And this too is voter suppression.

Based on no evidence but ourselves, we have decided we are the world's tallest Criterion podcast.

Rain in December always makes me think of Wonder Boys and my rust belt liberal arts college creative writing professor who started the first class saying "Wonder Boys has already been written; please do not try to write Wonder Boys."

Do John Heard what I heard?

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

*tired after driving all night* Alright everybody, get your shoes off were almost to Tarantino's house.

The platonic ideal of our "takes place during holidays but not a holiday movie" criteria: a movie so devoid of loved ones that no one even bothers to mention that they are spending Christmas alone. Through some art on the fire and gather round as we talk Friedkin's To Live and Die in LA.

6 year old nephew wants me to build his Lego dinosaur for him because it's for 7+ and he doesn't want to break the law. Trying to explain that laws are fake and also this one is not even a rule, barely a suggestion. And also still listen to your mom.

Truly he taught us to love one another; His law is love and his gospel is peace. Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother, And in his name all oppression shall cease

At last I reveal my process for my performance in JACK FROST (1998)

We're gonna end up with Medicare for AI, amirite?

Death to the false Santa. Long live the real Santa.

We call these pieces "Shared Responsibility".

Karl Klammer geht es nicht so gut.

I hate it when places try to make their bike racks look like some sort of art sculpture.

As established by Horton et al, the Whos live on a sort of dandelion. The Grinch, whatever his lineage, is no bigger than an adult Who. Therefore, the Grinch is very tiny, you do not need to fear his anti-Christmasness.

As like a Home Alone thing...

As ICE terrorizes my neighbors with support from local law enforcement, I am reminded of the story of Jerry Finney, a working class Black man kidnapped from Columbus by enslavers backed by the Franklin County Sheriff in 1846.

"If asked how you dared disobey the laws of this realm, answer with Bunyan’s Pilgrim in Vanity Fair: tell the court that you obey Christ, not Belial."

I try not to be a “you must study [such and such]” guy because people have their own processes, but I realllllly think people resisting ICE need to read up on Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in the 1850s. The parallels are staggering, and strongly support @jamellebouie.net’s claim.

nice argument. unfortunately for you i have already portrayed you as the passed out and drooling sleeptime bear and me as the alert, confident and powerful throat cooler koala

"It's one of those weird gigs where you don't have to wear a wristband, but you do have to wear ankle clips." =Billy Bragg, performing in a bicycle shop in 2013 #BicycleBirthday Born December 20, 1957

Do not be afraid?

ICE whistles work.

Tonight you will be visited by two ghosts that you think are one ghost until the doctor who cares about your dog more than you do figures out who your new girlfriend's mom is. Lewis Allen's The Uninvited (1944) is complicated but fun, throwing a little seriousness at a haunted house flick.

Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.

Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

Thinking about this bridge again in light of recent news.

Is the airport selling Chair Company merch?

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

My attempt to take a late night bus from Pittsburgh to Columbus has somehow gotten me to O'Hare Airport.

When they destroyed our Mary figure in our anti-ICE #nativity, I bet they didn’t think that we would make it MORE powerful! Honestly, if you tear something down that you don’t like, you’re pretty much never the good guy. That goes for nativities and the entire county, btw. #DHS, take note.

There's cannot be Death with Dignity until we guarantee Life with Dignity.

My Greyhound trip home has been, understandably, cancelled, and so has every bus I could take for the next 24 hrs. Loved being here but my "if I can't bike there I'm not going (until Columbus has trains)" rule for intercity travel is looking better and better.

I'm on a Greyhound from Columbus to Pittsburgh to see a friend. Since FlixBus brought Greyhound and sold off their urban infrastructure here this shelter is the nicer of two Greyhound stops in downtown Columbus. It even features a map to the nearest public bathrooms a half mile away.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Sure only 25% of the Rene Clair films we've seen ended with the creation of a worker-owned paradise, but that's a much better percentage than any other director we've seen so we had high hopes. I Married a Witch (1941), his second US film, is sexy and fun, but not as political as we wanted.

Shepherds, why this Jubilee?

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

Sometimes the Columbus subreddit is good, actually

It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️

Tis the season.

Kept getting distracted by the complete disregard for the Seal of Confession, but other than that really loved Wake Up Dead Man.

The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

Mr. President, you're peace prize. Take it everywhere!

Yeah but my aunt says he's only pretending to be a Donald Trump supporter so that he can get pardoned by Donald Trump.