I'm so mad that Peter Jackson didn't follow the book and have Saruman reveal that he's wearing Joseph's Amazing TechniColor Dream Coat

love the constant repetition in Tolkien of a character asking for the counsel of some figure of wisdom, who responds with, essentially, "I have no fuckin' clue. You should be ready for anything probably."

aunt warning us to put money in precious metals before the government makes us all need digital ID rfid chips to participate in the economy or whatever

stuffing ready for deployment

newly-noticed hobbit name for this LOTR reread: Sancho Proudfoot. Imagining one random, incredibly out-of-place, conspicuously Latino hobbit

I can't eat ramen because it gives me visions of the Chosei Coal Mine Disaster

gotta say, a bit disappointed with One Battle After Another. Very good, great performances, but a lesser PTA film

The foul Beast doth haunt my every move

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

if a Mike Johnson is ousted as Speaker of the House, will he know about that?

an employee of his just brought flowers to our house and told us how great he was, and said "thank you for sharing him." my dad left nothing but love behind and that's how I know he is with the LORD

the part of Brothers Karamazov where the monastery panics over the decomposition of Zosima's body always read as dark comedy to me. Not anymore.

please pray for my family. My dad passed away this morning

the greatest moments in all of sports are the ones after the final out of the World Series, when a bunch of grown adult millionaires become children again. When the other bunch of grown adult millionaires can cry without shame. it's all right there

made some roasted eyeballs in virgin blood

"Antifa Mike, what's the worst thing about Antifa?" "uh, probably... The... THE DEMENTORS!"

Islamophobia is so weird to me since my workplace in college was almost entirely comprised of Muslims. I asked how Ramadan was going in December because I thought it was always in December for some reason. The lads and I talked soccer. They declared me an honorary Arab because I liked Man City.

why do Republicans always pointedly call them the "Democrat party"? What's the deal with that

you didn't hear much about Jane Goodall the last few years. Honestly I kind of forgot about her a while ago. The last decade of unrelenting Pynchonian madness pushed out that kind of widely beloved universally admirable figure. We gotta get back to having those. RIP

saw Octoberfest at the grocery store today. We're back, boys and girls

Well don't I feel stupid

listening to everyone's favorite Canadian progressive rock power trio

white! Chicken! Chili!

it's always September with these people

we need to show everyone on earth the movie "Threads" with their eyes clamped open Clockwork Orange style

guy who confuses Tim Heidecker and Martin Heidegger

Lord help me, I'm doing it again

my perfect precious boy

you know, this Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov guy is kind of a shithead

having a delicious bottle of rooted beer

(nineties surfer dude "bodacious babe" voice) salient points

unrelated, but Walz is clearly on Ozempic, right?

alright, starting Alien: Earth

logging off

my entire bluesky feed is people speaking out against political violence, meanwhile right wingers are foaming at the mouth calling for blood

I'm sick. I want to throw up and cry and wail hysterically

for the love of God, can we stop killing each other

but for Wales!

listening to Ramble On, and opening The Hobbit. Missed you, Middle-Earth.

when America is restored, Reconstruction will come to the perfidious 49er

Justin Herbert finally gonna pop this season?

this Brazil NFL game has the production value of a mid-tier Texas high school football program

Golden curry over rice noodles

truly disgusting beyond measure. We should probably tear down and rebuild the White House when he's gone

Mf thinks he's Pythagoras

I'm a Great Lakes Straussian, doing close readings of Saul Bellow novels to uncover forgotten Central Asian political philosophers, by whose light JB Pritzker shall lead a 3rd American founding

ERIC ADAMS: I'd like to talk about a man called Daryl Strawberry, a story about baseball, and cocaine, and easy women. A cautionary tale... *BUZZER SOUNDS* MAMDANI: Angel Pagan (crowd writhes in ecstasy, chants "EAT THE RICH," constructs guillotine platform)