Jim Cornell

I joined team grilled-birb four years ago and never looked back

Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81 Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.

I know he worked on so much more, but thanks for being Yuri, man.

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Goddammit Eagles

Noirvember: Failure is Not Permitted - IMMORTAL SCIENCE Clifford Odets had a curious and tragic Hollywood career. Most viewers probably don’t remember him at all, and others may know him less for his Hollywood product than for the...

Today at IMMORTAL SCIENCE, oh ho ho! I bet you thought I forgot about Noirvember! Well, I didn't, and to prove it, here's a look at THE BIG KNIFE, a loopy showbiz noir written by Clifford Odets and sunk by two insanely over-the-top performances from Rod Steiger and Jack Palance. It's bonkers!

That would have required him to care, a thing he has never every done about anything that is not an immediate impulsive need from the most primitive part of his brain

Hey so.

Lots of people reading your hot takes on Bubba are gay or bi. There are lots of jokes to be made--Clinton is RIGHT THERE--but if the best you've got is 101 basic bitch homophobia, got some bad news for you about you.

I never thought I could feel relieved three out of my four grandparents didn’t make it to 1987.

GOAT costume design from the legend Eiko Ishioka

the smart ones put in their papers in 2021-2 when the OT they banked from the BLM protests would have skewed their pension numbers far above normal. There's no amount of "actually showing up for your ticket hearings" that makes up those numbers.

Even subtracting the historical component of it, that's literally not how that movie portrayed Baldwin! Kingdom of Heaven literally argues the opposite of what this guy is saying

As Otto Von Bismarck looks on with disbelief that the Americans were too arrogant to learn from the exact same thing happening to him

I’m gonna go ahead and keep mashing that “manifest” button

Sword of Doom is both an example and an inversion of this, Nakadai gets to drive the action with Mifune working off of him

One of the world's finest. Brought out some of Mifune and Kurosawa's best work, and dominated the screen on his own.

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If you're rich you owe me fucking money over this. Pay up.

I’ve been fortunate enough to meet Kelsea a few times, and the ATLDSA put in fucking WORK to get them to the City Council. Proud of them and my Chapter.

New York City was good to us. It’s got a chance again to be good to so many, many more.

It's real.

My grandfather is staying up late to watch this game which is wild since he died in 1984 but the man fucking loved the Dodgers

The Grasso Knoll a mix of short essays, link roundups, and (minimal) journal-style entries by Michael Grasso

So we're doing this now. Point your aggregators and everything else here; I'll probably set up some kind of feed if possible to this Bluesky account for individual posts.

The Nazis arguably gave up their best chance at developing nuclear weapons because they considered physics a jewish science and drove their physicists to the US, but go off king

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Shouting “get subtexted idiot” right before I do my finishing move

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

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fixed that for you

To the extent that we can sum up the Trump regime right now, this is what seems most defensible to me:
1) It's an authoritarian takeover of the state apparatus
2) Events are moving faster than they anticipated, and they can't control the story
3) They're just not competent enough to pull this off

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We've had a medical event hit our family taking away our main income and I cannot get enough freelance and gig work right now to make ends meet. If you've ever enjoyed anything I've created, a quick SMALL tip would mean a world of difference the next couple months as we get our feet under us again

Okay but like when

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling