I interviewed John Bengtson several times for my Keaton book. If I had a question about a silent film location or fine point of L.A. geography I'd email him & he'd reply w/in a day. His books on Keaton, Chaplin & Lloyd's locations, & his blog, are indispensable: silentlocations.com/about-john-b...

Order to release Adrian and Liam Arias is a real barn burner storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The full run of SCTV for free. God bless and keep the Internet Archive.

Sometimes I wish I lived in Chicago for the Music Box alone.

Doctor: I’m sorry, you have Microsoft Teams Exposure…. the only cure is watching a movie from the 90s on mute at your local dive bar

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

Catherine O'Hara as Katharine Hepburn for SCTV. Genius, genius, genius.

When I’m lying next to you I feel moonbeams burn, I see rainbows turning to gold When I’m lying next to you I hear Angels play, I see sweeter days, I see rivers wind Through the end of time damn, what a movie youtu.be/QvsBX8qjKcg?...

When the veil of dreams has lifted/And the fairy tales have all been told/There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow/More precious than a pot of gold 🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...

You may have heard that Sam Raimi is fully back on his bullshit with SEND HELP. I used that as an excuse to pore through 45 years of (frequently) great genre filmmaking: thereveal.film/worst-to-bes...

Rummaging thru my closet for that old jacket from the Trump I era that expresses my feelings about this

As I hope you already know, there's a new Springsteen song called "Streets of Minneapolis." I'm going on my fifth listen myself. If it's your first, you may well be saddened but you won't be sorry. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Dream hire by what is now an indispensable news source, whether you work in the tech world or not.

Fascinating writeup on how the German press has been covering Greg Bovino's, er, fash-ion sense. It's not just the SS-style greatcoat--the accessories are all vintage Nazi gear too! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A collection of Kaleb's writing put together by his family. www.kalebchorton.com

Pepperidge Farm remembers hearing about the creation of a "Department of Homeland Security" after 9/11 & saying "doesn't that name sound kind of ... fascist?"

hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading

Tiananmen Square, Minnesota-style. So cathartic to watch.

They are just asking for guillotines.

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

The director of the Minneapolis Emergency Management Department.

When the camera turns a corner at the 30-second mark & you see how far back the wave of people goes ❄️❤️

Song for the Minnesota strikers/resisters that will get stuck in your head for hours (complimentary)

Big shout out to the people still posting on the CSAM website. Good job being unable to make the smallest possible sacrifice imaginable

Amazing choice for the first year of this category—the casting of every actor for every small role is inspired. Sidney Lumet/Mike Leigh level of finding character actors w/ unique faces and presences.

I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?

I want names. And trials. And convictions. And sentences.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

The sanewashing machine can't hold up under the strain, Captain! She's gonna blow!

sure, you can "celebrate Presidents' Day," or you can come to @paristheaternyc.bsky.social on Feb 15, see a 35mm print of Barton Fink, and watch me interview John Turturro while trying not to tell him how the movie changed my life

Sounds like a you problem, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella

One Battle After Another 2: Bob Ferguson in Winter

This is a very funny piece but I have one word for Luke: hammock.

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

Screenwriter Ruth Rose was born today in 1896. #botd Best remembered for her work on KING KONG credited with such lines as "Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." Pictured holding a Cebus monkey as part OF her work with THE NY Zoological Society.

The rent money has now been donated, but let's raise this family a little more. They are going to need grocery delivery, diapers, an extra cushion of money for a family sheltering at home w/ no income for who knows how long. Hell, let's raise enough $ for them to enjoy some small luxuries.

This is something I've been thinking daily since Renee Good got shot: If her wife had been femme-presenting enough that they seemed (to the ICE-chud mind) like two straight women, she would probably still be alive.

See? The protesters *are* getting paid.

We did it, humanity. We gave the Nobel Peace Prize to a troll. 🧌

Goddamn but Roth is good

My future rep is the one who wants to abolish ICE.

Ishmael heard about your mom 🐋

I do not understand why anyone would want to interact with any tool or person this way, leaving aside the fact of the error entirely

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

"The Sheriff immediately escalated the matter"--the matter being: someone drew an oinkie on my Starbucks cup 🐷☕

The KKK-stone Cops

This is what it looks like when the entire neighborhood is willing to defend each other. I love Northeast Minneapolis with all my heart.

Vance's conduct this week is obviously impeachable. I'm talking about his public conduct. Whatever private murder coverup he's participating in is what you find out once you start impeachment.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder