Ben Brewer

If there's one episode of TV I wish I could force everyone to watch and internalize, it's the 30 Rock where Liz, who has always seen herself as a bullied nerd underdog, finds out she's actually been hated all her life because she's mean.

This is still my fav post on this app so far

I’m so sorry to hear that, Christopher. I’m sure Winifred was a blessing, and I’m sure you were to her as well.

In honor of George Santos reporting to prison, I would like to remember what is perhaps the funniest thing any politician has done in US history

every republican

This reaches its apex when Mitchum, after spending the movie being a child-specific Anton Chigurh, gets shot in the ass and runs off hooting like Curly

- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

#Latin #Medieval

it's a very important cause obviously—*when* will there *finally* be an interminable daily nous comment thread about trans stuff?!—but do we want to pursue even a supremely noble end like this by these means? it's a philosophical question warranting its own daily nous comment thread imho

But the funny bit is the “without thinking” part:

Yeah if I had a business that was in deep trouble, I would definitely open a restaurant, which is a famously viable way to make money

New Richie Hofmann about Richard Siken?? It’s gay Christmas!

how it feels to be asked about your research

Every time I actually get to Queen Bee, I’m elated and then immediately a bit disgusted with myself for having spent so much mental energy on something as silly as this

For the record, I don’t think this is Ana rgument against the original post. People shouldn’t be surprised that a lot of people don’t like Ari Aster! A lot of people don’t like a lot of great things

the catalogue is all killer no filler: Beau + Eddington also filter out a lot of people who think good art has to be self serious

Liking Ari Aster is a litmus test for not being a big dumb baby about art

That should be my exit to get home but I almost always take a different route bc I truly feel like people don’t understand how the lanes work. Not that they do on the interstate either lol

The Maynard terrace one??? That roundabout is cursed. I’m not sure why but they built it…weird

Saltburn, and it’s not even close. I audibly gasped at several moments bc I thought “surely they wouldn’t be so stupid as to do x” and, boy howdy, did they.

I also *hated* Poor Things, but I don’t think it was irredeemably terrible, just not for me.

Eh, that second line should be something more like:
“The immortals are not who is there…”

“Tidings”

Out of the corpsewarm foyer of heaven steps the sun /
There it is not the immortals, /
But rather the fallen, we hear.

And splendor does not turn towards decay. Our divinity, /
History, has appointed us a grave /
From which there is no resurrection.

Fuckin Bachmann, man

Yeah absolutely, no question. It opts for humor over context or fidelity at almost every turn. I think (again, a la Chapo) Aster loathes (fears?) preachiness (one might just say sincerity, were it not for a few very poignant moments), and that’s probably one of the limits of the film.

Loving father with his two biological children

Real summer hours

Ari Aster is, according to him, a long time chapo listener, and I think the film has that sensibility in its approach to humor and politics (exhibit a: antifa super soldiers). But I don’t think that is both-sidesism, just an attempt to present a broader view of the fray itself with cynical humor

Yeah it definitely leans in favor of humor over side-taking, but I wouldn’t call it both sides-ism. The protestors are unbearably cringe-y (esp the one who turns right wing!) but they aren’t evil or violent just cringe

I would go absolute sicko mode for a Hölderlin group chat. And I know my husband would appreciate not having to hear me interrupt just so I can read him passages from “Mnemosyne” etc lol