If you see only one early '50s Swedish noir film on the Criterion Channel this month in which a doomed relationship is represented by a portrait of Eva Henning painted by her ex-, make it this one! ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Late '80s UGA basketball reserve center Neville Austin take your bow

Oh fuck me, it's a puff piece on war robots.

Attention, teens of America: Jim Nantz just said "6 7". If the guy who does the Butler Cabin interview at The Masters knows your lingo, it is DEAD dead.

We are entering Frankie Valli territory with Terry Bradshaw, seriously.

It also still serves "Hawaiian chicken" so please leave wedge salad out of this (cosigned otherwise).

Terrible times, but this is fucking hilarious

Social Circle circled the wagons for a while against the Rivian plant, aligning themselves against the efforts of Kemp, Ossoff, Warnock et al. They backed off (jobs, duh), but our technofascist overlords must have taken it as a sign of fealty. Their reward? A massive data center, and now this....

More of a reminiscence with occasional review elements. Thanks again to @prophetkotto.bsky.social for bringing it to Atlanta!

Watching the Orange Bowl. Not seeing a national champion here, gotta say.

The one-two punch of Nanjiani and Culkin has me decidedly not pumped.

Illegal forward kick alert! #ReliaquestBowl

What hath Ed Hochuli wrought with these football refs and their swollen guns? Body dysmorphia, American-style....

Here it is, the final print edition of the AJC. It's been a long time since I "took the paper", as they used to say, and even longer since it "Covered Dixie Like the Dew", so I won't say I'm bereft at this development, but I can't deny feeling nostalgic.

I am seeing that 60 Minutes will be exploring the mysteries of bourbon barrels this week. Hard-hitting stuff, can cigar humidors be far behind?

This recent stretch of games should just about do it for the Trae Young era for the Hawks. Dunno if it will, but it should.

This recent stretch of games should just about do it for the Trae Young era for the Hawks. Dunno if it will, but it should.

Tran Anh-Hung's least appreciated masterpiece

The trailer for the Stranger Things Christmas drop shows several characters crying in rapid succession. That's too much crying.

Please enjoy once again the college football comment of the year 🏆

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Tragedy equals comedy minus time

Jimmy Stewart was, like, 6'5" in riding boots. The fellow cast here appears to have wandered in off the set of a Tom Cruise biopic.

Investors that sold Paramount Skydance (NASDAQ: PSKY) stock short on the day that Bari Weiss took over CBS News are up about 30% today. The S&P 500 is up 1.4% over the same period.

Sean McDermott is right, but still an awful challenge. You want more plays with the clock running there.

"Bravado" from "Baby Come Back" by Player ("All day long, wearing a mask of false bravado...")

I miss Creative Loafing.

Hmm, there appears to be a rush to bury Bama. Just one sec while I check the score and.........of course.

Yo, Plur1bus, my family was playing spit in the '70s!

The Epstein Files, everybody!

I'm not seeing any saviors in the mix. Maybe that's good, I can settle for someone I think can be pushed around by the voters who put him in office.

Jimmy Stewart was, like, 6'5" in riding boots. The fellow cast here appears to have wandered in off the set of a Tom Cruise biopic.

I love these crappy bowl games. Which team's backup QB who hasn't played all season can overcome its defense's unwillingness to tackle?

WTO/99 was an incredible time capsule (and trip down memory lane for me). I had a question prepped about agitprop but it wasn't the crowd for it. Don't cheer 9/11, folks, even if you're too young to remember it.

The dB’s recorded a trio of damaged guitar-pop albums in the early eighties adjacent to lifelong buddies R.E.M.’s: intelligible in the sense that listeners could hear the lyrics; inscrutable if not impregnable as repositories of meaning. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/i...

In honor of tonight's screening of WTO/99 at The Plaza Theater in Atlanta, I'm breaking out the hoodie I wore all that week in Seattle. Tear gas odor long gone!

Filmmaker Ian Bell on ‘WTO/99’ and the legacy of the Battle in Seattle: defector.com/filmmaker-ia...

City of Atlanta has upped its PR for extending old tax increment financing districts until 2055 by cherry-picking likable projects & implying they can only be funded via TIFs/TADs (rather than general revenue spending/bonds). It’s really that TADs give mayor largely unaccountable spending authority.

Battle Royale at SIFF Paul Morrissey's Trash at Seattle's Egyptian Theater (just me and 569 empty seats) Rocky IV midnight premiere in the suburbs Koyaanisqatsi on acid Blair Witch

The kickoff returner for Army is Lloyd Bentsen? Gotta say, I am impressed.

That's nearly two years for each ronin!

As with any assistance program, the people who receive the assistance understand it quite well. Should ACA assistance not have been called subsidies? Does that word just make eyes glaze over? Or do people who get (comparatively) cheap rates through work view the rest of us as having our hand out?

If anything will cause me to abandon Bluesky, it's coming across these weird strays that the subsidy issue catches, and seeing the pile-on of agreement. The condescending idea, as I am to understand, being that subsidies are somehow too arcane for people to comprehend.

Cool framing, pitting and innocent man's freedom against the needs of ACA subsidy recipients, as though we are at cross-purposes.

Battle Royale at SIFF Paul Morrissey's Trash at Seattle's Egyptian Theater (just me and 569 empty seats) Rocky IV midnight premiere in the suburbs Koyaanisqatsi on acid Blair Witch

Buddy, in 2026 I'll be paying over 1/3 of my net income on health insurance premiums just for me, so bring it the fuck on.

Who's evaluating the evaluator?

Since everyone forgot already, this was the vaunted "promised vote" that Democrats accepted to end the shutdown. The result, as expected, is Democrats accomplished absolutely nothing except giving Susan Collins another free vote to pretend she's a reasonable centrist in her upcoming election.

Continuing this rewatch after a long delay and, again....I hadn't even gotten to Joy Barlow as the cab driver. Sheesh!

Sad there's no Bahamas Bowl this year. I'll miss the camera focused so tightly on the field that you can't see the completely empty stands (hey, at least it was a fun trip for the players).