No one says "Wisco," jfc

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

One of the coolest baseball pics

This machine kills fascists

“One of the more pronounced features of the Gaza doctrine," writes Neve Gordon, ”is turning life-saving medical sites like hospitals, health clinics, and ambulances into targets.”

♫ Batter up! Hear that call! Now's the time... to plaaay ball! ♫ The real-life Rockford Peaches make an appearance in this 1943 home movie from the Dean Collection. The family brought their 8mm camera to this All-American Girls Professional Baseball League game during the Peaches' inaugural season.

- because the act of writing is trying to work something out. I throw a lot of things away because the itch isn't clear enough, or maybe there's none - I'm writing just to write. While that lot are comfortably back in English class, teacher giving them prompts, holding their hands...

Too many people want to be writers. They like their names on something, they want the feeling of accomplishment, they (somehow) think there's money in it, whatever. These are the people who use AI. The people who ARE writers - those who do it out of their peculiar form of mental illness -

Call for Special Issue closes March 31st! The Moving Image Special Issue: Videotape in the Archive. https://loom.ly/CjFjs20 https://loom.ly/CjFjs20

CASABLANCA projected onto the sail of a ship from inside a lighthouse with audience watching from the shore. Cheers to that! My new favorite @newyorker.com cartoon! #nontheatrical #filmexhibition From December 1, 2025, issue.

Nothing but bullshit college ball on in any tavern, on opening day no less, we’ve lost our way

There’s only one elegant solution to this problem of increasingly stupid audiences, and that’s to mandate that every film ends with a closing rap song that lays out all the moral lessons of the movie. There will be a government office that reviews the songs for aural and pedagogical value.

Those of us who are cool wrote JK Rowling off straight out of the gate in the late 1990s for being a bunch of Nerd Shit

"mew mew mew I don't know where I can watch Brewer games!" STFU, baseball's a radio sport. I pay ~$20/year for the MLB app, which lets me listen to the radio broadcast of any and every game for the entire year. I don't even know what Brice Turang looks like and god willing I never will.

JRo, HEAD CLOG will happily run your column headclog.neocities.org

These Super Masochistic Men Are Gathered Together To Experience Ball-Kicking For The First Time!

Seated at the bar and there’s a woman behind me whose voice sounds like the voice guys use when they’re telling a story about their wives or girlfriends nagging them

How do we get people to cheer for Team USA Baseball again? Simple, hire Pat Murphy as manager.

But what about the faithful women of the bible?

You hate to drop game 1, but I was proud of the way our guys fought and I still like our chances. - Mark DeRosa postgame

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

In 5th and 6th grades the whole class would spend a week at a campground out in the woods called the School Forest. We'd hike, ski, study plants and trees, and shoot guns. I was well into my 20s before I realized that this was not a standard part of every kid's elementary education across the US.

HAPPY JERRY LEWIS CENTENARY

Michael B Jordan proving he can win without Scottie B Pippen.

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists variety.com/2024/film/ne...

The faithful women of the bible

Rob Manfred, quoted in an in-depth story from Gordon Wittenmyer of the Cincinnati Enquirer in which several players voice concern about the fate of Latin players in the face of Trump's authoritarian crackdown. Fuck Rob Manfred sideways. www.cincinnati.com/story/sports...

I'm bringing back deadass

Chaplin Keaton Lloyd Ritter www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln6U...

We spy 👀 one of our favorite #nontheatricalfilms— OBEY YOUR AIR RAID WARDEN! (1942) from the Robert and Theresa Davis Collection @chicagofilmarchives.org #AmateurMovieDay2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVTw...

Some guest speakers in “Jaws” class today reminded me of this gem of a photo. Ingmar Bergman with one of the Bruces.

Oh god they’re not bringing Get Your War On back are they?

Media Burn Board member Prof. Antoine Haywood reflects on the impact of Michael Zinzun and the rich, varied, and woefully under appreciated history of Black creators of Public Access Television. https://mediaburn.org/celebrating-the-black-history-of-public-access-tv/

This is a thread of items from the collections of Chicago Film Archives that are newly available to view online. You can search the collection here: www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/

Farewell to Chicago icon Reverend Jesse Jackson. 📽️ Super 8 shot by Bill Stamets from a reel labeled "Jackson - Misc 2º" (circa 1988)

It's pretty great living in IL-3 and having a a rep who's cool as hell, get their ass Delia

Post a banger not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdvo...

Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers. Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

He just retired but Joey Votto is a no brainer

Be part of our team! Media Burn is hiring our first ever development staff person. Read on if you'd like to work with our growing nonprofit and this is your skill set! https://loom.ly/MDof9X0

I owe my career to this format and I think everyone should go to a used bookstore and buy one today.

Botching the 1848 revolution

michelle yeoh photographed flying over the iconic hollywood sign while suspended from a helicopter for national geographic, 1998

yeah it's extremely funny because the people who are extremely insistent that their politics are revolutionary spend all their time trying to not to get in trouble which ensures that that existing power structures literally have to exert no force at all to pacify them

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Danny McBride (!) has a book of short stories coming in June