HAPPY HOLIDAYS Wilson Creek, WA

Important to remember that The Atlantic and similar elite publications are essentially make work programs for legacy Ivy admits that are still too dumb to take over their family business of poisoning wells in Argentina.

If you watch one Nutcracker this holiday season, make it Tacoma City Ballet www.youtube.com/watch?v=u98m...

Here's a thread of some of my favorite writing this year at The Chinese Cinema. Starting with this final trip to the venerable Grand Illusion Cinema for a 35mm martial arts triple feature www.thechinesecinema.com/a-martial-ar...

I vowed to write more in 2025, so I started a substack titled Old New. This is a thread of my favorite pieces I was able to publish there and elsewhere.

Half days are so wild, a glimpse into a beautiful alternate reality where you get paid full time to work for only four hours.

beer mom

You mean, other than the Baby Assassins?

I watched Eephus with my son and wrote about it for InRO’s Best Films of 2025 countdown inreviewonline.com/2025/12/22/b...

This is an unbelievably good deal, if you don’t have the Zatochi Criterion set, I doubt you will ever find it cheaper than this.

CHOTINER: and when you're in water you PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right. CHOTINER: And this is because PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here

After ruling the HK box office with A GUILTY CONSCIENCE and THE LAST DANCE, Dayo Wong is looking to go 3 for 3 in this first teaser for NIGHT KING, reuniting with the director and cast of A GUILTY CONSCIENCE and joined by Sammi Cheng.

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Lucy Liu have you seen Throw Down?

I agree, Lucy Liu.

Uh oh, look out!

I watched Eephus with my son and wrote about it for InRO’s Best Films of 2025 countdown inreviewonline.com/2025/12/22/b...

Continuing to translate new subtitles for the Golden Princess catalogue until I finally explode.

Fantasy football disaster for me yesterday, including one loss that cost me a shot at at least $400.

Bob Dylan writes about Willie Nelson in a new New Yorker profile (Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything") www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This holiday season I implore you not to gift your friends and family or yourself the Shout versions of Hong Kong classics. Get the Arrow or Imprint versions instead. Order from Diabolik. It’s remarkably easy!

The full line-up for the V-Cinema focus program I curated for the International Film Festival Rotterdam is up now: iffr.com/en/iffr/2026... Miike, Kurosawa, Aoyama, Takashi Ishii and lots of films that have never been shown in a theater before. Plus the full Crime Hunter trilogy!

Everyone in the federal government and the media only has one job and it's frantically running around and trying to hide evidence of the president's many crimes. They are so tired and all they want is for him to at least pause the crimes for a minute but he keeps on doing new ones

Johnnie To took questions from the press at the Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival on Saturday: He's intent on finishing the movie starring Anson Lo he's only shot ten days so far in the last three years. He's been procrastinating, like an old man feeding birds. 1/5

Nothing exists in itself.

Lol bucs

This holiday season I implore you not to gift your friends and family or yourself the Shout versions of Hong Kong classics. Get the Arrow or Imprint versions instead. Order from Diabolik. It’s remarkably easy!

They’re shook

Found out that one of my son's teammates, who was at the Seahawks game Thursday night, left after Darnold threw that second interception. It's understandable I guess: they were down 16 in the 4th, it was a school night, traffic back to Tacoma is bad. But man, that's just heartbreaking for him.

i actually don't have a lot of trouble believing that god returned for his flock and the refs were the only ones to be raptured

cowboy who stubbed his toe:

How the Grinch Stole My Catalytic Converter

we must go back in time and destroy baseball usenet before it leaks

It should also be against the rules to blow a 16 point lead in the fourth quarter.

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

If this is for the day I turned ten, well. . .

We Are Going to Win.

2. City the Animation. The most delightful show I saw this year. Animation that looks simple but is subtle and complex. It's impossible not to smile at this show that explores contemporary living through gentle humour. This is a new entry in my shows I watch for an immediate pick-me-up.

Earlier this year I counted down the Best Chinese Language Films of the 21st century. Here's Part One www.thechinesecinema.com/the-best-chi...

Sony is buying a majority stake in the Peanuts franchise, which includes world famous cartoon characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown. https://bit.ly/3Y3yLbu

You want the Seahawks' game-winning drive in one clip? Yeah you do

oh my god

I hated every second, mind you. And I very much yearn for death. Go hawks.

Can we start on a primary challenger for Cantwell already?

(Pete voice) CAN YOU WIN THE GAME IN THE FIRST SECOND THIRD OR FOURTH QUARTER

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They turned it over 3 times and still won, to all the people saying they'd have beaten the Rams in LA if Darnold only threw 3 INTS instead of 4, congratulations, you were right