Huh

Trump must be watching this inauguration and working himself up to a rageposting tsunami the likes of which we have never seen, leading to an aneurysm which no amount of aspirin can possibly ameliorate

Bought a new lidded Pyrex™ casserole dish which comes with a generous 10-year warranty. Like I'll be able to find that receipt in even 10 months' time...

Another satisfied customer.

THE PIANO ACCIDENT finds Quentin Dupieux in unusually combative form in a reasonably straightforward* rumination on the function and value of art, especially in the face of the attention economy. It feels awfully like the response to some actual criticism he received, and he pulls no punches.

372 films watched in 2025, 336 of them first-time watches. Closed the year out with the Guillermo del Toro movie about a girl trying to save a boy's life, and daddy issues, brought to life with lots of close-in sweeping camerawork and a combination of prosthetics, miniatures, animatronics and CGI.

If you haven't actually read this article before resharing it, be aware that it might not actually support the point you're trying to make...

No arguments here

Does splicing four of your YouTube videos together to make one supersize YouTube video actually count as new content beyond providing viewers with fractionally less friction than serving up a playlist? Feels like a bit of a con to me...

Ooh, THE PIANO ACCIDENT just hit MUBI. Happy New Year me

No thank you.

Seeing some conversation about SPLITSVILLE being one of 2025's underrated romcoms and I would be way more sympathetic to this argument if it was funny at any point. Mind you, I didn't like MATERIALISTS much either, and that's part of the same discussion.

It's never not funny that I have a pile of pretty reasonable audio hardware and software here with which to do DJing which gets set aside in favour of a couple of open Finder windows and a set of Bluetooth earbuds for a simple evening of listening to some tunes

I love that there's a single track I can hand over to anyone who asks what kind of music I like, because it's literally everything that's happening in here. Also, Jocky Wilson.

So, about that AVATAR: FIRE & ASH box office...

I maintain that a key inflection point in the modern-day strand of anti-intellectualism is the mass-media penetration of Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time", a book which people bought in their droves only to proudly proclaim that it was a book they neither read nor understood

This is basically the subtext of LOGAN LUCKY

Another busy day at work, as in I wrote up 6 lines for my end-of-year-review, then finished reading a double-size holiday issue of one magazine, half of another, and had a nice hot bath. Some of these latter activities may have overlapped...

When the Tooth Fairy shows up offering hard cash for parts of your body you can survive without everyone's all about adorable child-gaslighting, but as soon as the Kidney Fairy arrives offering the exact same deal suddenly the conversation switches to ethical conundrums and illicit organ trafficking

The lady responsible for this has died. Before we dish out the eulogies, anybody got the skinny on her politics?

When everybody is dunking on my shit take but I have notifications turned off

Looking forward to being pancaked over the rear bulkhead with the 7G acceleration

Mark Cuban can suck all the dicks

"We saw you from across the room and are sure you'd really dig our vibe, but if not we'll make you"

TECHNICALLY speaking I was at work today. In REALITY all the work I actually did was charging some stuff up and reading some emails. Which didn't require replies.

Hans Bethe, the scientist who worked in both the Manhattan Project & USA H-bomb programs, wrote in 1983 a 40 page history called "The Story of Los Alamos." It seems not to be publicly available online except where I have made it so, free for all: osf.io/thjpk #NukeSKY 1/n

Oopsie

Centrists: shit or get off the pot.

I'm more the "Boys, you're about to witness something truly spectacular" type

So there's a Sydney Sweeney dunkathon going in the Letterbox user reviews for THE HOUSEMAID

One of my favourite bits of movie industry dumbassery was the lawsuit bought against Kelly Reichardt's 2013 NIGHT MOVES by the holders of the rights to the 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang on the grounds of copyright infringement which suggested they'd never actually seen any of Reichardt's films

Fun to read Letterboxd reviews written by French users that don't make a lick of sense either

truly: people need hobbies

When I was a kid my family was heavily involved in what was then the Co-Op Arts theatre, as in, there are probably still flats there which were painted by my grandfather, costumes made and altered by my mother and her mother before her, props made by my father, scores noted by my other grandfather

So it turns out @rianjohnson.bsky.social has wrought perhaps the most EPIC Rickroll of all time

Fed this image into the Google reverse image search, which it confidently identifies thus. Now, the FIRST problem here is that there is no such scene in PREDATOR...

Kanye is going to die. Nicki is going to die. Stallone is going to die. James Woods is going to die. Curb Your Enthusiasm core cast member Cheryl Hines is going to die. We'd better get used to pissing on the graves of people who once made work we loved when they've dedicated their lives to hate.

Perhaps live your life so that when you die people don't spend an entire day caveating praise of your artistic work with extensive reminders of your shitty politics, racism and misogyny.

That's not the colour that fingernails are supposed to be

Ooh! I've long craved an expert guide through the complexities of Dick's theological journey and the density of his Exegesis. Sounds like this is an essential work.

For most of my life my fingernails have been bullshit, something which wasn't helped by a tendency to bite them down to the quick, but in recent years they've grown long and strong (if still weirdly-shaped in a couple of cases) so it's an extra-huge bummer when I break one like I did today

"We can't beat AI, we're going to have to learn to live with it." Bullshit. We trained for this.

I've concluded that the real problem the noisiest performative AVATAR dismissers have is that they didn't spend a formative chunk of their life reading and/or watching psychedelic space opera and their brains just aren't plastic enough any more to grant it any purchase, so they dismiss it instead

There's no way this can be good

Ah, 28 December: 146th anniversary of the Tay Bridge disaster, which tragically took the lives of 59 people – and rather more happily gave the world ‘Sir’ William Topaz McGonagall’s most famous work

Let's just quickly check in on the PC Master Race... oh dear.

Watching THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, in which the French Army display Imperial Stormtrooper levels of precision firepower deployment. Also, there sure is a lot of this story of an army being sent in to suppress a rebellion against colonialist oppressors in your AVATAR movies.

Fed this into Google Reverse Image Search, which confidently identified it as a still from Kurosawa's IKURU and then went on to describe at length the scene in the film in which a businessman brings an apple to his young lover at the bookstore where she works before taking her down to the river.

Do you want a haunted ass? Because this is how you get a haunted ass.