Thought this was Roger Ebert for years. It was Pauline Kael:
"I like the device of Indy’s father and friends looking down a cliff to what they think is Indy’s grave while he has climbed up and is behind them, trying to see what they’re looking at. It’s a good gag—I’ve always liked it." #filmsky
Late to Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz's deep-dive into Sam Altman and OpenAI. Live your life so people don't struggle to find the politest way to call you a liar.
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You've cherry-picked numbers from Biden's 1st year. GTFO with this "rejecting facts" crap. You may not be conservative but Donald Trump thanks you for your support.
I posted about right-wing lies during Biden's presidency. No idea why you're ranting about income inequality.
I brought up people with MAGA in their bios because I meant the Republicans who said Biden was destroying the economy. They talked about the price of eggs because they had to. All of the other economic indicators showed major improvements.
I turned to people experiencing genuine hardship and said, "Sorry, you're wrong"? RW policies have made life harder on 99% of us since 1-20-1981.
While the inflation rate fell, jobs grew and wages outpaced inflation, Republicans screamed that Joe Biden was destroying the economy. They were wrong.
People who haven't had a moment of uncurated time in years are absolutely baffled by authenticity and why anyone would like it.
#Breezeline has innovated a new level of hold-time hell. My estimated wait time has risen and fallen from twenty minutes to one. I've been on hold for forty.
Never heard anyone say, "The way we measure the economy doesn't measure the economy," until Joe Biden was president.
People swore it was impossible to slow the inflation rate without a recession - the way we've always defined them - until Biden did just that.
Price of groceries went up by 23.6%. You thought it was 300%. That's why it was called a vibescession.
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Saw it a lot on Twitter during the Biden years. The inflation rate was slowing and all economic indicators were positive. People thought the economy was poor anyway. Headlines like, "Experts fear economy will grow worse," on stories about the good news had a lot to do with it.
Two years ago, anyone posting this would have #MAGA and an American flag in their bio.
Curtis Yarvin said he started off liberal. Turned conservative when John Kerry faced no consequences for the Swift Boat thing. Allegedly a genius but never noticed Kerry was slandered.
We know that our reps’ offices hate having to take calls, and lots of calls really move them to do something because they want the calls to stop. So call or write your reps, ESPECIALLY if they’re republican, and tell them this guy needs to go. Be angry. Be annoying.
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I've teleported to Waffle House plenty of times. Met friends outside a bar, said, "Hey, I've got great news, we should celebrate," and moments later it was 5:00 AM and we were at Waffle House.
Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper (1498). Jesus and his twelve apostles sit at the dinner table to celebrate Passover. The apostles gesticulate vigorously. They don't know this will be the last night of Jesus' life on earth.
I was raised Catholic for the first part of my childhood. Didn't hear of this one until I started going to a Protestant church as an adult.
(It's the remembrance of the Last Supper.)
Didn't see it happen. Do remember grown-ups deeply concerned we kids would be traumatized for life, the way boomers were by the assassination of JFK. Everyone I knew thought it was sad, but no one cared past that.
When you read his last two predecessors were conservative, you think, "Well sure, they were Catholic." They were hard-right for Catholic clergy.
Imagine if Donald Trump and JD Vance were president for thirty-five years and then they were replaced by Bill Clinton.
Hell yeah.
2026 photo by Landon Nordeman shows folk musician Gillian Welch wearing a black jacket, ribbon choker and stern expression.
@bittersouth.bsky.social has a deep-dive / interview with Gillian Welch here: bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-13/...
Don't know what I did to disappoint her, but I am never, ever doing it again.
Spanking kids is bad. It makes them act worse, and also gives them emotional problems.
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We should recommend books as if we were screenwriters: "It's Gone With The Wind, only set in Russia, with two extra families and thoughts on morality."
Enjoying Slow Horses on AppleTV. It's about British people who treat each other with utter scorn and contempt.
There's some spy-thriller stuff about failed agents trying to escape MI5's backwater, but the complete-bleeding-bastardy is the heart of it.
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Junior High insecurity #23: "Why am I the only one who doesn't like Journey?"
Was going to defend Say Say Say. Checked Wikipedia, and Jackson wrote most of it.
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The exact moment "alternative rock" became meaningless.
David Cronenberg: ‘Scorsese said ‘I was actually afraid to meet you as I’d seen Shivers and Rabid and I was really terrified to meet you.’
And I said ‘You’re the guy who made Taxi Driver and you’re afraid to meet me? I’m afraid to meet you.’
"Discouraged."
Dis - courage - d
Huh.
"I don't need time, I need a deadline."
- Duke Ellington
If Ellington was alive today, half of TikTok would diagnose him with AD/HD for this quote alone.
So good. No one says a word for the first two minutes, but the camera tells you everything you need to know about the mom and daughter.