I've been a bad, bad girl I was frivolous with ideas around boys And it's a sad, sad world When the frisson of transgression turns out to be so much noise

Watched the "tearful" video on Insta—clearly shot and edited by pros for that faux amateur/faux leaked look. Doubtless part of a doc project to come.

Sorcerer II: Hundreds of NYC Heating Oil trucks get sent to the Gulf to give the owners a chance to work off fraud charges (below) Drivers: 1 Influencer who needs the money to buy a pricey ticket to out 2 UK tax refugee who can't go back 3 A gulf state failson www.nyc.gov/assets/doi/p...

Kobe stans: "81 points? That's his thing!"

What if Rocket from the Crypt had made it through New Wave and come out the other side artily and angrily committed to hooks? #ClevelandRocks www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLpR...

The collapse of Los Angeles’s Mediterranean climate is going to be ugly

It will never match Robert Evans's pitch that launched Paramount into the 1970s—"Telling a story about how it feels, rather than where it's at." (low-res, shortened, from The Kid Stays in the Picture) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNeX...

Seeing a Puck headline about Saks is like seeing a Colorstar headline at Defector: gotta stop everything and read

Turned off grammarly in Word long ago. Can someone check to see if, somehow, I'm an "expert" in cinema studies? I may have to program an all-Seagal festival in which an "Above the Law" "Executive Decision" sends me "Out for a Kill" of someone "Hard to Kill" but "Marked for Death" "On Deadly Ground"

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 The @amcinematheque.bsky.social's Bleak Week will be in 73!!!!! cities worldwide this year. A global film festival built on the irrefutable idea that heartbreak feels good in a place like this. www.americancinematheque.com/series/bleak...

Stitch him up with a flat felled seam so he can finally become a human pair of jeans

*goes to Wikipedia to find out more about Chaldean Catholic Church* *finds talk page locked after 12,239 competing edits by supporters of Louis Sako and Bashar Warda*

Today’s insight: Guy Debord would have been a legendary poster

Um, @mattseybold.bsky.social, if it is Gee then the time to launch buckeye-based EdTech startup was yesterday.

Clearing the decks: Young Norbert

Nothing but respect for my bride

I hear, on good authority, that the ocean will have us all

This is Sousa's Washington Post March–the kind of irony Robert Altman would have appreciated. Act I: Democracy dies in darkness Act II: In which Bezos guts the post to make it into a cheerleader for Trump and his minions Act III: Literal soundtracking the global fascist alliance, with lulz

No problem

Project Hail Mary plays incredibly well. An enormous middle-school movie with enough grit to work for most of us old jaded types

Project Hail Mary plays incredibly well. An enormous middle-school movie with enough grit to work for most of us old jaded types

Here's the pitch: Act I: a complit grad student is desperate for feedback from her legendary, and AI–hating adviser, and is getting nowhere. So in desperation she decides to kill him, hoping the ExpertlyAI will train on his work and give her the advice she needs. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

I can see it now: Wifeswap, Late Late Capitalism edition

Nicole Holofcener Wicked Pavilion

Working on a theory that Striplaw is part of the Severance extended universe. You have an innie, and outie, and a cartoonie. That way— Hold on, there are a bunch of well-armed men at the door going "Tudum! Tudum!"

I do not eat swine, but I stand alongside all those who are jamón ibérico posting in defense of my shoppy shop patatas fritas.

This is my version of being a Kaihara Mills selvedge snob (the uniball Jetstream .7mm is about $3, so, not really much of a snob)

This week's @hollywoodhandbook.bsky.social with William H. Macy has what could be a hacky bit where they redo Fargo with AI, but the results are so off-kilter that it reaches that transcendent point @hayesdavenport.bsky.social's old Indochino ad reads used to.

How I arrived on BlueSky

Are the Raveonettes the band with the biggest delta between their best—absolute Great Achievements in Pop—and their worst? Anyway, this is as good as it gets www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nh_...

Trump playing The Great Game www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psgn...

The Testament of Ann Lee Experience will be coming to Disneyland's new Searchlight Adventures park this fall

CFTC Wrecked My Parlay? I'll be streaming my reaction on Kick at midnight

My secret is out

So Target's turnaround plan is hacking my phone?

Sometimes I just want to retire from the world and teach an enormous collection of outmoded computer hardware to play Echo and the Bunnymen’s Never Stop

With the announcement that Armageddon is the military's actual plan, I'll be logging off www.youtube.com/watch?v=_quy...

Screened the first episode of Mussolini: Son of the Century in class today and I cannot speak highly enough of its gargantuan soundscape. I don't know that I have it in my to rewatch the series given the world, but it is a truly enormous piece of television. Luca is unbelievable.

If—unlike Tommy "6 months" Friedman—you are actually interested in listening to "the campus left," you might try devoting a couple days to @thedigradio.bsky.social's 5–part series on Iran (thedigradio.com/category/iran) with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour from 2022

Cool cool. The disgraced former president of my university is publishing an apologia with Encounter Books. Company you keep, etc.

This new album by Memorials is gonna be fantastic memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/all-cl...

For a little while at least, it can be unsurprising that there is an impending GBV album. But the first single, "We outlast them all," has a Prospero's Book vibe. stereogum.com/2490320/guid...

Remember when the savvy "national greatness" play was to argue for renewable energy in the US to give the country more latitude to go to war with oil producing nations? Amateurs. Anyway, shale oil is back on the menu, boys.

in today's newsletter, @adamtooze.bsky.social works through prescient passages from Baudrillard's Consumer Society to conclude that a) Trump is the Baudrillardian president but b) we are likely beyond Baudrillard. It's a sharp argument, as usual > open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Can you get a kaftaji sandwich in LA? It doesn’t look like it? World City designation: REVOKED

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Solid reporting out of Tehrangeles in the LA Times www.latimes.com/world-nation...