Barbara VanDenburgh

At least now she has a story

Easily the celebrity death that fucked me up the most

That's true, but Robin Williams is *so good* in this, so vulnerable and broken that he never comes across dangerous. Any other actor/performance, I'd probably hate it, but not him.

Oh man, I love The Fisher King

Eraserhead

2026 watch #35: Eraserhead. Got to show this to a bunch of film students seeing it for the first time on the big screen, and they were so buzzed when it ended they stayed for an hour to talk about it. The kids are alright.

Kristi Noem on her first day as Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas

Because the Democratic party is shot through with the rot of white supremacy, too. If Platner suffered a consequence, so would all his white supporters and their fine, upstanding sons with Nazi skeletons in their closets.

Big flat smartphones are difficult to hold to your face and hard to hear out of, no headphone jack, earbuds are expensive. Rudeness and entitlement are at all-time highs, but also so many people are too tired and stressed to perform basic civility.

My brain knows Beauty and the Beast is the best, but my heart is with Aladdin.

My extremely obvious answers are Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but if I just want to have a hoot, Titus Andronicus is delightfully fucked up

I'm in a good place now. Comes with a bit of a belly and a fat ass and fewer compliments, and I'm good with that. Really grateful to my mom, who never dieted or pressured me to diet, and never said anything remotely negative about our bodies, whatever size they were.

The most compliments I have ever received in my entire life were when I was in a full emotional/nervous breakdown that nearly killed me. I was so skinny because I wasn't eating or sleeping and nearly ate a bullet. But got so many compliments about how pretty I was because I was a size 2!

One was a WWII gunnery sergeant, worked for General Electric and later owned a gas station; the other best as I can tell was a chronically ill alcoholic (it's complicated)

same function as the veil worn while eating ortalan

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

It looks like the g.d. ornament room in Return to Oz.

Inshallah

Okay if fucking Trump outlasts Bruce Campbell I'm fighting god barefoot in a Waffle House parking lot.

Well, this fucking sucks.

Trump right before his press conference

Viola Davis so happy about Michael B. Jordan winning a SAG award that she transcends time space and white supremacy.

When it finally happens:

ok new theory: It Has Happened and we are all in hell with him

I hope to feel as much joy one day as Viola Davis felt getting to read Michael B. Jordan's name off that card. The Oscars race got fun tonight!

I'll erect a statue in her honor right now

I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.

At least once a week I have the intrusive thought “Steven Spielberg is going to die someday” and go through 7 stages of anticipatory grief

You’re right, what was I even thinking

We are all going to be so fucked up when Harrison Ford dies.

I wish I could look like a bird who was also a superhero

Miriam Margolyes and Alistair Nwachukwu in a scene from A Friend of Dorothy

2026 watch #34: A Friend of Dorothy. Immensely charming Oscar-nominated short film about an elderly woman and young man becoming unlikely friends. A bit slight given the constraints of length, but I'd gladly watch a feature-length film about Miriam Margolyes befriending a closeted baby gay.