Steve

this excellent cover raises the startling question: what does Brian Bolland think a taco is

This sounds like somebody who grew up rich trying to imagine what poor people sound like.

We know how cash money works FAR BETTER than you do. You might know systems like stocks & IRAs & bonds & trust funds, but we do know cash money. We know SNAP doesn’t buy EVERYTHING at the grocery store.

Electing this guy twice is really bad. But the real reason the US cannot be trusted is that it has been unable to impeach him.

An opinion that makes you a fringe radical in this country is that the life of a person who is not an American citizen is not an abstraction, and is worth just as much as that of an American citizen

Less sci fi misery
More kung fu treachery

I know they weren't as high-quality towards the end, but they look good as hell and serve my purposes, so I'm going to enjoy them while I can.

I'm aware a lot of this is changing tastes also, but that's less easy to complain about.

Let's not even talk about how Red Wing caught and killed the Vasque Sundowner, the last (again, as far as I can find) of the good, reasonably-priced leather hiking boots. (Speak not to me of Danner.)

I had this nighttime moisturizer that was perfect, and then they just started adding hyaluronic acid to it and my skin revolted, and now again I wander, seeking.

Lately my experience of getting older is a lot of this: a perfect thing I found after years of experiments being quarterly-numbersed away. I'm just about to wear out my last remaining gray poly-cotton Uniqlo undershirt. Currently there is no substitute that I can find. I remain mad.

As the person who washes the dishes in this house, I'm starting to suspect that "seasoning" on a cast iron pan is essentially an emergent property of a bunch of nights of like, This is clean enough

A photo showing the American Robin and its scientific name Turdus migratorius. Referencing the US fish and wildlife service

Blue Jay: My scientific name is Cyanocitta cristata

American Robin: Oh that's beautiful, I don't know mine, not sure if I have one

Daniel Pipes has been in contention for the Dumbest MF Alive (Foreign Policy) award for probably more than two decades now, so this tracks.

i’ve watched this three times. VERY satisfying.

Pic of mousketeer giger

Fan letter to Starlog from 1980, featuring a rare photo of H.R. Giger in a Mickey Mouse hat

Imagine such a utopia

Burger King CEO takes a real bite on camera-fans say he "burgermogged" McDonald's boss 1 day ago Yahoo

putting aside "burgermogged" since when do CEOs have fans

I do see posts from LLM enthusiasts that boil down to “critics are just mad the computer is better than them at trivia now” and idk, I think *most* critics are just genuinely terrified they’ll never find work they don’t hate that pays a living wage again in the current batshit climate

About to bring this listing into the next room and endanger my marriage

Well kids the climate wars have arrived.

Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the crane’s cab

“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974

"surely the third democratic presidency to come to power after a norm-breaking and warcrime-cheering Republican administration will pursue justice against their predecessors," I repeat like a mantra til I collapse

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

Dare Graham Platner to talk with Isaac Chotiner, tell him he would be a huge wuss if he doesn't

Love to loudly say “are you sure honey? Claude says you’re being hysterical again“ into my phone to see if anyone in the coffee shop has the manners to kill me

The Rat On war and what we have to choke down.

I've been starting and stopping this essay for almost two years, but recent events made it seem urgent: On war. jude-doyle.ghost.io/the-rat/

This is a terrifying thread. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if the idiots running this war never considered it.

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

Holy cow