Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

I reviewed Bone Lake. Sadly not nearly as interesting or sexy as its premise lets on. Weirdly, Heart Eyes from earlier this year is more fun, gorier, and with a sweeter relationship at its core. Go read.

It's also one of the all-time great examinations of the permutations of American masculinity and the ways they're toxic both to the person and their environment. Mamet today could never write this. It feels like a minor miracle we got it when he could have.

Happy 33rd anniversary to the movie version of GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. Mamet's rancid politics and personality aside, it remains an amazing examination of the soul-crushing pressure to survive and provide, plus it's maybe the best film adaptation of a modern play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6yb...

I'll never be able to unsee it

oh my god i just realized who he reminds me of

Online guy watching a movie: "The lighting don't look right. You can totally tell its CG." Online guy watching a video of a granny smashing a glass bridge full of people with a rock. "OMG"

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

I refuse to believe anyone is actually nostalgic for 2012

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

“Someone who says 'I am against abortion, but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,' I don’t know if that’s pro-life ... Someone who says 'I am against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty,' is not really pro-life."

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

Someone please buy my dream car.

When I once again have to enter the two-factor authentication code to log in

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

“We have finally created The Entity from the hit motion picture Mission Impossible: Do Not Create The Entity”

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

When you see the YipYip aliens from Sesame Street for the first time.

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

There we are.

I've got my copy of the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster sitting in my Switch *right now* and it is frankly *bullshit* that I have to be sitting at work and not at home playing it.

“Siri, zoom in.” @calltoactivism.bsky.social

generals gathered in their masses/president calls them all fatasses

Shane Black's PLAY DIRTY feels like something from an alternate universe where the ultraviolent American studio action movie got crazier and crazier until we wound up with something as insane as PLAY DIRTY. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

Sharing @stewbiedoo.bsky.social review of One Battle After Another. I love how he talks about from the perspective of a parent. open.substack.com/pub/stewscop...

Gen X was right about sellouts

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

I was looking forward to One Battle After Another, but it wasn't until I watched it that I realized just how much I needed to see it. stewscope.substack.com/p/review-one...

Everything else aside (and it’s a lot) he sounds 100 years old.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

I don't want to downplay the obvious racism evident in Hegseth's order to ban beards in the military, but I'm also gonna bet that part of it is because (I'm guessing) he either doesn't grow much facial hair or it comes in super patchy and ugly.

Small rural towns are infinitely more frightening than big cities. No one in a city ever asked me what I was doing there.

Passive aggressive level 100 this is how we roll in the PNW 🤣 Protesters in Portland are going ice fishing with donuts as bait on fishing polls, holding dance offs in front of ICE barricades in goofy costumes and just being incredibly annoying to ICE there's no violence from protesters whatsoever.

showing them all the new metal gear ray on a tanker ship

I lived in Meridian, MS for nearly a year and it was 10 of the worst months of my life.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

Do these men feel big, in their uniforms and battle rattle, their masks and their sunglasses, hauling away a little girl and her doll?

Perfection

He truly is Chance the Gardener from Being There. www.kgw.com/article/news...

Grok told users the lead singer of The Cure was the Mormon church shooter.

I went to the ICE facility Trump claims is "under siege" by antifascists and "other domestic terrorists." There were four protesters there, one a thoughtful young man in a chicken costume www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

It's finally nice outside in the evening, which means it's time to break out the outdoor projector

I always thought when I got older that a Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.

Every day I'm a little more grateful that George Lucas funneled 20 years of frustrations and dated hangups into 3 stiff but better-with-age movies about democracy & religion with a few problematic aliens. Now spends his days growing organic veggies and coming up with fun names for action figures.

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit