Mimes are like "is this thing off?"

Never beating the godless theory bro allegations

As someone who spent 14 hours driving today, my wish for 2026 is for all headlights to be much, much brighter

As someone who spent 14 hours driving today, my wish for 2026 is for all headlights to be much, much brighter

Montgomery Burns-ass plan. How are we going to get crops and a breathable atmosphere now, idiots?

Good light + good (although not perfect) hat trick

Not going to debate whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but I'll go to the mat for the argument that it's a perfect screenplay. Ellis asking the hostage-takers, "Sprechen sie talk?" is a brilliant line. A professional bullshitter asking, "Do you speak 'talk'?"

Bill Nighy the Science Gighy

I love my Sex, Fate & Death seminar. I teach close reading techniques through films noir, time loops, thrillers, sci-fi... Students interpret a text using psychoanalytic & existentialist "critical terms", like melancholia, being-toward-death, repetition compulsion. Or as one student calls it-- 😬

"He does not look like the heartthrob you see on postcards...[he looks] shady, shiftless, and arrogant, as though smeared in copious amounts of rancid oil. His body is as coarse and shapeless as a fat huckster's fist."--Walter Benjamin, on Mussolini, 1924

started / going

Are fans of the show called X-Philes

Gal Gadot Assures Casting Agent She Can Play AI Roles https://theonion.com/gal-gadot-assures-casting-agent-she-can-play-ai-roles/

They should call it Spotify Rapt. Because that's my attention level as I read your posts about it

I'll be president one time if you do good. I'll be president two times if you do bad.

has anyone else noticed the "false chiasmus" trend in ads? Like the Home Depot “there’s a process to winning, and winning is a process” or “Any business can use AI, but IBM’s AI changes the way you do business.” These are just dressed up tautologies! they're doing my sweet boy chiasmus so dirty.

call me old fashioned but i think they should compete with their fellow human beings

there's a new DC movie coming out called Supergirl. It stars every woman on earth

ok now i understand why Lacan got into topology in his later career

despite not knowing his height, i still hold that Smedley Butler's nickname should have been "Little Red Corps Vet"

just finished the latest episode of Pluribus, and I think I figured it out: Peace Love Understanding Rhea (Seehorn) 1 Bcan't think of anything Ucan't think of anything Seehorn

The owls are not what they seem

Teach Me How to 'Doche: Tropological Rhetorical Pedagogies & American Hip-Hop (Cambridge University Press, 2028)

everything is infrastructure

not seeing a lot of "the Heideggerian call of conscience" on people's "Spotify wrapped" this year 🤔

it shouldn't be called "falafel," it should be called "falgreat" because i never fal-afel (feel awful) after i eat it, i feel great

A farmer with celiac disease could say something like "my grains cause migraines". They don't have to, but they could. No pressure

If your marginal (expected) return from outside labor is greater than your marginal cost of forgoing domestic work, it's because you have more power than the person who ends up doing the domestic work that you've forgone.

"What's rhetoric?"

"What's rhetoric?"

Would have hit him with a second egg, but in France, one egg was un ouef.

OK let’s see: Lévi-Strauss said Father Xmas aka Santa was a fantasy of boundless generosity, as if it were possible to escape the law of exchange. For Derrida, exchange—balance—is as impossible as the gift “itself.” The gift IS contamination. Your Santa is hella contaminated! So, yes, this is canon.

Don Draper pitching to a different candy company

Josh Brolin's 2025 performances--Dan Killian in The Running Man, Monsignor Wicks in Wake Up Dead Man, and Archer Graff in Weapons--offer a perfectly poised cinematic triad of American capitalism, American Christianity, and American patriarchy. No one's doing it better.

When a guest on the podcast you're listening to says says the only good Michael Mann films are Collateral, Thief, Manhunter and Heat, and "the rest are garbage"

(classily) Thomas Bahamas

should the residents of Tokyo be concerned about how close by this dark matter is?

second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

Taking a moment to formally denounce this attraction at the Gaylord Rockies & Resort

if you think about it, Creon was the paradigmatic "unc" of antiquity

(hearing someone describing a breathalyzer) oh, you mean a DUI decimal system?

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

thrilled to announce

they're calling it 'the most culturally relevant tweet of 2025'

This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.

(Third Way voice) How about Joe in Partnership with the Volcano?

why does Anakin Skywalker hate improv comedy? because you're obligated to say "Yes sand"

Nice chamber. Is it of commerce?