I think it’s always been this bad in terms of America’s role in global suffering, but I don’t think it’s ever been this surreal.

this is an exquisite bit, made only better by the fact that much of the audience is clearly baffled

When the Zoomer Sex Police discover PILLION we shall bear witness to some of the worst discourse in the history of social media.

PILLION: Outrageously hot and good, a journey through fantasy into wisdom. Keeps catching you off guard with a bit of lyricism or a huge humanizing laugh or a startling pang of feeling. Skarsgard shows minute cracks in masculine armor. Melling gives you a symphony.

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I think acting is like editing. When it’s bad it’s plainly ruinous to the work, but when it’s good most people couldn’t actually tell you why.

This may be the uncoolest man on the face of the earth. Quite simply staggering herb levels.

Love when you throw on a random MST3K and Kevin Murphy throws out a reference that makes you think “how the fuck does this jolly midwestern unc know what Shonen Knife is”

That's right. You got no leg to stand on, Newsom supporters. Shut your hole. We don't need anti trans anti homeless greaseball shit. North Carolina is purple, it's not some blue stronghold.

EPiC: An absolutely narcotic experience in a theater. I was wilding the fuck out. 90 relentless minutes of jaw-dropping footage featuring one of the greatest entertainers of all time in all his imperial maximalism. A miracle of archiving, restoration, mixing and editing. Fuck dude. What a picture.

RUNNING MAN deleted scenes contain one of Edgar Wright’s bolder dramatic swings, a dream sequence of sterner stuff than we usually see from him.

people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues

There’s this one scene in MOONRAKER of a woman being chased through the woods by murderous dogs, and it’s so dreamy and sensuous and strange that it feels like it dropped in from some astonishing forgotten Giallo.

The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n... Bypass here. archive.ph/4NboB

MOONRAKER: A gross pouty billionaire is obsessed with space conquest and population growth. Who comes up with this bullshit.

Big love to the big man. ✊🏻

Knew a guy years ago who was a die-hard libertarian. He’d come to burlesque shows and occasionally reply to me on Twitter about how I was wrong to call libertarians a bunch of credulous right-wing marks. His entire timeline is now MAGA and Libs of TikTok. Ah well.

the history of music in the 20th century:

operation epic fury is not a military operation, it is the title of a mid-career jeff speakman vehicle

when the coconut asked the melon to run off and get married the melon responded “i’m sorry, i can’t elope”

Second viewing of BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS, and it's just so fucking good. Amazing after years of the 87Eleven style dominating action cinema to see Yuen Woo-ping being so playful and free with his framing, editing and choreo. No ostentatious oners here. Just nonstop furious invention and motion.

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The older I get, the more disgusted and disturbed I am by violence. Watching the endless cycle grind on globally and at home for my entire lifetime should numb me, I suppose. But as i see the possibility of fewer years ahead than behind, well, it’s even less acceptable to me that this keeps going.

If it’s possibly to feel hatred for someone I’ll almost certainly never meet, that’s how i feel. Just a loathsome, awful human being completely untethered from decency or empathy. The day he finally croaks should be a national fucking holiday.

very excited for a new insurgency and forever war, this shit rocks

my country hates children there’s just no other way to say it we let our own kids get abused and killed, and we kill or fund the killing of kids everywhere else in the world it’s just fucking evil, man

This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US. His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism. And he failed.

2023: you can’t just forgive student debt without congressional approval!! 2026: oh so i guess i’m not supposed to incinerate schoolgirls without asking permission

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

criterion channel rn has a collection called YEARNING and a collection called STUNTS! and between them exits the entire spectrum of human art and emotion

DOCTOR X: An absolutely eye-melting 1932 horror picture. Starts out as a grisly mystery about the hunt for a cannibal serial killer, becomes a nearly psychedelic freakout by the end. Hard to convey just how cool this looks and feels at all times. A treasure.

The thing is, I really don’t think you guys grasp the depth of my obsession with Barry Levinson’s 1992 megaflop TOYS.

NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE: Gives one the wonderful sense of a movie inventing itself as it goes. The first half has three or four of the biggest laughs I’ve had all year. And then there’s a story turn that had me gasping for breath for the remainder. So much fun.

Absolutely berserk that Levinson and Valerie Curtin wrote the earliest drafts of this in 1979. A rapturous, haunting scene from a very odd film that I’ve probably watched 50 times.

no healthcare, only bombs

what a cool fun thing to wake up to

Watching I’M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA after decades. I forgot how many iconic bits this thing has, shit that was absolutely burned into my brain from youth. David Alan Grier’s monologue about his upbringing, the Chris Rock ribs scene, “When The Saints Go Marching In.” And that cast! Stacked!!

DEATHSTALKER (2025): An utterly joyous film, a celebration of everything silly and awesome in cheapo 80s fantasy cinema. This succeeds for two big reasons - Daniel Bernhardt’s exquisite deadpan badassery, and the fact that Steven Kostanski directs it like a delirious hard-R tokusatsu. Wonderful.

this trans panic legislation is so enraging because it’s transparently the feeble rattle of a dying political class and will still manage to kill people

if you assembled a cast this hot now they’d have you killed

everyone wish one of the dearest people in my world a happy birthday please

get you a girl who can do both (spreadsheets and beat the shit out of you)

kind of weird that the epstein list fallout is mostly resignations rather than, like, public stonings

really excited for a sinners where the women don’t cum and the klan finally gets a fair shake

Listening, as one does, to Warren Zevon’s THE WIND. It’s still one of the most wrenching albums ever recorded, a final testament that’s somehow both unbearable and comforting at once. “Will you stay with me to the end?/When there’s nothing left but you and me and the wind?” If we’re lucky.

You’re laughing? A whole entire police officer got hit with a snowball and you’re laughing??

more and more are saying this

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.