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One of those Marxist Mennonites you hear so much about. I talk about movies at www.lostincriterion.com I talk about ska to anyone who will listen I want to ride my bicycle
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Oh The Places You'll Stay

Can't believe it's been 10 years since Criterion showed us a Hitchcock. Can't believe we've been doing this long enough for it to have been 10 years since Criterion showed us a Hitchcock. This week we talk the delightful original The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).

ICAP is in court today to fight against federal agents raiding houses of worship without a judicial warrant.

Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

rocko's modern basilisk

Great time to be in the coffee roasting business, let me tell you.

This isn’t the usual Chotiner interview where he runs rings around some idiot — it’s something that is, to me, significantly more troubling: a conversation with a clearly intelligent man who has totally released himself over to the Devil, and will not see it

Cops're just running over the wheelie kids now. Fighting "reckless" riding by hitting children with unmarked police cars. Pedestrianize every street. Defund every cop.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Wisconsin, if this is an april fools I am going to be so cross.

Our March 2025 Patreon bonus drew from the Criterion Channel's list of "Surveillance Cinema". Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation won the vote, leading us to a rollicking discussion on how getting obsessed with a single line you're taking out of context is very Catholic. $1 gets you access at

Listen, I won't pretend that my dislike of Dave Yost isn't at least a little seated in the fact that he has on multiple occasions been gratuitously mean to me personally, but he's also an evil fool.

"I'd like to start by unpacking the first paragraph and then, if time allows, we'll move on to the second. So we'll need to hurry a bit: 'Rayford Steele's mind was on a woman he had never touched. With his fully loaded 747 on autopilot …''

Hotdog

Oh thank god, another proposal.

Absolutely going insane every time someone mentions that Noem was wearing a $60k watch in that video. The problem isn't the impropriety of showing wealth while visiting a prison.

Out on the tundra having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, fantasizing about a fascist empire too.

After a few setbacks and tracking down episodes that weren't in my personal archive for reasons I can't begin to figure out, the entire Lost in Criterion back catalog should be online as of five minutes ago.

Just talkin' 'bout Baudrillard again.

Everyone who has ever taught Frankenstein

r/columbus is so great. "There are no bodegas in Columbus." "This $19 cheese steak place is the best hole in the wall restaurant." "All bookstores are leftist."

Had a business-y call with someone today that spent the first 5 minutes gushing about one of my early youtube projects. Gonna be riding this high for awhile.

This is a sign you’re at the right bar

"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for." – Seamus Heaney

If a guy talking and moving like this sat down at my bar, my ServSafe training would tell me not to give him any more alcohol.

Four Seasons Landscaping-gate remains the funniest political moment of my lifetime but accidentally adding the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to your top secret war crimes groupchat is in the mix for sure.

🧵; big difference between ‘17 and ‘25 is not that mass resistance is more muted now (the opposite appears to be the case); it’s that elite resistance is more muted

Some badass early Pulitzer contenders out of Turkey

I'm getting multiple "unbiased news source" apps recommended to me by the Google app store and i think it's notable how much the concept that you have to see through the Bias From Both Sides is just an obvious stalking horse for conservative propaganda now

Would you like to allow precise geolocation tracking cookies before reading this article about the government hunting dissidents?

Again, all of Trump's Canada and Greenland insanity could be solved by only showing him non-Mercator maps.

This week travel the world with Godfrey Reggio's Powaqqatsi, the second of his Qatsi Trilogy. This time we look at the effects of industrialization in the post(?)colonial world and the exploitation of those below the bottom rungs of the transnational capitalist order.

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

Easton has started charging for some parking now, so this was inevitable.

Seems like when your boss requires a "name five things you did this week" email that no human will ever read (at least until they're FOIA'd) you can just lie a lot.