follows and the unseen by me Under the \[ \] ## [Weekly Recap: End of Oak Street, Rivals of Amziah King, Wrong Girls, Nimrods & More!](https://thecodeiszeek.substack.com/p/weekly-recap-end-of-oak-street-rivals-of-amziah-king-wrong-girls-nimrods) _2026-08-15 · Aaron Neuwirth · The Code Is Zeek_ Dinosaurs, Folk Heroes, Stoners, and Nimrods. A lot of variety in this week's recap. ## [The End Of Oak Street could be the start of something big](https://www.thephuketnews.com/the-end-of-oak-street-could-be-the-start-of-something-big-101283.php) _2026-08-15 · Phuket Life_ A bunch of dinosaurs run amok through an American suburb during the 1980s. It sounds like a crazy plot for a film, right? Well, that was my first thought when I saw a trailer for The End Of Oak Street. But now I have seen the film I have realised something – there have been crazier plots over the years I mean even something as entrenched in pop culture as Star Wars would have seemed pretty crazy… ## [Ranking #6 singles U.S. edition: 1965-1967](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/ranking-6-singles-u-s-edition-1965-1967/) _2026-08-15 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Because aging potbellied men ran the music biz and constituted part of the audience during the High LBJ Era, The Men in My Little Girl s Life exists. It so happens that I was watching The Apartment with dinner a few minutes ago and Mike Douglas attitude towards women was Fred MacMurray and his four dwarves. \[ \] ## [How Chaos Theory and The End of Oak Street can inform Jurassic Park 8](https://muzzshaik07.substack.com/p/how-chaos-theory-and-the-end-of-oak) _2026-08-14 · Muzzammil Shaik · Muzzammil Shaik_ \*Disclaimer - Contains Spoilers from The End of Oak Street ## [My favorite novels about adolescence](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/my-favorite-novels-about-adolescence/) _2026-08-14 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ By necessity incomplete, this list of old, new, and new-ish favorites treat adolescence as a hinterland whose borders recklessly separate childhood and adulthood when, really, to some degree we should ve held on to medieval notions about children as young or little adults. Maybe I knew I was queer by adoring Judy Blume and especially Louise \[ \] ## [Criticism in an age of discontent](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/criticism-in-an-age-of-discontent/) _2026-08-13 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Jill Mapes, formerly of Pitchfork and whom I know from Pop Conference, wrote an elegy for Brooklyn Vegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine that doubles as an elegy to an ideal: the full-time music journalist. The way I read it her essay comes across as a mea culpa for failing to consider the utility of \[ \] ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4js6XKufhWsF) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [Out Now Bonus: Super Troopers Take Novato!](https://thecodeiszeek.substack.com/p/out-now-bonus-super-troopers-take-novato) _2026-08-13 · Aaron Neuwirth · The Code Is Zeek_ Crime is the disease. Meow is the time for a cure through podcast. ## [Disappointing ending melts Ice Cream Man](https://www.thephuketnews.com/disappointing-ending-melts-ice-cream-man-101273.php) _2026-08-13 · Phuket Life_ One of the things that has always stuck with me from my screenwriting classes at film school was our lecturer telling us: “The two best pages of your screenplay needs to be the first page and the last page.” Well if brand new horror comedy Ice Cream Man is anything to go by that is advice that obviously neither Noah Belson (Cabin Fever) or Eli Roth (Hostel) have ever heard because this is a film… ## [Leave Paris in the morning with T.E.E.: Songs about trains](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/leave-paris-in-the-morning-with-t-e-e-songs-about-trains/) _2026-08-13 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ The preferred method of long distance travel for Americans and the cheapest until deregulation lowered airplane fares in the 1980s, trains dominated pop songs well into the 1990s when for example Soul Asylum earned an unexpected top five with Runaway Train. Elvis scored the first and best hit: a missive from a country within a \[ \] ## [The End of Oak Street - REVIEW & BREAKDOWN](https://muzzshaik07.substack.com/p/the-end-of-oak-street-spoiler-review) _2026-08-12 · Muzzammil Shaik · Muzzammil Shaik_ Paleo-edutainment FTW ## [The best songs about states](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/the-best-songs-about-states/) _2026-08-12 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Listening to what is to my ears Public Enemy s most powerful album, I thought about good songs in which states figure. Ray Charles sets the standard: Georgia as state of mind, like Wallace Stevens jar in Tennessee. Many of these tunes are classic in themselves. Which states dominate the imagination? California, whose temperate climes serve \[ \] ## [‘Trans-ideology is far outside of what most