You know it’s an Italian exploitation film when the grossest shit you have ever seen in your life is paired with the most upbeat elevator-music pleasant soundtrack of all time. “Oh look, we scored this footage of actual animals dying with a Nelson Riddle arrangement. Mamma mia!”

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Opinion havers don’t understand that culture is an industrial process with many hands and many masters, and not the sole work of either one fucked-up artist in a room or the gestalt consciousness of an evil corporation.

I think this is a solid framework to explain the mindset and taste of how so many educated millennials interact with art and culture.

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the things that you are mad about, big issues that create big feelings, cannot be pinned on individuals to make you feel like you've accomplished some great act of solidarity. a lot of you are assholes, and racist, and deeply unlikeable. and that is an individual problem.

i'm a black freelancer and a lot of my internet friends are black writers -- and black women & femmes. you all hate us. you talk to us like we're beneath you, contemptible, and complicit in our own oppression and yours. and then you're confused when we don't want to engage with you.

you do not have blanket permission to treat people like they're subhuman because they have more followers than you, a verified account, or bylines in a specific publication. we are also people. we have feelings & opinions, which are sometimes wrong. that doesn't mean you get to behave like animals.

People out here inventing new conspiracy theories so they don’t have to deal with the ones that got proven true

Call your Senators. Be LOUD. I know I will be. Find Your Rep: www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Idk man I think opium should be the opiate of the masses

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

"Horseshoe Theory" is the theory that horses need shoes. It's controversial because most animals don't wear shoes.

I think it’s not too far off to say, from the fascist worship of Herzog’s deranged penguin to the left’s relentless addiction to despair, from endless wars to purity politics to the dismantling of the nation’s institutions, the 21st century has almost been The Age of Suicide.

everyone cracking wise, even smart folks, don’t realize nesbo already got one over on them

There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening

the daily beast has some kind of persistent glitch with showing the wrong headline/image combo on google news and the unintended comedy is adamantium-tier

If I was in a Pluribus scenario I’d definitely try to save humanity but first I’d make the hive simulate an entire season where Justin Herbert gets competent offensive line play

I've started a little film essay blog. My first piece is on why in the dying age of film criticism I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do it. I love to write about films. I know the internet too well to do so. cinemastroll.substack.com/p/a-long-con...

you could write an entire book about this post and I will for the right price

This is exactly what everyone in the mainstream media has sounded like eulogizing Charlie Kirk

[Discussing a movie review in which the writer keeps mistakenly referring to a character’s house as an “apartment”:] “He failed the spatial relations section in film class”

Tom Clancy’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

Rest in Peace, David Lynch

RIP, David Lynch. Truly one of the great weirdoes in film and television history.

Thank you David Lynch for your boundless empathy

Perry, the donkey who served as the Donkey model for Shrek, has passed away at the age of 30.

lolsob porn/romance scam bots are now putting Dem resist stuff in their bios because they found that their follow back culture is an easy way in

Woody Guthrie wrote a song after FDR's death with a refrain that works for Jimmy Carter as well: "This world was lucky to see him born" www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Dear_...

fun fact the only reason is Warner Bros. owns DC Comics is because in 1966 a mob-owned NJ parking lot company merged with an 1880s-founded house renovation service and went on a truly random string of acquisitions.

Aspiring filmmakers forced to rely on October month and Spirit Halloween to source cheap costumes and props

We are now at the point we must beware of the Chumbley

fun fact the man who writes all the conservative NYT headlines is a slime troll who lives in a poop cave and is paid exclusively in old bones.

Luigi Mangione just retained an attorney.

The idea of a Luigi Mangione implies there's a Waluigi Mangione.

B. J. Novak post more like this

I presume vast schools of pricklefish swim near the holly reefs. They don't teach spelling in those schools, though.

NYPD suspects that the killer of United Healthcare's CEO has fled the city, but they are not giving up. 24 hours a day, in precincts all over the city, officers whose heads are the exact size and shape of a Boars Head boiled ham showing each other stuff on their phones and injecting steroids.

Is there any worse self-own than hitting snooze, then proceeding to have an absolutely face-melting nightmare during the ten extra minutes

The CEO of an amoral health insurance company has been assassinated, leading to celebrations from an angry populace, moral debates, and a citywide manhunt. Critics are calling it "preachy Oscar bait that wades into heady topics without much to say about them". 49% on Rotten Tomatoes.

honestly this method of filmmaking sounds headache inducing but fun, like doing algebraic geometry in order to play pretend in the backyard