This Tanahashi retirement ceremony

the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now

It's this but then the exterminator sends you text messages asking for more money every 3 hours for the rest of your life

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

objectively very funny to roll this new slogan out and then within 24 hours have this happen

Opening with some fire, I see #aew #worldsend

Me pre-reading fantasy graphic novels to get my 9-year-old niece: "Hmmm... Nimona may be better for her when she's a tween or teen. Let's look at this Lightfall book." Me after reading that Lightfall book: "Fuck, now I wanna read the rest of those Lightfall books."

And now for some motivation from the Owensboro Burger King.

Bay Area drivers have got no chill

Osgood Perkins' The Monkey but with this fucking thing my dad bought at an airport 10 years ago

Caught some of It's a Wonderful Life on TV just now. Already got my waterworks going with the Mr. Gower's drug store scene. (Gonna watch tomorrow w/o commercial breaks.)

The four words every fella wants to hear

Demons (1985, dir. Lamberto Bava)

One day he'll stroke out on live TV. Hopefully soon.

Man... there is no arthouse movie theater scene in the South Bay. Looks like I'm not seeing Secret Agent or Resurrection for a while.

Such grim, heartbreaking news about Rob and Michele Reiner

Cena should have left his jorts in the ring too

Just a reminder that Shaw Bros. is sharing a lot of movies in excellent transfers that have been hard to find in the US and Canada. They're all free and you can find them here: www.youtube.com/@ShawBrosCin... #cinejanes

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Me when I see the umpteenth fucking drone shot of a landscape in a documentary that isn't clicking with me

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

How about make a tradeable asset out of suck my balls?

heard your mom has a big game today

Three episodes into The Chair Company and I enjoy the paranoid comedy as much as the cavalcade of weirdo supporting characters.

You will never guess what this is in reference to.

So Don Callis gave the Young Bucks a box (possibly with Gwyneth Paltrow's head in it) and this cross-promotional trios match may bleed into the main show for an Okada pop. #aew #FullGear

All things Infra-Man (aka The Super Inframan)

The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.

It will probably be a long time before I try running a Daggerheart game (looking forward to playing, though). Still, it's really fun reading through the cards enjoying the art in and design of the core rulebook.

It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.

Me watching Keeper

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie] SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

I remember walking by Chuck Schumer at the finish line of the Brooklyn Half-Marathon earlier this year. In retrospect, I should have taken a moment to tell him, "Fuck you. Retire, bitch."

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

Me watching Predator: Badlands

Finally saw Malcolm X, and glad I got to see it on the big screen. A biopic the overcomes the biopic trap of oversimplification, with Denzel and Spike both operating on another level. Honorable mention: Linda Linda Linda as part of the 20th anniversary re-release. Such glorious teenage feelings.

If you are appreciating the new Peter Coviello essay about not talking to the NYT about Mamdani? I offer you this absolute banger he wrote after the election in 2016. It’s even closer to the bone now. avidly.org/2016/12/09/m...

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Andrew Cuomo: pathetic in defeat, and even more pathetic in a second defeat

Yo! Go help Twisted Spine (Brooklyn's horror and dark fantasy bookstore & cafe) while they fix water damage from last week's storm gofund.me/560530786

They just posted this on their facebook page. If any of you could help with a donation, they'd really appreciate it.

Grammarly's been drinking