We owe this man so so much

Bowie Birthday Thread And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They're quite aware of what they're going through

“The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful Of each other, we should be kind While there is still time.” From Philip Larkin’s The Mower

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a centrist pundit scolding you for using bad words and being insufficiently deferential to the boot stamping on your face—forever". George Orwell, if he were alive today, probably

Why the hell should people be peaceful and calm right now? I’m all for calling for nonviolence, but peaceful is a weasel word that lets police call any protest illegitimate. “Their violence” is treated as something without agency, the citizens being murdered are the only ones asked to do anything.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Shoutout to the fellow dad at school pickup today absolutely blasting Bloodbuzz Ohio out of his car. Hope he was doing so in a rockin’ out way and not a going through it way.

I know its boring to talk about, but it’s bizarre to me how little blame Trump got for Covid. On Jan 6, 3,915 people died of Covid. Almost a thousand more deaths than on 9/11 and it just gets blinked away.

1926 - A Page Of Madness 1936 - My Man Godfrey 1946 - A Matter Of Life And Death 1956 - The Killing 1966 - Coach To Vienna 1976 - The Signalman 1986 - Blue Velvet/Chopping Mall 1996 - Fargo 2006 - Pan’s Labyrinth 2016 - Nice Guys Went personal faves over “best”

Trump knows he’s running out of time so he’s trying to fit a whole decade into 18 months. He’s playing all the Gilded Age hits, now onto colonialism

World got ya down? Let me recommend 44 minutes of jangle pop. This album by The Sharp Pins just came out in November and answers the question of what if Teenage Fanclub was even more into early Beatles albums? Really into it right now.

This illegal attack on Venezuela is awful, but at least they’re upfront about the fact it’s for oil. There’s a long history of the US over throwing South and Central American countries for all kinds of motives. Ever read up on the reason we overthrew the Guatemalan government in 1954? It’s bananas

Great episode of The Memory Palace on Emma “Grandma” Gatewood, who in 1955 at the age of 67, was the first woman to walk the Appalachian Trail. She’d go on to hike it 2 more times and hike The Oregon Trail. Lived in rural SE Ohio, saw an article about the trail and thought “I could do that” and did!

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Trying to remember some of my favorite books of last year, I really need to start keeping track The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk The Burglar’s Guide to the City - Geoff Manaugh A Month In The Country- JL Carr Picnic At Hanging Rock- Joan Lindsey North Woods- Daniel Mason A bunch of old murder mysteries

Slaps hood: “This bad boy can manufacture so much consent”

I 100% endorse this and want to add a related amendment: No more responding to people who are clearly acting in bad faith as if they’re making reasonable claims. I keep seeing people getting bogged down refuting claims that are clearly a pretext. Don’t waste your time, just say Fuck Off instead.

This feels worse than 2003, which I didn’t think was possible.

Know how when you’re driving and judge everyone who’s going faster or slower than you? Relatedly everyone who logged more movies than me on Letterboxd clearly has no life and everyone who logged fewer is uncultured. I alone watched the perfect amount.

I'll be thinking of you & your PROBLEMS.

Was already excited about the new #Crew96 coach and descriptions about his style of play. But the fact the Haslems hired a Marxist with a masters in Lit? Oooh baby, that’s amazing. Can’t wait for this guy’s post game quotes.

At the track doing laps and I see a guy standing by the gate doing a long whistle over and over. Just as my curiosity turns to annoyance a shadow flies right over my head and lands on the gate. “Where you been buddy?” he asks, as a raven hops onto his arm and they walk off together arm in claw(?)

Really enjoyed the new Knives Out last night, Smart to make Blanc equal parts Poirot, famous detective for hire and Miss Marple, who usually isn’t the main character in her own books. O’Connor is a star. And if your favorite part is the scene with Louise, you should definitely Somebody Somewhere.

The 12 year old stayed up with us last night and learned an important life lesson: the Times Square ball drop is pretty boring. We didn’t even turn it on until 11:57 and she was still let down. She also had an suggestion, instead of the ball dropping slowly it should plummet down right at midnight.

And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last

Remember The Night (1940) a Sturges penned Christmastime romantic dramedy: Stanwyck is always so good at showing her characters thinking and realizing. MacMurray’s character is not quite the Boy Scout he first seems to be. Beulah Bondi is great too. Love those cold, black Midwestern skies too

Merry Christmas and remember, All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away.

Merry Christmas and remember, All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away.

One of my favorite things about Christmas Carol movies is seeing what they do with the Ghost Of Christmas Past, who is almost impossible to depict onscreen as described by Dickens. The 1971 animated comes closest. Muppets capture the uncanniness, old ones usually give up and do a pretty girl or…

Love this photo of my mom meeting a department store Santa, this would be 1956 or 57. Looks like something out of LIFE Magazine. The little doll is perfect.

Physically I spent the morning at a very rainy shopping center in Southern California, but mentally I’m in Saul Leiter’s wintry mid century New York.

Not to jinx it, but it’s almost Christmas Eve and I still haven’t heard Michael Bublé’s Santa Buddy yet this season. A song so awful it’s an affront to God on par with the Tower of Babel. Thank goodness for small miracles.

The Raveonettes - Christmas In Cleveland

I don’t care who you are, 5.5 inches is impressive. Plenty. More than enough. An objectively large amount of rain.

This sounds delightful, gimme some silly little guys marching around.

It only gets lighter from here. Happy Solstice

There’s 7 maaybe 8 people in the world I’d drive to LAX for. Unfortunately for me, one of them just landed.

Getting outside before the atmospheric river hits

Remember Punch Buggy? Well today in the car the kids invented the 21st century version, the Cyber Slam. Everyone always points out every Cybertruck they see anyways, might as well punch someone too.

“We’re here tonight and that’s enough” Thanks Paul. Truer words never spoken.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Trish has been out of town this week and it’s mostly gone as smooth as expected, but I just finished stress eating a donut over the sink, so…

Watching the new Frankenstein tonight (can you tell Trish is out of town this week?) and looks like after Barry Lyndon’s downfall his house and estate were bought by the Frankensteins. Bet they got a good deal on it too.

As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year. Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_... Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.

Black Christmas is a good slasher that’s actually pretty funny but man oh man does Margot Kidder as Barb just steal every scene she’s in. Whenever she’s not on screen all the other characters should be asking “Where’s Barb?” Much closer to Porky’s than A Christmas Story in Bob Clark’s oeuvre.

Pros: Crop circles! We’re overdue for crop circle discourse Spielbergian aliens Cons: It’s got that Spielberg Sheen™️ that most of his recent movies have and it bugs me just enough to be distracting

Kim Novak’s Christmas tree in Bell, Book and Candle might be the coolest one ever. This is a fun movie and I like that she gets karmic revenge on Jimmy Stewart for Vertigo which came out a few months before this one.

One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.