David Kocik

The people yearn for the return of Global Village Coffeehouse

What I imagine pitch meetings at Queerty, Gay Times, and The Advocate sound like

About forty people look onward in a scene from Fritz Lang's movie M

God I love M much! One of those films that gave me chills multiple times

UK and Canada really flipped in quality this year. We love to see it.

It's been gag after gag this season and I'm gobbling it up!

And multiple snowstorms where they had to dig their car out

Kalshi may be the most evil startup on the planet and that's saying a whole lot

a woman with a backpack is standing in front of a car talking to someone . Alt: Gabrielle Union says "I know you can be overwhelmed and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?"

I'm about 20 hours into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and I'm mostly whelmed at this point. It's good and I'm glad smaller studios are getting major acclaim and press! But it's just not hitting for me for some reason.

Happy birthday Julianne Moore who has given us (LGBTQ+ folks) so much to enjoy, including these iconic two seconds from Maps to the Stars (2014).

Shrek and Shrek 2

See I feel this way but with mushrooms!

A textural nightmare!!!

The worst vegetable fr

Okay Cannibal is sooooo good. And Deeper and Deeper is my favorite Madonna song. Ugh the taste!

a video game character is wearing a mask and holding a harp in front of a starry sky Alt: Sheik wears a mask while holding a harp in front of a starry sky

I'll be at SCMS 2026, talking about Orientalism, placelessness, and queer readings of Sheik! I'm particularly interested in how the character's reception in queer communities reflects broader social, political, and economic shifts between Japan and the US in the late 1990s. See y'all there!

Movie poster for Wicked:For Good

Movie poster for Oldboy

Movie poster for The Virgin Suicides

Three movies in three days. Feeling like a real cinephile now!

Oldboy and Virgin Suicides cleared btw

A still from Oldboy (2003). Oh Dae-su, the protagonist, holds up a photograph in the background, while Lee Woo-jin looks ahead in the foreground

So there's this masterpiece from 2003 that I just watched yesterday

Great thread about why trust is like the most important thing you can foster in the classroom.

Also, this along with the Lepore media tour just reminds me that so many academics just outwardly hate the educational part of their jobs. No interest in pedagogy, learning etc.

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At points I was experiencing Borderlands level of cringe 😭

I'll take braindead Twitter takes over LinkedIn corporate speak any day

I tried playing It Takes Two and this dialogue???? Yikes.

Don’t blame women for men’s loneliness. Blame capitalism There’s a lot of money to be made off angry, isolated men

People have a good reason to resist acknowledging the male loneliness crisis. They correctly perceive that women are being blamed and told to fix it.

But the real cause is predatory capitalists who profit on keeping men isolated and online.

www.salon.com/2025/11/17/d...

Fantastic article about how even those seeking to recoup a less-toxic, more idealized masculinity (most often for profit) end up reifying gender essentialism and roles. It's not mentioned in detail here, but almost every modern economic crisis is accompanied by this kind of gendered hand-wringing.

To be in the space in which to be, or not to be in the space in which to be, that is the question

Birdie looks at a New York Times crossword book

Good morning!

Jake Tapper looks sadly on as Mamdani wins the New York Mayors race

Good morning!

Let's gooooooooo!

"I'd put a stake through her heart and garlic round her neck to make sure she'd never come back" is music to my ears

Tony orders from the iPad at Chidori Rotating Sushi

Went to rotating sushi for my birthday! 🎂