normal gays espouse’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/trans-ideology-is-far-outside-of-what-most-normal-gays-espouse/) _2026-08-11 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Interesting! Democrat Elijah Manley, a gay, Black and Jewish Gen Zer, faces two veteran U.S. representatives in a high-profile Democratic primary. Shevrin Jones, Florida’s first out gay state senator, and Kendrick Meek Jr., an out politician whose father and grandmother both represented South Florida in Congress, face each other in a heated Democratic primary. Self-described \[ \] ## [The best songs about business](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/the-best-songs-about-business/) _2026-08-11 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Pop music would not exist without capitalism: the business of recording and distribution, the means of production, the media in which the art gets to the people. When non-critics complain about the Death of the Album, I remind them that the sainted album relied on products (ahem vinyl) and things like radio and stores to \[ \] ## [On Nora Ephron and ‘You’ve Got Mail’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/on-nora-ephron-and-youve-got-mail/) _2026-08-10 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Although I haven t seen a flood of appraisals, I ve read or heard enough praise for the late writer-director Nora Ephron s comedies from younger film writers and film podcasters for me to reexamine my prejudices. A spring watch of When Harry Met Sally occasioned by the death of Rob Reiner delighted me: a fizzy and still \[ \] ## [Phuket to host dugong awareness and preservation festival](https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-to-host-dugong-awareness-and-preservation-festival-101229.php) _2026-08-09 · Phuket Life_ Phuket is set to host a festival promoting awarness of the welfare and preservation of dugongs this coming week as part of a three-location series. ## [It’s a brand new, beautiful day for Spider-Man](https://www.thephuketnews.com/it-a-brand-new-beautiful-day-for-spider-man-101191.php) _2026-08-08 · Phuket Life_ One of the strongest performing franchises of the last decade has been Spider-Man. While some of the comic book movies being released have taken a hit at the box office over recent years that has not been the case for either the Tom Holland lead Spider-Man series nor the animated Spiderverse films. That was never more evident than with the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home – the return of two… ## [AI Summaries & Audio Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Wvoqpl0CqWw8) _2026-08-08 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to concise audio briefings for the latest stories. ## [The small community cafe on a hill that brings the Jazz](https://www.thephuketnews.com/the-small-community-cafe-on-a-hill-that-brings-the-jazz-101175.php) _2026-08-08 · Phuket Life_ Tucked into the hills above Kamala Beach on Phuket’s west coast is a small independent neighbourhood café that over the past three years has evolved to offer a very different experience from the island’s busier tourist districts. ## [Weekly Recap: One Night Only, Tony, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma & More!](https://thecodeiszeek.substack.com/p/weekly-recap-one-night-only-tony-teenage-sex-death-camp-miasma) _2026-08-07 · Aaron Neuwirth · The Code Is Zeek_ More sex & candy than spiders this week, making for a lot of sweet options. ## [Out Now 675: Spider-Man: Brand New Day](https://thecodeiszeek.substack.com/p/out-now-675-spider-man-brand-new-day) _2026-08-04 · Aaron Neuwirth · The Code Is Zeek_ The world has forgotten Peter Parker, but this podcast hasn't forgotten him. ## [What Does It Mean to Humanize AI Content?](https://www.thephuketnews.com/what-does-it-mean-to-humanize-ai-content-101180.php) _2026-08-04 · Phuket Life_ AI tools can produce a full article within several seconds. However, the first draft may sound distant or overly polished. Every paragraph may follow the same rhythm and structure. Examples may also lack details from everyday situations. ## [Celebrating Filipino Pride in Thailand](https://www.thephuketnews.com/celebrating-filipino-pride-in-thailand-101116.php) _2026-08-02 · Phuket Life_ It was an occasion of great celebration recently as the Phuket chapter of the Association of Filipinos in Thailand (AFT) joined colleagues in Bangkok to mark the auspicious date of the 128th Philippine Independence Day. ## [In search of the next Antigua](https://www.thephuketnews.com/in-search-of-the-next-antigua-101117.php) _2026-08-02 · Phuket Life_ Nearly thirty years ago, I stumbled into Antigua, Guatemala expecting a pleasant colonial town. Instead, I found something closer to magic: cobbled streets, pastel facades, an expansive plaza shaded by trees and a dramatic skyline punctuated by the brooding cones of three volcanoes. Back then, Antigua felt like a discovery. Today, Antigua remains insanely beautiful. But the secret is out. ## [Weekly Recap: Spider-Man, Tony, Avatar