Not to glaze Criterion Channel too much here, but my two favorite films i've seen this year - Magellan and Blue Heron - are both on that service.

Coming up with a new scam for Silicon Valley to latch onto where you find people who are skilled in artistic talents and provide them with some startup money given every other week to create appealing art that will lead to people purchasing your product

It’s a beautiful day. The group chats are open and people are having a wonderful time!

holy shit

What’s your favorite movie from every decade of your life? ‘90s: Bound ‘00s: Synecdoche, New York ‘10s: Atlantics ‘20s: The People’s Joker

Torn between calling off a possible 11 hour shift of a work day trip to several fun locations and just gritting my teeth through it. Who can say!

I wrote some confessions about being a chronic people-pleaser. It was a lot of fun to write this honestly! There were moments I thought "PLEASE DON'T TELL THEM ABOUT THAT" johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/confession...

happy pride from moby dick

Spent the weekend with family and friends, celebrating birthdays and moving boxes around, and I just feel very loved and very pretty

we literally pubbed a poem about this lol "steamroller vs banana stalks steamroller vs shampoo bottles steamroller vs glass eye steamroller vs Duracell batteries I feel that it is my duty to be on the side of resistance" —Zachary C Jensen translates Ánuar Zúñiga Naime anmly.org/ap41/zachary...

I think about this a lot.

i need hell to be real so bad, man

Before and After runway idea: Lindsay LoHannibal Lecter

I didn’t know he could fit in here

pure cinema

Hi!

Behold my sons Lump and Blur

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Ted Turner was briefly so destructive to film preservation that the GOVERNMENT created the National Film Registry to keep some films safe, then Turner was like “fine! You like preservation so much, here’s a channel that just shows movies unaltered for 24 hours!!!” and it was the best channel ever.

this is worse than “we were just following orders” evil which is quite evil, it’s “we were just following our own interpretation of words that actually have historically been interpreted the opposite way” evil, there is no way to absolve agency here, my god

Threw one of my jackets on Shadow the other day and it was giving Vincent D’Onofrio in The Cell

personally i think too many democrats sound like diet republicans when talking with regular folks

RIP ted turner. i got a buddy claims to have seen the famous and possibly apocryphal video of jane fonda fucking him with a strap-on. says it’s great stuff. this is the most moving tribute i can muster i barely know anything else about him sorry

Heat really is a fantastic film. They weren’t kidding!

Divas I’m finally watching Heat sometime this week but I have to ask, are there any Simpsons references to it I should be aware of

Watching Beverly Hills Cop for the first time and my two biggest takeaways so far are: 1. Eddie Murphy’s a goddamn superstar. Obvs. Whole cast is great. 2. This soundtrack FUCKS. Fun to see so many songs I first encountered via Drag Race in a heterosexual context.

Watching Brazil, South Korea and Hungary get rid of their authoritarians

Creating a Warforged artificer for a Curse of Strahd campaign and I’m so happy to realize it’s this guy

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

Is there a Mr. Me With That Shit?

Doing a production of Cats all in mech suits call that the Evanjellicle Ball

i wrote a song about what it feels like to wait for your enemy to give you a good enough reason to pull the trigger 😇

Time to cozy up on the couch with like 30 baguettes.

Happy trans day of visibility to ME I’m so happy my friends and family and cats have given me such support over the past 15 months and I’m gonna keep getting queerer. It’s the fucking coolest and I’m so happy to be doing this!!!!

Sick and evil society.

organizing a no kings protest in front of the lion exhibit at the zoo. not today, simba

Tommy and I are watching High Potential and it's good, but the most interesting part is always Olsen's fits and imagining the parody Katya could make of this material. Or, frankly, the Jane Krakowski parody!

Trans rights, ending ICE, and freeing Palestine all got huge cheers at my local No Kings protest. These are mainstream positions for the Democratic electorate. The party needs to fucking catch up.

it's a crucial part of the perpetual motion transphobe centipede: 1. make shit up 2. media 3. do "science" using media 4. media 5. change policy using above 6. media 7. change policy in 2nd place using above 8. media 9. policy change cascade using above 10. media 11. goto 1 using above

It is so embarrassingly evident that JD Vance’s entire psychology is based upon hating the poor people that remind him of his mom and doing whatever he can to impress rich daddy thiel who really totally loves him sm, you guys.

This is the only Harry Potter argument worth making It wouldn't matter if Harry Potter was a singular, unmatched work of genius. Giving Rowling money is actively making the world a worse place and killing trans folks. There's no book good enough or nostalgic enough for that to be worth it.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

“Guillermo where are you? Already dead or bleeding. One more disaster I can add to myyyyy generous supplyyyyyy”

OBAA is only nominally about radical politics, which it views as a lens through which to consider what it’s really interested in, which is the terror of bringing a child into the world, a question that will always have a political valence but not EXCLUSIVELY a political valence.

They can cause untold suffering and commit many more atrocities, but it is abundantly clear that Trump already lost this war and it's just a matter of how long he'd like to keep losing

trolleys are in most cases an inefficient form of transportation. nice to have, a slow, pleasant sunday afternoon ride. but if we are regularly having to have some guy with a lever decide whether they kill one or five people we should simply dismantle them in favor of electric buses

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now