I’ve wanted to see My Man Godfrey on nitrate since long before I had seen *anything* on nitrate and now I’m going to. You can too:

I just thought everyone should see this

Today’s vocabulary word is “fuck,” a variant spelling of “fuk,” which referred to some type of fifteenth century sail.

The Zone of Interest (2023)

Looked at an actual @nyupress.bsky.social edition of "Algorithms of Oppression" today and, yeah, it has offset printing, *much* better paper, a sturdier cover, and better binding. Amazon is sending me another copy, if that is also counterfeit I'll just keep sending them back.

How will you prepare for this week’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil?

Pretty sure Royce Hall used to be a Wendy’s.

Does anyone know the quality of audio/video sent through Airplay to a 4K Apple TV? Developer mode doesn’t give stats for that, and it would be convenient to use it to listen to Logic Pro stuff on The Good Speakers if it’ll pass 44.1 or 48 KHz lossless stereo (without resampling).

Have you considered … The Comas?

how come the nomination is for best picture but they’re all movies

I watched F1 back to back with Grand Prix and, yes, the pre-CGI racing footage is one-of-a-kind and makes you amazed the whole cast and crew weren’t killed, but I expected the racing in F1 to feel weightless and flimsy and it didn’t. It’s a pretty good racing movie!

In the 1990s, Amazon was very useful for tracking down copies of books too odd for a local bookstore to keep in stock. Amazon.co.uk was a godsend back when books sometimes got published over there months before the American edition. But print-on-demand is just an outright scam.

Hey, @nyupress.bsky.social, Amazon shipped me a print-on-demand copy of “Algorithms of Oppression” with laser printing (and a colophon claiming it was from the first print run). Your edition was offset printed, right? Why are you letting them put your name on a counterfeit product?

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

Safiya Umoja Noble’s book “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” thanks Naomi Wolf *and* Naomi Klein back to back in its acknowledgements; 2018 was a long time ago. (“Outrages” was in 2019, though Wolf had spread misinformation on other topics before then.)

she blu on my ray til I criterion release

wow ok the king's horses actually figured out how to put humpty dumpty together again an— oh come on, he's climbing right back up that wall. god damn it, what an asshole. you can tell the horses are furious with him

that pepper spray photo is some shit. too nuanced to explain to americans that it all needs to go though

I’m beginning to think the popularists weren’t being entirely sincere when they urged the Democratic Party to focus on issues where they have a huge polling advantage.

Does anyone know the quality of audio/video sent through Airplay to a 4K Apple TV? Developer mode doesn’t give stats for that, and it would be convenient to use it to listen to Logic Pro stuff on The Good Speakers if it’ll pass 44.1 or 48 KHz lossless stereo (without resampling).

Oh you hate Americans? Should we throw a party? Should we invite Creedence Clearwater Revival?

What are Schumer’s top three policy proposals to make things more affordable? His message doesn’t resonate because he is obviously lying. It’s just smarm! No one likes smarm.

“The Island” might just have the ugliest color timing I’ve ever seen. I also wonder how much Aquafina paid to be “the only bottled water brand good enough to serve to your organ farm clones.” Fine concept, ruinous execution (so far).

If you want to learn about what love was like in 1985, listening to the Marketts’ song “Love 1985” is much less helpful than you might think.

Columbo could take down the Trump presidency, specifically by pretending to be his friend for a week.

I’m at Davos rn and it’s super fun actually They have a 360 Photo Booth where the computer adds Kissingers ghost

Per Genius, Kitt was imitating Johnnie Ray, aka “the cry guy.” I always thought it was Elvis because of the vocal hiccups but noticed today Kitt’s record was released too early for that to be true. This recording is from 1951, not 1956, Apple Music has that wrong.

When Eartha Kitt sings, in “I Wanna Be Evil,” that she wants to sing songs “like the guy who cri-ies, cri-es, cri-es,” is there a specific singer she is imitating?

I’m finally making my way through “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” (shaking my head so people know I disagree) and (a) I bet this section heading was one of the seeds of “The Producers,” and (b) Don Delillo could never.

Remembering how the Homeland Security secretary wrote about how she got mad and killed a puppy for misbehaving and presented her choice to shoot the puppy like it was a proportionate and relatable decision

Someone bring this man a burrito.

Hundreds of newspapers dropped Peanuts over this, although in retrospect Schultz was prescient to speak out so strongly against Gerald Ford.

Look for the helpers

Loaned out my copy of “Jesus’ Son” in the aughts; I finally replaced it after watching “Train Dreams,” and I don’t know if they sent me print-on-demand or if the current Picador edition just sucks but it’s a total piece of shit, bad paper, bad binding, and is going back in favor of a used copy.

Is the rest of The Lowdown as good as the pilot? And what is FX doing putting out Blu-rays with lossy Dolby Digital audio in the year of our Lord 2026?

That's a great question! The judge never sleeps--and if you danced like him, you wouldn't either! He says that he will never die, but this statement is disputed. Was this helpful?

Happy Friday to you guys

MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN coming to Criterion on 4K, essay by me (among other things).

I've been dying to tell people I wrote the essay for TROUBLE IN PARADISE, a true Lubitsch masterpiece, and now I can. It's hilarious, it's gorgeous, there's nothing like it, and spending time with Trouble last year soothed my soul. www.criterion.com/films/723-tr....

This killer is coming from Criterion in April--a hugely influential, visually extraordinary 1967 LA noir. For those who've read Pictures at a Revolution: I originally had a much longer (wisely abandoned) concept that would have included this film. I'm so happy to have done a video for this release!

we made it

This works much better with the audio from the final scenes of The Shining.

The most uplifting thing you can say to a clown is “who’s this clown?” because it shows that 1. you recognize they are a clown and 2. you want to know more about them

checking in with The Baileys

I am making a direct appeal to Cobra Commander: