Anyone ordering anti-ICE #stickers from a heavily targeted city— now #Portland, #Minneapolis, Chicago, DC, etc.— I'll throw in extra ICE GO HOME stickers to help, because fuck these chuds. nobodyssweetheart.bigcartel.com

Houndini.

This is Rufus. He cleverly escaped the shelter to run home after being picked up by animal control as a presumed stray. 14/10 a hound Houdini (IG: huntington_cw_animalshelter)

Does absolute immunity for a paramilitary group mean that if they say, vigorously kicked a member of the executive office in the groin, they couldn't be charged? And they would get a 50k bonus?

A great article on the efforts of the U of T Film Archive and their Pop-Up Cinémathèque. I'm still working on convincing them to make the Feb 9 screening of Zéro de conduite a back to back screening of the film (since it's only 41 minutes). ZdCX2!

Every new detail of the incident in Minneapolis makes it worse and worse. The victim's spouse was right there and saw her wife shot almost point blank?!? Also, I know it's a lesser concern (for most), but do we know what happened to dog in the car with the victim?

Welcome to the era of negative equality.

On the bright side the VP is a spineless narc who will squeal and sell-out _anybody_ to save his own skin or grab at power. If there's ever legal justice to be had for the moment's crimes, he's not going to have anybody's back. Not that he shouldn't face the same consequences.

nobodyssweetheart.com has relaunched.

Skippy was amazing actor, as made clear by his roles as Asta in The Thin Man and George in Bringing Up Baby. But I wish Hollywood had given him an opportunity to really stretch his range and play a beagle or doberman pinscher.

Don't sleep on Prism Shores if C-86/shoegaze from Canada is your thing.

Didi-Hubermaniaques, ça commence encore... www.youtube.com/live/RYL0ibd...

The episode in which Gumba looks into all the hoopala around Geese, only to be less than impressed.

Newish to letterbox, but it turns out Chandler Levack is my most watched director and Austin Butler my most watched actor. Each only contributed 2 titles to my list of 43 films logged since September. In truth, I watched 12 of those 43 films 3 times each (but only counted them once).

We could also just discuss Brassaï... Escalier de Montmartre (Au chien blanc) (c. 1932-33)

To my dining companion, at a nice restaurant: Your order is making me question whether you ever cracked the copy of René Schérer's Nourritures anarchistes I gave you last Christmas.

A new year, a new favourite film!

NYC hasn’t been the same since Rip Taylor passed. As a child I recall how every New Year’s Eve he would magnanimously grow to 30 stories tall and gently shower the city with his pocketfuls of confetti.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 01,1943

01 Jan 2026

You know what? All of this GenAI shit has just got me realizing that the people with all the money in the world have never had an IDEA in their life. They don't actually know what one even looks like. They need a machine to fucking supplement what an idea is in their tiny brains. That's insane!

Watched Mission : Impossible - The Final Reckoning and Radu Jude’s Dracula back to back. Both nearly 3 hours long. Both cast AI as a villain. Jude’s film thinks _through_ the slopiverse’s vulgarity, exploitation, and authoritarian tendencies at the level of content and form w/ political imagination.

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We could all talk about Clarice Lispector instead! it’s kind of all I want to talk about. The Hour of the Star is the most exciting thing I read this year (me who is a million years behind, like a stargazer).

Dear American academics, UBC is part of Canada’s poaching plan for strategic research areas (including enviro, climate, water, Arctic): research.ubc.ca/federal-rese... Applications due JAN 15, so hustle.

R.I.P. Sundowner's Nick Gergesha

Everybody's going to be reposting this. As they should. "Privately funded educational technology is a threat to the very idea of public education."

Happy 130th birthday to cinema!

Imagine getting a 54 year retirement and squandering it being a racist and ally of the far right.

Had O little town of Bethlehem sandwich stuck in my head all day.

What are some good recent comedies? I liked Bottoms and Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain. Can be from anywhere!

The episode in which Gumby, finding himself alone in an arctic landscape, experiences the agonies and ecstasies of churning butter.

The episode in which Gumby tastes the horse milk of human kindness.

The only grindset I want to hear about in 26…

His brother punches in for his shift.

The artist seeking a subject worthy of his next great bark…

Clarice Lispector Gadget

Ernie Bushmiller, 1947

Bari Weiss is a narc’s narc.

Chronicle of higher ed: how academic leaders can rebuild trust after selling out faculty and students. Maybe you don’t?

Cibo Matto's followup song was less of a hit www.youtube.com/watch?v=COMW...

The episode in which Gumby introduces the gang to the irrefutable logic of "I have two hands, therefore I need two treats."

The cowgirl was already taken by the time I got there.

Public transportation is the core of civil society. Ride the bus more often.

I find each case of suspected academic integrity takes about 2-3 hours to deal with at my place of employment. Teach a big class and those hours add up quickly. Cheating in the hyper administrative university is not just the theft of somebody else’s ideas but of somebody’s (ahem) time.

Dogs Do Magic. If only Barthes were alive to do a mythology entry on it. A more accurate title would be Dogs Dance Around Magic.