Corey Johnson (Too Many Tapes/Art of the Glitch)

Ginux

David Ellison

Cover of "Q: Are We Not Men?" album by Devo

I was trying to figure out why David Ellison's face looked so familiar to me, and then I remembered...

I’ve been in kind of a deep pit about the future of human expression and art lately, but a movie like this reminds me that sometimes you just need people conveying emotion and truth at you in the dark for a couple of hours, and there’s no substitute for that.

Blue Moon. What a film. We don’t appreciate what we have with Ethan Hawke.

The ringing of the bell commands you…

Taken together, Pinocchio and Frankenstein represent @realgdt.bsky.social in a fascinating conversation about what a father’s love - or lack thereof - can make of a child, and how the meaning of life is inexorably tied to the meaning of death.

Last time Democrats had a presidential primary, they opted for Joe “fund the police, fund them” Biden.

In the Senate, Democrats voted unanimously against defunding the police.

If the public thinks a party’s position is the opposite of how it votes, the policy stance is not the cause.

The end of Disco Elysium makes me so uncontrollably emotional. A growing melancholic tension that explodes into cosmic beauty.

A lot of people can’t look beyond the (admittedly astounding) technical wizardry to see how…weirdly emotionally hollow a lot of the last decade of their output has been.

The fact that this thing is PG is wild. The frank, straightforward way it deals with issues like death and bullying is still refreshing to this day.

Paranorman is still wildly effective after all these years. It's so sharply drawn, especially when the film focuses on Norman. I feel like I know that kid.

Real William Shatner in his 90s energy

Evil Dead II is on at a bar on mute and it still totally, totally works.

There is a dedicated wedge of people who desperately, desperately like this movie and I do not understand them. This may be how normal people feel when I blather on about Tron Legacy, to be fair.

Arguing with teens on TikTok about how bad Tron Ares is because I spend my time wisely.

Roadside Attractions really taking a flyer on this one. Their only movie to get close to the numbers they'd need were Manchester By The Sea and I Can Only Imagine. Feels like a miscalculated buy on their part.

Poison fruit from the poison legasequel tree Tron Legacy planted fifteen years ago. Cinematic boomerang theory.

Bio-digital sad trombone, man. Tron Ares was…a mess.

Dear President Obama, I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza." Palestinians have families, too. This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide. I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world. Love, Ms Rachel

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Looking forward to your DJ set!

JoCo Cruise lineup seems a little not my speed this year, but that just means I’m gonna spend more time with old and new friends!

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

They do one with Tang powder sometimes too!

Watching these armed goons react with bafflement, even fear, in the face of something patently absurd makes me wonder what other strangeness would short them out.

Now is the time for all good Juggalos to come to the aid of their country.

Same, though we are in Maine for the first time this weekend for a wedding. Amazing place!