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Serious intellectual. Gentleman of substance.
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Happy 50th Birthday, Jaws and Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels — the two best films about bleeding to death.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

me: what kind of animal is that tour guide: alaskan otter me: ok, let me know what he says

submitted 142 days ago • 31 comments

what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

submitted 5 hours ago • 103 comments

This was how 14-year-old me first discovered Mark Leyner's ET TU, BABE, which is a main reason my writing, such as it is, is what it is

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

RT if you ever bought Vintage Contemporary paperbacks just because they looked so cool

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

What a decade this half-year has been

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

my unifying theory of everything for the 21st century american zeitgeist is that you can trace everything back to 9/11, the writer's strike, or gamergate. ICE? 9/11. Trump? You might think gamergate, but it's the writer's strike. The assault on trans rights is gamergate tho.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Is the Karen Read acquittal an augur of a post-cop America? MY COLUMN

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

We're like at 70% 2003 levels of bullshit, there's a soft ceiling somewhere above this because of 2003 but I don't doubt with enough assholes we could break it

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

know this: there are people I respect & do not follow. there are people I follow & do not respect. it`s up to fate—i make no apologies of it

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Got jury duty coming up, and while I don't think it'll be as harrowing and bleak as the last time (really bad case, where nine of the other jurors were apparently living in an alternative, counterfactual reality), if current events have taught us anything, it's that things can always get worse.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Always remember

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This one goes back to my bookstore management days: The most commonly stolen item at a bookstore is THE BIBLE.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

We’ve just learned Brad Lander has been released, and the crowd is cheering and chanting to “Free them all”

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

i'm here you fuckaas bitch

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The Liam Delap Era is off to a flying start; love to see A Big Lad with some technique

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Unsurprisingly, Cuomo’s car has been ticketed for speeding in a school zone four times in a month howsmydrivingny.nyc/h97qmnh0

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

No Shame Monday: I want to make my movie, which is good and sad and funny and scary. Know anyone who might be interested? Pitch Deck: drive.google.com/file/d/13u6b...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

Rafael Devers should have fun hitting dingers into the Bay, and why not, the world needs more joy

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This can be a tough day if you've lost your dad, but thinking about how hard the old boy would've laughed about those squeaky tanks yesterday is helping.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

submitted 5 days ago • 279 comments

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

this man is realizing what the reaction is going to be when he dies

submitted 5 days ago • 117 comments

my favorite moment from the protest today was when some guy in a super duty flipped us all off and started swearing at us and then hit a red light right in front of everyone and he had to just sit there at the crosswalk for two minutes while everyone made fun of him

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

No Kings means you have to skip from "Dirty Work" to "Midnite Cruiser," revolutionary discipline requires sacrifice

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Thinking about movies where the surprise plot twist is that the bad guy's a cop: would that work anymore? At this point it would be more of a surprise if the serial killer or political assassin or whatever *wasn't* a cop

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

No Kings includes Draft Kings

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments