Rob Salkowitz

Ironic that the potato chip commercial kicked the ass of the Tyson “eat healthy” commercial

Love was definitely stronger on that play.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Patriots offense bright to you by the number 3 and the word Out.

Bad Bunny came to play yo!

If this performance isn’t getting your blood pumping, you may already be dead

Did they just bleep Bad Bunny?

Look, I liked the 80s as much as the next guy, but after 40 years, maybe they’re ready to be over?

AI, Crypto, sports betting and Trump: the four horsemen of enshitifcation. (Not necessarily in that order)

Thoughts and prayers

AI, Crypto, sports betting and Trump: the four horsemen of enshitifcation. (Not necessarily in that order)

What's the over/under on how many atrocious Draft Kings spots we will be subjected to?

On brand

Didn’t think they’d play American Idiot. Good on them.

Evergreen analyst of most of what Trump utters.

He was a cool young rabbi used to dealing with wiseass precocious kids, and it was a Reform congregation, so not as bad as it could have been. Something about "some people believe those stories are true and calling them 'myths' is impolite." He did not disagree that Hercules would kick Sampson's ass

As a myth-obsessed kid, I particularly remember the time (age 8or 9) I asked the rabbi at our congregation if Bible stories were just Jews’ less cool take on Greek myths.

It’s at least 5 administrations beyond that. Congress should have moved as soon as GHW Bush let the Iran Contra people off the hook.

How This Notorious 50 Year-Old Film Anticipated The Epstein Era A movie once banned for its shocking imagery offers some of the clearest insights into connections between oligarchy, exploitation and fascism.

"The sexual politics of the nameless castle in Salò (or Epstein Island) become the actual politics of society once those people manage to seize the machinery of the state." Some disturbing parallels between life and one of the most shocking films ever made. www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...

How This Notorious 50 Year-Old Film Anticipated The Epstein Era A movie once banned for its shocking imagery offers some of the clearest insights into connections between oligarchy, exploitation and fascism.

50 years later, one of the darkest and most shocking movies ever made provides some of the clearest insights into the connections between Epstein, oligarchy and fascism, today at Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...

It’s about showing people who’s boss. Since they are utterly incapable of earning respect, it is the only actual thing MAGA wants, and it’s the one thing democratic politics can’t offer them.

MAGA clowns, realizing that taking over elite, legitimate institutions does not make them either elite or legitimate, have decided to destroy them. We have met the barbarians and they are us.

Paul Allen's sister seems ok too. I dread what pile of human garbage or Borg-like sovereign wealth fund buys the Seahawks from her, although it sounds like the money will go somewhere good.

I know it's naive to expect this, but does a single person in our current generation of oligarchs consider public interest for its own sake, rather than some instrumental means of power or reputational whitewashing? When you have that much money, maybe occasionally just do something good?

The Future of Animation in the Age of AI: Rob Salkowitz, Technology and Pop Culture Analyst - DEEPER LOOK | NHK WORLD-JAPAN Is generative AI a creative revolution or chaos? Rob Salkowitz, technology and pop culture analyst, examines the impact on the animation industry.

Just did an interview with NHK on the impact of AI in the anime industry, including issues around IP, copyright, the Disney deal and more. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Yes. Policing how we express disgust with an objectively disgusting regime strikes me as a bad use of time.

Yeah, it was on indie cinema from about 1968-77. Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe & Mrs Miller, Mean Streets, 5 Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Nashville, etc.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
Politics of International Relations (Brzezinski)
Civil War & Reconstruction (Foner)
Intro to World Cinema (Sarris)
Philosophy of Art (Danto)
Asian Humanities & Lit (de Bary)

After that, nothing intellectually intimidated me.

Colleges cling to the ideal that we should resolve problems through inquiry and debate but students see how today's America works: by asserting power in support of ideology. Nobody wins a debate. They win the fight or they lose it. We are educating students in de-civilization, and they are learning.

When decency and conscience conflict with their sense of tribal identity, it's almost always resolved in favor of the identity. Otherwise, they have to accept they've become something they've been taught to define themselves in opposition to.