Barbara VanDenburgh

[The Knoxville News-Sentinel; Tennessee - 11/18/1991]

A calico cat sleepily resting her head on a yellow pillow that says “mustard” on it

Checking in with Junie B, mustard lover.

The man cannot pay attention to anything that’s not himself for two hours

A poster for the Netflix documentary The Perfect Neighbor

2025 watch #151: The Perfect Neighbor. Remarkably clear-eyed documentary told without talking heads, almost entirely through body-cam footage, showing the entitled racist psychosis of a white woman aggrieved to live among Black neighbors. Add a gun to a mix, and you have a uniquely American story.

Even the office from Brazil is better

ROY BATTY: …I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... they'll be gone.
CHATGPT: That’s a powerful story 🎯 Thank you for sharing with me! It really spoke to your passion for space! 🚀

Fuck Harry Potter.

Let your kids get into Stephen King waaaaay too young like the Xennials did (and get into trouble for learning the word “cunt” and shouting it at a video game in front of their dad like I did).

This government is really a natural experiment in if anything matters

“That language is not who I am today." My man, you were in your mid-30s. You were a full-ass adult.

"There is an unconscionable industry built around making people decide how much less than what they deserve they are willing to accept." Goddamn.

tom in succession asking that news guy if he ever read hitler's memoir

vetting future dem candidates

I’m enjoying Guillermo del Toro and his five year plan

I don't understand why so many people are saying "good luck finding a man without a Nazi tattoo!!!" like bro how many of you are there

Michael J Fox as Teen Wolf, walking the halls of high school surrounded by babes

2025 watch #150: Teen Wolf. If there’s one thing I know to be universally true about high school, it’s that being different and covered in hair makes you popular and gets you laid. Famously how high school works.

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in a still from Interview with the Vampire

2025 watch #149: Interview with the Vampire. Is it *sophisticated* no, but do I love this opulent buffoonery about two gay dads baby-trapping one another, of course I do. I hate to have to hand it to Tom Cruise, but I really have to hand it to Tom Cruise, who has never been more charismatic.

Sir Kenneth Branagh: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of Sir Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Branagh: it's the Frankenstein film most to the vision of its original creator
Branagh: me, sir Kenneth branagh

This! It's not normal! When I was growing up, normal was killing Hitler in Wolfenstein and pumping your fist when Indiana Jones punched a Nazi!

Remember when Howard Dean’s political career was tanked because he yelled weird

It doesn’t contain Nazi shit because I’m not a fucking loser. I am, however, a complete dork.

A resurfacing of my circa-2000 LiveJournal would end me.

I don’t like sports because nothing I want to happen ever happens

What they really want is slavery. They want to lock people into the American prison industrial complex early for more able-bodied slave labor.

It’s gonna be the most shocking image until next year when we have MMA fighters weighing in on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial like it’s a fucking slave market.

Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap? Cory Doctorow’s theory of “enshittification” explains how tech platforms rot from within. As AI grows more profitable—and powerful—it risks the same fate.

brother it *is* the trap

5 movies to get to know me:

Ran
Phantom Thread
A.I.
Bright Star
RoboCop

One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.

Yes, unfortunately you are deranged

Genuinely, this makes me fucking insane. Parents shoving iPads in their kids faces to shut them up, boomers scrolling through Facebook AI slop alone in restaurants, people scream-talking through the store on speakerphone all day every day, just endless slop and noise, an aural and psychic assault