Best garage sale find ever: Big Business DVD for $1

Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. The President's corruption is a national security disaster.

BLEAK WEEK: CINEMA OF DESPAIR returns to Chicago at the Music Box *and* the Gene Siskel Film Center! Presented in partnership with the @americancinematheque.com.web.brid.gy June 12th–18th Full Schedule & Advance Tickets: musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...

Ok, I’m drawing the line at a Coachella photo post on LinkedIn. Put that on Instagram, don’t try to inspire me.

Gimme

Orson Welles' masterpiece TOUCH OF EVIL premiered #OTD in 1958. None of the three extant versions are streaming on any subscription or free service, which is insane. But, PBS to the rescue! You can stream the 93-min release version on PBS Passport if you're a member. #FilmSky #FilmNoir

This was my Mom’s first post-station wagon car. She was the coolest.

How do you like this dog? It reminds me of Josie.

Movie talk overheard outside the Art Institute: Person 1 “Sister Act 2” Person 2 “No, fuck you”

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

Gimme gimme gimme

Oh god, I just stepped into an unexpected open mic while picking up takeout. At 6pm. On a Monday. At the cheesesteak place.

✨ A shimmering moment of beauty, courtesy of birthday star Joan Crawford, photographed by George Hurrell. ✨

hasn't Jafar Panahi been through enough

Oh no, past me dumped clean laundry on the bed and now current me must deal with it.

The Music Box has been listed at #9 on TimeOut's "100 Greatest Cinemas In The World Right Now!" Honored by the recognition, and proud to be in such good company! www.timeout.com/film/the-100...

White is last my choice for a Mustang but at 2k, I’ll take it

"I’m pretty sure technological progress is a law of nature, like gravity or death. The power loom, as we know, is inevitable, preordained by God, who works His miracles through the hands of rich and wise inventors. It’s foolish to resist it."

I would have to live in the car to justify the price but it’s low miles and so cute!

One of the most under-covered stories of our era is the power of these expensive PR firms in shaping news coverage and for whom and to what ends that power is deployed.

For Chicago folks, our library has a lot of Frederick Wiseman work on DVD

Juliette Lewis and a chair star in BY DESIGN, Now Playing at the Music Box! Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Non-Biathlon Skier Would Also Like Gun

Nothing succeeds like excess: You may not be conversant with the full majesty of birthday girl Carmen Miranda. Her film biography was entitled “Bananas is my business” and here, deliriously, is why. The first 40 secs are “Excuse me?” Then increasing derangement begins. youtu.be/HqgsZVOSlak?...

sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed

We hired a yellow Ford Escort.

PBS programming isn’t the sexiest choice on TV. But you would miss it if it was gone open.substack.com/pub/toomucht...

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

Reminder that two of Ravelry's top patterns right now are melt the ice hat (knit) and melt the ice hat (crochet)

Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”

I would look great in this.

Another proposed data center dies! This one was personal. clintoncountydailynews.com/clinton-coun...

like the writer here, this thread did not leave me where it found me

It’s about 2 a second and I think we can do better

we need a word for people who invent elaborate social situations in their head to justify buying new clothes but don't actually like socializing

I’m going to need a new Mellencamp song about data centers taking farm land.

Gimme gimme

That’s the last time I let a gif predict my future

🎞️35mm Film Frames of BABY FACE starring Barbara Stanwyck🎞️ Catch a Barbara Stanwyck Pre-Code Double Feature of NIGHT NURSE + BABY FACE, this Saturday January 3rd at 11:30am! Both films presented in 35mm! Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray fall for each other on a Preston Sturges-scripted Christmas roadtrip in REMEMBER THE NIGHT Presented in 35mm - This Saturday & Sunday at 11:30am - Part of WORKING GIRL: THE FILMS OF BARBARA STANWYCK Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Our BARBARA STANWYCK matinee series begins with two drastically different romances costarring Fred MacMurray, both presented in 35mm! 🎄REMEMBER THE NIGHT - This Saturday 12/27 & Sunday 12/28 🕵️‍♂️DOUBLE INDEMNITY - Thursday 1/1 & Sunday 1/4 Get Tickets: musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...

Got a Xmas card from some family that I definitely do not know. Is this like the spam texts? Are they trying to trick me into something?

Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!

American Express Launches Small Sweatshop Saturday https://theonion.com/american-express-launches-small-sweatshop-saturday/

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

Is “Death by Lightning” just “Conclave” with good beards? (I’m 36min into Episode 1)

My Dad had an awesome Edmund Fitzgerald t-shirt from the Shipwreck Museum. He was the best.

Criterion flash sale, plus $10 coupon, plus an approaching birthday equals Jennifer gets movies