why do they look like Naughty Dog characters

People only talk about the hardships of being a cinema programmer; they never mention the perks, like how 2x a month the local chess grandmaster/lunatic will slip me a note of titles he would like me to program, 2/3 of which I have played in the past year.

Everyone who gave a single inch to the "protecting women's sports" attack should be remembered as an enthusiastic foot soldier for American fascism

The thing about far-right America is that they know very well what they're supporting. They identify it outright. But the psychic pleasure of hating an enemy and breaking and remaking law to enable violence simply far outweighs all other considerations and supposed values.

TASK is canonically a sequel to THE SOPRANOS

Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (Weir, 2003)

lydia davis is like my bloody valentine in that their imitators are so ubiquitous that the sui generis quality of their work is easy to mistake because they created a genre

This is one of the most spiritually Israeli things I've ever seen unfortunately

CHOTINER: It’s a nice little library you’ve got here, nice selection. Me: Thank you. CHOTINER: You take great care of these books. So many spines in mint condition. Me: [visibly perspiring]

Please read this

One of the best line readings I've ever heard

Then I missed Egypt. - Naguib Mahfouz translated by Hisham Matar

Speedrunning destroying the planet so some fucking dork can pretend to fly on a dragon. Dumbest apocalypse of all time

legendary film director paul schrader is posting AI slop (?) of himself welcoming the dead japanese fascist yukio mishima (??) to minneapolis-st paul airport (???)

and that's how ya do it

going to the movie theater

Colin Kaepernick paid for an independent autopsy of Trey Reed, a 21-year-old student from Mississippi who was found dead hanging from a tree. The autopsy revealed extensive blunt force trauma. He was beaten before they lynched him. The evidence points to an argument with

why are we just letting this happen