☀️JULY☀️ JOE DANTE w/ @drewmcweeny.com & @ericvespe.bsky.social and @dtmasterson.bsky.social JANE CAMPION SUPER w/ @thathagengrrl.bsky.social & Taylor Blackburn 21st CENTURY PALME D'OR w/ @812filmreviews.com & @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social and @thesmark88.bsky.social And in August... BROOKS MONTH!

Yes, Emily Blunt is amazing, and for as messy and clunky as it is, I still ended up liking it a surprising amount, but my top-line review of Disclosure Day is: THAT IS NOT WHAT EMPATHY IS

Big day tomorrow

The mistake was thinking that it hadn’t already been decided that Susan Collin’s was going to keep her seat.

It’s been a real dang long and circuitous path getting here, and I still have to take my comps and a write a dissertation, but I did just hit send on the paper that completes all the coursework for my PhD.

Out now: The full proceedings volume of this year's #Evolang @evolangconf.bsky.social - 575 pages full of interdisciplinary research on the origins and evolution of language! doi.org/10.17617/2.3...

I wouldn’t mind at all if the byproduct of all of this was a bipartisan fervor for non-partisan maps.

Had known there was a new Tom Waits/ Massive Attack protest song coming, but hadn’t heard anything ahead of time about the video that goes with it. youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE?...

Wild Middle-Earth Thyme

Our new LP The World Is to Dig is everywhere 4/14, but grab your headphones and tuck in for the weekend because you can download it NOW. It’s a fundraiser for our studio work! Help sustain our project and hear all 18 new song before the rest of the world does! Exclusively at TMBGshop.com.

I've created a list for Bluesky users who were part of philosophy Twitter back in the day. Help me populate it! Also happy to add people who wish they had been part of the old community. I've added a few names already. (Ask if you'd like to be removed.) bsky.app/profile/did:...

Lost an ear bud. Found it in my ear.

So, obviously not what “disarray” means, but also, there are no shortage of examples where fields being cleared and candidates going untested is why they later lost in the general. This is what the process is supposed to look like.

These security questions are all only things I either have no answer to, or a wishy washy answer I won’t be able to remember 5 years from now when I need it.

Not nearly enough Oscars went to The Toxic Avenger.

If just five of you buy an annual Bundle in the next few days, it would make a huge difference. If ten of you did, I could breathe easy for a while.

Not really sure what the AI future looks like when there is nothing new being written by humans to summarize. futurism.com/artificial-i...

So, what exactly are the constitutive features of a ‘world war’?

This is such a weird book to have been this prescient.

If you find yourself anyplace that carries Outsider Magazine, my article on Macon Blair’s recent The Toxic Avenger reboot is in the new issue out now.

It is kind of a marvel. For a live recording it’s a fairly clear sound, the vocals are up in the mix, Stipe has a powerful controlled delivery, the instruments aren’t overpowering, the pacing isn’t terribly fast, but after the first 5-6 words I’m just completely lost.

I could be sympathetic to someone with the radical free speech take that a platform for anyone needs to be a platform for everyone. It’s not my position, but I get it. It is something else though when you’re intentionally cross promoting nazi content and knowingly taking a cut of their profits.

"We came here today to play the game, and we came here to win. I don’t give a damn if you’re only ten weeks old--when their linebacker hits you in the face like a bag of dicks, you need to get up, nip him in the belly, and run the ball down the field."

WANT!

Muting the phrase “says all that you need to know”, as I’m finding that any post ending that way only ever seems to be reiterating something I do in fact already know.

New muppet special is kind of perfect because it’s not trying to be anything more than a new episode of The Muppet Show. Would watch however many of these they want to do.

Not really sure how Netflix comes by their graphics, but marketing The American President with a picture of a very serious looking Michael J Fox is a crazy choice.

Great premise. Psyched to see this series unfold.

Nope, Harry Potter has just been replaced with Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Rilo Kiley Rainer Maria Cyndi Lauper Regina Spektor The Dresden Dolls

This reminds me of a thing Bill James wrote forever ago about Yogi Berra having the ideal body type for base ball.

Please note that our screening of Frankenhooker at The Community Theater is on Saturday and is not to be confused with the Pre-K Matinee on Sunday. Any one of pre-k age who tries to get into Frankenhooker will be turned away. We are sorry for the inconvenience. 😉

I heard that Beltran has asked if he can be inducted as a Dodger.

Either (1) William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops, or (2) Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports.

Feel asleep listening to music and got woken up by my own dancing because of how sick the bounce to this is. open.spotify.com/track/5A2r83...

Wife got mandated at the hospital. I get the kids solo an extra 5 hours. She gets to try to keep folks alive until 11:30, then cross her fingers that she stays awake the whole drive home. This is definitely better than just hiring more nurses.

“We’re gonna run the country” invites a great many questions, but at least they have the rest of the weekend to work that bit out.

Perhaps it would be best if a different country hosted the United Nations.

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The podcast will start again early 2026! Our first guest will be my colleague David Wallace.

I have a friend who's a leftcath from upstate New York and his review of Wake Up Dead Man was literally just 'I've met both of these priests in real life just in the diocese of Albany'

So deep in the Dungeon Crawler Carl hive that I have 7 books I’ve reread more times this year than 57% of Americans have read books

Related: Empathy as a Core Competency in the Finnish Classroom

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

I’m listening to an interview Reiner did with Ted Danson in September, telling a story about how he met his wife, Michelle, while making When Harry Met Sally. His meeting her so affected him that he changed the ending of movie to have Harry and Sally wind up together. He believed in love again.