I've done a monumental amount of complaining about the superhero movie industrial complex over the past decade, and yet I am here to tell you the new Spider-Man is one of the best superhero movies I've ever seen.
Christian Schneider
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Author, http://anti-knowledge.com, columnist @nationalreview.bsky.social
I am taking my daughter to the new Spiderman movie tomorrow so I am cramming the older Spiderman movies tonight so I know what’s going on
My wife asked me what I was watching on TV, and I said “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie,” and she asked me who played Dave Grohl
Being in a comical music group has to be the hardest thing to do in show business; you need to be great at two things, when most people aren't even good at one
In today's "a bit too on the nose to be real" news, there's a Republican in a competitive Wisconsin Senate Seat whose name is "Magadance"
Temptation Island is either the end of humanity or a stroke of genius and my mind changes every 10 minutes
The "Schneider for NYT Columnist" whisper campaign is going to begin like in the Muppets Take Manhattan when Kermit goes to Sardi's, puts his own picture up, and has a bunch of rats run around under the tables mumbling the name of his show
The higher the tattoo, the closer to God: Governments shouldn't be in the business of regulating your ink. (Me today at @nationalreview.bsky.social): link.nationalreview.com/click/6a6b56...
Let People Ink for Themselves | National Review
The government should not be in the tattoo-regulation business.
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I often hear that the lack of "pro-Trump" columnists at major papers is a sign of bias. But I have heard from many editors that they would like nothing more than to provide the pro-MAGA perspective. Only one problem: Trumpism can't survive fact-checking: open.substack.com/pub/christia...
Where Are All the Pro-Trump Newspaper Columnists?
Trumpism is a clenched fist, not an argument.
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As a kid, I remember thinking adults who talked about politics were mature, educated, and sophisticated. Now, if you're talking politics, there's just as much of a chance that you're an ignorant, petulant buffoon.
It appears my book was one of the ones used by Library Genesis (LibGen) to train both Meta and ChatGPT AI systems.
I have started doing the daily NY Times Midi Crossword so I promise you all I will only be half-insufferable about it
Nobody hates to say this more than I do, but it’s been 16 years since Will Ferrell starred in anything of value. His best role since 2010 has just been “Will Ferrell, guy who attends things.”
Opinion pages in the past: “We can get more readers if we run pieces that are counterintuitive.” Opinion pages today: “We can get more readers by running the stupidest thing that has ever been written.”
A friend just alerted me to the fact that Apple Music has The Smiths’ “There is a Light That Never Goes Out” on a Yacht Rock playlist and it’s a further reminder we live in a lawless world devoid of rules and basic decency
Me trying to return to my family after a month of March Madness
After you see The Odyssey, make sure you stay for the post-credits gag reel!
Going on an hour and a half waiting for our rental car. Apparently the rental company was caught completely off guard by the reservation we made six months ago
You know one thing that it seems AI would be good at? Organizing plane traffic so you’re not sitting on the tarmac for an hour after you land. And yet.
"Taco Bell is giving people explosive diarrhea" is a headline that could have run any day for the past half-century
Do you get a refund if the guy who shows up to your house is an uggo
Turns out my healthy diet of not eating any lettuce was ahead of its time
What Is the Opposite of Donald Trump? Democrats Struggle for an Answer: link.nationalreview.com/click/6a58f8...
What Is the Opposite of Donald Trump? Democrats Struggle for an Answer | National Review
They are fighting the MAGA era with their own brand of unseriousness.
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