It's so perfect that America is doing something legitimately great for once, maybe the first inspiring thing we've had in years, and Trump is nowhere near the Artemis conversations. Anyway, good for the astronauts that they don't have to let him talk at them.

Half a dozen deep into my mission to prove that deviled eggs are the exception to this rule.

alright christian god i know we’ve had our quarrels but i am prepared to ‘go catholic’ if you make it happen for comedy effect today specifically. i won’t half ass it like i do with judaism either. i’ll wear the thing on my head and eat the crackers and shit

Cities would rather spend millions on robot dogs than pay for one child to be in day care.

The other thing about The Devils of Loudun is that Huxley's observations are shockingly, even frighteningly, relevant to Our Current Moment. His language acts as a clear lens through which to see what's going on now.

After you watch, which is highly recommended, get the book the movie is based on: The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley. A great read that, if anything, reveals the story is even more insane than you thought.

Last time I bought a hammer was almost two years ago, which I remember because that’s what I was doing when I got the call that a friend had died. Don’t buy a hammer.

This is the way. I write if I have something to say, got no use for stars.

Cue my total lack of surprise to see that communists quote coming from Dallas Sonnier.

it’s true

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial

Imagine how utterly insane it would be to hear literally any adult you ever met say they’re ride or die for anyone who says nice things about them.

the last decade has taught me what being stuck in a black hole feels like

breakfast for dinner

the pages of your favorite cookbooks should look like this

Alex is one of my favorite people, simply one of the best. Please help if you can!

incredibly sick poster for a movie that sucks

sorry but it's so funny to be one of the last actual human beings getting paid a decent rate to review books for legacy media and pull this shit

gonna have to muzzle myself when this goes on the list of wars he claims to have ended

this is the most Hollywood-brain thing a producer could possibly say

There are too many books I want to read, so I guess I should thank Weir for taking a couple off the stack.

They need to teach the Streisand Effect in law school.

This is how it goes when war is waged by people who reject empathy.

Showing the 6yo SPIRITED AWAY for the first time. Figured what the hell, went all in and did subtitled Japanese, and he's into it.

Did every university have a guy who filled a giant cooler with Chinese food then walked through the dorms a couple nights a week yelling "Chinese Food Man, is anybody hungry?" or was it just Brandeis in the 1990s?

The Rockford Files and its flawless title sequence will simply never not hit. (and for the uninitiated, the message on the answering machine changes every episode.)

No one I talked to pinpointed it as an influence but it *seems* undeniable -- ESPECIALLY since one of the early concepts they were bandying about was basically the same plot as JUGGLER. (Also, odd coincidence, the pilot episode of MOONLIGHTING was directed by... JUGGLER's Robert Butler.)

@jasondashbailey.com ok having finally seen Night of the Juggler I figure you’re the guy who could weigh in on whether the driving sequences in Die Hard With a Vengeance are explicitly based on Juggler’s car chase.

had leftover Chinese takeout so I made General Tso’s maki

TGIF

metadata

Dude's a Fetterman

oh u like power wash simulator? get yer ass over here and live the real thing

keep hoping I'll find a copy of PROFUMO, aka BIZARRE, that I'd call definitive, but I'm not there yet

I guess this broadcast is 4K

it's been a long winter

Was bummed that, after the Sora collapse, we won't get to see Disney simmer in the full debasement of its own library. Then I remembered live-action Moana.

Need Vince Vaughn to do this on someone else’s press tour, Christ.

hope you don’t need anything that comes in [checks notes] plastic packaging

haha I'm going to write my little emails and keep doing things the "right" way and hope I can afford to heat my home next winter while guys who won't say their shoes don't fit steal money from everyone

thoughts and prayers

Remarkable that Ray-Ban is willing to trash its decades-long status representing effortless cool to get... whatever it's getting out of this deal.

Diane, you're not going to believe this one

I see all the complaints about ICE standing around doing nothing and I’m thinking, guys, you really do not want them doing anything else.

we could have had it all

The Air Force Academy was (for reasons I couldn't even recall now) one of my top school choices. I visited and it took about an hour for me to nope the fuck outta there. They probably felt the same way about me.

Half-star reviews of my Letterboxd top 4