Btw & for the record if anyone cares, I never compared my students to “nicotine addicts,” I said our attention spans (all of ours) are determined by the media themselves, and if we’re consuming media in shorter sustained bursts then our foci conform to those durations and temporalities. Anyway.

Server in cafe showed me how to use empty shells of mussels as tong to eat remaining mussels stunned to learn technique so late in life but also that mussels provide custom tools for their own consumption, as if they purposefully evolved to be eaten with human hands

The petite victoire of being asked directions by random people in Paris

Struck for no apparent reason by the strangeness & versatility of the word “while,” and increasingly anxious by the need to distinguish “awhile” from “a while”; like “apart” and “ a part” (of, from), the irreducible madness of English agrammaticality

My story “Rabbit” is up at @100wordstory.bsky.social today—big thanks to editor Michelle Ross for selecting it 🐰 #microfiction 100wordstory.org/rabbit/

Attended Avatar premier, amazing but still Papyrus

Even after a dozen or so viewings, Train to Busan has to be one of the great films of this generation

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The view from the International Space Station as an aurora meets the sunrise in space.

For over 10 hours across 2 beautiful days in 2017 I spoke with Marcel Ophuls, who told some of the most brilliant stories about his life and those that lived and died around him. I could produce an entire book consisting of nothing more than his own words from those two days.

Alcatraz is a beautiful prison but Shawshank State Penitentiary far more practical: only one person—baseball legend Bull Durham—has ever successfully escaped from there.

My dream of pronouncing tariff like Omar Sharif one step closer to reality

Govt announcing tariffs on movies produced in foreign lands meaning I now have to go to Narnia to see Chronicles

Keep seeing TV ad claiming that AI will one day ensure that trains arrive where they are supposed to & wondering how bad are trains now?

Among his many accomplishments, none greater than Top Secret!

And what kind of soulless loveless party censures Al Green?

New research reveals Josephine the Singer a transgender mouse

Make America Oscar Again!

Supposed to feel relief that Oracle taking over TikTok algorithm, like no one remembers Matrix, why not just hand it to T1000?

A ladybird beetle spreading its wings captured with a high-speed camera. In real-time wing deployment from the fully folded state takes less than 0.1 seconds. Video credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al.

Lost among President Trump’s many executive orders on first day of presidency was renaming country of Turkey now known as Gravy and Stuffing

In a phantastic virtual etymology, the words “precise” and “precious” would share a common origin

What if dreams are not, as Freud says, the fulfillment of a wish but rather a form of communication with the incommunicable, a metaphysics of communication across the thresholds of excommunication: the fulfillment of a communion no longer possible?

Breaking: Sources tell NYTs Lorne Michaels behind Trump plan to annex Canada

David Lee Roth holding press conference shortly to address speculation rumors misinformation that his first act as mayor will be to rename Canal “Van Halen”

United States should be focused on annexing Pepperland

Since US annexing Canada increasingly realistic, could we please force some of world’s greatest media scholars to teach south?

After returning, first 2025 priority cleaning & refilling fountain pens, everything else later or 2026

Two headache inducing wines and an uneasy Gregor Samsa like sleep and I’ll be back at the world’s greatest airport

Realizing now that United Premier 1K is largely honorary designation, like Rose Parade Queen

Gonna write an existentialist play about someone stuck in airport lounge waiting for upgrade that never arrives but can’t leave either and has to spend eternity eating weird salad that tastes like chicken

Only now noticing Harry Dean Stanton as FBI in Godfather II

Since Alien and Deadpool didn’t work out on plane, am back to Drive, which never fails

Alien Romulus is origin story of the face plant

Why can’t they just serve Panda Express on airplanes?

Deep into electrostatic sound STAX Omega & 007 mk 1, because at some point nothing thing else left

Totally being profiled

Happy Thanksgiving to all, including the literally evil demon-zoku cry babies that tried to destroy humanity but was rebuffed by Fudou Akira, AKA Devilman who will make all monsters great again & again.

Because it’s awards season, watching frenzy like the French nouvelle vague did, so far this past week Anora, Didi, Gladiator II, Joker folie a deux, My Old Ass, Queer, Room Next Door—sometimes the films merge in my dreams

Larry Auerbach Dies: Venerable WMA Agent & USC Cinematic Arts Associate Dean Was 95 deadline.com/2024/11/larr...

Once I get over jet lag gonna make a starter pack of everyone that’s made a starter pack & call it “head starter” or “John Malkovich”

Spent so much time in airplanes & airports recently now randomly tell people “while service is my passion, safety is my priority.”

If I could start my own social media platform I’d call it “airport lounge” and you wouldn’t interact with anyone, just overhear conversations & it would have features like “salad bar” & “alcohol you’ve never heard of,” and after a while you’d wish you were back in physical reality

World’s greatest airline sent $20 voucher to ease pain of my interminable terminal stay but now have to choose between tictacs & bottled water since, well, am in an airport