Sean, aka sweaternine from the other site

How did that come to pass?

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE

then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"

and i was like.
oh!

Tom Noonan as the tooth fairy serial killer in Manhunter

Saddened by the news of TOM NOONAN passing. A great actor with a charismatic onscreen presence who elevated everything he was in. I remember seeing him for the first time as the serial killer Francis Dollarhyde in Michael Mann's MANHUNTER and ohboy did he leave an impression (more than Buffalo Bill)

The term “spoiler” in the public consciousness is less than 30 years old.

What a cover, holy cow.

Where everyone is stalked by casual sex-havers?

That’s what makes it a conspiracy. :)

An airtight argument, give or take the cognitive tests he re-ups every couple of weeks without wondering why someone would do that.

What a list! HEAD-ON has indeed haunted me since I saw it (and if they had shared the screenplay with me I would have bled on it for a different ending). CQ, FEMME FATALE, PHOENIX — all movies I have been anticipating rewatching. And I’ve never known anyone to cape for DARK SKIES.

"Imagine if we had a constitution."

"Imagine if we were a nation ruled by laws."

"Imagine if all people, regardless of status, we entitled to certain inalienable rights."

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

Just yesterday I was discussing Guillermo del Toro with a friend and how it was new St. Paul Pioneer Press critic Chris Hewitt’s review that got 16-year-old me to drive in from Wisconsin to see it.

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

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And the Ehrlich video had *just* nudged me into “yes.”

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

P.S. Oscar nominee SIRĀT at Cinematheque tonight!

I think that’s just being old, pal. There are some socko movies in that line-up — same ratio or better than any other year. We all eventually tire of the horse race/pageantry side of art and culture, but high-visibility appreciation is always appreciated.

Brilliant.

I’ve just started and played about 15 minutes of DE. I found my shoe!

Compromise; byo headphones.

King of England on a checkerboard pattern tile floor

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Sidney Greenstreet dressed as Santa while Peter Lorre sneaks up behind him with a baseball bat

Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet

Also, I’m not sure Steve Rogers has ever looked so much like Lucas Lee.

And with my usual starting word, too. Wordle 1,644 3/6*

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I also just rewatched and positively reappraised this. My gut tells me it wasn’t written for an interracial duo, but I think it does its best to merge those tricky politics into its more urgent interrogation of how bro codes enable corruption, which frankly feels prophetic.

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social The local university museum had an exhibit of pulp cover paintings. Fairly certain this is a detail from the Frazetta they had on offer; truly an excellent exhibition.

Unironically, genuinely getting scared by how difficult it is to create a parody of capitalism that isn't immediately outclowned by actual capitalists.

A Westlake whose time has come (and also never left).