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

Epstein being email buddies with Soon-Yi is one of the most uncanny things about the files, especially since so little is known of Soon-Yi’s personality

What you realize on this channel is that a lot of the ads produced for movie theaters were shot and edited to look more like cinema than like TV commercials. Look how cinematic this stupid McDonald's ad is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bYe...

Edamame should be called green beans. It's literally beans that are green. Green beans could be called edamame, I guess. Might as well do a clean switch.

I’m going to learn the brewing trade and open my own brewery just so I can forbid dogs from the taproom. I would happily turn away customers with dogs. It would be the best part of my job

The rubber band trick really works to open a jar. My sense of everyday magic has been reignited after learning this trick

Significantly above-zero chance that I'll be visible in crowd shots in Chris Fleming's HBO special dropping next week

Glad to see the Criterion Channel has caught up to my way of thinking

Libeled Lady (1936) is the most 1930s movie of all time. The 1930s-ness is off the charts, pure hit of 1930s energy

YOU: Hey man do you want an orange ME: [eyeing that it looks like you have a regular sized orange and not a small easy to peel one] Uhh... is it like a regular orange or is it like one of those Cuties YOU: It's the regular kind ME: Aw man I never know what to do with those YOU: No one does.

The Secret Agent kinda came out of nowhere for me as an awards contender, I wasn't really aware of it

Been saying this for a while!

Watched the first Strip Law and yeah I'm gonna need 100 episodes of this immediately instead of just 10

This bite-sized graphic novel is a stunning work of dystopian fiction, and published in 2020 it was prescient about the imminent rise of AI

Chicagoans got a 1 week break from seasonal affective disorder but it's back today. Welcome back to the outer reflection of the deadened spirit within

Lady at the taqueria told my white ass to “be careful with the red sauce”… my complexion must have lightened, I used to be ethnically ambiguous enough that no one would issue me a salsa warning

The best case scenario for the future of American government is that these previously unrepresented idiots simply lose interest in politics after Trump retires or dies.

A good weekend is all about doing 2-3 things. If you do one thing it's not quite enough. Four is definitely too many. Two is usually perfect but sometimes an irresistible third thing presents itself and then you feel really accomplished for doing three things

Back on my bullshit: listening to the best Elephant 6 album not by Olivia Tremor Control or NMH. That’s right, it’s ARE YOU SLEEPY by The Gerbils, the fuzziest fuzz-guitar album in the history of guitar distortion

Finally the Joffrey is doing an Oops, All 20th Century Choreography program instead of a new ballet based on Cinderella or some shit. I’m here for it… literally

ILL'ing the complete Rockford Files on Blu-ray... can't imagine I'll get through all 123 episodes during the brief loan period so send me your fave ep titles if you're a Rockfordhead

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

Just found this old pic I took of a message written in a used copy of Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama

Now this is the shit you only get on Vintage Obscura

I need to find a place where there isn't a psychotic barking dog downstairs but can't bear to go through the stress of apartment hunting again

This should be relegated to dorm room bong-rip conjecture. On a strictly technical level, I don’t see how you can do this without either a weird pause while the second DCP loads (and again on return to the first) or else ripping discs and rolling your own lower-quality file for playback. It stinks!

This idea sucks, sorry, I would not even consider attending this

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

Theater companies should start producing Tom Noonan's plays again. Most of the tributes aren't even mentioning his work as a playwright, even the ones that mention the film version of What Happened Was

If Iran is going to be in the news a lot for bad reasons, the silver lining is I can constantly post about how Rock Hudson says "I'm going to Iran" in Written on the Wind (1956, Douglas Sirk)

“I’m going to Iran.” Rock Hudson, WRITTEN ON THE WIND

(Chuckling while setting my alarm for the morning) I won't know what hit me

[Whispering to date when gay subtext first appears in a Rock Hudson picture] That's the gay subtext.

“I’m going to Iran.” Rock Hudson, WRITTEN ON THE WIND

"Superman, Batman, and the rest of the DC gang are powerless to protect you against diseases like polio, measles and rubella. These diseases can cripple and even kill. But they can be easily prevented with painless vaccinations." [New York City Council, 1980]

I'm outside the Obama Center museum tower right now. The new letters -- an excerpt from Obama's Selma speech -- are tough read to me, giving off the lorem ipsum vibes.

susancruisin: I thought a frenemy was like a centaur of a person you like and a person you don’t like 🤣 NevillsAdvocate : you look at the world so majestical 😂 onlyjudy: they have thos… and it’s called the self

Here it is, your moment of zen.

I know no one wants to hear this, but we need to consider the possibility that Scorsese ordered a hit on Frederick Wiseman so Marty could hold the undisputed title of America’s greatest living filmmaker

Mark the passing of Frederick Wiseman by listening in on somebody’s one-sided phone call. It’s what he would have wanted.

About to “break wind” at the wind ensemble concert. They love it when you say that

Good light in the loop this morning

“If it’s right, you can tell,” echoes Myron, like a siren, with endurance like the Liberty Bell

I could just hear my downstairs neighbors' kid's friend leaving the house and he was talking about how the kid needs to get "lower cortisol." He's like 12, we're doomed.

He isn’t real, he can’t hurt you

Good light in the loop this morning

It’s sunny with a high of 57 degrees on a February Sunday in Chicago, and you know that that means: I’m going to spend the whole afternoon in the dark at a screening of Stalker (1979)

"If you know, you know"? I have never known anything. This formulation will never benefit me. Help me know something instead of taunting me with my own ignorance