A stovepipe column of gluten-free bread, it’s top layer cocked at a rakish angle.

Not my most beautiful gluten-free loaf, but taller than hell.

🍽️#baking

Romcom diplomacy

400+ Electoral Votes, 50 unbroken years of House of Representatives control, all opposing political configurations are now the Whig Party

Julia Soboleva, Ten Seconds to Midnight, 2022

An etymology reading, "confab(n.) "familiar talk or conversation, chatting," 1701, colloquial shortening of confabulation. Mocking variant conflab is attested from 1852, American English."

Oh man, someone in 1852 burned confabulists to the ground.

Looking around his window-lit Barry Lyndon office like, “Did anyone fuckin see me do that?”

Yeah, it makes you wonder if “society with pretty widespread education in everyone is constantly writing long letters” is maybe just the natural historic peak for a certain kind of literacy.

Not in a gentle way either. They fully put those guys in the wicker man

The world already contains a quadrillion times more free art than a person could experience in a lifetime! Hard to imagine there’s a ton of money to be made making bad art cheaper and more abundant.

Yeah the rise of MMA really peeled away a lot of the rightmost segment of the wrestling audience

There was actually a gang war, in my genes, about whether they'd call me a conquistador or a roman

Weyes Blood?

Like a quarter of US households watched the broadcast of the 1955 Olivier Richard III. People were eating their vegetables!

obviously I don't feel bad for this guy but there is something weirdly poignant about lying about being a botanist. "what's my job? uh, in general, I am arrayed with the forces of... life. yeah, that's it. not the forces of death."

I'm always buoyed by this passage from Orlando. If Vriginia Woolf can relate, then I guess it must just be how writing works.

And to Tiny Tim — who did NOT die; who says that he will never die; who dances in light and in shadow and is a great favorite. He never sleeps, Tiny Tim. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die

And to Tiny Tim — who did NOT die; who says that he will never die; who dances in light and in shadow and is a great favorite. He never sleeps, Tiny Tim. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die

One of the absolute best ever. Masaaki Yuasa using every tool in the box

And the more obviously unwell he gets, the easier it's going to be for his voters to say, "Well the problem is he's changed. He's not who he used to be." Which makes abandoning him less of an ego blow.

[I turn on the TV and every channel is showing me being burned in effigy] This can't be good

SCROOGE (Walton Goggins) (VO): It had been seven years Old Marley had been dead. Unless this is known, nothing fantastic can be understood

MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper

Kevin is lawful in the manner of a spider god: once you enter his home, your rights and life are forfeit.

Whether or not this is evil depends on whether Harry and Marv have free will. Is there any universe where they don’t enter the house? Hard to imagine

Tomorrowland is a pretty direct flirtation with and rejection of objectivism, which is interesting

Brad Bird is definitely preoccupied with the idea of, like, "some people possess a greatness that the majority lacks," and most of his films hinge on, "What does a great person owe to the world? What does the world owe to a great person?" The villains are generally motivated by resentment, etc

She's the greatest. Feels like she lives one step closer to eternity than everyone else. Have you read For the Time Being?

Got a beautiful vintage road bike for commuting into DC and every day I felt like I was going to die.

Oh cool texture on those dreadnoughts

And then pairs it with Wintermute! One of the best thing-namers to ever do it

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time