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I’m a 90s Fall defender, but late 90s albums Levitate and The Marshall Suite are both just very good Fall albums with plenty of standouts that are worth your time if you’re not a total Fall sicko like myself. Here’s a great chaotic blend of electronica and garage: youtu.be/tIVH2-OQYHQ?...

watched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Saw Hard Eight for the first time tonight, with a post-screening discussion by PTA and David Ansen. Pretty good flick. Prime Philip Baker Hall and classic John C. Reilly, Gwyneth doing great, Sam Jackson and a scene stolen by young PSH. Screenwriter-y screenwriting, but mostly in the fun way

clad in monogrammed tactical swim trunks and loaded on Hpnotiq Curaçao painkillers aka Thiq Blu Lines the FBI director snorkels above the USS Arizona contemplating the meaning of sacrifice, the tragedies of war, and the silent azure indifference of the ocean itself

WELP! We're all transgender extremists now, at least according to the White House, which we regret to inform you has been taken over by far-right extremists. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Random thought: was John Krasinski directing that quickly forgotten DFW adaptation (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 2009) an attempt to impress/one-up BJ Novak?

how do i mute still frames of a specific podcast

This would have gone crazy on tumblr 15 years ago

Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

Janet Malcolm makes a similar analogy about biography viathe house of the hoarder she goes to interview at the end of The Silent Woman, overflowing with stuff that makes it impossible to navigate, a large part of the writer’s job being to clean out the irrelevant details so people can find their way

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... Check out @socialistdogmom.bsky.social ‘s Weird Little Guys for a deeper, deeply distressing, dive into the online world of terrorgram and young people egging each other in their chats to do+document attacks. This ep is directly relevant to the case below.

“at the met off a 20 bag like allen take my photo” is the funniest thing ive ever read in my entire life

why would i want to watch a podcast. podcasts are for when you are doing something else

something that may help explain the conditional acceptance by white supremacists of people who don’t meet the standards of whiteness is their belief that non-whites in general are secondary enemies being manipulated by Jews to resent and go after whites. They believe non-whites are usable

The basic fact that Trump’s second presidency is obviously illegitimate maybe deserves more emphasis. He very obviously tried to overthrow the government, violated oaths of office, etc., an openly corrupt Supreme Court’s shoddily argued rulings to allow the run shouldn’t be conceded and recognized

Spirit Airlines has officially shut down operations. Well, you know what that means...

Struck especially this time by the unnecessary flourishes, “and others of that ilk,” “who are, in many ways,” “in that they are trying to”, “in what, some would call”, which I guess is what he interprets as toning down because if you want to be obtuse, you can pretend there’s ambiguity

This is really stupid, the obvious angle is that they are now asserting there’s been a suicide note this whole time but no one can see it, and we have to take their word for it, and there is incentive for the cellmate to suddenly find evidence that “proves” the suicide. I don’t have a position, but

What more does this man have to do before his mind can be described as "twisted"

I’d subscribe to a lot more publications if I could opt out of my subscription money going to some of the writers. Like if there was a model for an online-only Atlantic deal, I don’t pay for Conor or TCW’s articles and you don’t show them to me on the site. Wouldn’t even ask for a discount

Days late, but it was funny to see how “Middlebrow” has slipped. You go to, like, Dwight MacDonald and it means stuff like Pulitzer and Oscar winners ie things that connote general markers of taste and class that are meant to be evoked and discussed at dinner parties to show they “keep up”

Great long read on it, I believe it came up on an episode of Knowledge Fight: www.gq.com/story/paul-k...

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Patrick Wang's A Bread Factory pts 1 and 2 are unbelievably good. idk how or when i will get to see this movie, but if i lived in NY i would be here: www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/a...

Found this to be a solid cringe comedy/rom-com and a good showcase for the actors. Less interested in commenting on the social stuff than using it as part of the milieu/context this happens in

A celebration of Bootleg Bart T-Shirts the world over!!

just under the time limit let's goooooooooooooo

“Kill someone else!” After killing an innocent woman in Minneapolis Trump’s ICE goons are roughing up protestors and firing munitions into people’s faces. Original video: www.instagram.com/reel/DTOAPs6...

While everything is bad, I did get to meet Chase Infiniti and Teyana Taylor (who gave me a hug), and break the news to Teyana’s family that, while the OBAA screening was going on, she’d been awarded Best Supporting Actress by the National Society of Film Critics

Great all banger TCM lineup today. The Set-Up is currently on, then it’s Touch of Evil, Scarecrow, Dog Day Afternoon, and High and Low

Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

Read After Claude by Iris Owens today. Impressively nasty if subsequently hard to recommend 70s NY black comedy. It’s a book with an abrasive narrator delivering slur-heavy, self-pitying accounts of being horribly unpleasant to know, with an ending that manages to still seem really harsh for her

Have on Once Upon a Time in China while handing out candy, please appreciate this platonic ideal of “British guy in a Hong Kong movie” delivery

photo and caption, cd-rom today, magazine (1995) archive.org/details/CDRO...

official space ghost coast to coast website circa 2000

Washington Post report details deal that I and other El Salvador watchers have been talking about for years: Bukele made a pact with MS-13, DOJ has known about it, and now Rubio’s State Dept is helping him cover it up by handing over gang leaders in US custody to Bukele to be silenced.

Was thinking about how intelligence/military use of AI and similar tech is very hard to gauge actual effectiveness of, because being identified by AI will be taken as proof that you were the person being looked for, true or not, and realized this is just the inciting incident of Brazil

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

IDK the red triangle, but quite the framing here. “Hamas pogrom” as if Hamas has sought out the Jews as an enemy, rather than the Jewish ethnostate brutalizing Palestinians under a flag with our religious symbol on it that has given rise to Hamas. You can condemn the killing without this shit

This is the aesthetic of the future

Funny to pick 2002, because having been 10 then, I don’t remember it being quite so carefree what with 9/11 the year before and the run-up to a war, the sort of things that even a kid has a hard time ignoring

Great Robert Ryan anecdote from a Richard Brooks interview collected in Backstory 2