Tottenham’s social media accounts being glutted up with Dele Alli highlights and tributes to players from the 16-17 halcyon days is, I know, meant to be a salve to a shit season from the club’s POV, but instead it just feels like our Premier League life flashing before our eyes.
I was INCREDIBLY disappointed this was not an announcement of a Harold Pinter-themed brew
Turns out people do care about film, rather than just indistinguishable “content” !
Heartening that the busiest I’ve seen my local indie cinema in a long time is for a Wednesday night 35MM screening of THE MALTESE FALCON.
One thing that makes the “moderate Republican” or “Dem who’s basically GOP” (respectively, Collins and Fetterman) is that their awfulness curses even the people who have potential to oust them. We get Jeff Flake out? Great! Our reward? Sinema.
Frederic Jameson’s POSTMODERNISM: incredibly, if stupidly, vindicated today.
There was a bit of an open question with the Lewises on this because Levy, while ENIC, clearly did fashion himself as some kind of football deal-maker and wanted the team to win, misguided though he was. But now that Levy's out, so is the easy shield for the know-nothing Lewises.
The fact that they could do this and aren't doing it signals that: the party is, in fact, okay with Trump.
The sad thing is: if the party booted Trump now on grounds of senility/danger post-Everything This Past Week, and Vance gave some serious teary speech about the party "having lost its way" and promising a return to normality... the national media and the Democratic establishment would play along.
One thing history books will be important for: whenever Trump goes, we cannot let the GOP, as it will very clearly and obviously do, frame Trump as some kind of fever that it had, and now it'll get back to being the party of Tradition and Dignity. The party is, and always will be, Trump.
Still are doing this! It's the Ange line: after finishing fifth (and nearly fourth, with a team that LOST Harry Kane), he was given "Dominic Solanke... and three teenagers."
This relegation (and yes, I am taking it as a fait accompli at this point) should really underscore how world class Kane and Son are. If the club hadn't lucked into a legendary academy product and a steal of a deal from the Bundesliga... where'd we be? Relegation might have come earlier!
People will look at net spend data and be like "uhh the Spurs have spent a lot of money?" and, yeah, they have, in aggregate, but our biggest signing EVER was... Dominic Solanke. Who isn't bad! But compare it to the bags the other big clubs drop. Not even close.
After a week or two at the end of Frank's tenure I was mad at the team. Now I've accepted relegation as the cosmic punishment the Lewises deserve. If we somehow stay up by the skin of our teeth, it'll only fuel their delusion that they never need to spend real money to build a true contending team.
If you look at this guy's profile, in a normal (not robust, normal) market he'd already be tenured or imminently be tenured. The time to conceputalize what to do with humanities research outside the academy has LONG passed.
I wouldn't say managers "aren't real," but I also do think fans (see: Spurs, Tottenham) overrate them. So maybe I'm "managers aren't a panacea." My deal with Rosenior is that I haven't been able to get over this quote
The film is now an all-time favorite for me so I had to check it out! The consensus seems to be that IV is “minor Pynchon” so I’m starting light for my first of his novels but no regrets on my part so far!
A hilarious moment of autocritique in Pynchon’s INHERENT VICE (which also applies to PTA’s movie).
At this point, whenever people bring up this debate my mind goes immediately to this passage from Samuel Wheeler's DECONSTRUCTION AS ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY, which I quoted in my dissertation:
These are the "randomly pulled" examples to illustrate analytic philosophy's supposed rhetorical superiority. I say this as someone who was trained in a nearly exclusively analytic camp: both of these are equally intelligble to me, and in fact I'd say the Spivak is slightly clearer.
Hilarious to still see people doing the "analytic vs. continental" debate on main. benthams.substack.com/p/what-conti...
Doing this would require courage and smarts, and JD's got neither. Just a total simp for power.
I’ll never not love some of this guy’s movies — OCEAN’S TWELVE is my desert island movie — but, sorry, I’m not going to look at him the same.
Like, yeah, we are terrible this year, but our imminent relegation is more an existential punishment than anything at this point.
Spurs fans speculating about why we’ve been so derailed by injuries need to stop analyzing the retractable pitch, and accept that all the shit happening this season — the injuries, Tudor’s dad dying — are metaphysical incursions punishing ENIC for getting one trophy out of the Kane/Son era.
Just ordered one off of this list. Looks like a lot of gems here!
Anyone who loves expertly crafted, popularly appealing cinema that thrills with depth needs to check out the filmography of Henri Verneuil, stat.
Mamet, significant for a (long-ago) time; LaBute, lol.
But if the guy in the Arnett role wasn't a comedian/comedic actor, all the stand-up stuff would have made it straight up unsalvageable. Arnett's ethos does a good amount of heavy lifting.
Just watched. On the strength of its performances and Cooper's interesting emphasis on close-ups it's a good time, but as the comedy of remarriage it's trying to be, it's half-cooked.