Fletcher Powell

Find yourself someone who loves you the way unearned social hierarchy loves defending itself through moral panics & means testing.

omfg

That's fun

Hell yeah

Remember a few years ago when that studio sent out that FYC promo box and nobody could tell if what was inside was cookies or soap

A surprising amount of career-best work from well established actors this year

Badger on the front, horse on the back

(Playing with my two small children)

God's Mistakes | George Washington (2000) | Bright Wall/Dark Room In George Washington, David Gordon Green uses time the way a painter might use negative space—he shapes our understanding of what we’re seeing, not through a series of plot points, but by giving us mo...

It’s Nate’s birthday, so I’ll continue my annual tradition of reposting this piece I wrote for @bwdr.bsky.social about David Gordon Green’s GEORGE WASHINGTON, a movie that has taken on enormous meaning for me.

Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.

Was at that Arcade Fire/LCD show, came in late without really knowing who LCD was, they were absolutely blasting the place with ‘Yeah’ and I’m not sure I’ve ever had a more thrilling experience at a concert in my life

B&W drawing of the 1st Thanksgiving, showing a table full of vegetables and eels. In the center are a pilgrim man, dressed in black and white, with a silly hat and giant collar. He's holding a bowl of grapes, and looking incredibly disengaged. Standing with him is a Native American man, with feathers in his hair. He's not wearing a shirt, but he is wearing several armbands. In all, he looks far more comfortable. He's reaching for a grape, or pointing at one as if to say, "This one has the poison." Behind the Native American are several others, fading into the background. Behind the pilgrim are two figures, presumably his wife and kid, and couple of houses with thatched roofs. The wife, carrying a basket of apples, has an uncertain expression on her face. It's likely that she's checking out the half-dressed man in her yard, and thinking about how her husband doesn't stack up so well. On the table in the foreground, in pride of place, is a plate piled high with eels. NOW it's a feast.

It's Thanksgiving! Are you getting your eels ready? It's tradition!

The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5
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Jim Cramer calls Nvidia's stock slide a buying opportunity — here's why PUBLISHED TUE, NOV 25 2025•10:11 AM EST UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

oh so nvidia is cooked for real for real

Damn. THE HARDER THEY COME and, of course, its soundtrack were an extremely important part of my teenage years (and still, but especially then).

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

It’s never stated but I maintain LOOPER has to take place in Wichita. Not the best movie set in Wichita though, that would be WICHITA.

My son sitting here on our couch digging in his nose and watching Peppa Pig while I gather the strength for the morning. And I, like, nuzzled into his big fuzzy head while he has boogers on his fingers. Love is so powerful lol

Hello from Wichita, some of these homes in Historic Midtown have some wild colors. And we are incredibly affordable, but 190k is still pretty cheap these days.

When Covid hit and we all needed something good to think about, I started giving a list of the movies I saw for the first time that year (from any era) that gave me the most enjoyment. So I still do that every year instead of a top ten list. It’s fun!

Happy TRAIN DREAMS day people! Watch and be moved by TRAIN DREAMS 🙏

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Colored pencil and marker drawing of two otters. One is finished and looks good, the other is a lumpy potato with a splotch for a face.

Proof that you gotta trust the process

“let’s run this copy through chapgpt" how about you fuck off right there

I absolutely had no idea these were all the same guy (I was quite young when this was on, in my defense)

Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’ The puffy, artificial look is rising in popularity - thanks to Maga elite such as Kristi Noem and Matt Gaetz

Saw a disgraced local former politician the other day and I’m pretty sure he’s had this done to his face. It’s also possible it was just his face and he’s not doing so well. But I’m pretty sure it’s this.

it never occurred to me that the secret to becoming a wildly successful writer was to be a terrible writer

this is today’s Good Piece. Please read it and share.

I watched a documentary recently that I generally liked a lot but there were a few bits of historical footage of *shockingly* good quality and it immediately raised my suspicions and made me skeptical about the whole thing. I don’t even know if they were faked! But that’s part of the problem now.

*waves hands* it’s all so embarrassing

The kids have all of a sudden become obsessed with CARS and now I’m wondering if it’s too early to show them THE COLOR OF MONEY

Running on legacy: A filmmaker's journey to understand her record-breaking father Lexie Helgerson's documentary, "Age Group Winner," plays this weekend at the Tallgrass Film Center. Her dad, Jay Helgerson, once held a Guinness World Record for running a marathon a week for an entir...

I talked to Lexie Helgerson about her documentary AGE GROUP WINNER and her father, who once held a world record by running (more than) a marathon a week for an entire year