Sean, aka sweaternine from the other site

Have you written on this? Would be interested of course in our further thoughts.

Reading Wasson’s THE BIG GOODBYE and Towne’s professional relationship with Edward Taylor seems quite interesting — definitely recommended.

I once broke my windshield doing an impression of William H. Macy in Fargo

Proton is the recommendation I always get and am now investigating.

If you never seen REVANCHE, I would definitely watch it for this project.

… in a good way, one presumes?

Pretty sure Walmart sold the “Rope. Journalist. Tree.” shirt back in the day. But these things are usually the left hands not knowing what the right hands are doing, pun I guess somewhat intended.

In the Mouth of Madness 2: Esophagus Protocol

In the Mouth of Madness 3: The Devil’s Peristalsis

In the Mouth of Madness 4: Gorge Rising

There’s an old joke about an incantation-powered sex toy that culminates with an officer at a routine traffic stop saying, “Voodoo dildo, my ass.” Could be the plotline here?

I’ve heard of other people doing this for people that might not be getting SNAP money in November.

It's too long for Bluesky & I refuse to compromise. So here's a screenshot with the words in the alt-text.

That’s been a diminishing returns bibliography for me, sadly. I was big on the first collection and novel.

The sweetheart deal was the US was the global leader in technology, medicine, culture, finance and textbook science, winners of the space race and first to build a bomb to compete with the sun, and able to use colleges as soft power. In exchange, no one pretended Megan McArdle was fun at parties.

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.

MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Our pub trivia is always on Mondays, otherwise I think my moviegoing pal and I would be at these (or the Marcus equivalent) all the time.

We’ve all seen SEVEN.

Far from Pakula’s best, and a little mid for a Julia/Denzel pairing (both giving pure movie star), but you can smell the shoe leather as they gut it out to make sure their story is unimpeachably printworthy. Roberts’ third-act depression is a great choice; AJP even gets to cop CASABLANCA’s ending.

- A partisan plan to stack the Supreme Court
- Ill-fated whistleblowers
- Billionaires directing policy
- The president directing the FBI not to investigate a scandal that implicates him
- “It’s like the Gestapo in there.”
- “Fucking P.B.S.”
THE PELICAN BRIEF (1993) may as well be THE EPSTEIN FILES.

I just watched this for the first time, and despite knowing its reputation, was not prepared. The shot of Davis sliding her hands through the unmoored typewriter keys while the clackety-clack soundtrack persists was instantly one of my all-time favorite shots.

Just consume one more piece of bad news. A wafer-thin piece of bad news. Go ahead, what could go wrong. It's wafer-thin.

My kids love Aesop Rock but I think that also speaks to the possibility that his later works have surpassed that one.

The Bullseye with Questlove has a funny bit about Cold Vein IIRC.

Crazy to see both LABOR DAYS and COLD VEIN on that list; those evoke such a specific postcollegiate moment for me. It’s possible I know the median age of that list’s compilers.

I haven’t read Cowen in quite some time but he’s always struck me as hoopy, in Douglas Adams-ese. This, though, is a bonehead take that reverberates through past punditry.

But in an inspired way.

Wild.

Ray Wise’s last line, yeargh.

Google can’t find it but there was an article once about what a bad starter word BYLAW was, so it’s the only one I use. BYLAW/CHUMP/PIVOT eliminates a lot of the fiddly alphabet that can surprise you.

If you haven't seen it, you would enjoy Ben Wheatley's SIGHTSEERS.

Fandango listing for The Sound of Music 60th anniversary showtimes at the local Cinemark theater tomorrow.

I keep reading the Fandango listing for The Sound of Music’s 60th anniversary screening as The Sound of Music Goth Anniversary like there’s a goth version of the musical I hadn’t heard of and it’s celebrating its anniversary

“Heffy yurro werker plezzmend.”