On the Knicks in '26, the Suns in '93, the dialectical image, and New York, Bandwagon City.

In its way, this smacks of gender.

Every frame of this is repulsive: Tom Cruise "aging up" to his actual age, a grotesque CGI cat created in order to depict an animal (comically???) suffering, sickly oatmeal palette, Iñárritu, etc.

"Film adaptations do be pissing people off before they’re even released. See the Discourse cesspool still burbling around Christopher Nolan’s casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in The Odyssey. Or don’t." @marksussman.bsky.social

mark sussman is back at it, with his discernable takes and penchants for obscure tri-state law firm dramas, sly references to cronenberg's the fly and lynch's twin peaks, and no promises to keep the car running while pumping that gas (folks, it's good!) marksussman.substack.com/p/the-face-o...

In my ongoing failure to be Normal, I launched a Substack. The first post is about the most important bus stop advertisement I've ever encountered. marksussman.substack.com/p/the-face-o...

"Vacuum cleaner" has flown under the radar as a redundant phrase for too long. "Dirt sucker" would be better, in every way.

another day, another 9-paragraph email from vinegar syndrome.

Ten years ago holy shit

get up from the couch for one minute and this is what I find in my seat when I come back. Despicable.

12 Monkeys! What a movie!

Now that it's cooling down, Cinco has resigned himself to curling up with me, to steal my precious body heat

Who should I follow on this thing?

I've been staring long into this abyss for like ever, and I don't see shit.

I've watched 30 seconds of ZARDOZ and it's already insane.

Can't believe this app paid me $400,000 to sign up.