Aang, Comic-Con & More!](https://thecodeiszeek.substack.com/p/weekly-recap-spider-man-tony-avatar-aang-comic-con) _2026-08-01 · Aaron Neuwirth · The Code Is Zeek_ The webslinger is about to do whatever a spider can at the box office, plut lots of other good stuff. ## [Out Now Bonus: Air Bud, Buddy & Other SDCC 2026 Adventures](https://thecodeiszeek.substack.com/p/out-now-bonus-air-bud-buddy-and-other-sdcc-2026-adventures) _2026-07-30 · Aaron Neuwirth · The Code Is Zeek_ Dogs, Unicorns, and other Marvels. More tales from the Gaslamp District. ## [Obsession proves a gem of an indie horror flick](https://www.thephuketnews.com/obsession-proves-a-gem-of-an-indie-horror-flick-101102.php) _2026-07-28 · Phuket Life_ By now you have probably heard about Obsession – the little indie film that has smashed box office records right around the world. In fact there probably hasn’t been this much buzz around a low budget indie film since the days of the cinema-changing Blair Witch Project and Kevin Smith’s career starting Clerks. ## [Out Now 674: The Odyssey](https://thecodeiszeek.substack.com/p/out-now-674-the-odyssey) _2026-07-22 · Aaron Neuwirth · The Code Is Zeek_ A face... a fleet... a pod... an episode... a guest... a trick... ## [Thank you Sam Neill. Our Dinosaur Man.](https://muzzshaik07.substack.com/p/thank-you-sam-neill-our-dinosaur) _2026-07-20 · Muzzammil Shaik · Muzzammil Shaik_ It’s crazy that it’s been a week since his passing. ## [Weekly Recap: The Odyssey, Steal Away, Mortal Kombat II Interview & More!](https://thecodeiszeek.substack.com/p/weekly-recap-the-odyssey-steal-away-mortal-kombat-2) _2026-07-17 · Aaron Neuwirth · The Code Is Zeek_ Christopher Nolan unleashes his latest blockbuster onto the world. ## [Out Now 673: Evil Dead Burn & Moana](https://thecodeiszeek.substack.com/p/out-now-673-evil-dead-burn-and-moana) _2026-07-16 · Aaron Neuwirth · The Code Is Zeek_ Every podcast has its demons. ## [Lost Futures and a Time Traveling Robot Haunt Disney’s The Timekeeper](https://www.strangerdimensions.com/articles/robin-williams-plays-a-time-traveling-robot-in-disneys-the-timekeeper/) _2026-06-18 · Rob · Stranger Dimensions_ I’m pretty sure Disney’s The Timekeeper taught me the word “improbable.” It also stands as one of the many pieces of media that became affected post-9/11. But let’s not get too ahead of ourselves. Originally called From Time to Time, The Timekeeper was an attraction that sat right inside the Tomorrowland Metropolis Science Centre, right … Source ## [Dinosaurs Visit Suburbia In The End Of Oak Street](https://www.strangerdimensions.com/articles/the-end-of-oak-street-trailer-when-dinosaurs-visit-suburbia/) _2026-06-12 · Rob · Stranger Dimensions_ The End Of Oak Street was born from a random passing thought in the mind of director David Robert Mitchell: “It’d be really interesting if there was a dinosaur right there.” Where? Anywhere, that’s where. So here’s Oak Street, a scifi dinosaur thriller that may or may not involve time travel. It’s written and directed … Source ## [The Works Trailer: A Glimpse Into the Almost First-Ever Fully CGI Animated Film](https://www.strangerdimensions.com/articles/the-works-trailer/) _2026-06-04 · Rob · Stranger Dimensions_ The Works sits on the strangest technological threshold. It was early enough to be a pioneer in the realm of CGI, and yet also early enough to just not get made. While the New York Institute of Technology’s Computer Graphics Lab wanted to tell the story of a post-apocalyptic robot world, and make the first … Source ## [A Woman Kisses A Reflective Robot Goodnight In NYIT’s ‘Interface’](https://www.strangerdimensions.com/articles/nyits-interface-goodnight-to-a-reflective-robot/) _2026-04-27 · Rob · Stranger Dimensions_ In 1984, NYIT’s Computer Graphics Lab chose to demo reflection mapping with a 14-second scene between a human woman and a shiny CGI robot. The result was, well, a bit uncanny. A plain sphere would’ve been enough to show it off. But where we’re going, we don’t want just spheres. “I’m going out tonight, so…you … Source ## [New Backrooms Trailer, Neighborhood Time Slips, and Trips Around the Moon](https://www.strangerdimensions.com/articles/new-backrooms-trailer-neighborhood-time-slips-and-trips-around-the-moon/) _2026-04-05 · Rob · Stranger Dimensions_ It’s April, and you know what that means: Trust no one, and go to the moon. Let’s check out some trailers and miscellany from this past week. Backrooms Official Trailer Looking at the first full trailer for A24’s Backrooms, we now know we can expect ominous piles of mostly assorted office furniture and at least … Source ## [Jurassic World Chaos Theory Season 4 SPOILER Breakdown](https://muzzshaik07.substack.com/p/jurassic-world-chaos-theory-season-fa3) _2025-11-26 · Muzzammil Shaik · Muzzammil Shaik_ End of a bittersweet era. ## [SPOILER REVIEW and Breakdown: Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)](https://muzzshaik07.substack.com/p/spoiler-review-jurassic-world-rebirth) _2025-07-02 · Muzzammil Shaik · Muzzammil Shaik_ A new era has begun...