Netflix is handily winning the Who Can Make The Worst Documentary race that no one asked for.

Every senseless death is a tragedy but Rob Reiner was a towering genius at making movies. Just an incalculable loss.

This entire weekend

We’re crushed to hear of the tragic death of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele. In his wide-ranging filmmaking career, Mr. Reiner made an indelible mark on the horror genre with his 1990 film MISERY. We mourn his passing and send our condolences to his loved ones.

Goodbye, Fall 2025 semester, and kindly go f*ck yourself.

L.A. Confidential is a Christmas movie. 📽️🍿🎅

A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?" He said, "I don't know, like $500?" Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.

Floridians remote starting their cars at like 40 degrees outside is adorable.

Watching the Packers field a better defense than the Bears isn't working for me.

This one also works for Hooters.

A reminder: Gregory Bovino may be gone and a bunch of his men aren't here anymore but Border Patrol is still in Chicagoland, randomly stopping folks at Home Depots and chasing people through the snow.

Investigating something as an act of terrorism is like automatic scoring reviews after the two-minute warning.

Thankful for every fiction prof who doesn’t start a workshop by showing students a picture of a triangle.

As you sit around the table on Thanksgiving jokingly wondering "Am I really related to these people?" Maybe you should actually be asking yourself, "Are these really the people I am related too..." Mimic #horror

The editors at: Hypertext Magazine Porter House Review The Wrath-Bearing Tree The Southampton Review Glass Mountain and Caroline Zancan who edited my novel

Miller as soon as Zohran leaves the WH

Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.

Loving this Larry Summers arc where he’s like, wow taking a step back from leadership now that I found out about my own behavior which I have had access to at all times

“Elite” is a pretty contested term and seems to shift between referring to a fairly small group to referring to anyone with a college degree and white collar employment. But Larry Summers really is a useful exemplar. There’s people like him that just get to sit at every single table somehow.

It says a lot about whose voices matter in higher ed that Larry Summers is still allowed to teach his college students, while Jessica Adams* is not.

LMAO

This looks SICK.

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

Alien Earth Season 2: Fugazi Over Eating a Ham Sandwich In a Casual Manner

This semester has reminded me of the joys of commiserating with peers in grad school: "They should take me out back and shoot me for how bad this essay is;" "My presentation is going to be the worst this semester;" "My short story is so bad this week you won't even believe it."

anybody on here who can verify that I'm me? just because A) I don't want to URL-verify, as I like being "SGJ" B) I don't have links to my site in my bio like BS likes/wants, C) my bio's just GnR (for the moment), isn't actually descriptive, and—real reason— D) too many fake SGJs popping up.

Volumes Bookcafe closing in Chicago is really terrible, disconcerting news. Small businesses are community building institutions; Barnes & Noble is not. B&N profits go to a hedge fund in West Palm Beach. This is a messed up timeline if Wicker Park of all places can’t sustain an indie bookstore.

Dare me to get hired before my comp students graduate and triple my salary.

250 years of Marine Corps today. I hope Philadelphia gets lit tonight.

I say this with authority as THE person in possession of the only privately owned copy of Sonny Landham's workout book, TOTAL MAN, that I am aware of.

Saw Predator Badlands. 🤔 Feels like a combination of Dune, Avatar, and Breath of the Wild.

PLEASE let it be called Gremlins 3 when it hits theaters.

This is a joke about dumb poor Kentuckians. A close read however, shows how many people in Kentucky want to vote for a %#!? socialist, they’ve reached out to their local electoral officials to make sure that they can. Tell me again how we need to be a little racist to attract rural red voters.

Feels especially cruel in The Sunshine State to move sunset an hour earlier. In Illinois it just makes sense. We know what we deserve.

I actually just submitted a flash piece mere days ago entitled "Dick Cheney is Alive." Who do we want me to do next?

"Cheney, that is to say, gave Donald Trump a template for looting the government and for what to run against and for who to scapegoat and how. In 2024, Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris's presidential candidacy and denounced Trump as a grave threat to democracy. You could almost laugh, or cry."

Friendly reminder that the dude who Dick Cheney shot while hunting for quail was the person who issued an apology. 😆

U.S. Marines have unsettling experiences after exploring the site of an Afghan-Soviet War–era massacre. John Milas’s THE MILITIA HOUSE is an excellent haunted house story and a vivid portrait of living with PTSD, but it’s Milas’s depiction of everyday life on the frontlines that held me in thrall.

I wouldn't have been allowed to start my PhD program without an MA/MFA. But my MFA doesn't count for transfer credit/course requirement waivers. Standby for a memoir of my experience at three levels of creative writing studies in postsecondary education at some point. I have a lot to say about it.

Catching up on Bill Paxton: - Brain Dead, a Bill Pullman movie that Bill Paxton is also in. It's boring & bad but I recommend it. 🧠 - Mortuary, an early 80s slasher movie. Biggest flaw is pretending the audience doesn't know Paxton is the killer after we *SEE HIS FACE* in the first scene. ⚰️

The Chair Company is perfect.

Finally finished Alien: Earth. Long live butt rock.

Go USC

I refuse to see a Tron movie without Bruce Boxleitner, but I'll keep listening to this.

Some prof asked if I had a pen and snidely muttered about "oh right, everything's digital now" when I told him no. Huh? Where tf is your pen, dipshit?

So, airline employees can "time out" of the allotted amount of hours they're allowed to work mid-boarding process, and airlines act like no one can anticipate this until the moment it happens when they finally decide to call a replacement? Dude, flying just straight up sucks now.

It's grifts all the way down with this administration. I'm telling you once again that an anticorruption rallying cry to wash these motherfuckers out of government would be a very successful vision to offer voters.

The “fuck your feelings” crowd is upset that you are hurting their feelings.

The TRON: Ares Official Motion Picture Soundtrack is pretty good, but if you're not gonna go with Daft Punk again then you gotta go with Disasterpeace all day every day.

Today is the four-year anniversary of my dear friend getting caught in the net of the opioid crisis in the US. I personally call it the opioid disaster. It has not gotten any easier to reconcile in four years.