Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college (this does not work for my all-required undergraduate institution): Freshman Seminar Freshman Language Sophomore Music Junior Math Senior Lab

Someone posted about searching "The Baileys" on AO3, and I saw there was nothing. I thought that was a shame, so I wrote some. And because I'm incurably me, it came out as nearly-smut, with the Baileys addressing D/s-verse legal issues. Mind the tags, please. archiveofourown.org/works/78683141

Might fuck around and write up an analysis of Socrates as the Jimmy Stewart character in Rope, just steadfastly denying that the atrocities committed by his star student(s) had anything to do with his tutelage.

It's a perfect day to watch No Other Choice, adapted from Donald Westlake's novel The Ax.

<tired Road Runner voice> "sleep sleep"

Fortunately this was a false alarm and there were additional showings this evening, and it was even better than I thought it would be. Just one of the coolest films ever made and the standard by which every crime action movie should be judged.

Tremendous album somewhat spoiled in my memory by the fact that, in the neighborhood where I was living when it came out, there was about half a year where 4 or 5 nights a week a car would drive by somewhere between 2 and 5 in the morning blasting Work

Movie reviews again I guess? Park Chan-wook hasn't had a miss in the last quarter of a century and No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다) keeps that streak alive. He hasn't had a straight comedy in a while and this is probably his funniest, even with the grim subject matter (taken from Donald Westlake). 1/7

Superboy Prime basically IS the entire ethos of the administration: "I am angry that the world is not behaving like a bunch of fiction set in the 1950s that I liked but starring me, and I will kill people until it starts doing so."

We're doing Harry Potter discourse so I'm just gonna say: if you're looking for books by a bigoted author to shit on that not only better embody the author's bigotry but also warped generations of nerds into self-righteous evil justified by their own superior brains, Orson Scott Card is right there.

Helpful Reminder: AMAB - Assigned Male At Birth AFAB - Assigned Female At Birth A CRAB - Assigned CRustacean At Birth

My hottest salad dressing take is probably still pretty lukewarm but: Oil is a necessary component of an emulsified dressing but if you're dressing a salad with oil and vinegar you'd have a tastier salad with just the vinegar.

Sad that (for reasons of schedule, not snow) I can't make it to the one-night showing of Hard Boiled at my local theater. I bet that movie looks amazing on a big screen.

Only a third of the Columbia freshman class grew up in the Mid-Atlantic region at all, whereas Mamdani grew up IN MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS (And this is the "Columbia Jewish Alumni Association," people who lived in NYC for 4 years an indeterminate time ago and weren't affected by public school closures)

"Santa Clara" you can just say Mrs. Claus

So still it must be said the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

What the hell, doing movie reviews now. The Fire Raven (匿杀) is an absolute fucking mess and I really enjoyed it. Tonally all over the place and most reminiscent of a mid-budget '80s thriller from the U.S., right down to the vaguely sci-fi setting that doesn't do much in terms of story impact. 1/4

No one asked for my review of All You Need Is Kill but here it is: For the first time in history we have a situation where the live-action Hollywood adaptation of a Japanese light novel or manga is definitively better than the Japanese animated adaptation (still pretty good though)

Passing another theater while I head to my movie and booming out of the closed doors I hear "I have the eyes of a hawk and the ears of a fox" and I have to say even in that context the atmosphere really pulls you in.

say what you will about the state of cbs news but as this friday moves along I'm getting increasingly dokoupilled (drunk on whiskey)

What do we think?

Take a TV show, Film, Novel, or Video Game you love and rename it like it’s one of “those” light novels. "All Of Us Wanted To See An Elephant So Now We're On A Bus All The Way From Shijiazhuang to Manzhouli!"

Take a TV show, Film, Novel, or Video Game you love and rename it like it’s one of “those” light novels. "Why Are These Five Comedians So Bad At Doing What I Tell Them To Do? Try And Get My Head If You Can!"

I might just do a bunch of these. Take a TV show, Film, Novel, or Video Game you love and rename it like it’s one of “those” light novels. "My Mom's Cool New Lover Is Starting To Settle Down So Now My Friends Want To Sacrifice Him?!"

Take a TV show, Film, Novel, or Video Game you love and rename it like it’s one of “those” light novels. "I Thought I Wanted To Be Milton's Daughter But My Husband Sucked So Now I'm Going To Live Faithfully A Hidden Life!"

gonna RETVRN to tagging fics "lemon" and "lime"

I'm extremely gay but I like musicals in the way a new york jew (which I also am) likes musicals more than in the way a gay man likes musicals, if that makes sense?

There's something amazing about the narrator of Cat's In The Cradle going "I was never there for my son, and now he's busy taking care of his own sick kids so I can't visit him: I guess he and I are the same." I don't get the sense that Harry Chapin noticed that.

It's weird that a middling Sam Peckinpah western was indirectly responsible for naming bits of two entirely different anime that were important to my teenage self.

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the gop solution to the top shortage. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

I can't get over the names people are giving their kids these days. I met a toddler with the most ridiculous name I've ever heard, and (if this kid was telling the truth) he's not even the only John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt out there.

trying to date this other nobleman but he has way more low-level servants than I do call that a problematic page gap

Orson Scott Card has many sins to answer for and some are more morally culpable but this is probably the most destructive.

Changing the prompt to "what movie would you let Ikuhara Kunihiko adapt into an anime" and letting him take extreme liberties with the adaptation, I think he could do incredible work loosely based on if... (1968) or The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017)

"You weren't like that before the beard."

Reading through the discussions of training videos in the replies here is reminding me that I should rewatch Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World, which is not just the best movie about making a workplace safety video but one of the top movies of this millennium so far.

OHHHH. I've just figured out something about my travel experiences.

A lot of people are going to say Dick but this feels more DeLillo to me. (Glib but not unserious answer: Donatien Alphonse François)

This is specifically the idea of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, of course.

Having grown up in a pretty global world, it's basically impossible for me to imagine the past where one of the major writers of Japanese mystery fiction could just adopt the pen name "Edgar Allan Poe" and publish under that name for his entire career.

This history of this practice in NYC is complex and suggests a need for guardrails—the Donnell Branch, one of the largest (previously housed the central children's room) was sold to be the site of a hotel with a MUCH smaller replacement in the basement—but "housing on library bad" is a Bad Take.

This is accurate: I was not ready AT ALL (I was bracing myself for something apt/funny about heat pumps or insulation and it still caught me totally by surprise).

I'm late here and had to search for this post to quote it but I found the perfect reaction image at the store last night.

Dr. Mabuse, the gambler, will return in Avengers: Doomsday.

What is the U.S./American cuisine equivalent of yaroa or doria and why is it sicilian pizza?

I sincerely believe this about Bartolo Colón though

I have too many to fit in a post but (for various reasons and in no particular order): 1. It's All About Love (2003) 2. Luz (2019) 3. Office (2015) 4. Hamlet Goes Business (1987) 5. Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966) 6. Patriotism (1966) 7. Bully (2001) 8. Nudist Colony of the Dead (1991)