2020: First and Last Men, I guess? Saw this years later so didn’t register it as 2020 2021: Drive My Car 2022: Nope 2023: The Zone of Interest 2024: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2025: Secret Agent

Intermission at Barry Lyndon: by weird coincidence the farthest people back in my grandfathers’ lines were nail-makers (wooden for ships and iron for horseshoes), and I’m never prouder of that heritage than when I watch this movie.

The Big City

Clinic w/Korean BBQ place on the ground floor and a very “reassembled“ MR2 in front of it

A Syrian monarch from a different religious tradition you say…

this is the Ethno-European culture that JD Vance wants to make sure we never erase. the instinctive nature to be writhing on the ground in faux pain until you cash in on your victimhood

Damn why can’t I get better than 36/50 on this thing

Using Tsingtao instead of Yanjing is just evidence you’re half-assing it.

Not liking the fact that people in hobbyist or fan communities are increasingly using commercial viability or perceived/anticipated commercial viability as the basis of taste.

James Darren!

Olympics Dog was chasing the motorized camera they have to capture the competitors at the finish line, then decided to chase some competitors instead

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

Maybe not mad but I was very annoyed by The Fall, hyped up to me for years and then the actual experience of watching it was like being trapped in someone’s livejournal for a couple of hours

“Nothing worser than a Mercer”/“You’ve gotta be nuts to drive a Stutz” in Jay Leno’s voice now echoing around my head

4426 West Carroll Avenue

Somewhat more seriously, all this is yet another data point to confirm my longstanding theory that the deepest animosity of the modern Anglo-American right is not directed at Karl Marx (however much they yell at him) but at Max Weber.

Guy who worked for UPS named Mr. Brown (not the same driver whose hair was a perfect match for his uniform, unfortunatel)

My favorite is Melville

Herman “Die, Workwear” Melville

Got in possible touch with my heritage by eating something described as a Swedish cinnamon-cardamom roll. No clue about authenticity or appropriateness for (western) fat Tuesday but was delicious

Alright that’s enough of that

A livery driver was ranting about “people who speak different tongues” loud enough I could hear out his window. He then clarified, “Oh, not you sir, I’m talking about people from the British Isles!”

targeted seismic retrofit to the Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto) designed and implemented by Kajima Corporation (original 1966 complex by Sachio Ota) r/brutalism

Oh yeah smackdown’s coming

Banning vaguetweeting because of government coverups is literally white supremacy

Remembering when, on a family vacation, my dad retraced the locations of the film Bullitt, including the Robert Duvall cab ride

You expect WASPs to care about the impending heat death of the universe?

thius app has the BALLS to ask me "what's up" the ceiling. clearly

Taken about at being addressed as “the snazzy gentleman” rather than just “you.”

Data: When Hugh's imaging apparatus imprints this on his biochips, he'll try to analyse it. Picard: It looks harmless enough. LaForge: We had to disguise it as something innocuous, but it’s actually Sam Grady’s map of twitter

Imagining one of those Borgs with a little rotating saw for a hand, cutting sandwiches diagonally

Overheard someone talking admirably about someone’s career in very Los Angeles-sounding New Agey pseudo-therapy, audibly did a “for fuck’s sake,” and then started typing on here to make it seem like it was in response something I saw on bluesky.

Saw a list of “movies about artists in love for Valentine’s day” and for some reason this one didn’t make an appearance (j/k I know the reason—not legally available for streaming)

Although when I think “shitty bronco” I really think “Groumall”

Oh are people talking about Star Wars ships?

Not fair that animal control has to share the thin green line flag with border patrol.

Fellas, is it smooth brained to live and die in Los Angeles?

Greek salad lunchtime listening (always associate with Greece thanks to it being used in the Cosmos episode where he goes to Samos)

James Doohan came in and asked if we carried whiskey once while I was working at a 7-11 during college.

AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post Absolute cinema crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...

Reading an article about the prehistoric low countries describing the area as a “water world” which is a very nice way of saying “big gross swamp”

Of all the reasons to hate Springer, the smallest but more frequent reason for me is that they constantly log me out of my account when reading Nature

Even more generally I think it’s another example of why trying to be on the left with low social trust or solidarity leads one to some bizarre places.

“Thank you Mr. Data, but I do not think the bridge staff needed that brief dissertation on ‘actress brain.’”

To the wealthy entertainment industry guy talking way too loudly on his phone about ways to keep his kid from growing up an entitled brat: that war was lost at conception, man.

James Franco in a bookstore (he was peeved I didn’t recognize who he was)