My favorite film of that year.
And so to bed.
A friend just posted about how much he enjoyed my book.
Aw shucks. Thanks, David.
lol
I want to decide too!
Someone at a party in grad school told me they always read the end of any book first, and I just... I just decided to talk to someone else at the party. Problem solved.
@singing-kitsune.bsky.social
Hahaha…
A classic, sad to say.
‘This guy is going to destroy civilization as we know it, and the earth, and all because of these people who don't have any idea why they're alive.’
- Michael Shannon in 2016 predicting the hell we’re in now
www.rogerebert.com/interviews/y...
Ha! Interesting. I would have guessed The Grifters. Anyway, I picked this up yesterday and will enjoy revisiting these, it’s been a long time.
A perfect mix of the good, the great, the underrated, the overrated, and the utterly fucking insane.
JIM THOMPSON: FIVE NOIR NOVELS OF THE 1950s & 60s. Out today from Library of America.
Okay, which one is the overrated?
A William Morris vending machine
Some things are nice 💙
It’s going to be a long, stupid week.
if it wasn't a world-destroying atrocity it would be kind of funny how much time and money and energy is being put into convincing everyone to love AI and still the general consensus is like "meh"
So weary of living in a nation of cultists. But at least the weather’s nice today. So it goes.
I know it’s a much larger issue and affects my life in hidden ways, yes, but one of the singular pleasures of not owning a car for the past twenty-two years is never giving a flying fuck about gas prices.
I wrote something--4000 words' worth of something!--for the Yale Review about Hamnet the book, Hamnet the movie, & the riddle of representing Shakespeare's life on the page & on the screen.
This has always been the point of ai being absolutely crammed down our throats. It allows CEOs, policy makers, military officials and people at the top to deflect blame for anything decision they make.
iran is more or less the size of like half of europe combined, is led by fanatics, and controls the flow of oil out of the middle east. you guys couldn't even "defeat" *minneapolis*
OR IS HE
An important reminder for what will surely be a glorious fake spring day.
boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise
And so to bed.
Jim Woodring
It's becoming increasingly Impossible to enjoy any image without suspecting/discovering that it's tainted by the poisonous grift of "A.I."; truly depressing/infuriating.
Happy 84th to John Cale 🧁 #BOTD
The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs acoustic demo with Cale on vocals youtu.be/oDHTwvopOdQ?...
