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Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
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It's beginning to become clear that loudly and publicly yelling "We're mad as hell & we're not gonna take this anymore," Howard Beale-style, is our most effective strategy right now, which works out well given that that's all I feel like doing.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Sing Sing II: Authoritarian Boogaloo

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I just watched that clip of Elon talking to the Newsmax host while high & I have nothing funny to say. Just... it's starkly terrifying that a drug-addicted Nazi billionaire has taken control of the US government, & that that is not in the least a hyperbolic or subjective summary of what is going on.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Happy 82nd birthday to this absolute titan:

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Just coming into our cities and stomping on everything good like Godzilla. [Correction: Godzilla is a beloved cultural figure]

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

removing noose from around my neck and smiling

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

@nitishpahwa.com was an excellent fill-in host, & for those listeners who are Slate Plus members, in our Plus segment we get deep into Severance spoilers, including the many crazy twists of S2 E4.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Referring to yourself in the third person in all caps & quotation marks = the normalest self-presentation that ever normaled

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Great when he wrote it in 2020, great now. Wallace Shawn continues to be the realest of ones.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments