Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Tiny Tim R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

He holds him with his skinny hand, 'There was a ship,' quoth he. 'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!' Eftsoons his hand dropt he. He holds him with his glittering eye— The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will.

Who died and made him the Vicar of Christ.

Remembering the Folgers Incest Commercial this Christmas. They really aired that. youtu.be/uMwFWDIFVCU?...

Hello from sunny California! We're all good and glub glub glub

Ah yes, the traditional seasonal greeting must be joyously exchanged with all who celebrate! Yippie-Ki-Yay motherfucker

"Clarice graduated from the University of Virginia, an excellent and highly competitive college named after the Virgin Mary, who was the mother of the Baby Jesus."

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

"Your parents have puritanical hangups about your body and insist that you cover the shameful parts."

‘appy ‘olidays to the great @stevenedesouza.bsky.social !

Since it's Christmas Eve, my piece on Die Hard: cinephiliabeyond.org/die-hard/

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

Star BYU Player Suspended After Testing Positive For Coffee https://theonion.com/star-byu-player-suspended-after-testing-positive-for-coffee/

that the Whos celebrate Christmas suggests some knowledge of Christ, but whether this is our anthropic Christ or a distinctive Who-Christ remains obscure; some have argued Christianity was introduced to them during their refuge with Horton, which of course turns us to the matter of Elephant Religion

Had an absolute blast with this Time Out exclusive: 'Die Hard' screenwriter @stevenedesouza.bsky.social ranking 10 'Die Hard'-inspired action flicks www.timeout.com/news/10-die-...

Bari Weiss: speaking power to truth

Almost all of this became our phones.

Obviously Roddy Piper, how is this even a question

As 2025 comes to a close, here are Empire’s TV Shows Of The Year, from a mind-altering virus to TV’s most terrifying sheep, as voted for by our team of critics. Read the full list here: empireonline.com/tv/features/...

The one instance where being owned by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation would have been better

Christmas to-do list: 1. Come out to the coast. 2. We'll get together. 3. Have a few laughs.

a cornfield maze where to get out, you have to finish writing your novel instead of just posting about it

Its still wild to me that this is what the original DIE HARD marketing looked like because 20th Century Fox didn’t think Bruce Willis could sell an action movie.

welcome home to your parents’ house, the channels are Yellowstone, masterpiece mystery, and Jimmy fallon, btw someone from your high school died in a real weird way

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

As ever, I feel lucky to contribute to a list with so much variety. Incredible recs here:

"The Maccabees are a small, start-up militia charged with defending the holy temple from the invading Greek army. Our rockstar candidate should be a motivated, goal-oriented self-starter, because we don’t have the bandwidth or manpower for micromanaging."

Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it? (OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )

Great piece on the best Coen Bros movie

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

Today's December Comfort Watch: Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is right now as many years from its debut as it is from the movie serials which inspired it. How has age treated Indy, and what, if anything, does he still have to teach us? whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/t...

they said it. they actually said it.

Paramount already has Landman. They can’t buy WB and get Aquaman too. That’s clearly unconstitutional.

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Calibri shot the serif, but it did not shoot the courier.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

“Mumbo Jumbo” by Ishmael Reed right now

“A.I.” (2001-Steven Spielberg) Alternative ending.

Weirdly, KISS came to the White House and were the only ones not wearing bizarre makeup

every time i place an order a doordash driver gets my wings

It’s still Warren Zevon’s world. We’re just living through it.

The Harris County Public Library made one of the greatest commercials of all time all about this youtu.be/DPMHAQ-j1S8?...

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