Every time he does something like this all I can think about is how one day some 8th grader will have to remember it for a quiz in their social studies class.

Reminder: in addition to being a horror icon, Lugosi was a committed labor organizer, democratic socialist, and antifascist both in Hungary and in the United States.

Galileo’s moon sketch

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Melania: I never cut child in half with sword. I never do this. The entire USA: what? Melania: not me.

That 2026 feeling.

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

Go contemplate the evidence and I guarantee you'll find The dead know what they're doing when they leave this world behind

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

I've been thinking about this all day today. m.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhN...

I think about the Paris Commune, of butchers and laundresses learning how to run their cities overnight. I think of illiterate Cuban peasants who couldn’t read but were willing to die for the revolution. I think about all the ordinary people who discovered bravery alongside their comrades

Thank you, @hookland.bsky.social . I needed to hear this today.

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

I liked THE DRAMA, and I think I was the only one in the theater to laugh all the way through it. I'll avoid "spoilers" because that seems to be the thing to do, even though the "spoiler" is the actual premise of the film. boxd.it/dS9yZl

It's here! Thank you to @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social !

Gentle reminder that we're still taking pre-orders for the next batch of Crossroads, due to ship out around April 14th. And for non-US folks, we have POD and ebook options--linked in the quoted thread.

I enjoyed a double feature of this and SAINT MAUD a few years back.

Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word about my Patreon? My goal for the night is one new patron. Patrons help support my art and my existence. You'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, and other fun posts. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

A review-essay about a new production of Peter Weiss’ Hölderlin and my new translation in English of Brod und Wein VII in my latest Substack post here: open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

10 year old me and also 40 year old me: God, I love da movies

Watching THE TEN COMMANDMENTS the way it was meant to be seen: on network TV at my parents' house.

Is it happening 👀

Tonight the folk of Hookland ignore Black Saturday’s solemnity and make sport with their plays of the Harrowing of Hell. They celebrate Mary by her title Empress of Hell. They sin with surety of escape from consequence. They play Punch the Devil’s Beak. They make drunken riot. – Dr. Bron, 1636

I will never stop being sad that Phillip Seymour Hoffman is gone

60 Free Film Noir Movies. For your late night binging pleasure ...

does standing around outside waiting for the rocket to launch constitute an opportunity to tailgate? in this essay I will

Some really good stuff on this list. If nothing else, everyone should have a copy of AESTHETICS AND POLITICS, a wonderful collection of Frankfurt-adjacent critical debates.

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We returned to our shoveling, working side by side in silence.

Terry Eagleton's THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM was incredibly important in helping me situate myself in the history of critical thought. I doubt I'd be where I am, doing what I do, without it.

It's so cool that Major League Baseball makes it impossible to watch my home team's games 🙃

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🎶 🎶 🎶 It's Friday Night And the mood is right Gonna have some fun Show ya how it's done WILL-IT-HAP-PEN??? 🎶 🎶 🎶

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Well, I don't like talkin’ to myself But someone's gotta say it, hell I mean, things have not been going well This time I think I finally fucked myself

I want to dig through this like the $5 DVD bin at Walmart.

Feeling wistful over a Slavoj Žižek documentary.

Opening Day, baby! LET'S GO RANGERS 👏 👏 👏👏👏

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

This reminded me that the only Taviani Brothers film I've seen is GOOD MORNING, BABYLON because the local NBC affiliate where I grew up broadcast it as the late movie on Sunday nights several times a year.

By observing the way they died, the Druids believed they could see omens of the future. Two thousand years later, we've come no further.

Saw Undertone this afternoon. I have some medium spoilers in my Letterboxd review, so I'll post it below. I thought it sucked!

It's me! Can't wait to see this in print!

Goodnight from Martha Gad, her witch wages this week extending to several extra port and lemons down The Wren’s Crown. Goodnight from 36 Garston Street, where the poltergeist has grown tired of knocking walls and has turned its attention to building a chapel from Lego. Goodnight from Hookland.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I kinda liked this one.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.