paul johnson

Yea that was pretty cool, all told. The grainy footage!

The Thing and Mouth of Madness for me, maybe Halloween third. But this is pretty sick so far

Been on a real carpenter kick lately. Had no idea what to expect!

"Prince of Darkness" (1987) 17 minutes in seems very specifically designed to appeal to me

They should hand out a peace prize at next year's AVN Awards

Finish gd it

This bottle of wine and this John Carpenter movie won't tiniest themselves i guess

One Billion Americans (No Not That Way)

Someone will be staying up late!

I can figure out a couple ways to make them palatable but i broadly agree

This wildly tacky World Cup draw is a grimly fascinating preview of what happens if the aesthetics of fascism finally get their way.

oh yea i was just agreeing with you, been shouting about this for years.

look...

Ultimate sign of collapsed symbolic efficiency: killing as communication

Lotta Pens trauma tonight it seems

Yea and i think the way the country responds to the court doing the ultimate Wilhoits Law is gonna be The Big Thing

Knew Brian well in a past time. He was a good guy.

Is that a Stars of the Lid shirt?

Other bad signs for the upcoming voting rights act ruling: literally fucking everything

This is what makes me mentally oscillate daily in unhealthy ways. "Its all clownish" goes both ways

fighting the fight against the farm share sweet potatoes and getting bodied

the "regain some of the burbs and hold the newbies" option...i would not say it is intuitively evident in its availability

lmao yea i was just posting about this too. the internal rationalizations are hilarious but the data is interesting

and also trying to talk about voters that young as party members is a very dicey proposition, particularly when we're going to weather world historical crisis for...the rest of their lives?

the discussion is in part clearheaded abt where the tensions will lead. GOP has to make up for suburban voter losses and turn nihilistic young members of the coalition into reliable Republican voters. I think they've got the tools to do the latter handily but at scale to overcome the former? hmmm

A Not-Good Election for the GOP Jesse Arm of the Manhattan Institute joins us as we examine the results of the special election in Tennessee that had a Republican candidate winning with a greatly reduced margin

second half of Commentary pod yest had interesting interview with one of the authors of the Manhattan Institute study doing the rounds today: www.commentary.org/john-podhore...

tl;dr i think they're kidding themselves a bit about the extremism of the committed GOP base voter, but...

Read Joan Copjec on it like 18 years ago and haven't stopped thinking about it since.

what, no "Civil War"?

It's the ultimate termination of the analytic that sexual assault isn't about sex, its about power, yea. Similarly at some level it's about a kind of primal ungendering (even if it strengthens actually existing patriarchy in outcome)

This is just sl what we're living in