A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Man, LANTERNS *does not* want to show either guy in the suit, huh?

remembering Catherine O’Hara on her birthday 🤍

Illegal, you say? If that's how it has to be...

I do really appreciate Walz’s refusal to bail on trans people.

Oh, I Saw the TV Glow is on Tubi now. tubitv.com/movies/10005...

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing. Persephone: Thank you. Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

Greg Davies: That is one absolutely sodden infant. Excellent work. Thetis: It's not as easy as you might think, dipping a baby in a river Alex Horne: So the instructions for the task were to dip the *whole baby* in the river...

*Brutal but absolutely fair and accurate *Gives a new meaning to "special government employee" *Yeah, thats her husband listening to all of this

"Every time someone discovers A NEW LEAF, Elaine May's immortality is assured,” writes @rifewithkatie.bsky.social.

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

Bobby, there's a lot of guys named Sully with backwards Red Sox caps and their morning iced coffee is the only thing keeping them even nominally willing to adhere to civilization.

I am a sucker for any photo that could be described as "baby cat(s) and big dog."

TIL: Chester, Illinois has a "Popeye Trail" of 19 statues (28 characters) situated throughout the city in honor of hometown hero Elzie Segar. Beyond the main cast they have Castor/The Whiffle Hen, The Sea Hag/Bernard, Alice the Goon & Child, King Blozo, Toar & more. I have a nerdly urge to visit.

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

It sure is by the end, anyways

Rudd and Godoy absolutely DEMOLISH the, "Luffy...help me." scene. Along with the "castoff ceremony" in the finale, it's the moment ONE PIECE goes from 'hey this pirate show on Netflix is really fun!' to "I guess this is a whole thing in my life now."

You don't have to love all of these movies, but you do have to understand that a studio that makes Sinners and One Battle and Mickey 17 and Wuthering Heights and The Bride and Weapons grasps its responsibility to filmmaking and its own history and tradition in a way that David Ellison does not.

lmfao get wrecked

Jinbe shout out! Wild to think that that flag is getting planted so early, as it'll be *years* before we get a glimpse of the big blue man. And that's if they even get anywhere near as far as Impel Down, which is a *massive* IF.

ONE PIECE eventually evolves to become a story about generational warfare, and the (at times violent) passing from one to another, so the live action series is wise to put that theme riiiiiiiight at the forefront with the Garp/Zeff exchange.

Speeding right through the penultimate episode because if you think I'm sitting through the Nami backstory twice then you are higher than Skypiea.

JUST IN: Democrat Alex Holladay has flipped a GOP-held seat in *Arkansas*. Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried hard to delay this race and wanted the seat to stay vacant for 8+ months, but the courts told her to hold it today. If she was worried, she was right to be. Our full recap:

People Watching the ONE PIECE Live Action Series First: Gee, these tragic backstories are a bit much. People Who Know The Anime/Manga and Have Met Chopper, Robin, Brook, Law, That Diaper Guy, Sanji (again), Big Mom, Kuma, etc.:

"WE NEED A DOCTOR!" And you're gonna get one, lads.

Mihawk serving as Garp's errand boy is a wee bit of character assassination, but Steven John Ward brings a note of mischievous malice and relaxed arrogance that really sells the mythic stature of a Warlord.

I can testify as someone who has fought their share of chatty purple and brown belts that having someone lecture you on the ways in which you're failing to fight them WHILE you're fighting them is indeed infuriating. None of them has pulled a Mihawk and stabbed me, though. Yet.

The chemistry between these kids is just insane.

ONE PIECE's quality goes up exponentially with each episode as crew members join up, so by the time we finally get to Sanji and the Arlong plotline starts heating up, things go into the stratosphere.

You know what modern horror film monologue is on repeat, in my brain? Courtesy of Nope? Steven Yeun's monologue as Jupe, recounting the massacre of his Gordy co-stars by Gordy himself (or one of the Gordy apes)... through the detached, depersonalized, lens of a 90s SNL skit.

Garp beating the snot out of Kid Luffy is one of the anime's most reliably hilarious running gags but it's one of those things that's funny in animation but then you put it in live action and you're like, right, this is...you know...child abuse.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

There are times when Marlon Wayans really surprises you with his thoughtful outlook and his honesty about his own ongoing growth as a human being. And then there's other times.

That pig's had some work done.

tfw the "We Are" needle drop hits as the Merry sets sail for the first time.

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A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

Every trans person who refuses to shrink their identity to fit the room is expanding the world for everyone else.

Moving Nami to the voice of reason/mom to a bunch of unruly boys role when that was never really her role should (and does) rub me the wrong way, but OP mostly makes it work by pairing her with Zoro and having BOTH of them serve as ongoing contrasts to Luffy's (and later also Usopp's) bubbly idiocy.

Related: Usopp and Luffy becoming best friends after all of thirty seconds and just immediately matching each other's dingbat enthusiasm is *chef's kiss*.

everyone shut up the true hero of the saga has appeared

Zoro won't be all the way on the team until after the Mihawk duel, but I love that, as played by Mackenyu, he's BASICALLY fully on board with Luffy's nonsense after one episode. For all his cool reserve, he just cannot help but be won by the indefatigable twerp in a straw hat.

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For the Tuesday crowd, special guest @devindra.bsky.social of @thefilmcastpod.bsky.social joined #MakeMeWatchIt to talk Mamoru Hosada's 20-year-old THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME and new film SCARLET. We also chat #WutheringHeights, Robert Duvall, and more: #filmsky open.spotify.com/episode/6f07...

yes it's just good marketing but i am not above admitting i was charmed by eric nam's traitors-but-make-it-country music video

This is a distressing story about Trump’s attempts to impede Thomas Massie’s efforts to release the Epstein files. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

that's fuckin right

ONE PING ONLY

Emily Rudd's Nami is the character I'm most curious to see how season 2 handles. Season 1 foregrounded her sorrow and closed-off nature, rarely if ever letting Rudd play the bubbly trickster energy that's far more typical of Nami in the anime (so long as Arlong isn't around).