Hey, you’d see Keith Hernandez posted Willie Nelson and Keith Richards building the pyramids?

Welcome to the United States of America, where our nation’s foremost public intellectual and most popular broadcaster is the guy who played the handyman on Newsradio. He fried his brain on psychedelics and performance-enhancing drugs and people think he’s a genius now. All dreams are achievable.

has the ability to do this been lost entirely ?

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Overheard someone say that the only non-practical/toy gift their young kids want this year are Roblox gift cards. Grim, grim, grim.

30s period movies are funny because you’ll get Charles Laughton looking like he stepped out of a Holbein portrait, but he stomps around saying stuff like “We’re conducting state business here, sweetheart!” to Jane Seymour and all of the ladies-in-waiting have American accents.

I’m constantly impressed with how poorly Dems can read the room.

how does microsoft word still crash. how is it ever even slow. if pedals in cars worked like this everyone would be dead

First of all, these are absolutely dogshit Ellison title parodies. Also, his titles ruled. And for every "'Repent, Harlequin!'"Said the Ticktockman" (which by the way if you read the story, that's a pretty clear and literal title) there's an "A Boy and His Dog." So get bent, is my point.

let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness

I guess it never occurred to these women that calling their adult children “ungrateful little bastards” on social media might be part of the problem

Ok bet

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by dint of longevity Gran Torino now counts as mid-period Eastwood

My rule of thumb is that I don’t really brook Spielberg-skepticism unless it’s coming from like, Robin Wood. And that guy’s already dead.

if mick foley can stand on business anyone can and should

20s to 40s scifi: "The Amazing Men from Venus!" 50s to 70s scifi: "Go and Sing Your Sorrow To The Stars" Modern scifi: "The Interregnum Empire Chronicles Book 6: Revenge on Centauri" (cover is an AI generated chad holding a gun and wearing artstation core tacticool armor)

Apropos of Harlan’s Ellison’s legacy, him reading AM’s diatribe from his short story I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream did make the rounds as a TikTok sound recently. I think that story soecifically mat be his legacy as far as these things go. vm.tiktok.com/ZNRFEfEpa/

There’s an Ellison story I quite enjoy called “I See a Man Sitting In a Chair and the Chair is Biting His Leg.” It has nothing to do with chairs.

I want to make it very clear that I'm just here to dick around. Even when I'm Saying Politics it's no different than if I were doing it at a random bar. You can argue with me or you can agree with me or you can ignore me, just like in person, but none of us should think we're having any effect

Returning to twitter to minister to the hogs and do my part to improve the conversation. Fixing Andrew Tate's heart by talking about the NBA with him. Replying "Are you watching Plurbus" to a Rod Dreher post about demonic possession and kicking off a healing round of good-natured discourse.

I’ve had a lot of critiques of well-heeled American liberalism as a cultural tendency, but losing Rob Reiner is a good reminder that while the old-school bleeding heart libs had their faults, it’s a cultural tendency that we’ll miss once it’s gone.

they need to stop him

I’m putting a team together

Reiner was habitually singled out by everyone from the right to South Park as an avatar of Hollywood activist cringe but he consistently put his money where his mouth was and had the courage of his convictions, which grifters and smugger than thou “equal opportunity offenders” resent above all

need to coin a slur for VC backed "restaurants" like Wonder that pack a dozen brands of fake restaurant into a ghost kitchen and pump out AI generated reviews and bad discount codes to juice their awful business. mealslop is too literal

New Knives Out was good but there is something funny about how Hollywood always wants to depict Catholicism for the aesthetics and drama but somehow ends up doing American evangelicalism with Goth characteristics. Like *how* exactly is a catholic priest inheriting a church from his grandad

you can’t tell me this podcast isn’t just rereading copy from perfume commercials

This is one of the weirdest things when people are quoting Shakespeare. Practically every line Shakespeare ever wrote is being said by a character who has his own motivations, context, meaning. the lines by themselves are like saying lama sabachthani without, you know, the Cross

“gracelover712”

remember when this guy demanded that the entire country should publicly mourn a racist podcaster

Cold day! Winter scene with some exciting pig butchering by David Teniers the Younger, whose birthday is today.

I think it’s really stupid that our culture has to take the fucking Cum Town guys seriously

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

Was blessedly offline for most of yesterday and Jesus Christ it does not feel good checking back in on the internet

The George C. Scott Christmas Carol is the best one because the ghosts really give that miserly old bastard what for. The Ghost of Christmas present hates Scrooge’s rotten guts. Also, Frank Finlay’s Marley is the scariest Marley.

Eventually, every star of BIG NIGHT will host their own food travel show.

Had a blast with The Whole Bloody Affair. It’s starting to show its age a little (the early digital doesn’t look very good, there’s way more 2000s-ass handheld camerawork than I remembered) but I think this is the ideal way to watch these movies. Also you get to see Michael Madsen beautiful, huge.

Urbanists will talk about how cars are a machine that makes you selfish and crazy, and I know it’s easy to roll your eyes at that but if you give drivers the ability to comment they will say “yes I am selfish and crazy”

I’m sorry, the Riverbottom Nightmare Band is the best band of the 1970s.

“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

Why are all concert tickets being sold a year out now? How am I supposed know if I’m still going to want to see Osees *next October*? They’ll probably change their name again by then!

Had a stupid day at work, decided to throw on Beulah’s When Your Heartstrings Break. Easy fix, and you can do it any time you like.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

One of my favorite brick stupid 40k things is that the Ultramarines aren't "ultra marines," they're called that because they are from a place called Ultramar

Barnes and Noble is just The Romantasy Store now. That’s like 75% of what’s being stocked and advertised in their stores. I’m preaching to the choir, but this is such a depressing time to be a person who cares about art and literature.