This is basically the scene in Being John Malkovich where Malkovich’s agent blithely accepts his radical career change: “Poof, you’re a puppeteer.”

"I'm doing my part!"

Tom re-framing "bad contracts" as contracts that undervalue PLAYERS, is why he's the best and NBA junkies should subscribe to his newsletter.

Was just watching that BREAKING BAD episode where Hank and his DEA guys get ambushed at Ciudad Sault Ste. Marie.

"What kind of TSA PreCheck Member are you"

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

My wife and I were just talking recently about whether this movie had already come and gone. She wasn't sure. I insisted that it had. Alas.

God gave Stirtz a platform to miss all nine three point shots he took in the biggest game of his life. God is cruel like that.

Man this Iowa half court offense is ass. Any point they’ve made over the last 10 game minutes feels like a miracle.

Cannot recommend this piece enough. Beautifully written, with an absolute killer of a closing graf.

Raftery

My based son Saxon:

Yep, classic pivot to center.

This is an important stretch of the season and they needed the full two days to scheme for a big game against the Wizards.

Mwahaha

Switched from one game where a team nearly won in OT without making a single field goal and another team won with a guy missing seven straight from the line. College basketball!

Me watching Hector walk out to fight Achilles by himself

New reviews at The Reveal today: @kphipps3000.bsky.social is fond of PROJECT HAIL MARY. I'm mostly into the latest in minor-key Christian Petzold, less so into a READY OR NOT sequel that somehow squanders the chance to hit a fat satirical target: thereveal.film/in-review-pr...

Finally, a real use case for JavaScript

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

Zuckerberg: I said, “I do not fear those pants With nobody inside them.” I said, and said, and said those words. I said them. But I lied them.

Today in The Reveal, I wrote a New Cult Canon entry on BACURAU, another story of community resistance from the director of THE SECRET AGENT, only weird, twisty, blood-soaked and featuring nods to John Carpenter and Spandau Ballet. Also Udo fucking Kier. thereveal.film/the-new-cult...

Team USA

What an insane way to frame the race by AIPAC. Both Biss and Abughazaleh were anti-AIPAC and if you add their totals with Amiwala's, over 60% of Democratic primary voters in IL09 voted against AIPAC while only 20% voted for AIPAC's preferred candidate.

I’ve never once in my life rooted against the USA in international competition… until now.

oh hell yes, had kalshi getting charged before april on polymarket at +2500

The most famous scene in Network is a man screaming out his window that he’s mad as hell. Everyone remembers that part. But what people miss — and what really matters — is what comes next.

Joe Kent is neither the worst person you know making a good point nor a broken clock; he’s a notorious antisemite and white supremacist who is blaming Jews to get out of a real job that’s quite difficult right now as we increasingly explode the world and create the conditions for terrorism.

The Moody Blues 🎵:

Chicago currently:

An incredible ethering here by Chotiner.

Love the footage of Diane Warren grooving to the recording of her own song like the guys in BOOGIE NIGHTS.

Ugh, looks like this Oscars telecast is going to run over into the Jazz-Kings game. Unfortunate timing from Hollywood on that.

Welp, now everyone's going to call Barbra Streisand "Babs." When will she learn?

Love how the Academy just completely shut the door on that WICKED sequel. Just a flat no in every minor and major category.

Good job Academy for rewarding both the short I liked the most ("Two People Exchanging Saliva") and the one I predicted would win and felt fine about ("The Singers").

We should have even less-recognizable actors doing this Best Casting Oscar. (I just want to see Abel Ferrara at one of these ceremonies is what I'm saying.)

Really disrespectful for them to continue awarding Best Animated Short after Kobe won

Kind of hoping that the Diane Warren song will be performed in that alternate ceremony with Kid Rock at Dave & Buster's.

Giving it to the Criterion movie. The Oscars are so snooty.

Just let Conan do an hour-long set and send the winners out in a press release.

Folks, a reminder that we're having a 20% Oscar sale on new subscriptions to The Reveal. Benefits are many but among them is access to our Discord, where @kphipps3000.bsky.social and I will be chopping it up with other Revealers during the ceremony tonight: thereveal.film/oscars-sale-...

My blazing-hot Oscar take is that most of the Best Picture nominees are excellent, most of the nominees in the other categories are excellent and I suspect many deserving people to win tonight. (Alas, this take is unpublishable, even in my own newsletter. And probably in this skeet, too.)

When you choose the movie and everyone hates it

Vote Stratton! Whoever wins could serve for a long-ass time, and a progressive is essential.

Really good, in-depth Albert Brooks interview by @mitchellbeaupre.bsky.social around MODERN ROMANCE at 45. letterboxd.com/journal/albe...