Watching the "Cubby Bear" cartoons from Van Beuren studios in the '30s. A horribly non-charming and unfunny character but I can't stop watching, even this third-string stuff hits good when you're a toonfreak

I feel like Sentimental Value should be boycotted for using the Faces song from Rushmore in the trailer. That song is from Rushmore. The fucking gall, unbelievable

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I love when a corner store resells Kirkland products. Yes king use that Costco membership to buy cheap goods and mark them up at your shitty store

Pluribus is an AI metaphor, right? Have these thinkpieces been filed yet? The premise is rife with various metaphorical possibilities I suppose but “the last holdout not using AI” has gotta be one of them

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

It’s so sad that Denis Johnson didn’t live to see Train Dreams. A very fine adaptation.

Seeing botha these to-day

“Describing rapid response networks and neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are, and how extreme their views are.” — U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis

Chicagoans chanting, "no ICE! No ICE!"

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

This Nuremberg movie feels like a post-Oppenheimer historical drama where the historical events are essentially used as IP. This, along with the music biopics, is how IP disease infects the brief time of year once reserved for non-IP releases. Haven't seen the movie I'm just riffing

Every once in a while I am reminded that television was just about ready for a consumer rollout when WWII happened. The spread and then dominance of TV is so tied to the 1950s; it’s hard to imagine what the past would look like had, say, FDR regularly been on TV. What a strange detour history took.

Realized it would be easy to metrically recreate the "Thanks Obama" memes with Mamdani. "Thanks Mamdani." Same meter. This is the real parallel between these two

I didn't know about the Virginia guy texting scandal until he won but this is a genuinely funny conceit and you'd have to be pretty illiterate to think he's actually calling for violence

All I want is one single reporter to ask him if he thinks people seeking asylum = means from insane asylums

Goddammit I already missed my window to see Blue Moon because it flopped so hard. Will have to watch this on my DINK-ASS television with my cat climbing on me and the neighbors tromping around. I hate watching movies at home so much man

[After promising my parole officer I wouldn’t say anything weird for a while] Zohran and AOC should leave their spouses for each other

They say nightlife is dead but what about the 24 hour taqueria on Grand?

Great sign alert

Adams and Lightfoot need to go on a comedy tour like Marty Short and Steve Martin

There’s a very well-endowed woman at Brew Yards right now who is rocking the Sue Ellen Mishky

Best song to listen to when it’s raining

Imagine what'll be possible when everyone finally dies out who was permanently traumatized by the Cold War into conflating Nordic-style social democracy with Boris and Natasha from Rocky & Bullwinkle

You can really sense the effort with which people are trying to convince themselves those Radu Jude movies are worth watching. Just give up and admit this guy is a troll more than a filmmaker

We tell ourselves stories in order to post

2026 Primary Woke Wave

Imagine what'll be possible when everyone finally dies out who was permanently traumatized by the Cold War into conflating Nordic-style social democracy with Boris and Natasha from Rocky & Bullwinkle

Most depressing bathroom graffiti I’ve ever seen

Trying not to think about how many of my relatives fully and unironically agree with this

This is the type of shit I buy at grocery stores. And it was found in Illinois. I’m dead

Sounds like if Apple TV financed a new Dardenne brothers project

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First time at the Epiphany Arts Center. In an old church building at Ashland and Jackson

Great example here of a linguistic trend I’ve been noticing: the replacement of various prepositions with “of.” I’m calling it Prepositional Collapse Theory. You see it all the time on reality tv: “I was surprised of that,” et al

Terrific play, it's like Gen Z Ionesco. Gave me a "the kids are all right" feeling since the playwright is like 23. Plus they finally figured out a better way to use the tight space at Red Orchid aredorchidtheatre.org/shows/veal/

Now entering for the first time

Genuinely hilarious that Bill Kristol has more moral clarity in the moment than Chuck Schumer

Saw a beautiful black cat in the neighborhood on Halloween!

Reminder to stay spooky

Jonathan Rosenbaum was way ahead of the curve on hating Woody Allen

In a Lyft for the first time in a long time and I forgot that some of these guys have an ear piece in and are just talking to a third party from the moment you get in the car

I was kind of stating the obvious here bc I was high and the difference seemed especially noticeable

Ann Savage bullies a Hitler-faced pumpkin for Halloween 1942 publicity: “Green-eyed starlet Ann Savage is about to give this Hitler-pumpkin a poke in the nose. With the way things are going in Stalingrad, it’s hard to imagine why the old boy should be smiling.”

1080p Blu-ray somehow looks more solid and fixed than 1080p streaming. It's hard to describe but a Blu-ray is just closer to reality even though it's the same resolution as streaming, there is a subtle but very substantial difference

Getting zooted and watching Baraka (1992, Ron Fricke) on Blu-ray