This is true of most, if not all, Christopher Nolan films

God I wish there had been a Sam Peckinpah Iliad.

THE ODYSSEY (2026)

🎶Guess who just showed up today Those wild-eyed boys who burn and slay They're not a single ethnic group per se But they'll end Mycenaean civilization

Wish I could but the air is brown and it hurts to breathe? Not an ideal situation

...ABC and NBC made a duplicate key to the icebox and hid the evidence!

So uh, Chris Nolan read Julian Jaynes's bicameral mind book, huh?

while the rest of you are cheering "go Spain! or go Argentina! I'm cheering, sing to me, O Muse, of the man of twists and turns

The United States is turning into a kind of reverse Omelas: everyone is miserable except for a single child, Donald Trump, who inexplicably must be kept happy.

that thing where you go to the bodega for a Coke Zero and a bag of Cheez-Its and there is a FUCKING DEAD RAT in the box where the Cheez-Its are

Reading @paultremblay.bsky.social's incredible DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP, possibly his best novel yet, and at least the second to contain the phrase "consummate v's"

John Glover played "Daniel Clamp" - a mashup of Ted Turner and Donald Trump - in GREMLINS 2. Amazingly, he was not the villain or even the secondary villain. GREMLINS 2 is awesome btw

This is just more of Trump’s “I’m rubber, you’re glue” nonsense. He’s done it with fraud, fake news, and now he’s doing it with the Strait. It’s what he does when he knows he doesn’t have an answer but still needs to counter, it’s a sure sign he’s got nothing.

I literally found the Spanish version of "Are Catholics Christians?" on the ground in Coney Island yesterday. Weird that this specific niche topic has come up twice in 24 hours

A fitting way for the first half of this Mets season to end, I suppose.

revtrn

This is Honkbal erasure and I will not stand for it

in this house, we believe: crossword puzzle

Fortunately I had to work during 90 minutes of tonight's Mets game, or I would surely not be alive or sober or sane right now

For the rest of my life I'll remember how the Knicks won 13 straight playoff games until trump showed up

This is literally the average voter, it’s entirely vibes

oh we must be doin' something right to last 200 years www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP94...

I’m gonna be real with you all, I think that anyone who thinks America’s a shithole that isn’t worth saving isn’t worth listening to. The idea of a purifying revolution-to-come is a fantasy, a terminating piece of cope that keeps you from believing it’s worth putting in the work now.

What I love about this is: 3 of the eras are Dear Leader, 2 of the eras are 1945, and another 2 eras are 1980. The entire 19th century, otoh, gets 1 era

still the definitive statement on "can you cheer for team usa if the usa does bad things" discourse:

Underrated Velvet Underground song

I am always reminded of my cousin Darren, a born-and-bred Mainer, who told me that state public schools taught the Civil War thusly: "Slavery, states rights, blah blah blah, and then Chamberlain and the 20th Maine saved the Union."

looking forward to a day in America that doesn't feel like this

The weirdest thing about MAGA is: overt fascism is performed *entirely* to own the libs, there's no other purpose. Whether he means it is irrelevant

Trump acting like some kind of self-crowned Caesar is a bigger deal, in the sweep of American history, than toggles to opaque policy systems. It’s a more fundamental break with, and destruction of, the American republican system than tax cuts or welfare changes.

The Cubs game just cut to a health-care commercial featuring the New Radicals' "You Get What You Give"; when they threw it back to the booth Alex Cohen said, "Advocate Health sure knows how to pick songs."

Nirenberg's ANTI-JUDAISM explores how this is also a foundation of European culture. In the Middle Ages, The Jew symbolized a ruler, who selfishly placed his own well-being above the good of his people; Marx viewed capitalism as "Jewish" bc it's powered by greed & self-interest, etc.

For fifty years, fans, critics, and scholars have debated the meaning of the Eagles’ acclaimed 1976 recording “Hotel California.” Our new paper uses advanced AI analysis to finally reveal the hidden truth: it’s about what if there was a spooky hotel

I don’t know what series of events and circumstances led to someone in Iran being a Browns fan but I’d read a book about that.

We need a huge World's Fair and a fucked-up murder castle to go along with it

Obviously Mendoza was extremely bad at his job, but I also understand not wanting bad-mouth a guy who did his best, was liked & respected by players & management, and always behaved professionally

I love the minors so f**king much

Jonah Tong warming up before his start in Lehigh Valley

Never, ever go Full Queeg

This is why I say there's no place like New York. It's the only city where you could experience anything, from someone flyinga plane into the World Trade Center to your National League baseball team committing six heinous infield errors.

how do I primary David Stearns how do I unseat Carlos Mendoza

Not sure if this was the worst Mets game I've ever attended, but it's up there!

Seeing my friends talk about how the Knicks made them feel proud to be New Yorkers: Hell yeah me too Seeing influencers post about how the Knicks reignited their love of the city: I hope you go to jail

Misbehavin

ok schwarber, we get it, you can stop now