Will point out that for like $18 you can take the SEPTA regional rail line from the airport to center city Philly and then from Philly to Wilmington.

This was fun. I got to sign ARCs and feel like a real Grown Up author.

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Happy Opening Day

I think one thing that's understated is that her temper tantrums have done a massive amount of damage to resources for women in Scotland. Her shelter (Beira's Place) is not 24 hours, is not fully accessible and has *extremely* limited resources overall.

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Yes, but for me it’s a UI thing. If I’m buying plane tickets, for example, it’s just much easier to navigate the menus/compare options on a bigger screen. Could just be because I’m old, too.

Come on now. There is no such thing as Mario canon. They are games about a little guy who jumps a lot and sometimes rides a dinosaur. Be serious.

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Oh, I def have my ranking ready. 1. Phantom Thread 2. The Master 3. TWBB 4. Boogie Nights 5. OBAA 6. Licorice Pizza 7. Punch-Drunk Love 8. Inherent Vice 9. Magnolia 10. Hard Eight

Man, the Kierkegaard quote in this Ganz piece is really something.

Conflating “film,” the art form, with nothing but “Hollywood,” the inter-connected corporations and conglomerates that produce big-budget movies, is like complaining that the novel is dead because of ALCHEMISED. (Which, yes, is something people have done)

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Great thread. There are some film examples that pull this off. I'm thinking of Verhoeven in particular. (Not for kids though many of us saw his films too young anyway.) ROBOCOP, TOTAL RECALL, STARSHIP TROOPERS: all SF action films with political themes working side-by-side with the action stuff

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As launch of my book gets closer, I'm starting to schedule some events. A few book fairs that I'll be at are now up on my website. More coming soon! thomas-elrod.com/events-1

A thing you should know about me is that I don’t think you should use AI ever, for anything, because you are a human being and you should embrace being alive

I regret to inform you that my now-deleted quote post supporting what I thought was a funny little bit of human made art was….not human made. I am now going to listen to a compact disc and look at art books, I am sorry.

Terrific profile of James Patterson. Surprisingly affecting. Did you know he funds stipends for Iowa Writers' Workshop students? That he dropped out of a PhD in English at Vanderbilt with an MA for a fiction thesis? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I’ll be at the Lehigh Valley Book Festival on March 28th, talking about SF with some other authors. More info coming soon! lvbookfest.com

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The Animaniacs keep working to ensure Warner Bros remains a cursed enterprise incapable of not driving its owners to madness.

Was happy to talk to @publisherswkly.bsky.social about THE FRANCHISE and some of the challenges of writing sci-fi right now.

If you have 30k just make a regular movie. I know the indie film scene of the 90s is long gone, but that’s all you needed back then. The rest was hard work and creativity. 30k! We are an unserious culture

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

My parents got me the Stanley Kubrick DVD box set for Christmas in 8th grade and it’s really surprising to me that I had any friends after that.

Oh man, Frederick Wiseman died too. I know this is, obviously, a normal thing that happens. Artists you admire grow old and die…but it feels like it’s been happening a lot recently and I don’t like it one bit. RIP to another great one

Tom Hagen seems like a nothing part. He gives and receive exposition. But Duvall made that character shine. The smart, competent adopted brother who can never *really* be part of the family. When he says “Why am I out, Mikey?” it’s a whole world of pain bubbling up. RIP to Robert Duvall

Look, I get why this annoys people. But if we’re not careful and we keep bugging him he’ll just pull a Chaucer and publish a retraction of his unfinished work repudiating everything he’s ever written and apologizing to God for wasting his time writing it. He’s halfway there already!

Always thought this video James Van Der Beek did with Tig Notaro was very funny and sweet. What a charming guy. RIP

All of the AI ads were bad (and the Ring commercial was downright evil) but I think that Ben Affleck Dunkin Donuts commercial was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. It’s what future archeologists point at to demonstrate our necrotic bankrupt culture. Thank God for Bad Bunny.

This game is terrible and boring but the halftime show was exceptional and beautiful

Every four years I decide to make my whole personality Olympic Curling. That time has arrived

Really annoying that this one guy - who I don’t think I had ever heard of prior to about 2018 - was seemingly enmeshed in every elite social circle, all of which were also brainstorming about how to destroy the world. For years! Like fucking Blofeld for fascist pedophiles

No one can ever tell when Chotiner is murdering them. What a superpower.

This is really wonderful and insightful from O’Hara, like a statement of principles about her comedy and art. RIP

Fucking shitty week

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Of course the leadership of the museum is compromised under Trump, but when we visited just last summer they had an exhibit about the Rohingya genocide. So it's not like the museum hasn't drawn analogies to other atrocities in the past. Shameful for them to post this now.

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One of the lessons of HP is that caste systems are good. This is in the text, bc wizards could give muggles unlimited free energy and cure most major diseases, but they don’t because those lower classes wouldn’t appreciate it Obviously, as the NYT says, all children should read this series forever

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