Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live. Disability is a portal, a way of focusing our gaze and sharpening our lens on the intricacies of our humanity. - Alice Wong

curling up with the Alexandra Heller-Nicholas commentary, which has a surprising amount of long pauses but so far is good whenever it's on. So far it's been almost entirely about critical response, and it's the kind of movie where yeah you could spend a while on that alone

They’re different books. The same author may wtite multiple stories that are published separately, and though the books may take place in the same “universe” and even refer to each other’s events, they are ok this has to be enough to put an ad in the middle George what’s the word count

Given how much political discourse over the past few days has been dominated by parsing emails in order to better speculate about the depraved sexual inclinations of financial and political elites, I have to admit that Pizzagaters won culturally, even if they were wrong in the specifics.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

oh good, the Brokeback Mountain photoshops have arrived logging the fuck off, have fun everybody! Funniest day of your lives it looks like!

It’s Veronica Lake Day, time to post the Andy Warhol/Veronica Lake/Candy Darling/Paul Morrissey photos

THE SONG! It’s a song!

straight people are never not going to be like this, are they

listening to Arthur Russell stuff today, and wishing I could step out after work to find it’s 1979

The Calum Worthy “AI dead relative” startup thing is starting to crack me up, because it would have been the perfect detail for several characters who’ve been played by Calum Worthy

I would actually recommend not doing any of this. Losing more respect for the straights by the hour You all love joking about people doing secret gay stuff, can’t you recognize when that’s what someone else is doing? I mean Christ. Embarrassing. The eagerness of it all

The Art of Destruction: The Vienna Action Group In Film, Performance & Revolt; and a copy of GIGANTIC ASSES.

Wow guess none of you have been so beautiful and charming and witty and special that the people you cover fall in love with the effortless way you weave stories?? Sounds like jealousy…

Isn’t this guy supposed to be a dude? I hammer shit better than this and I wear nail polish

all I’m gonna say is that I am a life-long slightly edgy poster and I’ve never caught a suspension or a ban anywhere - because it is in fact quite easy to avoid crossing the “this joke could possibly be construed as a violent threat” line on social media

oh all right I will go to work. But I think you’re really out of line

love it when people really believe in the power of cinema 🥹

A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.

“Voters will remember their betrayal at the ballot box” - Good thing is, you can agree with any Democrat saying this while also deciding it applies to them too. Primaries also have ballot boxes!

It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"

Klute is leaving the Criterion Channel at the end of the month, and you should watch it, and then maybe read this. if you feel like it, no pressure.

challenge accepted

FYI, if you’re looking for something super chill and breezy to watch, noticed this on TCM’s site now.

Online resources are vital for queer and trans communities, especially youth. Take action now at QueersAgainstCensorship.com to protect this access and crush online censorship bills like KOSA, ID checks and attempts to strip Section 230.

what an exhausted wheeze. If you’re going to ruin all our lives racistly, at least put some creativity into the fiction writing

I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons

Roger Moore learns to type, and it's comedy gold! We chat about #JamesBond and his office capabilities with guest @sophiacim.bsky.social in this podcast clip! Full #podcast episode at the links below: 🟢: tiny.cc/QDivTSWLMApple 🍎: tiny.cc/QDivTSWLMSpotify 🏳️‍🌈: www.glitterjaw.com/the-q-division

a “Space Force”, if you will

*showing up to Megyn Kelly’s Halloween party in blackface* “Oh cute, who are you?” “Jesus.” “HOW DARE YOU GET OUT OF MY HOUSE”

Bostonians! There's still time to get tickets for my 11/16 seminar on ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW! Come hear me talk about one of the best heist noirs and its star/producer Harry Belafonte! Since my guest can't make it, I've got one slot open to give away. DM me! coolidge.org/package/semi...

Update: Disney+ gen AI servers shut down after being flooded with unmanageable amount of Daisy Duck porn

it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are

Got a look at the full Epstein files. According to various eyewitness accounts therein, Trump holds doors open for women whose names he remembers, and is also an avid reader with a particular love for the wit of Dorothy Parker

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Back cover: “Shout Select shines a light on films that deserve a spot on your shelf. From acknowledged classics to cult favorites to unheralded gems, Shout Select celebrates the best in film making, giving these movies the love and attention they deserve.” Front: “SEE CHEECH AND CHONG DO NUMBER 2”

if it’s “to bomb,” they’ve got it

starting up an alt, if you want to be in on the ground floor of mild disappointment you know what to do

is this that Great Awakening Storm shit all those Qanon folks were talking about? you'd think they'd be more hyped about it.

BLANCHE: Apparently wealthy men wrote to complain about how hard it is to seduce teenage girls. I also had good taste at a tender age. DOROTHY: Men are lizards. ROSE: We had a teacher like that in St Olaf. Mister Lindberg. He had to leave after he fell down the same flight of stairs six times.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

A Kennedy just texted to ask if I wanted to give him $50

been a few years since it happened last, but “this posted death threat was OBVIOUSLY a goof” remains Bluesky’s worst discourse lol

Making this typewriter cake from an Australian cookbook of children's birthday cakes could fix me. (See the rest here: www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/c...)

almost stepped on a dead rat, but then I didn’t 😏 follow for more lifehacks

I don’t understand what you’re talking about. This Brawndo economic report says it’s what plants crave

WE AT IT AGAIN