I LOVE THEM YOUR HONOR

Happy friggin’ Alien Day everybody. Today should be a national holiday as far as I’m concerned.

Happy friggin’ Alien Day everybody. Today should be a national holiday as far as I’m concerned.

Was worried I was going to need to walk for a portion of the Ravenswood Run this morning, and then I set a PR for 5K

Happy(?) Alien Day

REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE screening at Doc Films got bumped back to the end of May. Chicago, you should turn out for this one

I have had to deal with surgical drains for two separate loved ones in the last six months and I gotta say, the human body is a disgusting miracle

Failed his sword drill spectacularly

Okay third episode of Breaking Bad got me good

My coworkers taught me how to play euchre during lunch breaks over the last week, one of the final induction ceremonies I needed to consider myself a true blue Midwesterner

I want this for me

The end of RETURN OF THE KING can still make me cry

in many ways new york city is the chicago of the east coast

Adaptations from literature to film through the lens of dynamic equivalence translation theory (I was a linguistics major who had no business writing a cross-disciplinary media studies thesis)

in anishinaabemowin, akiing, the word we use for earth or the land as a place, translates to “the land to which the people belong” we aren’t meant to be disconnected from that relationship

it is Earth Day and also Plover Fever is heating up in Chicago so here are some Piping Plover things I have made

t-rex in: no no no, no more mistakes, only correct things all the time forever and ever!!! please please please qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

ICIRR has two new jobs with the FSN hotline, which people in IL use to report immigration enforcement activity and seek free legal services + social services for detention-impacted families. Permanent director: www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit... Contracted manager: www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit...

elaine may 94th bday........ur all actually legally required to buy my book today. most people don't know this but it's true bit.ly/missmaymacmi...

One of the houses I pass on my commute to work replaced their tattered “thank you Trump” flag with a Knights Templar crusader flag, which is cool and fun and not concerning at all

Dammit I’m gonna have to go to the TOP GUN anniversary rerelease, aren’t I

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

Trigun Maximum is in constant motion, so the quiet moments are always striking, but this one gets me good.

The hell it will

Alien Day is this upcoming Sunday, and I’ve got the perfect book to celebrate it with

Maniacal laughter, yes yes yes

Idumea

Next year will be the 10th anniversary of this joke still not being dated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssj_...

Deeply funny that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is in theaters and yet the branded promo at McDonald’s is for KPop Demon Hunters

I LOVE this piece. It reframed how I think about and watch the movie. And it was one of the pieces that convinced me to become a @brightwalldarkroom.com subscriber.

Regret to report that the novelty Oreos got to me

For your Sunday morning: two movies I loved about knowing and being known

The most interesting part of Alien3 (remember, the title is ‘Cubed’, placing it literally out of sequence with Aliens) is sorting out *why* Fincher treats Aliens’ resolution—Ridley as Newt’s adoptive mother—as a fleeting dream, destabilizing the plot’s relationship to Ridley’s series biography.

Guy designing the Nostromo: However many chains you think we need on the ship, double--then triple that number and that's what we'll put in the ship's chain room. Assistant: Yes, sir. And the chains are dry, of course? Designer: You're fired

I read this essay that was mentioned in @brightwalldarkroom.com's newsletter, and it reminded me that I should finally watch Alien 3. Not used to seeing Charles Dance young.

For the night crowd

Okay so with a name like “Breaking Bad,” present tense, I was expecting the first season to be a Surf Dracula kind of situation where we watch Bryan Cranston get wound tighter and tighter until he finally breaks in the finale, but no, he gets right down to business and just does it in the pilot

First harvest of the season baby

This weekend at Seeing & Believing: not one but *two* raves, a first for the newsletter

the US president is WEAK on soteriological exegesis

Folks, if you love the ALIEN films and a great unified vision that links them all, you’ve got to read this. The new edition is really great and made me rethink ROMULUS.

Love The kind you clean up with a mop and bucket

A great feeling: looking over at the bookshelf and realizing that the book you wrote is out and has a bookmark in it because your spouse is reading it

Thus begins the reading list for the next research project

I love them, your honor

Oh hey what if someone wrote a whole book about how that single employer is the personification of ultimate sin

This is more than legislation. This work is personal to me. theonion.com/illinois-bec...