It’s October, and I’m watching a horror movie every day. Today, it’s Robert Altman’s ‘Images’ (1972).

I have a lot of thoughts about these games as both narratives and play experiences, but nothing but affirmation that these are fascinating and fun to play!

I'm watching coverage of the gov shutdown. Absent is the recent Supreme Court action allowing the president to rescind budgeted funds. They destroyed the negotiation necessary for this process. How can there be compromise when one side has established that they won't abide by agreements they make?

September 30th / October 1st

tfw your local indy bookstore comes through for you.

Marya’s Letterboxd is a fantastic resource for films directed by women, silent films, old Hollywood, noir, Palestinian movies and just about anything else made under the sun.

Texas Tech isn't the only university system handing down chilling, verbal-only directives banning discussions about transgender identity. If this is happening at your institution, I want to know about it--reach me on Signal at emmawhitford.96 www.insidehighered.com/node/192421/...

Not sure I've seen Foucault lay out his entire research program and approach so clearly in anything else I've read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Read this article and just replace the word "Jew" with the word "trans" and see how it sounds.

Now would be a really good time for all Democrats to say this loud and clear for Trump to hear:

What Wikipedia editor did Priscilla Pointer offend?

There is only one store I want to return to in 2002 and it was full of VHS tapes and smelled like Twizzlers and popcorn.

And hamburgers taste better when cut in half.

Bullet casings collected from the scene were engraved with the words "has enough time passed now that we can collectively admit that the Barbie movie wasn't that amazing"

I'm growing increasingly fatigued and annoyed by criticism of major filmmaker's works as being about the work of filmmaking itself. It's old-fashioned analogical hermeneutics, but instead of reading everything as the unfolding will of God, it's about the unfolding hassle of making movies. Blecch.

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

Its Monday morning and the President of the United States has committed another impeachable offense by threating to withhold funds from a major city in order to persuade voters not to vote for a certain candidate.

Pumpkins and pup.

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

Fig. 1. The reproduction of labour.

Jonny Greenwood’s score for OBAA is historically good.

In today’s D&D session, my character found a secret door. And in that secret room was the big baddie. Faiza rules.

This is a BINGO card for the banality of evil.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

Very much looking forward to the concerned film-industry pundit posts about big-budget movies and profitability à la Sinners. variety.com/2025/film/bo...

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.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

Such noted orangutans as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren, Louis Brandeis, and John Marshall Harlan. Clarence Thomas on prior SCOTUS rulings: “You could go up to the engine room and find that it’s an orangutan driving,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Clarence Thomas expresses the contempt SCOTUS feels towards legal precedent and civil rights: “You could go up to the engine room and find that it’s an orangutan driving. And you’re going to follow that? I think we owe our fellow citizens more than that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dang. Warner Bros straight-up did a big-budget F ICE.

I once again ask the sports networks to dedicate a channel to the football halftime shows.

This is a BINGO card for the banality of evil.

Dang. Warner Bros straight-up did a big-budget F ICE.

Congress has the power of the purse (unless King Trump decides otherwise) 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

What?

In case you missed it, my review of @emilyherring.bsky.social's terrific bio of Henri Bergson is #1 at the Los Angeles Review of Books right now. It’s my love letter to the GOAT of philosophy—take a seat and have a chat with him here 👇 lareviewofbooks.org/article/when...

Genuinely one of my current wellsprings

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Economy trending to recession, Epstein files looming, unemployment spiking, inflation. Guess you got to try to win something.

Would have killed if he had dropped an “Ozymandias” quote.

We rejoin the fight against anti-Semitism, already in progress . . . www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Dear high-school English teachers, though I want to emphasize that we understand why simplifying rhetorical structure can make teaching 150 students how to organize their thoughts and grade their writing at least somewhat achievable.

Going to write my senator to sponsor a bill mandating that Curtis Yarvin always be accompanied by a double-blind review team.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.