erotic thriller is such a great genre concept. like youre naked but you have to save the president

The worst thing you can really say about Chris Nolan movies is that they're more interesting to think about than to watch. But just for that reason, it's nice to have him around these days—simply for the sake of having an actually smart person contribute to mass culture in some way.

It's kind of interesting that the most common way to encounter new iterations of Greek mythology in our time is through explicitly feminist retellings or reimaginings. I have a Greek myth display up at work right now and it's like 80% contemporary riffs by women a la Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad

He's so naturally softspoken that the microphone respectfully declined to amplify his voice.

It's appropriate that Ross McElwee's Sherman's March turns 40 this year, as McElwee was—unaccountably for a man born in 1947—history's first millennial.

They’re letting Lindsay Graham’s sister be a senator like the seat is property he bequeathed to her in his will?

I'm supporting Digger purely on grounds of Tom Cruise doing a movie that isn't a franchise blockbuster for the first time in ages. It looks potentially painful to sit through but I will support on principle. This is Cruise making a bet that an adult drama is still a viable move for an A-list star

Me looking at the youtube suggestion on top: Ah yes. The algorithm has sussed out that I am a sharp-witted, intellectually curious man of letters. Me looking at the suggestion on the bottom: alright I guess the algorithm has picked up on the fact that I sometimes talk about ALF,

This guy's career is based on the weird, incorrect idea that Stephen King is a Shakespeare-level writer of eternal relevance whose works invite continued reinterpretation throughout the ages. Sorry, I just don't think Stephen King needs a Kenneth Branagh.

Lots of Bill Plympton stuff on Kanopy The Kanopy hype man has logged on

The moment just before Dana Carvey learned about 9/11 on the set of Master of Disguise

Watched the John Lilly doc on Kanopy because I love to learn about a weird guy

There was too long of a line at the sandwich place I was gonna eat lunch at so instead I just walked around in the heat for a long time vaguely hoping that lunch would somehow happen to me. Then I went home and ate a yogurt from the fridge. Typical example of whatever is wrong with me

“The saltine crust is a game-changer” is my Manchurian Candidate trigger phrase

Shout out to the guy behind me who audibly said "Chuck Jones" out loud every time the "directed by Charles M. Jones" credit appeared on screen.

I went to homowack and everyone knew you

Finally getting to the end of a huge Costco order of paper towels got me feeling like Odysseus

Interesting selection of Looney Tunes shorts @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social today with a bunch of deep cuts I’d never seen at all. How many living souls can identify the character Bobo the Elephant by name?

Overheard a guy at Hoosier Mama Pie say “the saltine crust is a game-changer” and it was like a post on r/chicagofood came to life.

15 minutes into long overdue rewatch of Election (1999) and I'm in full "we used to make movies in this country" mode

PSA Election (1999) is on Kanopy

I'm really good with money (can't remember if I have an active Criterion Channel subscription or not)

Me when I keep going back for more cake(?) at the party to avoid talking to anyone

the English language is vast. Just pick an existing insult that isn't stupid

Brunchlord is the caption underneath your photo when the restaurant put it on the wall to commemorate your record-breaking progress in eating their infamous "bottomless omelette."

Depression Dog style: mustard, chopped onions, relish, sport peppers. Fresh-cut fries piled on top. I promise you this is the best way to eat a hot dog.

How does this prompt still go around when everyone has already determined the ultimate answer is just "9/11"

It bums me out to think about how my boss must have assumed I was normal when she hired me and then was crestfallen to discover I am eccentric and largely incompetent. But it's low-key her fault for not having better instincts to sniff out how insane I am

Who is this man. Why have I had to vaguely know about him for years.

I’m not a “wake and bake” guy but I’m considering taking morning edibles for the 35mm Looney Tunes marathon at the Music Box this weekend

Feel like I’m getting a masters degree in 1990s studies from this old Susan Orlean collection

Abolish op-eds. Just post on substack or whatever if you need to say opinions so bad

It’s weird that op-eds still exist. Hey we are an august news institution that for some reason also publishes blog posts by randos airing their grievances.

It still feels weird that I have the power to do things like this. I just type "Open Mic Night" into the back end of a website and then an open mic night occurs at a civic institution

$140 stubhub ticket for front-center seat on the field for Mulaney at Wrigley tomorrow... worth it?

The workplace equivalent of quote-tweeting is when me and my coworkers make fun of posts on the Illinois library listservs

The first Trader Joe's I ever shopped at... within those four walls I first tasted the nourishing heat of the chili lime corn chips and the savory crunch of the almond butter pretzel nuggets...

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

Me in first grade refusing to clap while singing "if you're happy and you know it" because I was not happy and didn't think I should lie

This is like saying "I will never forgive Spike Lee for Do the Right Thing"

Not to make light of anything but this guy is my favorite new character

Type of shit I'll be doing as a weird old man

How did this 2012 ass tweet sneak onto my bluesky feed

I talked to Mitch McConnell on the phone for 40 minutes and he just kept quoting that one cooking video with the guy making Monster energy drink pasta. "What if we use... White Monsta," the 84-year-old senator kept saying

Discovered the scientific name of the common jay just now and knew immediately what I must do

That first review seems to have been a huge influence on LLMs

Reviews for “Garfield Sits Around the House”, the seventh book in the Garfield series first published in 1983