49 True Facts About Lydia Tár The superstar conductor is the subject of a new biopic — what do we know about the real her?

I'm a lonely semi-liker of Maestro, though obviously Tár does it better and truer www.vulture.com/2022/11/who-...

I will show this to Elisa, who is maximally not on social media!

Louis Menand on Elisa Tamarkin's Done in Day. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... @uchicagopress.bsky.social @ucberkeleyenglish.bsky.social

Public Notes app statements/apologies?

Album cover for Souled American’s new record “Sanctions”. Abstract painting, multicolored and energetic, on a field of grainy brown

Massive flex to drop this same day as new Olivia Rodrigo single

had to double-check, thought you said six hits in a "week"

The Dog Stars - Official Trailer (2026) Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers

AI is existential threat to culture but don't sleep on the humans who can turn "Into the Mystic" into minor-key militarized power ballad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb1t...

Fyre Festival but make it war

the thing you like IS bad but the online discourse about the thing you like being bad and the thing I like being good is good

Along with @jbraddock.bsky.social and @jordanrbrower.bsky.social ,I'm helping to organize a convergence of sorts for ASAP/17 in Madison, WI, Oct 15-17! @asapartsnow.bsky.social

Propose papers here: asap17.exordo.com/login?redire...

The demographic of leftist sports media consumers and absolute Martin Parr fanboys might not be large but it's definitely me.

Wait until he learns how weak the Buddha is on property rights.

Part of me wishes the Pope would issue a statement that’s just, “at least I don’t have cankles.”

I’m guessing Pope Leo is a patient man so he can just wait until August to show up with Mamdani for a Mets/White Sox game.

Sister Mary leaves the Vatican | The Young Pope YouTube video by ClipsAndVideos

The Pope is weak on crime and don’t even get me started on the twee indie he likes

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sometimes back then they even did it with other people in the room

Temu Heat, which is still pretty good!

Already listening to an old Vic Chesnutt show at Northwestern. This archive could be my life.

Butlerian jihad when?

Q: how many hours will I spend finding and listening to shows I was at?
A: how many hours are there?

the AI temptation for (or coercion of) "indie" filmmakers who are facing austerity Hollywood is going to be wild and painful

Isn't it possible or even likely that AI is going to be much more tempting (and/or forced on) lower-budget, non-FX heavy filmmakers precisely because the margins are already small and profit expectations are mid?

Last night after finishing Crime 101: that could have been shorter

This morning after checking the timeline: why isn't there a 17-hour director's cut of Crime 101

OTOH I'm going win big on my Polymarket "prediction" when it comes out that Hegseth has watched The 300 more than 300 times.

Shouldn't have gone long on "human decency" in the 401K.

joke will be on us when a small midwestern college's gender studies program takes credit for the attack

clearly it was antisemitic for there to be a synagogue in Tehran that Israel and the US could bomb.

i guess it would be gross to say a whole civilization is dying but . . .

if only it was going to be the civilization that made that quilt

If he destroys a whole civilization, it's going to be really hard for him to win a second consecutive FIFA Peace Prize