I LOVE this piece. It reframed how I think about and watch the movie. And it was one of the pieces that convinced me to become a @brightwalldarkroom.com subscriber.

Thank you so much, that’s very kind!

If the Oreo has pop rocks or does some other weird shit, I’m always interested

It’s very confusing! Allegedly they change color when you lick them but that’s hidden away on a panel on the back of the package

Oreos with Marvel branding on the package. They’re called “Stuf of Doom: A Twist of Power”

Oreo packaging that says “lick the creme. Unleash a twist of power,” and allegedly the Oreo creme will turn from black to green if you lick it

Regret to report that the novelty Oreos got to me

The Christophers | Revelations of Divine Love Two raves.

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

Please report back on the viewing party!

The most interesting part of Alien3 (remember, the title is ‘Cubed’, placing it literally out of sequence with Aliens) is sorting out *why* Fincher treats Aliens’ resolution—Ridley as Newt’s adoptive mother—as a fleeting dream, destabilizing the plot’s relationship to Ridley’s series biography.

Guy designing the Nostromo: However many chains you think we need on the ship, double--then triple that number and that's what we'll put in the ship's chain room.

Assistant: Yes, sir. And the chains are dry, of course?

Designer: You're fired

Women, Aliens, and Dangerous Things: Female Bodies in Alien 3 Alien 3, more than any other Alien movie, is aware of Ripley’s existence as a woman, and the unique and universal horrors that come with the territory of inhabiting a woman’s body.

I read this essay that was mentioned in @brightwalldarkroom.com's newsletter, and it reminded me that I should finally watch Alien 3. Not used to seeing Charles Dance young.

Are they gonna break more bathtubs because that was gnarly

We respect the efficiency and also Jesse Pinkman’s commitment to not retaining anything about chemistry (the bathtub just fell through the ceiling)

For the night crowd

Okay so with a name like “Breaking Bad,” present tense, I was expecting the first season to be a Surf Dracula kind of situation where we watch Bryan Cranston get wound tighter and tighter until he finally breaks in the finale, but no, he gets right down to business and just does it in the pilot

A metric ton of green rhubarb in a sink waiting to be washed

First harvest of the season baby

Revelations of Divine Love is hard to see (it's currently in limited release in NYC), but Chicagoans can catch it at Doc Films at the University of Chicago next weekend. Seriously, run don't walk. It's lovely.

The Christophers | Revelations of Divine Love Two raves.

This weekend at Seeing & Believing: not one but *two* raves, a first for the newsletter

the US president is WEAK on soteriological exegesis

Folks, if you love the ALIEN films and a great unified vision that links them all, you’ve got to read this. The new edition is really great and made me rethink ROMULUS.

Love
The kind you clean up with a mop and bucket

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Sorry for being earnest, I can’t help it, I love my spouse and I’m proud of my book! Ok here’s a link to the book in case you too want to read it

My husband has excellent taste and reads a lot so it always feels good when he decides to read my stuff

A great feeling: looking over at the bookshelf and realizing that the book you wrote is out and has a bookmark in it because your spouse is reading it

It's good! I read it a few years ago, looking forward to returning to it

Three books: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, and Alien Phenomenology Or What It’s Like To Be A Thing by Ian Bogost

Thus begins the reading list for the next research project

When I first got my bike I couldn’t get to the top of Stone Way without dismounting halfway through, and after about six months I was shredded and I could take the hill without a problem. It ruled so hard.

I was a bike commuter in Seattle the year after I graduated college and it kicked ass

A panel from Trigun Maximum. Vash and Wolfwood trudge through the desert, dying of thirst, wacky grins on their faces

I love them, your honor

Yessssss