Thinking more on it, and I think Nolan’s ODYSSEY at its best is less an adaptation and more a re-telling, more ULYSSES or O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU than a straight film version of the poem.

When will my husband return from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

A man goes out to return some jewelry his uncle left him.

When visiting Taco Bell becomes a righteous act of propaganda defiance, that is very convenient for me, a person who was already there anyway

It’s Polyphemin’ Time!

Haven’t seen it yet but apparently Nolan’s ODYSSEY contains references to the Sea Peoples who helped speed the Late Bronze Age Collapse. Which is funny since I’ve always assumed the Greeks who sacked Troy were part of them.

Trump’s speech lying about elections and pushing old conspiracy theories that are weak by even conspiracy theory standards shows how: By democracy standards, the US is in bad shape. We’ve fallen so far. By consolidated authoritarianism standards, things don’t look so bad. This guy doesn’t have it.

June 10: Ken Paxton receives $275,000 from the chair of the board of regents at Texas Tech, which faces potential sanctions by the Big 12 over a quarterback at the center of a betting scandal. June 11: Paxton threatens the Big 12 with a $200 million lawsuit if they sanction Texas Tech.

Been chewing on this and I think it’s simply that video games don’t have stars (with a couple of exceptions like Keanu in Cyberpunk). Nobody to go on Kimmel and talk up the process.

Tolkien would maybe not approve of PoC cast as hobbits, but he would definitely not approve of a “Hunt for Gollum” movie.

A couple of my son’s baseball teammates are reading MAGGIE THE DREAD and they love it. “This book is GREAT!” one of them told me. And honestly it doesn’t get much better than that.

I will always love that Dante put Odysseus in hell.

In the next MARIO BROS. movie, Waluigi will be played by John Armuizamo.

If this was in the first term, it would have been a five alarm fire. This probably will drop from news coverage before the weekend starts. That's the problem with democratic backsliding. It distorts values on what is a shocking abuse of power, and turns it into a same old same old news story.

The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.

i would be the Paul Atreides of catcalling Episcopalian peasants

"you cannot kill me in a way that matters" is such a bar and yet it comes from this old tumblr post

LMAO these things will get torn apart within minutes.

*watching THE ODYSSEY* Me: Where the hell is my stately, plump Buck Mulligan?!

William Shakesgun

Okay so now we’re *for* gender-affirming care.

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"So, famous person, what's got you so jazzed about A.I.?" "Well, a shady businessman offered me a giant bag of money to use a product I don't understand, in order to make it seem viable to the public, and I'm not all that smart, so you can see how one thing would--" "--would lead to another, sure"

Have to admit I am over here feeling pretty smug about my general tendency to never eat a vegetable.

Paul Cookies

what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked

sorry to vaguesky but I saw someone whose work has meant quite a bit to me personally sharing that their accomplishments affirm, for them, only their own feeling of uselessness. In empirical fact when we feel useless it is an illusory feeling. we have to Internalize and know this.

i had no idea this would become so literal

Sam is explicitly described as having brown skin. Yeah, Tolkien almost certainly meant him to be racially White and a laborer compared to the gentry Frodo, Pippin, and Merry, but it’s there.

everybody knows “curtains for Zoosha” as a foundational getting-old tweet but I believe “peeble streamer on doop” is a concept worthy of wider recognition

i would be the Orko of clowning on homoflexible clout sharks

TIL Taco Bell is healthy.

The family of Johan Sebastián has launched a GoFundMe and is asking for support to help his family cover legal expenses, funeral costs, and the repatriation of his body to Colombia, where his parents are waiting to lay him to rest: gofundme.com/f/justice-and-support-for-johan-sebastians-family

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

taco bell only gives you diarrhea if it can sense you are not pure of heart

Guy who has confused balaclava with baklava and applies buttery layers of filo dough around his head before doing crimes. It works. It’s another way to do it

You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)

The cervical cancer vaccine is WILDLY effective– we're preventing cancer with a simple (for the patient, not the reaearchers) series of two injections!! Like!! That is the most amazing thing and we should be celebrating.

🦍🦍🦍

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

My sister is a veterinarian, so PRETTY BAD.

Totally agree. This is what Neill said about it (per www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...)

Live your life so that when you die your remembrances are like Sam Neil’s rather than a certain politician from my home state.

Jurassic Park is so much better for Sam Neill being the backup for Harrison Ford. Grant's whole arc is "deeply non-Indiana Jones type of guy forced by circumstances to be Indiana Jones"

Dear publishers the gothic is in. I have been a goth since I discovered Wednesday Addams as a child. I am going to be goth after the trend passes. You should buy my vampire book that is for fans of Carmilla and Angela Carter's The Lady of the House of Love. It's about being a monster and loving one.

I love that quote from Sam Neill about “serving” in THE PIANO. Neill was a movie star, of course, but one whose career was about serving the art he made, not serving his own image. That’s such a wonderful thing.

The mom of a former student made me a tres leches cake to celebrate my book debut and it is amazing. The exact right number of leches.

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill