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AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (2022)
Cinematography by Russell Carpenter
Directed by James Cameron

Welcome to This Open House. Please, Do Not Ask Me About Its Vast Network of Tunnels “The home was built in 1954 and is anywhere from 2,000 to 70,000 square feet, depending on how many of the underground prayer labyrinths you include. Which I...

Welcome to This Open House. Please, Do Not Ask Me About Its Vast Network of Tunnels by Joe Kleinschmidt

Where to Start With Short Humor (Four-Week Workshop Starting 5/07/26 - Evening) DATES/OVERVIEW OF CLASSES: 1. Thursday, 5/07/26, 7:00-9:00PM Eastern via Zoom [Overview of Short Humor & Idea Generation] 2. Thursday, 5/14/26, 7:00-9:00PM Eastern via Zoom [List-Making & Outlining]...

Just FOUR spots left in my intro to short humor class starting on May 7th!

Learn the basics of short humor and write a draft of your very own piece in just four weeks.

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What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years? If you’re a Lit Hub reader, there’s a good chance you have a few opinions about literary adaptations. Some are great. Many are bad. Others are frankly offensive (Ghibli’s Earthsea, I’m looking at y…

We're running another bracket this week on @literaryhub.bsky.social about the best film adaptations of the last 50 years!

Get in there and vote:

📽️Richard Fleischer getting the directing job on Walt Disney’s ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’📽️

Richard’s dad is Max Fleischer who was rivals with Walt Disney back in the golden age of animation!

#fleischerstudios #waltdisney #maxfleischer #richardfleischer

Pencils for a Godzilla vs Neo-Tokyo commission

Text from an email “Our Recent Corporate Bankruptcy Explained by the Notes I, the CEO, Left Around the Break Room Refrigerator by Kyle Andrew Johnson (Points in Case) This piece’s form—a description of each note followed by the text on the note—is a really clever, original way to tell the very funny story of a CEO’s descent into madness after the theft of his smoothie. Kyle also does a great job heightening and including lots of nice runners and callbacks.”

Latest piece made the “week’s finest short form humor” roundup in The Newsletter of Humorous Writing. Thanks @lukevburns.bsky.social and @jamesfolta.com for the nod.

IMAGE OF TEXT: A Hangout of Humorous Writing Join us for a spring get-together with humor writers and humor writing fans. Hosted by Luke & James, editors of A Newsletter of Humorous Writing. Peculier Pub 145 Bleecker St. NYC Tuesday 4/21, 6 PM

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In this week's newsletter, @jamesfolta.com and I rounded up great writing by @kyleandjohnson.bsky.social in @pointsincase.com, Gary Suarez in BW/DR, and Jed Feiman & Nehemiah Markos and @jonjzeller.bsky.social in @newyorker.com

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Very happy to include it--it's a great piece!

It turned out great!

You Won’t Be Able To Put This Book Down Because It’s Rigged To Explode Looking for a great read? I highly recommend Dan Brown’s new thriller, The Incendiary Imperative. I couldn’t put it down. It’s got…

This book's got fast-paced action, surprising plot twists, and 50 grams of plastic explosives embedded in the spine. Read my full review! medium.com/slackjaw/you...

First day as the social media manager at NASA! Wish me luck!!

In last week's letter @jamesfolta.com & I rounded up great writing by Jesse Eisenberg in @newyorker.com,
@lilliekoi.bsky.social and @seanmcgowan.bsky.social in @pointsincase.com, & Shea Socrates in @havehashad.com

Plus a few words on the passing of the great Glen Baxter

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You can learn a lot about a person from where they fall on the Armageddon-Deep Impact x Volcano-Dante’s Peak preference chart.

Are you:
1. Armageddon-Volcano
2. Armageddon-Dante’s Peak
3. Deep Impact-Volcano
4. Deep Impact-Dante’s Peak.

I feel like most people are 1s or 4s (I am personally a 4).

Back in 2019 Film at Lincoln Center programmed a double feature of They Live and The Last Temptation of Christ, and it remains one of the best moviegoing experiences I've ever had

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Take my miniature wife, please!

Back in 2019 Film at Lincoln Center programmed a double feature of They Live and The Last Temptation of Christ, and it remains one of the best moviegoing experiences I've ever had

www.filmlinc.org/daily/full-l...

I'm at a black box theater in the Village seeing Wallace Shawn's new(ish) play, directed by Andre Gregory and PLOT TWIST both female leads (it's a four person play) are out with COVID, they only had one understudy for those roles available so Wally Shawn is now on book playing the other female role

If you’ve been seeing all those hilarious Glen Baxter cartoons on here and giggling at them I can’t recommend Brad Neely’s Creased Comics highly enough

the wario of w.s. merwin is m.s. wermin

I'm glad at least one other person was