My first thought is Grace Kelly, because that closeup in Rear Window made me want to be a filmmaker. My origin story crush. But you know, the 55-year old me...Jean Arthur. I adore her in just about everything I have seen her do.
@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social Thanks for the piece today.
Same...and Brett Ratner directed this? That is fucking hysterical, on a few levels.
Presumably whoever posted "'Abolish ICE' is a losing slogan" yesterday or so has deleted it and their account by now, but if not I'll be happy to tell that person to get fucked.
oh i see they sent JD out again to eat shit
Nehls...you shrimpy little bootlicker. Go Fuck Yourself, Indeed. What a piece of dogshit.
"If you watch an episode of Cheers, you might hear references to foreign filmmakers, to classical musicians, to Russian novelists. The level of assumed knowledge back then was far greater; now, TV is rarely adventurous in its allusions."
The American media need to stop being astonished by things Trump says and does and start reporting how fuckin' whack-a-doo it is
Brighten your mood. Good stuff within.
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Large numbers of people called it before Trump even won the nomination: if elected, he would attempt to rule as a dictator. The prediction was based on who he WAS. Concerned people were called hysterical and derailed into pedantic "debates" about whether he was "really" a fascist or something else.
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
JD Vance...what a lying, dishonest piece of shit.
If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
i enjoyed MARTY SUPREME to the extent that i can enjoy spending two and a half hours with the worst person imaginable
There are 242 working days in 2026. If you write just one page a day - just 250-300wds, roughly 5 Bsky posts - you will have two full scripts or a novel by New Years Eve.
If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel.
Just. Keep. Writing.
I have had this same feeling for what feels like a decade.
I remember a time when the super rich didn't want to be known. They were ill-at-ease about it, no doubt because they sensed how unearned it was. Now, they think they should be accorded rock star status for basically doing nothing of real value.
Nailed it
NYFA was worth the tuition for David Riker, Heng-Tatt Lim, & Stoner, & Naylor & Bosmajian. Elizabeths Gottlieb & Downer. I've a lot of regret. What might have I made, had I not made what I made. But my life has been fuller for 1997-99. Thank you. I'm a figment to you. You're all stars 2 me, even now
I keep thinking about a time that predates this one...where the news of the world was infrequent, because of chores that kept you and yours alive.
One of the most delightfully shocking things I learned this past year or so is that Harriet Walter and Christopher Lee are niece and uncle.
So perfectly stated.
The wsj is owned by famous leftist Rupert Murdoch
I've probably watched this clip 30 times today, and it still cracks me up
I think it's gonna be a very popular and versatile GIF if it's not already
60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
