new installment in my popular series of lists about the Mountain Goats: Albums since 2015, ranked: 1. Songs for Pierre Chuvin (sorry, John) Dark in Here Jenny from Thebes Peter Balkan (??) In League with Dragons Goths Bleed Out Beat the Champ 9. Getting Into Knives

We need to push chase Infiniti as the woke alternative to Sidney Sweeney

One of the critical parts of the Sinner/Alcaraz dynamic is that Alcaraz is hot and Sinner looks like a dork

@jjdotbiz.bsky.social listening to the new Porridge Radio EP and wanted to shout you out for introducing them to me on your playlist. Clouds in the Sky... kind of cured my mental illness for a few months back in the winter

Unconditional support for the Iranian people at this time

The growing rage about homeowners insurance is kind of like if there were a bunch of people complaining about how unjust it is they can’t get car insurance but they all voluntarily live in the Mad Max Wasteland

Just went to a cafe where they kept not only the add-in milks behind the counter but the fucking SUGAR as well. And you know she didn’t stir that shit in

I’m in a vet’s exam room waiting and they’ve got a computer that is randomly revving up like a jet engine. What are they running on this thing.

“Forever’s gonna start tonight” is the hardest line in pop music and it’s only the third hardest line in that song

how tf did he win from this position

I think it's really fun how one of the most important engines for societal development is that you need everyone to be borrowing as much money as they can at all times.

People like to call UChicago the nexus of modern evil because it has weird professors who write books that piss everyone off. Meanwhile there are a few dozen Harvard and Princeton alums collectively responsible for 200 million worldwide deaths.

I don’t care for the juvenile humor this Alex Nichols fellow brings to Chapo

I don’t think there’s a single product in human history as loathed by its customer base as dating apps. People hated the cable companies but at least they still got TV!

was telling my friend that the loser Glen Powell in Hit Man is styled exactly like me and she said "you kind of look like Glen Powell but your face is better." one of those compliments that overshoots so absurdly I can't even get any ego boost out of it. Like girl are you concussed what

Steve Albini, Pitchfork, High Fidelity, Chicago was the Mecca for a particular kind of music snob of the late 90s early 00s

pissing literally everyone off by referring to Baby Reindeer as "the first male me-too story"

Car with a Palestinian flag sticker cut me off on the 110 while merging across like three lanes. Maybe the loony left has gone too far...

one of the most fun shitty things you can do is reply to someone with just question marks. always so satisfying

My cat didn't sit on me for like a year and a half. Now he's fucking addicted to it!

dark bluesky-exclusive secret is that few schticks annoy me as much as monica lewinsky's. Just quote tweeting like "what's an outfit you regret wearing" with "uhhhh I can think of one!" over and over again.

the Columbia president managed to not only significantly increase tensions and protests at her own campus, but kick off a nationwide protest movement that is only growing in momentum. Really impressive failing there, just on her own terms.

You know the epic fantasy is good when they couldn't even bother aligning the top and bottom of the cover art

Really rattles me how often I catch myself standing like Quentin Tarantino at that museum

Oh? Is a Taylorswiftball happening?

Save me dac biet banh mi with extra pate....

I don't think I'd be a good dad because I'd just unthinkingly create a lot of weird psychological experiments for my kids and when they were 30 they would realize I'm some kind of psycho and stop talking to me

Smiling and waving to my friend across the battlefield when the diagetic sound is replaced by mournful strings and everything becomes slow motion

Developing an arcane self-identity called "ACAP" (adult child of autistic parents). Lotta money in this in books, lectures etc. so lemme know if you want to get in on the ground floor

They cut the scene in Anatomy of a Fall where the detectives note that the husband was always eating bananas while working, that the attic had banana peels all over the floor and by the window. It's in the script and I think it would have presented another interesting possibility

There are a ton of Protestant horror movies. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there's one, Halloween, Friday the 13th. Basically "what if there was a guy who killed you" and in some kind of generic American place like a suburb or summer camp or Texas.

This is crazy to me because there are obviously like hundreds of different non-porn resources for how to have sex. Magazines at the grocery store checkout used to have "30 hot new sex positions" right on the cover

people rending their garments about Poor Things - basically a nicecore movie with sex - proves there really is no hope for the discourse.

Wes Anderson and Hayao Miyazaki are watching the Oscars together. And they're making out during the commercials

Noah Baumbach looks like shit!!

Love when I see someone walk into a cafe with a book, sit down, and open it to the first page. Like wow you had such a cute little plan for the day huh? Really gonna turn it all around starting now

The official Frank Frazetta page posting for women's day is so funny

Took me like half an hour into Dune 2 to remember that Chani isn't Stilgar's daughter. You expect that's how it works because of storytelling economy but they're actually unrelated.

Interesting mental health development is that I've been doing a lot of accents lately when talking to myself and I'm starting to get convinced I'm like really good at accents

the ad hoc group chat that became a running chat with that specific group of friends, but still has a name referring to its original purpose.... so pure

bought Rushmore in the Criterion sale, got here and I realized I already owned the Rushmore Criterion. My life is a bad meme from 2015

I like that chapo is a podcast with anywhere from two to five primary hosts

In the first dune sometimes id look at Chalamet and get a little freaked out. The Chad jaw, the lip fillers, etc. not a problem this time out, and I must commend Mr Villeneuve on addressing this issue

Yeah I'm poly. Poly gonna see Dune this weekend

David Bordwell RIP. The legend. One of the best bloggers of all time among all else

Never feel more like a neglectful father than when I move my cat off my desk because he's getting in the way of me gaming

THIS COULD BE US

Should be considered a huge admission of defeat since "the Republicans love me, I'll get them to be normal again" was a major campaign selling point

I don't believe anyone has ever had a crush on me. Every romantic relationship I've had has been because of extreme unilateral effort on my part.

X post: [white person] he said he tryna hit. like, bruh, not with that OPS+ Bluesky post: on January 21st 2025 I will be killed by Trump's MAGA squadrons. That is if I'm not dead from long Covid first.