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Thank you so much! (It IS one of the coolest words.)

Thanksgiving themed conceptual anti-art.

I mean, he’s definitely my kid.

Kindergarten sent home a cardboard cutout of a Turkey and told us “disguise your turkey as something else so he won’t get picked for the Thanksgiving turkey hunt!”

My son decided that the turkey should be disguised as… a roast turkey saying “Thanksgiving turkey! Eat up!”

And yet either there’s something about the part that resonates for him? Or maybe he just leveled up as an actor at the age of 66? Because scene for scene, line for line, moment for moment, everything about the performance is note-perfect, to the point that I forget that I am watching Kyle McLachlan.

I feel like Kyle McLachlan might be doing the best work of his career in The Lowdown. Which is weird to say - it’s a good show, and a good character, but not *particularly* interesting compared to other stuff he’s done? There’s nothing you can point to and say “what an electrifying performance!”

it’s farts the odor is farts

An email I got saying that there’s a mysterious odor on campus but not to be alarmed

So he’d solve the housing crisis, is what you’re saying

I’ve often thought that even Argento’s worst movies (which get PRETTY BAD) always have at least one startling and beautiful shot or idea. Maybe the corollary is that even his best movies always have at least one shot or idea that is dumb as a bag of rocks.

Suspiria is a legitimate masterpiece, but the razor wire thing is so fundamentally unserious.

“Why do they even HAVE that lever?”

Hoppin John served over rice.

The texture I always aim for is wet, but thick enough to eat with a fork. (This image looks about right - and has me hungry.)

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Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

you could do a lot worse than making a big batch of hoppin john (which has the added advantage of being dirt cheap)

In her defense, the gendarmes did find that one docent who had laboriously spelled out “so window the ladder of man” in his own blood

Extremely funny to imagine anyone reading about the Louvre heist and scrabbling for their phone to shout “Get me Dan Brown’s hot take!”

Like. A solitary synapse firing in the darkness. Louvre. Louvre. Where have I heard that word before? Oh! That conspiracy novel from (checks notes) *22 years ago*

How I Met Your Mother, an *exceedingly* white show, did not so much as blink before calling the dad’s unrelated friends “Aunt Robin,” “Uncle Marshall,” etc.

if you happen to have a photo or even just a work/measure reference, I’d love to see an example!

the spirit is willing but the halloween is weak

“Oh, so now it’s a problem that he has a tattoo?” is maybe the single most intellectually dishonest take that I have ever seen on the internet.

Do you really, *really* mean to say

that you think people are mad about the nazi tattoo

not because it is nazi

but just because it’s a tattoo?

“WE HAVE HELL AT HOME!!”

i want epilogues in every kind of game, actually

show me dr. mario as an old man on his hands and knees in a cemetery full of the plague-dead, weeping because, for all his labors, he could not save them all

Man, that person is going to be very unhappy if they ever learn how neural networks are made.

I mean, you make a thousand versions of a program and only let the best 10% reproduce into the next generation? There’s words I could use to describe that process, but apparently I would get in trouble.

“pathognomonic”

Not sure if it’s the single best use of a closeup, but it’s definitely the best use of, like, twelve closeups.

CHOTINER: So you knew he was saving them for breakfast.

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: Probably! I said he *probably* was saving them for breakfast.

CHOTINER: But you ate them anyway?

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: Look —

don’t you dare be AI

(To be fair, in this case it actually IS good. But I don’t think that’s why it caught on so quickly and so deeply.)

Someone on here said “can we put whoever convinced us all to stomp lanternflies in charge of messaging,” and like…

The thing about “stomp lanternflies” is that it gives us a chance to be brutal, while believing that our brutality is Good. And that is basically the cocaine of ideologies.

I’d like to live in a world where the question “what makes Dr Seuss special?” has an answer other than, “well first of all he was competent, which is rarer than you’d think.” But this is accurate.

Luckily *my* generation never had any cringey linguistic affectations… NOT!