BATMAN PART II teaser hilarious. The bare minimum for a film which all ancillary information points to being based on a thirty-year-old comic that is wildly overrated and regurgitated because it lifts ideas wholesale from movies that are already required viewing for participants in American culture

And: treating individual chapters of an overarching work as separate--because the fanbase reacts immediately and intensely--means reactive works are a product of a very specific frame of time, until they are inevitably superseded by the canon. What does that make them? "Outdated" feels wrong.

Give the knucklehead monster ladies a series of prewar comedy shorts to play in front of the next Mickey Rooney picture

Not many writers molded my prose like @mangiotto.bsky.social and, twenty years later, his work still makes feel like a rank amateur. Just a tremendous piece that forces me to take stock in where I am, where we all are on our paths. (Read this immediately after a therapy session. Hilarious!)

FIGHT CLUB. Shut the fuck up about FIGHT CLUB.

ICE murdered two people in less than a week. Claimed they were “ramming their vehicle”. They said the same about Marimar Martinez who they shot FIVE times. She survived. Went to court to get the body cam footage released. Proved them wrong. Every shooting since they’ve left no survivors:

Realizing that spotlighting Neill's starring roles might be a less fitting tribute than fondly remembering all the times he was 5th billed

Alejandro González Iñárritu, of all people, says "who's ready to get silly" and I confess that, under these parameters, I am not ready to get silly

Where there's smoke, they pinch back

Looks like we all fell for an obvious game of Senatorial Three-Card Monte. "Find the dead'un, find the dead'un"

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

christopher nolan is like if michael bay wanted to be david fincher

Looks like we all fell for an obvious game of Senatorial Three-Card Monte. "Find the dead'un, find the dead'un"

someone could bring down this administration by getting trump and rfk jr in the same interview and asking if they agree they’re “pretty much in the same shape”

Mega Man games lost their way when weapon weaknesses started doing like four units of damage. In a futuristic setting inspired by rock-paper-scissors, throwing the correct permutation absolutely has to ruin somebody's shit

"I'm just trying to be heard."

Just a whole lot of fun, this game. One of those empathy machines that I keep looking for in the medium

I like to think that I legitimize my retweets with a history of literary/critical self-seriousness and the concerted effort of self-acceptance--balanced off with "not terribly explicit" and the acknowledgment that human sexuality is extremely silly. Social media at peak miserabilism also a factor

Not so fast Tracer!

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Captain Underpants becoming the focal image in debate for whether superheroes are inherently fascist

"Arrivederci, Federico."

How I defeated my depression forever (not clickbait)

erotic thriller is such a great genre concept. like youre naked but you have to save the president

Very much in the "please don't make me watch Nolan's ODYSSEY" phase of things. Wondering if this is a reflection of my age, my escalating distaste for pomp, my general distaste for Nolan post-COVID, or the modern cinematic culture valuing him as the Last Auteur You Go to the Movies to See

Just saw a video of someone singing Vera Lynn to old people in a home despite most of them being too young to remember the war, and it's unlocked a new terror in me of being elderly and them making my teenager-in-the-00s ass listen to WW2 music because "that's what old people like".

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Sorry to end the festivities early/reveal the man behind the curtain

You may not like it, but this is what peak masculinity looks like

Revenge of the Dead Internet

Worth discussing how we may have needed pop culture dissonance to warn against another Holocaust in the 20th century—to keep Hitler as a literal supervillain figure after his death—and how it may have backfired on us with the advent of the internet. Now it’s the only way we can talk about evil

What would be the funniest reason/when would be the funniest point in THE DARK KNIGHT for the Joker to just unequivocally wuss out

CTRL+ALT+DEL has been immortalized as a series of lines and vectors ingratiated with and yet distinct from its banality, so we need to resurrect this one-page comic as a perfect emblem of Millennial comedy from the same era. Keep your perspective about when and where we're allowed to throw stones

What would be the funniest reason/when would be the funniest point in THE DARK KNIGHT for the Joker to just unequivocally wuss out

Convinced that the protagonists’ Light World treatment of Dark World characters in DELTARUNE are at least partially a response to fandom attachments for the characters of UNDERTALE. You seem awfully invested in making this broken television comfortable. Seems like a deep well

Eight of the greatest words in the English language.

At Crooked Marquee this week I wrote about THE UNMAKING OF HUDSON HAWK, the departure of Bruno and that hat convention in July.

Argo City yourself

Modern media is fascinating insofar that anything even remotely popular is subject to a False Quixote

@rajandelman.bsky.social and @splicedpersonality.bsky.social are going to have to cross paths and team up against me one of these days

Been using Flowery’s voice clips as vocal stims so I guess we know who wins that philosophical argument

The Mel Brooks centennial should, by all rights, result in a revival that gives us at least one more bona fide Brooks-directed film, which would only be possible if he were twenty years younger. We would also need Harvey Korman alive to angrily litigate the contradiction in that selfsame film

If I’m honest, this is probably the closest I’ve come to lining up my thought process, talents, ambitions and desires—harmoniously? regimentally? Probably more to the obsessions, though

The virtues of lighthearted smut

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Feels weird, because it *is* weird, to say that DELTARUNE Chapter 5 is very--self-referential? The up- and downside of massive multichapter works spanning years across the internet age is watching a massive fanbase react to individual setpieces and gags before you can complete the throughline.

Ian is seriously considering abandoning video games as a medium because gameplay represents too great an investment for too little return, but Ian also has DELTARUNE takes

This was elaborate pretext to repost less conventional cheesecake but the sentiment stands. How old do you have to be before you understand how fucked-up VERTIGO is? How has FFVII affected that realization/development?

My interests are not even that smutty and sometimes I think I should teeter more aggressively between “naw, y’know, I’m happy right where I’m at with this” and “I have gone far too easy on the 79 people who theoretically keep tabs on this profile for the Letterboxd diary”