J.D. Connor

This week's @hollywoodhandbook.bsky.social with William H. Macy has what could be a hacky bit where they redo Fargo with AI, but the results are so off-kilter that it reaches that transcendent point @hayesdavenport.bsky.social's old Indochino ad reads used to.

It's like the Purloined Letter

The most bawlmer to ever do it. (I assume his tour de force in Gremlins 2 will be next on the watchlist.)

Cover of the Color Treasury of Mushrooms and Toadstools

*and also

Most people rejected his message, etc. etc.

How I arrived on BlueSky

YouTube video by Radial by The Orchard The Raveonettes - Dead Sound

Are the Raveonettes the band with the biggest delta between their best—absolute Great Achievements in Pop—and their worst?
Anyway, this is as good as it gets
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nh_...

From the nonfungible to the plausible series, tokens really having a decade.

I mean, they broke up, too, and he's been up to other stuff but knowing what projects people have going in between label signings is no longer something I can do.

YouTube video by The Goon Sax The Goon Sax - Make Time 4 Love (Official Music Video)

There's a happier route out of that tale via The Goon Sax, Robert's son's band.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktNF...

Looking around for plausible Chiangs, somehow the CIA ends up arming a particular Marxist-Leninist personality cult that only recently came off the terrorism list

YouTube video by Dalibor Truhlar Angry German Kid (short version) - he's just playing it, he's a genius

Trump playing The Great Game
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psgn...

The Testament of Ann Lee Experience will be coming to Disneyland's new Searchlight Adventures park this fall

Also, there are a bunch in Boyz N the Hood. Fishburne's at the sign is the most famous, but Bassett's shorter speech over lunch is great

It's *florid*

They will let nothing stand in their way in their quest for eyebrows

A headline out of context "Digging Deeper on Kalshi's MrBeast Insider Trading Scam"

CFTC Wrecked My Parlay?
I'll be streaming my reaction on Kick at midnight

Peter O'Toole, Ruling Class, both the Jack the Ripper bit and the end speech

A picture of Gavin Newsom, smiling in a Puck article by Peter Hamby. The hed "Gavin on J.D.'s Dark Side: Clavicular"

My secret is out

A post from CNN saying "Target's new CEO unveils his turnaround plan" below a photo of a red shopping card with target's iconic Target logo. Below that a post from Andy Greenberg about how "A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals" The key art is a glowing red hand with fibers of light connecting to an iPhone screen displaying Target's iconic Target logo.

So Target's turnaround plan is hacking my phone?

Sometimes I just want to retire from the world and teach an enormous collection of outmoded computer hardware to play Echo and the Bunnymen’s Never Stop

YouTube video by The Velvet Underground - Topic Jesus

With the announcement that Armageddon is the military's actual plan, I'll be logging off
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_quy...

Michigan J Frog reaping all the other media outlets he’s murdered knocking on Oracle’s door

Now to make them regret it

Screened the first episode of Mussolini: Son of the Century in class today and I cannot speak highly enough of its gargantuan soundscape. I don't know that I have it in my to rewatch the series given the world, but it is a truly enormous piece of television. Luca is unbelievable.

The Double-Tap of Veronique

We get oysters, but only from May to August

If—unlike Tommy "6 months" Friedman—you are actually interested in listening to "the campus left," you might try devoting a couple days to @thedigradio.bsky.social's 5–part series on Iran (thedigradio.com/category/iran) with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour from 2022