Looking back, I will concede that my parents being dicks & not letting me watch South Park (even though all my friends got to) but encouraging my obsessive Star Trek fandom was, in the long run, a sound parenting choice.

“PANIC ROOM” (2002) dir. David Fincher Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam 🎬 Columbia Pictures

William Wyler’s epic “BEN HUR” starring Charlton Heston, premiered #OnThisDay in 1959. Here the iconic chariot race which was filmed over 5 weeks on an enormous 18-acre set at Cinecittà Studios in Rome, famous for its intense, practical stunts and large scale, involving 78 horses and 15,000 extras

I’m sure Rogan’s turnaround here, on his podcast, has nothing to do with the recently announced Golden Globe for podcasting, an award given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, for which they declared his podcast “eligible.” No connection whatsoever. Pure coincidence.

Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!

Anyway, imagine if we threw money at the education system the way we’re doing so with AI? Imagine how many positive side effects would accrue as a result of a boom in state schools?

"Looper" (2012)

it is just profoundly undignified to talk about writing like this. you are a human being. your ability to express your experiences through the miracle of language is unique in creation. why in God’s name are you trying to offload that to the plagiarism box and expect everyone to be impressed?

I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.

I love love love this movie

My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

i really wish the word ‘mirror’ was a palindrome

the enemy of my enemy is not my friend but watching them smack each other in the nuts is still very funny

So I can feel young again, quick, everyone give me something dumb to do

Final trailer! Wake Up Dead Man is in theaters 11/26 and on Netflix 12/12. Can’t WAIT for you all to see it. #wakeupdeadman

Just realized that this Pope is the first ever pope who has maybe seen a Harold. very curséd

Just one of the all-time best Twilight Zone endings. Classic

Taxes are when we all give a little money into a pot and then use the accumulated money to buy complex or expensive things

One of the other ways that Star Trek was ahead of time was that its heyday (80s/90s) was already itself a reboot of something from years prior

Hot take: The Wrath of Khan is the proto–legacy sequel. It brings back a cast, leans into their aging, resurrects an old villain, and tees up a “next generation” of protégés/nepo babies to inherit the franchise who are then immediately sidelined or discarded in the sequels that follow.

so, I’m working in the lab late one night, right

Millennials watching anyone younger than us aghast when reacting to news about Bill Clinton getting a extramarital blowjob:

I knew the Pope had theological beef with JD Vance, but never in my wildest dreams did I expect him to go full Sean Connery “The Chicago Way” monologue from The Untouchables on his ass. For those that don’t know the monologue, the gist is “bring a gun to a knife fight, that’s the Chicago Way”

I don’t know anything about “mixed martial arts,” I assume it’s like Street Fighter, one guy’s a boxer, another guy’s a ninja, another guy’s a werewolf, they all have their martial arts

When THE CATHOLIC CHURCH wants to publicly distance themselves from you with a PR campaign, you know it’s bad. That’s like Oscar the Grouch saying “Your house is a nasty mess, man, I ain’t coming over”

Fascinating to me the rise is nostalgia bait/legacy sequels/reboots overlaps with the baby boomers late in life decades. Almost like a subconscious fear of death pushing them to cling to the past, deluding themselves further that their way of life (including culture) is the default for us evermore

I cannot stress this enough, I think literature can rebound: NO MORE SCI-FI WHERE MESSAGES AND THEMES ARE IN SUBTEXT OR ALLEGORY. STATE ALL INTENDED MEANING DIRECTLY WITH NO FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE OR NARRATIVE DEVICES. IT’S TOO DANGEROUS UNTIL WE FIGURE OUT WHY PEOPLE AREN’T UNDERSTANDING THIS SHIT

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

I’m back. substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

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This is like the people who use AI to summarize books so they can say they read 100 books yesterday or whatever. Who are you doing this for? No one else cares. The point of a hobby is to have fun. Why would you ruin that for efficiency or productivity?

What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation

Turns out A Serious Man is set in the same world as Burn After Reading.

My wife asked me how I would react if we had a hypothetical child, and said child brought home a “finance bro” as their SO. I said I’d be cool with it so long as the finance bro believes in ghosts. At least then I know he can be Scrooged & it’ll take

I could try for decades and maybe, if I’m lucky, become only 10% as cool as Toshiro Mifune looks on screen

The weird glow of the northern lights over a house in Overland Park, Kansas, last night. So weird seeing them here

sharing this again for no particular reason today

I once saw LeVar Burton call someone out on Twitter. That's the final boss of embarrassment. I would just die if the man who essentially taught me how to read said something negative about me.

She hit him with The Groucho???????

Sometimes you see a post that you just know is going to be read by a famous actor in Ken Burns IV’s future documentary about whatever they decide to call our dumb crisis.

As a Godzilla fan, I think James Bond should just emerge from the sea when he's needed without any explanation of what he's been up to.

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I wrote this Lucy-Football-Dems joke out as a post of my own 3 hours ago. But here I find it in meme form & this posted a mere 2 hours ago. Do you know what this means? I POSTED SO HARD A MEME BORE ITSELF INTO EXISTENCE TO CAPTURE MY GREATNESS

If I’m understanding correctly, the rational behind Senate Dems caving to Republicans demands was “Well Lucy promised she wouldn’t pull the football away THIS time”

The problem with the proliferation of social media making people perform for posts is that people now think everything is a performance & nothing is sincere. I’m not reading a book because of how I think it makes you think of me. I’m reading a book because I like how the prose tickles my brain

I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life

A lot of yall think that we can just vote our way back to pre Nov 2016, and we are so far gone beyond that point...