A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

this one sentence from Lovecraft’s lesser-known story “Out of the Aeons” is so Lovecraftian that I guffawed while reading it.

NGL, the vileness of Trump's White House is really getting to me. (they revamped the official webpage) www.whitehouse.gov/about-the......

“It’ll be near it, but not touching it”. Demolishes entire East Wing. Basically the same vibes as "trust me, I'll pull out" or "I've got a condom on" (surreptitiously takes it off). Being a rapist is in Trump's blood.

“Trump Has Already Seized Control of the Instruments of Power Look beyond the distractions. The evidence is everywhere:” open.substack.com/pub/levremem...

quite surprised that the @nytimes.com never did an obit on iconic film poster artist Drew Struzan who passed away last week, especially given they did one on iconic film poster artist Renato Casaro who passed away a week earlier.

A decade into this, and my jaw still dropped.

is there a sassy, gay detective murder mystery series? (and don't say Hercule Poirot.)

judging from this Fresh Air interview w Terry Gross, Ken Burns' 'American Revolution' series -- which centers the start of the conflict not on lofty enlightenment ideals like freedom etc., but on the craving for native land -- is gonna infuriate the rabid maga crowd. www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...

speaking of shoddy construction, this reads like the backstory to a 1970s disaster flick involving ultra-luxury assholes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/n...

in addition to everything else that this demolition of the White House east wing brings up... I have to ask: where are the permits? where are the blueprints? who signed off on this? what about asbestos or lead paint remediation? this is like my NYC landlord pulling an off-the-books late night demo.

It’s spooky season on East 10th street

both Bette Midler and Donald Trump are 79, but my god, judging from this Colbert interview, you'd think the divine Miss M was in her 50s. what verve!

RIP movie poster art legend Drew Struzan. What a legacy 🔥

RIP Drew Struzan. 🕯️🎞

Just saw on IG that Drew Struzan has died. RIP to the man who painted my childhood.

RIP Drew Struzan A master.

RIP iconic movie poster artists Renato Casaro and Drew Struzan who both passed away this week. just phenomenal talents.

replace "overly" with "egregiously" and "illegally".

First Orgy After Brian's Death Very Solemn https://theonion.com/first-orgy-after-brians-death-very-solemn-1819569410/

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

the new JP Morgan Chase midtown east tower headquarters with its blazing lights is so fucking bossy in a “I own the skyline now mutherfuckers” kinda way.

ruh-roh. Saul Zabar just passed away at 97, and I fear we're in for another round of impassioned bickering in the comments section of the @nytimes.com recipe for "Eli Zabar’s Egg Salad Sandwich" between the "just make the damn recipe" crowd and the "here's how we make it in our family" crowd.

sometimes you find yourself all alone.

the NYTimes going so far out of their way to avoid explaining in the headline why this is some sick maga-adjacent shit.

I don't usually think of Colbert as a good interviewer, but tonight's extended interview with Lady Gaga (at the Bitter End) is really thoughtful & interesting, and, frankly, pretty emotional.

this NYT story giving Thomas Pynchon vibes.

Do you visualize when you read? Apparently some people (like my friend Chandler) don't. I dug around a little and found this post about "aphantasia" that was pretty interesting. baos.pub/the-struggle...

ok, I admit it. sometimes I get George MacKay and Harris Dickenson mixed up in my head.

trying to explain to my elderly neighbor why he shouldn't use mineral oil on his door lock which keeps sticking and instead use something like graphite is, sadly, proving to be an impossible task.

the 22nd of every month is when I start stressing out about watching essential movies that are about to leave Criterion.

just discovering that the Sebastian Stan fanbase on Letterboxd is so passionate, even the top reviews for half-forgotten movies in which he only plays a small role are all about him and their dedication to him.

Tom Holland must be protected at all cost.

had a dream this morning about three working-class friends, one of whom was named "minimally rude Harold".

starting to watch a movie at 2 am is one of the dumbest things I consistently do.

This week's #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched: four faces! Two early animated shorts from Australian stop-motion master Adam Elliot, a film about a troubled teen who becomes a religious zealot in contemporary Russia, and a tense French conspiratorial thriller about an airline crash.

I know there's other stuff going on, but this passage about the great luminaries who "perfected" the English language from Trump's state banquet speech at Windsor is sending me. Did a 15 year-old write this? 1/

without the Jimmys, Colbert, and Seth, just where does MAGA expect media junkets to go? is Fox gonna start some "state-approved-media-talk-show" hosted by Zachary Levi ?

It's easy to scoff at Trump designating as a "terrorist organization" something that's not an *organization* at all. I have different view. When you declare an idea rather than an organization to be terrorism, you can declare *anyone* a terrorist. And that is what he will do. This is horrifying.

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

lol new clown car just rolled up

the posters for my current last four watched are all in a kind of washed-out sepia toned palette.

It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."

This week's #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched: legs, arms, hands, hair. Borzage's 1932 take on Hemingway, Osgood Perkins' Pacific North-West occult horror, a solidly enjoyable Disney, & a gripping 1931 film from Pabst about a mining disaster and comradeship across national lines.

so if I understand them correctly, Florida believes in personal choice when it comes to vaccine mandates, but clearly not when we’re talking about abortion or trans rights.

saw this mass market paperback romance novel at The Strand and almost bought it just for the title.

I hate it when I'm watching a LGBT short on YouTube and the inserted ad is an aggressively homophobic fitness screed about the danger of "feminizing foods".

I'm disappointed that the official name of the eye creature on #alienearth is T. Ocellus and not Eyetopus Rex.

no such scene exists. all Google AI does is invent shit.

happy accidents