It was probably adapted too recently for another version but Chalamet was born to play Steerpike in GORMENGHAST

We’ve always had belligerent dudes hanging around docks but it’s only recently that “wharfighter” came into common use

LinkedIn will email you anything. “Your profile is popular.” No it isn’t. That isn’t true.

I wish more contemporary essayists would consider using one simple device. The paragraph. A paragraph is a good way to merge related thoughts into a coherent whole. It’s been used to great effect by thousands of brilliant writers. For centuries. And I don’t think we should abandon it just yet.

Drink whenever he makes sense #sobertuesday

You know the mayor they hate must have handled the historic blizzard well when the NY Post keeps it off the front page altogether

Not so new anymore tbh

Just think how many LLMs we could have trained instead

This movie looks great and I’m sure he did an amazing job but... he literally was not behind the camera? www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/epi...

This is unfortunately not a great English title and it’s too bad they didn’t just go back to the source novel’s title, “The Ax”

Do you have Former Prince Andrew in the can?

Marketing tautology of the day: “New Arrivals Are Here!”

Agreed but with the caveat that not every nonfiction book is best read by its author. Memoir, absolutely. Reportage where the writer was personally involved, sure. But otherwise... hire a professional, they’re very good at it

Who is a pirate’s favorite fantasy author?

I knew all along by virtue of growing up in Boston, the one radio market that only played the English version

The credits for SUPERMAN (1978) are interesting. Not only is Christopher Reeve famously billed third, after Brando and Hackman, but Margot Kidder (Lois Lane) comes after Otis, Perry White, Pa Kent, and Krypton Honcho

[opening lines of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”] This post is related to the Epstein Files And why my name is in them

But they’re still allowing the dinosaurs named in the files??

Don’t talk to me or my super-son ever again

I remember when this happened with Peter Frampton

This is my favorite Robin Cook novel

Starting to get a “nobody’s seeing any money in 2026” vibe. Also now in the odd position of hoping Anthropic does NOT go bankrupt soon

Wait, wouldn’t these be newly printed pamphlets at the time? Why are they worn and filthy?

Yeah, I don’t think there’s a lot of “powder” involved at this point gothamist.com/news/melting...

Did Lionel Hutz write this

Sorry for any confusion, this is Whiskey-Free Day With Tony Dokoupil

This is the GroupMe chat for my kid’s school bus. 95% of the messages there are about the bus, a great many include the word “bus,” quite a few use the exact phrase “[name] will not be on the bus” After 5 months of this, the autocomplete still wants to go with “will not be on the ballot”

None of you seem to understand. I’m not at Interlaken with you… you’re at Interlaken with me

Automatic transcription is a modern marvel

One thing I’ve never quite understood in weather forecasts is e.g. “Chance of snow 60%. 3 to 5 inches of snow expected.” If there’s a 40% chance of no snow at all, shouldn’t they say like “0 to 5 inches of snow expected”?

This would be a wonderful way to get children to drink dark patterns

The Post continues to, imo, overestimate the salience and effectiveness of anti-Soviet iconography in the mid-2020s

Seeing this picture and saying “this is where my children shall matriculate”

I regret letting my progeny order from Papa Johns once for many reasons but one of them is that I now have to know of the existence of “Papa Dough”

A stop word should be excluded from the search, not “stop” the whole search

How do I break this gently to AI Overview

The Sun Dog (King, 1990)

Sometimes I think we were better off before the word “mouthfeel”

“What’s the last car you stopped to take a picture of?”

I went to the same high school as Matt Taibbi (several years later). At some point around 2022 he was silently removed from its “Notable Alumni” page

Sorry to be pedantic but this is not a premise en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Ma...

It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the

It’s tempting

I didn’t rig shit!

Oh yeah? Well *I* wear the chains I forged in life

Watched The Tudors recently and discovered French Gary Cole (Lothaire Bluteau)

No, you can’t make me

I’ll take a venti soy danbongino

No, Blood For Oil

The Formula 1 logo is so stylized that I keep just reading this as “Brad Pitt: The Movie”