Democratic Parasocialists of America

This Timothee Chalamet Oscar campaign is going really well! I hope his PR team has access to the good drugs, because they're going to need them.

Two of my cousins are Marines, my cousin's dad is a retired Navy Commander, and a close friend was a Army Sergeant. Exactly zero of them have Nazi tattoos.

Well in fairness, when *was* the last time you bought dog food?

A week ago but this is Massachusetts and we have very strong tenants rights laws, which ordinarily is good but sometimes you really just need someone out of there ASAP.

is my neighbor up to some shit? what is happening

I know I should go up to the gym for a run tonight but i really don't want to

Douglas Adams really was a prophet.

I'm tapped out on the amount of energy I have to expend managing the feelings of mediocre middle aged me.

Feedback sesh was fine, the woman I spoke with is very similar to me in many ways, and both of us are struggling to adjust to the extremely weird communication culture at this busted ass company. The short story is, I asked a pointed question in a meeting and a muckity-muck got a feather ruffled.

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

This is the most unpleasant group of people I've worked with in 30 years. I've dealt with assholes before, who hasn't, but never an entire organization all the way up to senior leadership. The person who had this role before me walked off the job, and the one before her quit after three months.

Everyone has something to say when the objectively shitty process and technology I have breaks, but when it comes time to do hard and uncomfortable things to fix it, they are nowhere to be found.

Then they publicly blame me and complain that I'm angry.

How this got a nom and No Other Choice did not will be a mystery until the heat death of the universe.

The slapfight between the director and that a-hole in the audience was good though, I enjoyed that.

I don't say this to disparage Pink Flamingoes OR Sirat, I say this to point out that just "feeling something" is not a measure of the award-worthy quality of a film (or book, or TV show). The film should be up for Cinematography or Sound Design, but Best Foreign Language Film? No.

If the measure of "good film" is aesthetics + intense audience emotional reaction to events in the film, give Pink Flamingoes an Oscar too. John Waters' aesthetic is wild, bizarre, and memorable, and Divine eats dogshit which I'm sure made the audience feel an intense emotion.

I mean, Divine ate dogshit in a film and that probably got the audience to feel something. Where's John Waters' Oscar?

The more I think about it the more I hate it. There was a guy in the audience for the Q&A who was *pissed* and asked the writer/director basically "what was the point of that?!" and the response was "wut deed eet make you feeeel?" and I woke up thinking about that, like is just "emotion" the metric?

The more I think about SIRAT the less I like it, and the less I think it deserves an Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film. It is very aesthetically pleasing -- beautiful to look at and the sound design is outstanding (that Oscar would be deserved) but as a film itself its kinda pretentious twaddle.

Anyway, I definitely am Bad Attitude Girl, but its curious that the person whose staff got called out for being publicly shitty to me is giving me this specific feedback now.

Tomorrow, I am going to be scolded for being Bad Attitude Girl.

The timing of this feedback is interesting, considering it is coming one week after I finally (after 2 years) told my management I can't work with the people in the division I support because of how aggressively hostile they are to me.

Sirat is not a fun movie, for the curious. It is absolutely brutal.

I felt bad for @splicedpersonality.bsky.social though, it was really uncomfortable for him I bet

Oh my God last question of the night and an audience member picks a fight with Laxe about being Orientaliat, and he proceeds to quote the Koran and Edward Said at her and sums up his response by saying "...I believe you are *more* Orientalist than I" and ends the night. It was so exciting!

Oliver Laxe and Santiago Fillol interviewed by Sean Burns

The sound design and score is outstanding though.

Q&A with the writer and director, let's see how this goes!

#nfotd SIRAT

What. The. Fuck.

His dame was with him too, she was really nice and dressed exactly as you would expect the girlfriend of an Italian mobster from Boston to dress.

A small time gangster offered to give me a jewelry business when I met him one night at the bar I used to be a regular at, when he showed up with his enforcer to shake down the manager.