For this trend, we turn to Mitski. Where's My Phone? In my pants.
Supermassive Black Hole in my pants. I think I improved it, honestly.
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For this trend, we turn to Mitski. Where's My Phone? In my pants.
Supermassive Black Hole in my pants. I think I improved it, honestly.
I am both, 1) patting myself on the back for not doing business with any of these bastards, and 2) signal-boosting this so y'all can check and see if you're doing business with any of these bastards yourselves; you have the right to know who helped fund that disgusting ad
Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.
It really needs to be emphasized that the woman Vivek is featuring in these videos fled with an accused & indicted child rapist and successfully helped him avoid trial for 20+ years.
even by normal oppo standards this story is bonkers — basically vivek and co (and acton’s shitty mother) are accusing acton of fabricating horrific stories of child sexual abuse that are clearly documented in court records
Recent pieces! I adore A BIRD ON THE WING, Paula Fong's debut LP; lots of notes of various countrywomen (and men) in her work, but as with all great Americana, her personality is the record's North Star. Superb work across the board.
Paula Fong's 'A Bird On The Wing' is a joy to listen to - JoySauce.com
The Los Angeles musician proves to be an up-and-coming voice in Americana music with her debut album, which dropped Oct. 2.
joysauce.com
Wow, thank goodness we don't have a woman serving as president, they're too emotional; anyways here's racist pedophile grandpa having a hissy fit about being asked a question.
“Wait! WAIT! You better be careful… Quiet! QUIET! What’s wrong with you? Are you a sick person?” The short-tempered thin-skinned dictator wannabe with cratering approval numbers repeatedly loses his shit at reporters. (H/T @atrupar.com )
Pop culture attention spans stretch very, very thin, so I know we're off of STREET FIGHTER now - except SIKE, we're not, here's my review, and you damn well better read it because I did it for @popheist.com.
'Street Fighter' Review: Smothered by Excess
'Street Fighter’s' mix of tropes lend a bugnuts atmosphere that’s hard to write off, though maybe not enough to recommend it.
popheist.com
Just got all my boys together to take on the wandering ronin who came to town. There’s like 15 of us and only one of him so pretty much the only thing that would give me any pause is if he was master of the devastating and lightning-fast iaidō style. But that’s not likely. Coward hasn’t even drawn h
Honestly, V/H/S/MIXTAPE's "Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance" makes this kind of thing less conceptually far-fetched than it seems on paper.
It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Clive Barker!
We will simply never get to the bottom of Elizabeth Holmes but, by God, let’s die trying.
"I'm trying to deliver Jesus from identity theft. Folks who claim to share the faith that I share support these mean-spirited policies that kick people off of their healthcare & take food out of the mouths of hungry children. I don't understand that kind of faith." ~ Sen. Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock
Seems like as good a day as any to impeach Racist Addled Grandpa Pedo and take him to the retirement home, and by that I mean “prison.“
Trump: "I do not want to lose as your representative $90 billion for the privilege of allowing Canada to have a healthcare system and other things that they shouldn't be having"
My goodness, so much of this is so real to me, particularly the press tours aspect, cutting right back to my experiences recently speaking with a certain massively influential and venerated filmmaker during a press tour of their latest, and one of their finest, films.
my new @lwlies.com column articulates some of my frustrations around the dumbing down of press tours and thoughtful journalism being shut out in favour of contentslop. feat. wise words from @hannahstrong.co.uk and a cameo from my mike faist group chat: mailchi.mp/tcolondon/fi...
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@popheist.com deserves your money* *bones
Btw, I do think this means that YIMBY is specifically liberal and not leftist I think a lot of stuff is liberal and not leftist. I broadly agree with the gatekeeping leftists about what leftism is, which is I think what divides me from a lot of people i largely agree with otherwise
I hated, hated, hated, *hated* CRYSTAL LAKE, a pants-on-head stupid appropriation of a mythos that at no point in its existence has needed reimagining. Absolutely appalled that anybody is giving this the time of day. Not even Linda Cardellini is enough to recommend it.
‘Crystal Lake’ Review: Linda Cardellini Can’t Save A Thunderously Dopey ‘Friday The 13th’ Reimagining
Linda Cardellini delivers a standout performance in ‘Crystal Lake,’ but A24’s ‘Friday the 13th’ reimagining buries its slasher roots poorly
theplaylist.net
I think frats should be banned from campuses for the same reason I want ICE abolished: I think impunity factories are bad, actually.
As an Andy, I refuse to recognize Harris’ validity as an Andy, and will from here on out refer to him as Plop. With that established, I believe it is incumbent on all of us to vote Republican legislators, including Plop, out of office and ensure they never set foot in it again, fuck this guy.
Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.
So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.
Working on my review of CRYSTAL LAKE and I'm frankly appalled to see positive notices for the second ill-conceived reimagination of a horror masterpiece we've gotten this month. Guys: it's bad.
Wow you don't fuckin' say, never thought I'd read in the paper that she'd turn out to be an asshole
Watch: Collin Gosselin accuses mom Kate of abuse, calls life on TV a 'lie'
In a new interview, Collin Gosselin alleged his mother, Kate Gosselin, was abusive and said his family's life on "Kate Plus 8" was a "facade."
yahoo.com
MINOTAUR: ***. I struggled with this one; feels like a good political thriller and a good marriage drama poorly molded into a worse version of both. I see no reason to tell these two stories side by side, and so I feel like the choice here just slows the entire exercise down. #IFFBoston
IRON BOY: ****1/2. A movie that does not necessarily tell us that modernity is evil, but invites us to wonder what is lost when the world becomes hyper-modernized; also a movie about a boy and his bumpy relationship with his father, so of course it worked on me. #IFFBoston
Embarrassing to wake up and read that @bostonglobe.com reporters are so easily suckered by right-wing grifters running cover for the grift; there’s literally no purpose to MDN other than ideological pot-stirring, you schmucks.
”Sexually transmitted diarrhea“ should not be a news item; it should be the name of an early-era Buttholes Surfer track, chained to the 1980s where such things belong.
Sexually Transmitted Diarrhea Is Exploding in The US. And It's Growing Resistant to Medicine
A gut pathogen that causes diarrhea and vomiting is morphing into a dangerous and difficult-to-treat sexually transmitted infection (STI).
sciencealert.com
Can’t say enough good things about V/H/S/MIXTAPE, the best the series has been pretty much since returning with V/H/S/94; glad I got to write the first of my two pieces about it for @popheist.com!
'V/H/S/Mixtape' Review: All Killer, No Filler - Pop Heist
Defying the logic that anthologies are uneven by nature, each short in this year’s 'V/H/S' ranks among the best in the series to date.
popheist.com