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"Until one night, too late, you wake into an understanding of what you should have been doing with your life all along."

--Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket

"Marry, raise a family, assemble a life you can persuade yourself is free of fear ... those you could have saved, could've shifted at least onto a safer stretch of track, are one by one robbed, beaten, killed, taken away into the nameless unrecoverable."

"History rolls on toward our Fascist future, immense and stately, we here being only the squalls and tornadoes breaking out at her edges ... We're in the last minutes of a break that will seem so wonderful and peaceable and carefree, if anybody's around to remember."

This week in Westeros, our friend and fandom legend Michael joined us to discuss maybe the greatest moment in ASOIAF: the Broken Man speech, a haunting distillation of the psychological horrors of war as experienced by conscripted peasants. Our episode is up for everyone!

This week in Westeros, Cersei increasingly has enemies everywhere, from Bronn to the Tyrells to her own adorable son Tommen. And we haven't even gotten to the High Sparrow yet...our episode is up for everyone!

In our latest patron-only episode, we talk about what might be coming next for various characters down south, from the Tullys to the Tyrells to everyone's favorites, the Freys. Our episode is up for all our patrons on Patreon!

The week after that: we return to King's Landing for A Feast for Crows, Cersei V, in which Cersei's day is so bad that even Tommen is annoying her.

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This week in Westeros, Sansa has to play Littlefinger's daughter "Alayne Stone" as he manipulates the Lords of the Vale into backing down, all to offer her an object lesson in the game of thrones. Our episode is up for everyone!

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Currently on a re-read binge and just noticed how Lame Lother Frey was first introduced as athe Stranger in the series (the Hoster funeral in ASOS):

Best version of the movie would be cutting that out but leaving in the mention of Ripley's daughter

Sansa and Sandor, together at last

NOVEMBER 3, 2025 THE ART WORLD RECONSTRUCTED In "Monuments," the Confederacy surrenders to nineteen artists. By Julian Lucas 6:00 AM Picture is the statue described in img 2

•he hirst thing you see is a horses - ass, protruding, upside down, trom the thorax of a monster. A man's arm descends from the beast's stomach, his gloved hand clutching the blade of a fallen sabre. There's no sign of a rider's face, but a head of well-coiffed hair dangles from the creature's eyeless muzzle. Every part of the work comes from a statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that was removed from Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021. It was subsequently given to the artist Kara Walker, who carved it up in accordance with a butcher's diagram. The finished sculpture, "Unmanned Drone"—on view at the Brick, in Los Angeles, as part of a joint exhibition with MocA called "Monuments" —is at once an act of carnivalesque retribution and a recognition of the Confederacy's zombie-like persistence. A rebellion defeated more than a hundred and sixty years ago refuses to stay dead; between the creature's legs, a horse head emerges from a gape in the bronze, like a new Jackson already foaling.

well this kicks ass www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Frodo wakes. ‘Where am I?’

‘In the House of Elrond. It is ten o’clock in the morning. The morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.’

‘Gandalf!’

‘Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.’

Tough to pick my favorite guest spot between Johnny Cash in that one and Albert Brooks as Homer's Bond villain boss

1. The Mysterious Voyage of Homer
2. Homer the Heretic
3. Marge v the Monorail
4. Kamp Krusty
5. Last Exit to Springfield

I really do think “Bart’s Comet” is the single best Simpsons episode. Some of the best gags, tremendous animation, leverages the entire Springfieldianite cast, and has a nice touching ending (except for Ned’s children who should be deeply ashamed of themselves)

Vote early, vote often!

One can only hope!

If you're not rhyming lobby with lobby, what are you doing with your freakin weekend

In "Ignition (Remix)," they're listening to a song on the radio, which turns out to be "Ignition (Remix)"

The new one is a very smooth read, but Vineland and Inherent Vice are tons of fun. Crying of Lot 49 is also a solid shorter intro

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Shadow Ticket is so great. Thinking it'll replace Inherent Vice/Vineland as my recommended intro to Pynchon. Streamlines all his pet themes/tones/images into their most accessible form

A ★★★★★ review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025) Rian Johnson returns to formulaic, grounded roots in his own Alt-Righteous Gemstones, but through the hate, always finds a way for the audience to keep the faith. It resonates with me that Johnson's w...

night one of #pff34 was WAKE UP DEAD MAN, the new Knives Out story.

My ★★★★★ review of Wake Up Dead Man on Letterboxd boxd.it/bomtNf

Favorite part of Shadow Ticket so far is how it builds on all the "there's submarines hidden in the Great Lakes" rumors I was told as a wee Buffalo boy

Magellan is fantastic, it was wonderful to see a slow-cinema insta-classic and then dissect everything that was shown and not shown with my brother afterwards. What else are film festivals for? Support @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social if you're in town

Studying the rebellion texts