Great article about how the Alamo Drafthouse has forgotten the face of its father. I was already soured on the place for reasons (mostly) unrelated to the in-theater experience, but if the in-theater experience is bad, too, then what the H are we even doing here? What a pathetic decline.

Fab-looking post-doc available at Northumbria on 'The Horror of Place-based Harms' for someone who specialises in Youth Work, Social Work, Geography, Sociology, Education or Anthropology work4.northumbria.ac.uk?fbclid=IwY2x...

jennifer lawrence. rt if u agree

Attn Edinburgh folks and fiends, I'll be participating in this film festival in Leith at the end of April, including introducing an outdoor Screening of Watership Down! fiendsinthefurrows.com/programme--t...

This is catastrophic.

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

'his position appears to be that if a philosopher has been publicly and harshly critical of a view defended by other philosophers, they should be deprived of the opportunity to participate in influential professional assessments' - wouldn't be many REF panel candidates left in this case!

I think a 20 minute session of doing an expressionist painting of Bert was the break down I needed to have today.

okay finally there is good news (please don't let this be an early April Fools joke)

This BETTER include the UK

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Soon.

Do I know any other UK-based authors who have published with a US press and now have been sent tax forms? Any idea what I'm supposed to do with them? I genuinely have no idea if I'm meant to just file them away or if I do owe tax to the US government (many reasons I'm grumpy about this if so).

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

I had stuffed french toast in Toronto nearly 8 years ago to this day, that I still think about. [Alt text for the quoted post is 'fck a breakup, have you ever craved food that's not in your city?']

It is always fun when Mary Shelley pops up in Midnight Pals, especially because I hear her in Elle Fanning's voice because of that biopic about her.

I got notified that a funding application I reviewed through 2 rounds wasn't successful despite my emphatic recommendation. I can only assume that Reviewer 2 continued to Reviewer 2 or that's just how ridic hard it is to get research ££. It would have been a great project and I'm sad/mad about it.

Big purchase requires big Internet. This is simple math

Chappell Roan Makes Amends By Kidnapping 11-Year-Old Fan https://theonion.com/chappell-roan-makes-amends-by-kidnapping-11-year-old-fan/

“A good movie makes you want to rewatch it for sheer entertainment. A great movie makes you want to revisit it because it recharges some basic part of you that may be running low.” - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Really concerning. We tend to think of book banning in schools as something that happens 'over there' in the US, but it's important we recognise that the UK isn't immune to this dangerous nonsense either. Emily sounds like she is an amazing librarian and I hope she can get work again.

Saw your boyfriend in Hobbycraft

If you want to be both entertained and grossed out today, I recommend Sara Bareilles's Instagram reel about her finding and disposing of a mystery animal carcass found inside the wall of her house. She sings!

Did any other British Millennials have an irrational childhood fear of meningitis or was this just me being a hypochondriac from an early age?

“furniture in your brain” is a banger

This happened to me when I sat my parents down to watch The Substance and I very quickly realised that it comes across different to normies who aren't watching body horror and Dr Pimple Popper on the regular. My dad quit before the end.

Between this and Madigan it's so good to see genre film performances being respected.

Some red carpet faves at this year's Oscars. Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee looking great in gold tones

I love them too (shocker). No, they are not an "objective" measure of quality. But subjective, idiosyncratic measures are much more interesting! The Oscars capture a moment each year that lets us see how the industry wants its aspirations represented. If you care about film history, that has value.>

this is one of the things i hate most about the book censorship project that swept through public schools. kids should be reading stuff that’s spooky, disturbing, horny, maybe a little bit evil. that’s what keeps you coming back for more. that’s the good stuff.

I am writing a manifesto

I actually did get COVID recently despite my best efforts (e.g. using a nasal/throat spray when I can't or don't want to mask), which was frustrating. But you know what, my partner - who had a private vaccine just a few weeks prior - got barely a sniffle. So make of that what you will.

Reposting as the only person in the train carriage wearing a mask.

If you don’t want to review something, don’t do it! If you don’t want to do academic work yourself, just quit!

Damn, I got my PhD in the wrong discipline

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

In the UK they’re called a John Waters Closet

mandating equality in public accommodations is so woke 1.0. woke 2.0 means mandating that every building accessible to the public have a John Waters Restroom (all gender)

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

This quote isnt just out of touch or disappointing, its fucking dark. Gay people are not a conversation parents need to have with their kids? Knowing gay people exist doesnt require therapy?? Any parents who thinks that way needs to have their kids removed ASAP. Get in a volcano, Pete.

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Disappointing words from my VC. The headline is misleading as he is quoted as saying 'A-levels or equivalent', which is super vague and actually contains such a broad range of qualifications (including Access courses) that it makes you wonder if what he's calling for would make any difference.

First thing that comes to mind is: James Whale's The Picture of Dorian Gray. I once had a uni assignment to write a pitch for a horror movie to occur in any period of Hollywood history and that was my pick.