Joe Saunders

I just ate a banana and it had too many strings on it and now I'm fucking pissed

My goal for the week: look at more internet

A large, intricate matte painting depicts the deep, circular interior of the technical shaft of Cloud City, featuring thousands of tiny glowing lights and structured panels that create a vanishing point perspective toward a dark center.

The Empire Strikes Back (1980): No, I am your father.

Matte painting by the legendary Harrison Ellenshaw.

the two types of vehicle are cars and trucks, with every vehicle being a subclass of one of those two. a jeep is a truck. a motorcycle is obviously a car. a boat is a truck. an airplane is a car and a helicopter is a truck. trucks are cars, interestingly enough, and cars are a specific type of chair

Confession time: i shushed my toddler during the Cliff Booth trailer

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

I can't believe there's a not-zero chance this year that I'll get tear gassed while holding a "Free Don Lemon" sign

you can’t fucking dox a public official!

Yo! Reading this guy has an Eisner?! Spirit of Comics Retailer Award. Hell yeah!

Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.

LA folks around Burbank: ICE is out and about in NoHo today, particularly at Home Depot on Sherman Way and near Burbank Blvd and Vineland. Be careful.

Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left.

See? We just need to talk to each other.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

The Beatles Anthology on Disney Plus now includes a brand new 9th episode that is entirely dedicated to why there was never a blonde Beatle

They never mention it on the show, but Daniel Tiger's watch is a $51,000 yellow gold Patek Philippe Calatrava

the funniest thing about all of this is that jd vance grovels like a worm to get even a quarter of this kind of public support from trump and he barely manages that

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

In honor of the dearly departed, a preview from Chapter Two ("The 9/11 Lobotomy") my forthcoming (hopefully in a year) book THE INFERNAL TRIANGLE: HOW AMERICA GOT THIS WAY.

Want my toddler to grow up to become a Reverse Lebron (NBA superstar who forces his team to draft his father, me)

the Criterion Channel should make a deal to stream an NBA game on Thursday nights

i am in tears

How would you describe that worldview? My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

this weekend something happened that I never in my wildest dreams thought was a possibility: a Barnes and Noble employee talked me into buying a copy of The Iliad

This is the post I'm going to send UNC when they write to ask for an alumni donation.

They took these US citizens naked and put them in zip ties and threw them in a van.

A family of aliens from Solar Opposites. Streaming on Netflix on 9/28.

Really excited that Netflix will have 5 seasons of Solar Opposites (plus the holiday specials) starting this Sunday 9/28!!!

When I heard Daniel Day Lewis was coming back in a movie directed by his kid, I kinda rolled my eyes. But I thought about it and now I think it's beautiful and would love to star in film directed by my son

Every summer you turn pretty is followed by a winter where you go butterface