Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Lynne Ramsay rankings, favorite to least favorite: You Were Never Really Here Morvern Callar Ratcatcher Die My Love We Need to Talk About Kevin I can't say she's made a *bad* movie, but I can't imagine watching We Need to Talk About Kevin again anytime soon.

I'm watching Die My Love (2025), so somebody tell me if It Happens during the State of the Union

just a reminder that you already know everything you need to know about the state of the union and unless you will enjoy watching it there's a million other things you can do. you don't have to be "in the loop." the loop is a trash place to be tbh

My parents are very excited to go to a "State of the Union Boycott/Don't Watch" party thrown by some friends of theirs. Ironically enough, this is the first time in well over a decade that I'm tempted to actually watch, just in case It Happens live during the speech.

around 5:45 this morning, Dudley the puppy woke me up to go outside (good!) during the 15 minutes he was outside, he dug a big hold in the mud pit that is my back yard (bad!) I finally managed to get him back inside and had to give him a bath (bad!) I had Tagalongs for breakfast (good/unwise!)

finally, some good news! I, for one, welcome the dawning of a new age, the age of the tar-like goo

like look at that blue whale I just reposted. Is the blue whale “relevant”? no it’s sublime. it’s transcendent. it’s a blessing from God. these and a trillion other qualities are more valuable than “relevance” ffs you should not even be able to say “relevant” without laughing

Genuinely think if I showed this article to my mother there's a decent chance she'd go First Reformed and [redacted]

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blasting through Vice Principals this weekend, and man, Edi Patterson

ah, the Johnny Gaudreau tribute has got me choked up

wow

finally throwing on the Barry Lyndon (1975) Criterion 4k, and I said goddamn, goddamn this is a good-looking picture

cure for the male loneliness epidemic, etc.

Maybe Something Beautiful Will Happen Today

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

One of my favorite fantasy football leagues is an online beer league, where we send boxes of craft beers to one another instead of cash prizes. I won the consolation bracket this season and got this glorious box of New England beers this afternoon.

hell yeah

about once a year, I am possessed by the need to listen to all of Neil Cicierega's Mouth albums. Afterwards I am changed, renewed, reborn.

arguing on the internet about silly things, some guy says "oh, but Socrates says such-and-such" sir, I went to St. John's College

been fixated on Tom Noonan's passing all day like he only has one scene in Heat and it just happens to be this crystal clear, prescient vision of the modern information economy, coming from this incredible wizard figure what a tremendous screen presence

Some days I just like to look back at some of the best emails I got as webmaster of Super Mario Bros. HQ

Tom Noonan (1951–2026)

file under "things you see before you are killed and eaten by your captors"

let he who did not eat a full sleeve of Do-si-dos this afternoon cast the first stone

Really good, though I think I prefer Uncut Gems. Incredible music, a little long- I think a tighter edit might have worked a bit better. I sort of wish they'd stuck with the, uh, twist ending that's been discussed.

This Marty Supreme (2025) fellow seems like a bit of an asshole, if I'm being honest.

He's snoring so loudly right now

If Democrats need a generically handsome white man in a suit, Andy Beshear is right there and has been pretty consistent in his values. You can say a lot about him — nepo baby, untested on the national scene, Dockers dork — but he is pretty adamantly himself, and decent.

ok, the chyron says these women at the Olympics are skeletons, but they look normal to me, clearly that edible is working

fuck Gavin Newsom

All of these people are so weird and shitty www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

apparently the whole frickin' galaxy is just lousy with super powerful psychic aliens that look just like humans and can't be trusted

in a related story, I'm willing to get my act together if any supermodels are looking for a husband

probably this guy

oh look it's release week for my favorite beer

And why does Anderton use the face morph drug, but then use his leftover eyeballs to access the precog pool? What's the point!? Anyway, Spielberg, make a whole movie about Tim Blake Nelson's character, you coward.

and you've got omnipresent eye scanning software, but not a panopticon of live video feeds that you could use to backstop the retinal scans and the psychic mutants you keep in a fishbowl?

so why don't the precogs predict suicides? accidental deaths? what about manslaughter?

Pretty good description here of what constitutes a push poll. (I too would be fascinated to know if people... actually sign up for this?)

It's been a long time since I watched Minority Report (2002), but I remember being frustrated at a couple of plot elements and also some DC specific stuff ("DCPD" isn't a thing). Still frustrated on both counts, but it's a pretty entertaining movie.

mozzarella sticks

suspects refusing to answer questions

there's been a murder

UFO/UAP theorists are going to have a field day with the El Paso story and I'm already getting incredibly frustrated thinking about it

Anniversary of the best film that never was.

when my very unfair and frankly vicious kids call my dressy jeans “dad jeans”

chewing on the same toy because friends share