my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

Good morning beautiful mooties 💋🐱

gaming holy grail found ... show me a better video game console than this 😂 #retrogaming #gamekid

You are going to want this book.

SOCIALIZE TO ORGANIZE make dinner for your friends, your neighbors, your colleagues, your new acquaintances. make it weekly. commit. a new year's resolution you can use thanks @amandalitman.bsky.social for the how tos and the spreadsheet! amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-o...

Now playing (12:05 PM PST): "Powwow Highway" (1989) By Jonathan Wacks Runtime: 91 min.

Wow, I never knew that.

These poor STARVÈD babies suffering from the lack of second breakfast while mother viciously ignores them to play on her phone. A cruel, cruel mother indeed to need such reminding as her babies WASTE AWAY. 🤣

John Cassavetes guest stars as a ruthless music orchestra conductor who murders a gifted pianist with whom he is having an affair. Lt. Columbo is on the case in the episode “ÉTUDE IN BLACK” (1972) dir. Nicholas Colasanto with co-stars Peter Falk, Bythe Danner and Myrna Loy 📺 Universal Television

Ok, Gayatri C. Spivak, ok ok ok ok

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F/X (1986) Dir. Robert Mandel — Why this fun, slick thriller has faded from memory is beyond me. A movie-effects wizard is hired to fake a hit… then framed for a real murder. Smart, twisty, and engaging as hell. It's powered by a terrific turn from Bryan Brown and solid supporting cast. A lost gem🎞️📽️

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.

Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting. Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

Now playing (10:45 AM PST): "Cold Water" (1994) By Olivier Assayas Runtime: 96 min.

it’s syllabus query time of year! The Culture Industries stab at primary objects to span most decades 1890-2020; anglo context; to stage an aesthetics-economics conflict and merger in each decade; would love to hear supplements and objections

"How are we to understand ... the neo- and hyper-colonial futures through which “peace” and “reconstruction” in Gaza are being framed and implemented?" portolan-journal.org?post=propert...

No one reads D. A. Miller’s The Novel and the Police anymore but they should, and it’s very beautiful.

A piece about having Big Feelings about Mamdani. @mid-theory.bsky.social was a dream to work with 💖 Now glueing myself to election coverage. 🍺📺

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

our issue of SAQ on "filming capital" is up! contributions from @lingzhang.bsky.social, @ernestpjl.bsky.social, @benjamincrais.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, patrick marshall, cassandra guan, alberto toscano bad news for haters of the good! www.dukeupress.edu/filming-capi...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4

I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.

Now playing (06:15 PM PST): "Female Perversions" (1997) By Susan Streitfeld Runtime: 115 min.

Dancing frogs have become a symbol of resistance in the USA. Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements. The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.

After having listened to @danieldenvir.bsky.social double episode interview with Melinda Cooper (which I can't recommend highly enough), I was reminded to renew my annual contribution to @thedigradio.bsky.social thedigradio.com/podcast/coun... So grateful for this podcast.

Had I slept as much as I thought about you, it would have been a lot. Franz Kafka, 1913.

From the Archive: Pierre Reverdy’s The Image (1917) reappears – fragmented and uncredited – in several of Jean-Luc Godard’s films. For both, the image cannot stand alone: “The image is a pure creation of the mind.”

Now playing (09:10 AM PST): "When a Woman Ascends the Stairs" (1960) By Mikio Naruse Runtime: 111 min.

In all the chaos here, I forgot to share this - I talk to the legendary @ruemorguemag.bsky.social about my recent work in the horror documentaries 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR and CHAIN REACTIONS!

Now playing (02:00 PM PST): "Islands" (1987) By David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin Runtime: 58 min.

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for these Moon Moth Wings. Costume idea for introverts who will be reluctantly dragged to a Halloween party: Wear moth wings, stand by a lamp the entire night, talk to no one. collabs.shop/p2dhn1

each day on this planet is worse than the last

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Going through photos and found this older one of Philophrosyne practicing her flying skils 😆 #Cats #PetSky

The National Council for the NEH had 26 scholars and leaders serving humanities efforts across the U.S. After today’s White House firings, it’s down to just 4 Trump-appointed White men, one terminated member told me. From me, @travismandrews.bsky.social and @kelseyables.bsky.social: wapo.st/3IRQBdg

Halloween might be a few weeks away, but I have already found my favorite costume of the year. So today's Low Quality Ad is for this Boo Deng sticker. 10/10, I would let this little guy haunt me anytime. collabs.shop/4zoiv8

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Every year during October I watch a horror movie a night. I always open with Cabin in the Woods on October 1st. Give me your horror recommendations, especially new and obscure stuff.

Oh, you don't have to work today? That means we can stay in bed indefinitely, right? #Peanut #CatsOfBluesky

Awaiting the rapture.

“Just a cat”. Rude! Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.