Leonard Pierce

Oh sorry did the most exciting World Series in decades just finish? I was watching a meaningless NBA game being played in Mexico between two teams I don't care about and wondering in what specific ways Jerry Reinsdorf is going to make my life miserable next year

Fuck it I'm going to sleep

It's going to be great when we're losing wars on three different fronts

We're going to make up new continents just so we can declare war on them and still lose

She just lets the shared long I do all the work but she sings fast enough that you can't get hung up on any one terrible problem. It's like going out in the pouring rain and getting mad at one single raindrop

Wait until you hear her sing it

TRUCK BOOTS WHISKEY, EXAGGERATED POLITENESS

FLAG HAT COUNTRY MUSIC, SUPPRESS ALL SUGGESTIONS OF FEMININITY

TENNESSEE

WE ALL USED TO BE WHITE

I'M HAVIN' AWKWARD SEX WITH THE HEAD OF THE FBI TONIGHT

/computer-generated slide guitar solo

Every one of these sounds exactly like you think it does

I don't think that I'm all that/but I know I ain't all hat, no cattle/ back in the saddle I know folks these days up and leave/but I stand up for what I believe/some unravel/when I rode into battle

I'll ride into those canyons out west/and I'll make sure I go out with both of my boots on/Lord knows good John Wayne did it best/boys these days are doing it all wrong/I just wish they could be/half as cowboy as me

I'm a four-wheelin', corn-tilling pair of muddy boots/not a high-heelin' guy-stealin' wearin' Daisy Dukes/yeah, I'm down at the drop of a hat/to lock a hub on some mud on a map Know how to shoot a shotgun/how to shoot a shot, son/how to shoot some pool, shoot the bull No, I'm not one who thinks they're better than that/no, I'm a little bit redder than that

My favorite shot to shoot/yeah, whiskey in his kisses/sunset in his eyes, knows just when I miss him/'cause he'll come ridin' by He's a real cowboy blessin'/he's heaven in a Stetson I ain't complainin', I ain't askin' why/just thankin' my lucky stars every night/I guess I coouod get used to this

Oh would you like some more of it? I bet you would you vultures. I'm not even going to tell you if these are from the same song or different ones, you shall have to guess

Yeah that one's extremely clunky

Also I know the two lines are not necessarily related but this makes it sound like she thinks people used to have record players in their cars

Don't forget the "didn't do shit to the financial criminals of 2008/didn't do shit to the J6 architects" and "presided over biggest ever loss of black wealth/completely botched COVID" dichotomies!

I'm sorry, did you just ask me if he is 20 years older than her? How dare you, he is only 19 years older than her

All of her songs read and sound like they were written by an AI trained exclusively on what plays on gas pump video screens

Back when old school was mainstream/radio was always clean/people read their news there in ink/when steel guitar was on everything Folks lined up to hear Strait sing/write this down: long live the king/drop a needle down on a vinyl/windows down just driving for miles

When they flew Old Glory down on Main/everybody knows your first name/Friday night lights football game/these days just don't feel the same Sunday morning spent in church/takin' things for what they're worth/say your prayers, let Him know/send one up for the ones not comin' home

When the American Dream was a Cadillac/and the red white and blue showed in how you act/the things you got you worked for/you didn't think twice about not lockin' your door When people did the right thing with no one around/they looked at each other and found common ground/from the music to the flag, I ain't livin' in the past/nah, I'm just sayin' I want my country back

I can see why Kash Patel is so smitten by this woman

The Grasso Knoll a mix of short essays, link roundups, and (minimal) journal-style entries by Michael Grasso

So we're doing this now. Point your aggregators and everything else here; I'll probably set up some kind of feed if possible to this Bluesky account for individual posts.

Noirvember: Break Any Man - IMMORTAL SCIENCE “What makes you think anyone’s taking care of the girl? I wouldn’t be lifting a finger — not one finger — if I could make myself believe she was still...

It's Noirvember! This month, IMMORTAL SCIENCE will suspend its normal programming and presenting thirty noir films, reviewed by me, your movie watching pal. We start out this month of crime and fatalism with 1950's UNION STATION, featuring two of the most sourpuss cops in movie history:

God he's such a bad poster. Like Elon-level bad but in a completely different way

14 karat gold Homer

This is none of my business

Hell yeah

"Hey kids, you look great! And now a reading from Chairman Mao: OPPOSE BOOK WORSHIP. That's right, Super Mario! No investigation, no right to speak! Okay, so, 'Do you doubt this conclusion? Facts will force you to accept it!' Yeah I still got some of the green Snickers, hold on a minute"

We ran out of candy already so I will now be dispensing valuable lessons about communism

I've wanted to do a showing of his masterpiece, LA COMMUNE: PARIS 1871 -- a master class in so many elements of filmmaking and so many crucial aspects of this first great communal effort in liberation -- but have been frustrated by its length. It would take two screenings at least but so worth it.

CULLODEN, THE WAR GAME, EDVARD MUNCH, THE FREETHINKER, PUNISHMENT PARK -- an oeuvre of stunningly effective films. Seek them out where you can and see as many as possible. (Many are on my Plex, for Plex pals.)

RIP Peter Watkins, a great leftist, a great filmmaker, and against all odds, a great leftist filmmaker. A huge loss.

I literally didn't even know Jacobin had published a bad take about Platner until a bunch of my leftist comrades started talking about how bad it was. And most of us actually know the guy who wrote it

Fundraising e-mail for Democratic candidate for Texas AG who brags about being "a soldier, an FBI agent, and a prosecutor". This MF named Tony Box

I dunno that's a lot of red flags for a guy named Tony Box

As usual this is just a complete shotgun blast at an amorphous blob he calls "the left", no specifics are ever given but we're all equally guilty

The Revenge of the Intellectual - IMMORTAL SCIENCE “Hey, Curt!” “Hey, Dennis. Givin’ the old Chevy a polish, eh?” “Yeah, she can use it. Hey, how’s the medieval scholarship going?” “Oh, you know. You win some, you lose...

It's Funny Friday (a judgment call, admittedly) at IMMORTAL SCIENCE, and today, we spend some time with Curt Billings, medieval scholar to the stars, in a piece dedicated to @goingmedieval.bsky.social!

Holy shit