As with all things 30 Rock covered this

Revisited Magnolia finally. *hated* it the first time I saw it but was also a PTA skeptic then. I still sadly think it’s his weakest (you can’t have an opera of all arias) but the raw heart of it and the subtler tones of discontent and anxiety under the loud anguish clearly point to his mature work

Dog it’s so fucking over

I’ve worked my way thru Legion of the Super-Heroes to Jim Shooter’s first issues and while the title was slowly improving, out of the gate he provides such a quality jump it’s wild. More focused writing, some actual oomph to the weirdly standoffish tone characters have always had, and great art

Coppola’s Dracula is the best adaptation of the text but I think Herzog’s Nosferatu perfects the subtext. So much 19th-c horror (Frankenstein, Jekyll/Hyde) is about fear of scientific acceleration but Dracula is the exact opposite, a fear that the supplanted Old World will literally bite back

it is my position that the role of government should be public service, a position wherein you serve the public and work for their benefit. if you are doing harm to people by, say, cutting benefits for no good reason, then you are clearly not serving the public, and should resign in disgrace #nzpol

the only comic discourse I care about

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

this is a state sponsored terrorist operation being laid out on an american and every one in ICE needs to be treated as if they are terrorists after trumps regime is over

I’ve seen more and more comparisons that look exactly this bad all over the internet lately and I really don’t know what’s gonna happen over the next month as people start getting their new health plan quotes at work.

Easy. Painkiller by Judas Priest.

We are not even 24 hours removed from the cops actively helping ICE crack skulls but these goons are so incapable of impulse control they’ve already devolved into comic book villains gassing their allies.

the christmas adverturers' meeting scene takes place at ronald reagan's old house. absolutely incredible attention to detail www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/02/o...

Ezra Klein reading this and immediately packing a sackful of objects like the Buddhists who find the next incarnation of the Dalai Lama

Hot damn, the transfer on the Arrow 4K of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it without the yellow tinting of US video

Chicago is the greatest city in the world and what’s happening there is making my body physically hot and sore with rage. Every rich dentist in the Ohio exurbs with a barely touched jet ski voted for this because they led poor lives that are now nearly over. Chicago will outlast your boring anger.

“Hey bro, wanna go out tonight?” “Can’t, I have to record mock ad reads for Lisa mattresses and LegalZoom before tomorrow”

Got back to Love and Rockets and one issue opens with a Gilbert Palomar story and it does that <> bracketing comics use to indicate a character speaking in a language that is being translated for you the reader, but in this case it’s used to highlight a gringo speaking English in a Spanish town lmao

Working out first thing in the morning regulated my emotional state and made me feel rejuvenated yet again

me before and after shelling out to see One Battle After Another in IMAX

Your Cans and Neus get most of the attention but A.R. & Machines was one of THE great Krautrock projects

Asking the exact same questions to my mommy who put her thumb and forefinger and “got my nose”

Bilge Ebiri asks Jim Jarmusch a question we've always wondered about when it comes to indie filmmakers: “How do you pay the bills?”

Snapped this pic of DHS conferring with the IL state police just before ICE attacked the crowd, while state and county police assisted them. ICE said, "This is your first and only warning" and then instantly attacked. We were not in the road at that time. They just wanted to assault us and film it.

A perfect summary. A genuinely talented writer devoted to the most embarrassing arrested development this side of a former child actor who is now on the wrong side of 35. Dustin Diamond ass monoculture star.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

There are a lot of things about Moby Dick that are so strangely ordered they feel like Melville neither revised his own drafts much nor got any attentive editing from his publisher who was already halfway ghosting him, then suddenly a chapter snaps it all into focus with musical precision

Selectively breeding Hundertpfundts over a period of generations to get a Bib Fortuna

Following up three of the best comedies ever made with Make Way for Tomorrow is cinema’s all time great “but Doctor, I *am* Pagliacci” move

in the past few months i have heard buttoned up white ladies express opinions that even the most hardened struggle session facilitator would hesitate to say out loud

Horst WHOssel?!

The Smashing Machine: Finally, a biopic that dares to ask “what if the supportive girlfriend/wife actually sucks?”

Nothing will ever beat this tho

I feel like a key thing they fail to grasp here is that ICE is happy to keep trucking at the moment with pay interruptions because literally none of these freaks is employable, but trying it on with bilking the military is real high-risk, low-reward stuff.

This is illegal, plain and simple, with penalties including removal from federal service, debarment from federal employment for five years, and a fine of $1000. 5 U.S.C. § 7326. A country which valued the rule of law would enforce its laws.

What you fail to see, Mr. Pope

Happy 75th to a genuine staple of American literature.

Setting aside how offensive this is, Charlie Kirk is already 100% out of discussion beyond the most entrenched MAGA circles. The mass psychosis event backfired, his widow doing Goldberg’s WCW entrance at his memorial and then launching a dating app a day or two later completely alienated sane ppl

“Post-game interview, how we feeling?” Some people are going to rapidly start finding out their position is not as secure as their media bubbles make them think!

Congrats to Father Gascoigne on his new comms position.

The horror and especially the Hong Kong collections will understandably dominate @criterionchannl.bsky.social viewing this month but don’t overlook the Kira Muratova curation. There was a time when you couldn’t even torrent some of these, and the rest only in VHS rips.

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Benicio Del Toro’s glasses in OBAA 2. BDT’s quiet “8:15” when Bob is screaming about the what time is it code 3. BDT wearing his karate keikogi like The Dude’s bathrobe 4. BDT’s reading of “3 small beers” 5. His face while saying it

Protests erupt in Naples, Italy after the Global Sumud Flotilla's interception. Keeping their promise to act if crew were harmed, Italian Unions and protesters block the Naples train station

"So Batman, I hear you don't have a father"

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They’re sending out emails to now unpaid employees telling them to call it the Democrat Shutdown (or else what, you’ll fire them like you’re already promising to do anyway?) but Trump is incapable of not talking about this stupid shit nobody but him care about, good message discipline

Weeks after people were warning Charlie Kirk’s murder would unite the right wing like never before, there’s a blood feud among a bunch of conservative influencers over whether he actually secretly told Candace Owens he was anti-Zionist now in his final days

I want to see this fucking guy in the dock one day. In shackles.

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Benicio Del Toro’s glasses in OBAA 2. BDT’s quiet “8:15” when Bob is screaming about the what time is it code 3. BDT wearing his karate keikogi like The Dude’s bathrobe 4. BDT’s reading of “3 small beers” 5. His face while saying it

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.