Akira Mizuta Lippit

Oh well, thought we were having a serious conversation about media & attention not a clickbait that makes it seem like I’m sneering at my own students

I mentioned a late faculty colleague who was cutting down on smoking & developed an internal timer when they needed to smoke, never compared this students but rather to the ways that media like other stimulants regulate our timing mechanisms. Again, anyway.

Btw & for the record if anyone cares, I never compared my students to “nicotine addicts,” I said our attention spans (all of ours) are determined by the media themselves, and if we’re consuming media in shorter sustained bursts then our foci conform to those durations and temporalities. Anyway.

Server in cafe showed me how to use empty shells of mussels as tong to eat remaining mussels stunned to learn technique so late in life but also that mussels provide custom tools for their own consumption, as if they purposefully evolved to be eaten with human hands

The petite victoire of being asked directions by random people in Paris

Struck for no apparent reason by the strangeness & versatility of the word “while,” and increasingly anxious by the need to distinguish “awhile” from “a while”; like “apart” and “ a part” (of, from), the irreducible madness of English agrammaticality

Rabbit - 100Words Fred hated the rabbit. Along the walkways of his garden, it laid out like a fashion model at a photoshoot.

My story “Rabbit” is up at @100wordstory.bsky.social today—big thanks to editor Michelle Ross for selecting it 🐰 #microfiction

100wordstory.org/rabbit/

Attended Avatar premier, amazing but still Papyrus

Baseball Furies

The Warriors of this era

Even after a dozen or so viewings, Train to Busan has to be one of the great films of this generation

The view from the International Space Station as an aurora meets the sunrise in space.

These are less interviews than autobiographies. I’ve been fortunate to speak with some of the artists I admire most. My conversation w Marcel Ophuls was transformative for me. I don’t have the transcripts but the Academy has all the video records. I keep detailed my own detailed notes.

Thank you Juhan. I’ve been working with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Visual History Project for the past decade. We record long format conversations that end only when the interviewee end it.

For over 10 hours across 2 beautiful days in 2017 I spoke with Marcel Ophuls, who told some of the most brilliant stories about his life and those that lived and died around him. I could produce an entire book consisting of nothing more than his own words from those two days.

Alcatraz is a beautiful prison but Shawshank State Penitentiary far more practical: only one person—baseball legend Bull Durham—has ever successfully escaped from there.

Aquaman is from a Foreign Land and although I’m against in principle tariffs on seafood, would totally support crippling tariffs on that entire franchise

My dream of pronouncing tariff like Omar Sharif one step closer to reality

Now Academy will have give award to best film from a Foreign Land, would that include Canada as well as Middle Earth?

Govt announcing tariffs on movies produced in foreign lands meaning I now have to go to Narnia to see Chronicles

Keep seeing TV ad claiming that AI will one day ensure that trains arrive where they are supposed to & wondering how bad are trains now?

Maybe utopia is human extinction

Among his many accomplishments, none greater than Top Secret!

And what kind of soulless loveless party censures Al Green?

New research reveals Josephine the Singer a transgender mouse

Make America Oscar Again!