Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”

I yearn to go back to the time when the most toxic public discourse grabbing anyone’s attention was Alec Baldwin calling out uptight queen barista Jay

He was a fun new character until he started trying to write about politics. He seems to have come under the sway of some dreaful livestreamer's inscrutable ideology

Now that pistachio flavors are getting more popular (because of Dubai chocolate or whatever) I think pistachio cream should be marketed as a spread. It tastes a lot like peanut butter, moreso than any of the PB alternatives out there.

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

Been rewatching Golden Girls. Grew up with the dub, it's crazy how different the sub is.

[most annoying voice imaginable, in no way resembling a kindly southern grandmother or whatever the intended effect is] Oh, my sweet summer child,

My one-line Letterboxd post about the relatively obscure documentary Geographies of Solitude has hit 200 likes, for some reason I am proud of this

Millennial Jews will never have representation this good ever again theonion.com/non-widescre...

Took my first L since coming back to work when I referenced this article and then had to explain what "pan and scan" was to my boss

(Suddenly waking up with the force of epiphany) Portnoys Complaint invented gooning

ME: I've been getting into Robin Guthrie's solo ambient albums lately. Guitarist from the Cocteau Twins, has a whole solo ambient career that not many people seem to know about CASHIER: Sir, this is a Wendy's. Wendy's Record Store. This is the perfect place to discuss this.

Reds (1981, Warren Beatty)

This is fucking insane, not just for "saluting" a government official but for reporting on a meme like it's news. I can't believe how dumb this whole Bari Weiss operation is

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel, Bela Tarr dies -- there hasn't been this much Sátántangó discourse in the zeitgeist since Susan Sontag still walked the Earth

Predicting a trepanation comeback in 2026

me: life has been so hard lately my therapist, Glegbar The Blood Thief: how much blood do you think is inside your body

(me, not knowing there is a word for library): hey wanna go to the tome zone later

john's cougar melon camp

Why is it news that Dilbert discovered Pascal's wager

Y’all absolutely love to say that anything is eugenics

Carrie Fisher destroying on this Dinner for Five. She was born to be on a show like this

The new worrisome trend among young men is called "Magic Fishing." It's when they get high and stare at Paul Klee's 1925 painting "Fish Magic" for hours

Mira Nair? More like “near a mayor”!

The new worrisome trend among young men is called "Magic Fishing." It's when they get high and stare at Paul Klee's 1925 painting "Fish Magic" for hours

I read a novella today and it's so satisfying to finish one of those in a single afternoon that I'm tempted to read nothing but novellas all year. My Year of Novellas

Letterboxd says my most watched actor last year was some rando I’ve never heard of who was in 3 new movies I didn’t especially like

Drinking matcha tastes like licking a mossy rock. Incredible that this became the influencer beverage of choice

Hey man are you doing Bibimbap January? It’s wher you go out for bibimbap every day in January

I guess it could be considered funny that Trump created a new isolationist branch of right-wing politics based on the unpopularity of US involvement in foreign wars, and then a year into his term decided to Do An Imperialism in the most blatant, undisguised fashion ever seen

Seeing twitter people post about how they refuse to move to bluesky and bluesky people post about how they refuse to go back to twitter. Meanwhile I'm posting everything in both places to get whatever scraps of engagement I can find

this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning

Are the people who live in Milan aware of Milano cookies? What's the local take?

What a nightmare

My mind periodically boggles that, despite everything that's happened, Joe Rogan was not the worst human being to star on NewsRadio.

Poor Daryl Hannah had to be on an incredibly cursed Dinner For Five panel with Marilyn Manson and Andy Dick (and it was only dinner for four because the other guest was a no-show). If you don't think all that Me Too stuff was completely necessary take a look at this episode

Also the Me Too stuff was primarily happening in 2017-18 and Biden won the next election

The ideal speakers for listening to blink-182’s “Dammit”

No Other Choice has some of the weirdest pacing I have ever seen in a movie. Not slowest pacing, *weirdest* pacing. Park takes a very circuitous zagzag route over what is on paper a pretty straightforward story

Seen from Montrose Point on the morning of New Year’s Day 2026, the Chicago skyline with some Canada geese.

Shouldn't it have been spelled milllennios?

I don't like that hot sauce has edged out bbq sauce from the national sauce conversation. Nothing beats a good barbecue sauce

in 2026 we are no longer talking about what we're doing. we're just doing stuff without outwardly reflecting on it in any way

Here’s hoping the new year brings us an iconic young lead singer named Polly Crisis.

It actually doesn’t feel better to know that other people do this. It just means we’re both miserable

Still a couple hours left for Trump's aortic valve to turn 2025 around

The conceptual problem with Severance is that Lumon being an over-the-top evil company obscures the moral question of severance itself. Presumably there are regular non-evil companies with severed workers too! Without all the cult stuff. What’s going on at those places?

In the course of fixing the washing machine, my landlord seems to have fucked up the dryer. It turns on and pretends to go through a cycle but it does not dry anything. Thank you landlord, lord of land.

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