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the issue is too much symbol hunting, really; "easter eggs" &c. marvel & swift have a hand in this, though ultimately we don't teach reading anymore. audiences lack the language the describe aesthetic objects on their face & arguments over what is not there suffices for "depth."

Still true

Billy Woods is scary good at rapping. nytimes.com/2025/05/15/art…

read ross

This is a great story, learned a bunch I didn’t know and there are some great cameos.

Pocket hadn’t been an effective app in years, let’s be real. RIP though

Michael Roemer (1928-2025)

"Screen Slate captures the chaotic, diffuse energy of contemporary movie culture (while also guarding against its dumber instincts) better than any other publication." Ross Scarano profiles Screen Slate for SSENSE ❤️‍🔥 ssense.com/en-us/editoria…

This is also a good time to announce that after almost four years I no longer work at SSENSE. I'm available for freelance writing and editing and full-time opportunities. My email is in my bio. Come talk to me.

happy would-be 80th birthday, Rainer Werner Fassbinder! here's a deep-cut: article called "My Night with Fassbinder" in a 1983 gay porn mag about picking up young RWF as a hustler in 1964, which I put on my blog a decade ago & forgot about til now strublog.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/arc…

for GQ Hype: riding around NYC shining w Clipse talking brotherly love, Roc Nation, The Kendrick Verse, beef lawsuits, Kanye and high-quality Stunt Raps gq.com/story/clipse-g…

it’s pretty staggering and damning to see the trajectory of the last quarter century of American studio filmmaking laid out like this lol

Not Slick Rick releasing a pro-landlord song…

Love this movie

There is no world in which HER is a better singer than Jackie Wilson, it’s preposterous to suggest otherwise

Restoring the feeling folks