Christian Sager

Fragile stem
Made your own road again
Scars crash and glass made
You laugh you'd show it off to your friends
Fragile stem lay down your arms and then
Steer into the headlights like the dead light of the last sun you'll see
Steering into headlights and your gone

Lines from the movie "Nuremberg": "You wanna know why it happened here? 'Cause people let it."

Screenshot from the Magic Christian of Peter Sellers in a pig mask with a hot dog stuffed in its mouth. The Supercontext logo is in the upper right corner.

In this month’s episode of Supercontext, we discuss the 1969 film THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN. This anarchic comedy was based on a Terry Southern novel and championed by Peter Sellers, but it seemed to mark the start of a decline for both their fortunes.

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"I know he throws any and everyone under the bus the second it becomes expedient to do so, but for me... it will be different" - a seemingly neverending parade of pathetic hangers-on

I Had a Dream Journalism Job. Here's Why I Quit. The rot that hollowed out trust in corporate media finally reached OPB. I had to go.

We're live and we're going to start this week by telling you why we formed The Western Edge.

Bracing for the entire city to be on fire tonight because the Pats lost.

I’m not giving Google anymore of my $ while they support ICE, so I unsubscribed from YouTube Music and I’m giving Deezer a try.

The latter is owned by a Russian oligarch & Saudi billionaire, so is not without its own problems. But I’m trying to choose my battles.

Supercontext: an autopsy of media: Something Is Killing The Children This horror comic has achieved surprising success despite its gore and all the dead kids. We talk about the comic’s creation and promotion, and we ask “Is this all about trauma? Why aren’t people talk...

This month on Supercontext we deep dive into the comic series SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN. While mispronouncing everyone’s names we talk about the comic’s creation and promotion, and we ask “Is this all about trauma?"

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Thank you Paul.

Catherine O'Hara sitting on the bumper of a Lincoln Continental, no reason

Catherine O'Hara was one of the world's funniest people and elevated anything she worked on.

Also,

I was just watching the John Candy documentary and thinking about what a legend Catherine O’Hara was. What a loss.

I am struck by how man businesses in my former home of Portland, Oregon are participating in today’s general strike and how man businesses in my current home of Boston are not.

Tomorrow.

SETX Impact Initiative: National Shutdown · Indivisible This is a national call for general strike - No work, no school, no shopping. Please only participate if you are safe doing so. SETX Impact Initiative is not directly involved in organizing this initi...

I’m participating in the national strike on Friday.
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Maybe it’s the state of the world, but I’m having a difficult time stomaching all the self-congratulatory promotional posts right now.

Stay on target.

YouTube video by Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway Alex Pretti Shooting: "This is a Turning Point" | Pivot

"In two years and eleven months we're coming for you.”

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*What does a domestic American Nuremberg actually look like

*Lots of hangings, if it runs true-to-form

YouTube video by Arrow Video The Visitor | Official Trailer | 4K

The best movie ever made just got a 4K release.

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Endless Cold, Endless Darkness, by Ugasanie 9 track album

Really enjoying this new Ugasanie album. Perfect music for writing the creepy crawlies or just falling asleep to the promise of cold nightmares.

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Since the infighting and one-upsmanship has started--people who feel helpless + frustrated turn on each other, it's just a sad fact--remember: you don't have to like the people you fight alongside. Your comrades will say profoundly stupid bullshit to you, about you, etc. Let it roll off, keep going

#13 - Deliberately withhold evidence of their participation in child sex trafficking.

#12 - Bully and threaten national media to stifle free speech and control information, planting puppets in newsrooms and buying off the corporations that run them. Simultaneously loosen restrictions on the biggest tech companies, emboldening their platforms for disinformation campaigns.

#11 - Traumatize the citizenry with “shock and awe” or “flood the zone” tactics to paralyze the population from mobilizing meaningfully.

#10 - Manipulate markets so their grifter and scam artist friends can line their own pockets.

#9 - Add chaos to the market, resulting in an increased cost of living to everyone but the most wealthy, driving up unemployment.

#8 - Weaken funding and policy for health, environment, and safety, impairing the social safety net to make the population sicker, both physically and mentally.

#7 - Dismantle educational institutions and government infrastructure to weaken checks and balances while quelling dissent.

#6 - Weaponize the legal system for revenge against their perceived enemies.

#5 - Deploy armed soldiers to city streets to discourage protests against their actions.