very cool and good that "shh let people enjoy things" discourse has metastasized to hagiographies of child molesters

Soderbergh's two films on Che Guevara are criminally underseen. Most biopics that take the "dramatization of Wikipedia bio" approach are terrible, but Soderbergh (true to form) makes it work. Even more interesting is how the two films work equally well whether viewed in isolation or as a single unit

Lots of pundits internalized John Adams's warning against the tyranny of the majority and somehow forgot that the tyranny of a minority is also, you know, bad

Drawing of a duck in a little sweater. The duck has not showered or shaved in like four days. NARRATOR: “Our man suddenly springs into action!” DUCK: “I gotta start acting like I have my shit together or I risk being PERCEIVED”

the procrastinator prepares for a manic burst of “productivity” to spare the ego

The Christophers | Revelations of Divine Love Two raves.

For your Sunday morning: two movies I loved about knowing and being known

wait till you see how much more Bad is about to Break

Discriminating against the viewpoint that I should always be allowed to do whatever I want, up to and including hitting law professors over the head with a giant cartoon mallet

hell of a thing to witness American brain drain happening in real time

I, too, desperately want to know this

This song (Dan Deacon's "Lion with a Shark's Head") was once my litmus-test song for whether a new relationship was likely to work out. If the other person enjoyed it at literally any level, green light! If the reaction was a stone-faced "what is this, this is dumb," that was reliably a bad sign!

And now the lion's playing drums
And the drums are made of dragons
And the dragons see the tiger
And the tiger turns pink
And the lion opens a restaurant
And it is very successful
And the menu is delicious
And the restauraaaaaant
Is made entirely of bees

He's calculating that generating excited support for bold ideas will render any backlash moot, because the backlash will be drowned out by the support. Again, just good politics (and a big reason why the timorous "move cautiously and offend no one" strategy of Schumer et al. is so ineffectual)

Right. That's called "being a good politician." If Hochul would get yawns with the exact same message, then she's bad at a very important part of her job.

To be fair, THE EXORCIST has this issue to a lesser extent. By the halfway point, Regan's face looks like a Halloween mask and she can move furniture with her mind, and some characters are still wondering whether it's all just some sort of medical issue

JD Vance, converting to the Catholic Church because he wants to tell people they're doing Christianity wrong: "yes, hahaha, yes!!!"

JD Vance, being told by the Catholic Church that he's doing Christianity wrong: "well, this fuckin sucks. what the fuck"

Highly recommend this theatrical experience if at all possible for you. Besides being a typically excellent Herzog doc, it's one of only three films where I found that the 3D measurably enriched the experience.

(The other two: GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE and CORALINE)

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

*Mitch Hedberg voice* "He's currently demon possessed, but he used to be, too"

"Well, I wasn't worried about that until NOW"

IIRC, he ragequit the US after Trump lost in 2020

Wait, you hadn't seen BB before? Oh man, we're going to have to talk about this when you finish the series. (It's my favorite TV drama of all time.)

"How could Chavez's crimes get swept under the rug like that?" moans person who, days later, will suggest that we sweep Swalwell's crimes under the rug

Part of what makes the hand-wringing about "suspicious timing" so unbearable is that we *just had* a news cycle about how horrifying it was that Cesar Chavez got away with being a rapist for decades just because he was a darling of the political movement

Regardless of whether that was genuinely his intent, it's more or less correct. The premise is less funny if Keaton's hapless protagonist is fighting for the winning side.

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

Text of "Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)" by Muriel Rukeyser. Text is online at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/poem-i-lived-in-the-first-century-of-world-wars

Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

It's TWO VAST AND TRUNKLESS LEGS OF STONE Tuesday!

That, and the fact that she's the only one in the whole bunch who can plausibly claim to have been Just Regular Folk before entering politics

Steven is the expert here, but I'll offer the following:

- The Gospel According to St. Matthew
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Last Days in the Desert

I have quibbles w/ all three (some aesthetic, some theological), but they're all worth watching and have enriched my thinking about Jesus' life

Long story short, they succeed & the bodysnatcher dies inside the narrator's head. But because the kid is telepathically linked with the alien, he also experiences that death firsthand. This kid gets possessed, experiences the cosmic horror of alien death, and then just has to go on living his life