I’ve gotten Dr Bowser and somehow you ended up with the greater cartoon villain. Congratulations/my condolences

Behold, unearthed from a dark corner of my childhood bedroom: A liquid antacid bottle filled exclusively with nickels. If this were in Marty Supreme it would have been called antisemitic

MIT seemed happy to take Epstein‘s money until they weren’t

Where’d they learn to plow? New Jersey?

If you can find a monkey Christ lmk

Could Gen Alpha Save Movie Theaters? New Survey Shows Why ‘Minecraft’ and ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Had Huge Success With Kids Gen Alpha is more interested in going to movie theaters than older generations and their favorite franchises are 'Roblox,' 'Minecraft' and 'Fortnight.'

And, like, empirically untrue? variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Would also have accepted “a warning shot”

Pynchon needs to work on the Gran-tifa subplot before he kicks so PTA can make another movie

The same old story

Oooo going for the canon-is-the-syllabus Guillory position. Woo!

omg "what did Calibri expect would happen when it dressed like that"

btw I'm waiting for your statement on the admin's return to factory default serifs

"the individual, by way of that brand he leaves on his
psychological private property, on his ideational cattle"

Hard to imagine Deadpool, for instance, without the goofiness of GotG as a kind of proof of concept

Late for thanksgiving, too early for Christmas, but nonetheless: I owe my modest career and, as importantly, my belief in the value in and pleasure of thinking intensely about even the most ostensibly negligible of objects to this confirmed sicko

Ariana Grande tells Adam Sandler that "The Waterboy" is "so gut-wrenching"

Not the biggest news of the day, but maybe more surprising

A beautiful book with which to take one's time

Also you can cook all sorts of stuff in a rice cooker. Lately my partner has taken to adding pieces of marinated chicken thigh and onions to the rice and cooking it all together. good stuff!

Hell yeah

With apologies to Max and Theodor…

but you have to admire the commitment to originalism

Mastermind:5 Easy Pieces::Meek’s Cutoff:Stagecoach

Do yourself a favor and stay away from Spike Lee’s recent, inferior remake

H. N. Lukes usefully frames "Classical Hollywood, American Modernism" as "a version of a villain’s 'origin story' that Marvel has recently made so much of by recycling its own IP" in the most recent issue of @mmodernity.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

The rubicund complexion and look of guilty surprise aren't helping

Assumed an impetus for the close reading book was to train facility in common ground, which then establishes criteria for professional judgment. This motivated the synthetic approach in my Hollywood/American modernism book. Imagine our generation cares about this more than our predecessors.