I’d seen it many times before. But last night was the first time I’d gotten misty-eyed watching it.

But then when they play clips of his monologue during the climax of the movie it turns out he delivered it with a shocking amount of emotion?

“Inspector Detector suspected foul play.”

Cranky post: I’m sure I’m in the minority, but I’d really rather that Procreate would use standard names for pens and pencils (Soft Round, Hard Flat, etc.) rather than the Mac OS naming conventions they currently use which tell me very little about how they work.

Yeah, it’s a clear vote with your dollar.

Superman 🧵

Not me dodgerolling in IKEA testing out storage solutions…

スタンディングやデモしかできない無力さに落ち込んでまう。
我々はこのまま武器輸出して殺戮に加担し、改憲して戦争する国になるのか。
今なら止められるはずなんだけど関心のない人たちに話を聞いてもらうにはどうしたらいいのか。

誰も殺したくない。
誰だって殺されたくない。
めっちゃ切実なのにプラカード持って立ってることしかできない。

でもやれることをやれる範囲でやっていくしかないのよね。
仕事もつまってるしやんなきゃね。
家事もいっぱいやることあるしね。

戦争反対。

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

(FOR THE RECORD: THIS WAS TOUGH. ROYAL TENENBAUMS AND FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING ALSO CAME OUT IN THE SAME MONTH!)

Maybe (probably) not physical. But, they have historically released some of their movies for digital rental/“ownership” or whatever we’re calling it now.

The only thing missing:

“Your honor, my client would like to invoke the ‘not my monkeys, not my circus’ defense.”

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

It is BONKERS how great it is. Sydney Lumet. Doing the goddamn thing.

Damn that guy was making HEATERS

I feel this 100%. Been feeling it for years now.

“Making Time” by Creation in RUSHMORE.

Somebody chopping onions next to me while watching this week’s The Pitt or somethin’…

Ah mine was full of L9s

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

That's a good point. I am approaching this subject from the perspective of giving one iota of a shit about anyone but the self. Clearly a mistake right off the bat. lol

It's telling that anytime constituents propose taxing these MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR CORPS even just a little bit, the US Govt starts sounding like they're in an abusive relationship. "B-b-but what if they leave us??" So we just keep taking it on the chin. I hate it here.

Also, I'd much rather someone... ANYONE think about Infinite PROGRESS instead of infinite growth. How they can serve their well-maintained audience better and more reliably without disruption, rather than just tryna gobble up marketshare. BUT I GUESS I'M JUST OLD FASHIONED.

Infinite Growth is a blight on EVERY industry. I don't understand how anyone can believe that is a viable way to do anything. It's like believing you can just accelerate an engine forever without breaking. Sometimes, (most times, actually) reaching and maintaining your audience is the victory.

the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it

Been a lotta Tech Jacket talk the last couple weeks thanks to the Invincible show. So just as a reminder, the TECH JACKET COMPENDIUM VOL. 1 is out now, collecting everything, including TECH JACKET #1-8, TECH JACKET DIGITAL #1-3, & TECH JACKET (2014) #1-12. It's a really fun ride!

BE SURE TO WATCH THIS WEEK’S JAW DROPPING EPISODE OF #INVINCIBLE ON PRIME VIDEO!