You can tell Clarence Thomas loves his life because every picture of him looks like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining

If you're having a bad day, I'm here to remind you they make pajamas for horses

"While you're getting your ass kicked by war related high gas prices, the economy remains solid because the oil companies are benefiting."

Mind if I snuffle around in the dirt outside your window tonight for nutrients?

Playing the Horizon games and every time they talk about "The Derangement" I get confused bc that's what I call my 20s

if Popeye eats a radish he can breathe fire for 6 minutes

On this week's Selected Shorts episode, Remakes and Replicas, actors Santino Fontana, Nathan Hinton, and Maggie Siff perform stories about scaling the outsized real world down to manageable proportions by @benloory.bsky.social, Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Shirley Jackson. bit.ly/3QsihsF

If anyone is in the Whitehaven area, could you pop over to the Jawas and ask if they have any secondhand droids for sale, thanks.

Sandee LaMotte for Cannibal News Network

I’m not sure why I’m getting such a kick out of this, but on my walk this morning, my foot slid on something laying on the sidewalk. Looking down, angry and expecting to see a pile of dog crap, I found, much to my delight, that for the first time in my life, I’d actually slipped on a banana peel.

Things are getting esoteric over here (points to head). If I'm not careful, if I continue, I'm going to delve into mysticism in my fifties, sixties. (That's the trajectory, right?)

one of the hardest science topics is explaining to a modern person that in the 1800s geologists were more popular than streamers are today books exploring topics like the history of a rock were doing multimillion print runs, & guys giving talks on igneous vs metamorphic were filling sports stadiums

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

Just got in the elevator of a tall building and realized a love bug was on my shirt, it flew off somewhere near the seventh floor, sorry to this bug

wonder which warehouse will burn today

“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father & finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.” Lillian Gish

unfortunately i can't stop writing bizarre novelettes

I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so

“The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.” —Stanley Kubrick

Excalibur (1981) My dad, who was a huge King Arthur nut, took eight-year-old me to see it when it was released in the US. The violence I could kinda handle, but the horniness and sheer John Boorman-ness totally freaked me out.

The Aurai 🦇 Mark Molchan

Had a dream last night that George Saunders appeared in a new FINDING NEMO movie as a character named GEORGE FLOUNDERS.

“The pope should be careful before talking theology” is just extraordinary stuff. Top-shelf. You write one book that gets turned into a Ron Howard movie and suddenly you’re nailing your manifesto to the cathedral doors.

LOGGING ON

Have we learned nothing?? Yes. The answer is always yes.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

"Scotland" by palette knife painter Georgia Hart

Narcissus inswirled

unmute, this is 100% right

I have a job interview today!!! it’s at a great little local bookstore/cafe and I really really want to work there, even just part-time, so please send coffee vibes and bookish goodwill

If you sleep with earplugs how do you hear your alarm

CASH ON DEMAND (Quentin Lawrence, 1961). What a wonderful little film this is! As others have mentioned it’s a spin on A CHRISTMAS CAROL masquerading as a heist movie. Tense, clever & surprisingly affecting, with a terrific suite of performances from the three leads. (1/3) #FilmSky #1961Club

A few years ago, I was attacked by a dog. It changed a lot about me, including the book I was writing. I tried to describe it all here:

Concerning—

We live in a reverse-Omelas where all of us suffer greatly so that a couple dozen people get to live the most extravagantly luxurious lives possible with every happiness and fantasy afforded them.

My pitch to teach an ethnographic film class next year got shot down so just for fun here's a thread of what we would have watched

Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies. I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.

Woman at the bar is screaming on the phone in French at what we assume is her husband. The woman next to me speaks some French and she thinks he bought the wrong kind of butter.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit, achieving no savings. The IRS reductions from funding and layoffs have likely resulted in about $861 bn in decreased revenue. The layoffs from actions like DOGE alone have likely resulted in $597.8 bn in decreased revenue over the 2026-2035.

My financial advisor suggested I join a doomsday cult.

my lack of interest is acting up again

there’s no guillotine emoji what’s that all about

I think a lot about how the percentage of American men not reading is less because there aren't books that could appeal to men (duh), and more that genuinely dark forces have worked to suck all of their attention towards self-destruction.

I committed myself to a project but then I lost interest in it, and now there’s shit all over my house to clean up

French poster for Andrei Tarkovsky's STALKER (1979)

IF YOU’RE STILL IN BED STAY IN BED

Early salad (all greens and either too much or too little dressing) is the suffering you must endure to achieve the joys of Late salad (all of the tasty ingredients hiding at the bottom)

Boris Strugatsky - BOTD