“So you know how French films and books never make you feel gross or raise questions about the creators?”

Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.

when I was 14 I got really mad about politics (basically all the same issues I'm mad about now) and determined I was going to write a book called THE PRICE OF FREEDOM which would have a picture of me in front of an American flag on the cover

Me, posting for the first time since yesterday: "I have returned to the written word."

I should start collecting the inane, vaguely literary sounding titles bad political writers give their books. AMERICAN CANTO by Olivia Nuzzi. SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT by Thomas Chatterton Williams. ORIGINAL SIN by Jake Tapper.

Musical theater fans only do this when they’re in extreme distress

What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are: -"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?" -Englishmen being weird -Ship hunted by submarine -Submarine hunted by ship -Submarine hunted by other submarine (The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)

these two politically correct type “gentlemen”

These didn’t even come from nice pieces of wood, why is it so hard for me to throw these cut offs away? I feel like I should make something out of them. What? No idea.

Spilling the identity of Deep Throat to your camp friend is top-tier personal lore bsky.app/profile/urba...

does this hairstyle have a name

every time they give him a gift i think of this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thi...

This is funny because there is a whole genre of posts on here that link to a joke from elsewhere and restate it in simpler terms and buddy they ALWAYS do numbers

The Pope is right. I noticed this in like 2007 when I used Pandora a ton for music. It kept serving me music that was a lot like the stuff I already liked, but less and less good. Felt like if I kept at it would just keep narrowing and flattening my tastes until I wasn’t getting anything out of it.

New dream guest for Blank Check. They should have him on when they cover Friedkin, but not for The Exorcist. Get him on the Sorceror episode or something.

Just awful

The suggested search is my favorite part of this

I don’t need anyone else to tell me that koalas have chlamydia. I’ve heard. Message extremely received.

Took 23 minutes to go from “don’t blame the New York Times” to “don’t blame me for the New York Times”

I've been radicalized against "community" because of this tendency (as exemplified in that silly prisonculture story). Fuck community, give me the bureaucratic impersonal state that will protect unpopular individuals' rights *against* the community.

Every grocery chain in the south has a name that sounds absolutely ridiculous. How am I supposed to take someone seriously when they’re saying stuff about the Harris Teeter or the Piggly Wiggly. And saying it in the southern accent makes it so much worse.

I’m no Harvard English professor but if I was trying to recommend My Antonia to someone I would never in a million years land on “it’s kinda like Lolita”

I think Mick Jagger is pretty good at his job but if he came up to me and started doing that bullshit I’d ask him to leave

This particular bit is the cap of the train axel sticking out of the wheel of this 70s model of a WWII German railway gun. It’s on the millennium falcon, the battlestar galactica ships, and a ton of other sci fi things. And it’s been recreated in tons of cgi 3D models.

If the drama from a suspension lasts longer than the suspension itself, you may have posters madness!

They should replace the 2 cookie parts with whole original-style oreos

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

So this is Wolff saying to Epstein that he has guesses for who might get named during the me too movement, and then he lists a bunch of people who did in fact get named, and Arthur Sulzberger. Huh.

They fired him for crossing a line with Jeffrey Epstein in particular. It’s not a big leap to then search “from:Epstein”. Not sure what getting hundreds of emails every day has to do with it.

Bradley Whitford is an odd actor in that every single project he appears in my brain says "oh hey, it's Josh Lyman" and instead of being annoyed by this and his inability to disappear into another role I just find it delightful.

Idiot

I regularly think about what Israel Horovitz's son Adam (Ad-Rock, Mr. Kathleen Hanna) said in a statement when his father was accused of sexual assault by several women: "I believe the allegations against my father are true, and I stand behind the women that made them."

Larry Summers writing about how unfair it is that people treat him like some kind of creep, in his friendly email conversation with one of the world’s all time top ranked creeps

My favorite country singer is Johnny Cash, my favorite movie is The Godfather, and my book is The Great Gatsby. Time to get online and post some opinions.

Totally unrelated to the other discourse when the fuck are the “I don’t like country music but…” people gonna quit with the Johnny Cash shit? We get it. You’re fucking cool. The man’s been dead for 13 years Columbus a different hillbilly already.

Awesome how we elected the cornfield kid from that one Twilight Zone

I didn't know this show existed. I should to see it. Weirdly, Richard Garfield, the inventor of Magic: The Gathering, is the great-great-grandson of President Garfield. He told me that once, after a lecture, a student came up to tell him that he was a g-g-grandnephew of Guiteau. 😲

this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks

The more Bond (and Mission Impossible, for that matter) lean on continuity, the less fun they get. Just do whatever. Remember when they rebooted Bond with Craig but kept Judi Dench from the Brosnan movies? That ruled.

just re-read this essay. stay for the third act.

Remember the time George got blackout wasted on ether

Don’t watch the one where the train comes right at you until you’re ready. Shocking imagery if you’re not used to it!

Hey guys - does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? Haha happy Edmund Fitzgerald Day, you maniacs!

I always recommend starting from the beginning with Horse Running, and then from there you can skip ahead to Workers Leaving the Factory

Pretty sure this is how The Beatles wrote all of their songs. Here’s verse two of ‘Lucky Jemima’, the story of Alex’s first kiss.

why are you all looking at me

Reading the news is like watching a ton of different of trolley problem Let’s Plays in a row

It’s a problem with that acronym, because almost everything works for both referents “Lately SF has lost all sense of realism.” “I know. And it has so few women.” “It boils down to SF is obsessed with gadgets, and especially with AI.” “And don’t get me started on BART delays.” “Wait what”

Does anyone have recommendations for horror movies for a 7 year old? For reference, he both loves and is genuinely scared by the intro to the Thriller music video.