Game 6 of this year's World Series falls on Halloween.

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

Do not mess with She-Hulk and Aunt May.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is tremendous. A prescient film that captures a revolutionary story with thrilling sincerity and humour. Beautiful nighttime cinematography of American urban and desert landscapes. Incredibly kinetic editing matched to excellent music and score.

boardwalk nut hut store, wildwood, new jersey, 1978

🧵thread about the kitchen-sink activism that combined with the demographic and economic structural changes to force oak woods cemetery to desegregate and specifically about the life and poignant afterlife of helma mcbowe

Years ago, amateurs w/scanners could make decent side money selling online. Now, if a book is so "new" that it has a bar code, odds are its resale value isn't worth your time. A good eye has always been better for book scouts than having a scanner. And the most valuable books don't have bar codes.

You can spend today seeking a way to support and uplift the many marginalized groups that Kirk demonized and harmed.

I just can't build any interest in the race for the NL #3 wild card when my mind is spending 24 hours a day imagining everything that could go wrong and right in the overwhelmingly likely scenario of a Phillies vs. Dodgers 5-game series.

Clinching early creates a whole lot of meaningless baseball games that it can be hard for professional athletes to get inspired for. Especially when playing teams with their backs to the wall. The Phillies are going to lose some, including some ugly ones. It's not great but far from end of the world

Look forward to a week of heated discourse about how the NFL should ban the blocking of field goals.

Hotel is appalling. We are all in the attic.

This one amazeballs photo can take you from Citizen Kane (1941) to Magnolia (1999) in film history.

One Battle After Another (review) - Anderson dissects political extremism with a razor-sharp scalpel, ferocious energy and a wry smile ★★★★★. #OneBattleAfterAnother is released in cinemas on September 26. #PaulThomasAnderson

If the forking Rapture happens 48 hours before I make it to see "One Battle After Another" I'm going on a rampage of biblical proportions.

I have an irrational desire to know the title of every book on those shelves.

It was a long shot anyway, but today ended the hopes of the Phillies getting the #1 seed. They are now effectively 4 games behind Milwaukee. Phillies will play the WC winner of Dodgers vs. ??

Well, not an awful night for the Phillies They got beat by a team that is clinging to its playoff life.

He literally just saved their bacon last night.

He's never seen The Shining?? One does not watch Doctor Sleep before The Shining.

The Diamondbacks aren't good, but they have a very strong motivation to win right now, which makes the Phillies performance in this series thus far pretty good.

At the end of the day, don't we all just want to go on bookstore crawls, bakery crawls, library crawls, and museum crawls?

Saboteur (1942, Alfred Hitchcock)

every time I see another story about AI taking over a creative job I think about this scene in YOU’VE GOT MAIL and weep

LONELY WATER (1973): Legendary child-frightener, and one of the most influential and effective PIFs ever made. Donald Pleasence's voice helped lower the number of child deaths by drowning and opened the door to the scary, deadly PIFs of the 70s & 80s. A folk horror film condensed into 90 seconds.

From 10 years ago (a different universe) in the blog archives: www.papergreat.com/2015/09/adve...

Bumping this for you.

The Bader-Buehler-Castellanos show, just as we mapped it out

Ian McKellen, 1968

You couldn’t make “One Battle After Another” today. PTA's zany, explosive Pynchon riff elides political metaphors and grabs the zeitgeist by the throat. A riveting, hilarious revolutionary saga that loves Black women to death. Ecstatic blockbuster cinema. www.truthdig.com/articles/pau...

So happy to have @rancecollins.bsky.social contribute to The Film Maven this excellent look at how Robert Redford made journalists feel seen in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN. For Silver and Gold Film Mavens now. thefilmmaven.com/robert-redfo...

'Ginkgo Tree' (1965) Shiro Kasamatsu

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is movie of the year www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

New post: 1935 postcard from Angelo Frank Buffone to his brother Dominic www.papergreat.com/2025/09/1935...

From the blog archives: "If Janice and Tommy are to help Aunt Annabelle, they must prove that Mountain View House is not really haunted. And there is no time to lose." www.papergreat.com/2020/02/scho...

You might well have got the impression by now that I'm quite keen on obscure sixties beat, jazz, psych, folk and soundtracks and tend to excitably enthuse about them a bit. Well, here's an hour of me playing and talking about some esoteric favourites... timworthington.org/2022/10/22/l...

jimmy kimmels time slot replaced with reruns of jimmy fallon playfully ruffling trumps hair

In “One Battle After Another,” director Paul Thomas Anderson’s triumph is in melding his artistic sensibilities with the exhilarating fun of a blockbuster, writes David Sims:

Somner's career as a producer and first AD is absolutely bonkers. And now topped off, posthumously, with One Battle After Another.

Every time I remember the origin of the movie quote “do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created down on earth” I have a minor psychological breakdown

Rachel Green's dad hung out with the cool crowd.

What would be interesting to read today is a smart cultural critic with a deep knowledge of TV & a firm grasp on the context of not just today's events but Hollywood history! OH WAIT you fired Sepinwall @rollingstone.com ah well, who could have foreseen that such expertise would ever be useful

#PhotoArt #HudsonValley #Art #UpstateNY #Photography #Photosky #Abandoned #Americana #Artsky #GoEverywhere #PhotoEdit

just texting one battle after another reviews with my old college pal and talking about the first time we saw boogie nights, having gotten there a few minutes late, walked into the theater during the overture and almost tripped over ourselves when best of my love hit out of fucking nowhere

#Watched The Hot Rock (1972) - Read this last year and it didn’t grab me like Westlake usually does. Wasn’t feeling Dortmunder as a character. Well, that’s ‘cause in the book he’s not played by Robert Redford, who takes this shaggy heist tale and imbues it with effortless charm and panache. RIP king

Won't read this until I've had a chance to see ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, but I want to give @briantallerico.bsky.social credit for always being the canary in the coal mine for me. I'm pretty skeptical of this one, despite being a long-time PTA devotee, and Brian's reaction eases some of that.

Only 9 more days until I see it, so I'm not reading any One Battle After Another reviews. But I'm enjoying the skeets and headlines.

since trea turner went down the phils are 8-1 since zack wheeler went down the phils are 21-9

I need some time to fully process what I just watched from "One Battle After Another" but that has to be one of the most surreal movie theater experience I've ever had

Phillies 1.5 games behind Brewers, though Brewers won season series so it's actually 2.5 games behind, for the #1 seed. Rest of way: PHI: LAD 1, Ariz 3, Fla 3, Minn 3 MIL: LAA 2, StL 3, SD 3, Cincy 3 Not impossible, but Phillies need help