Pretty wild that one person could give birth to Lindsey and Sam Weir, Hannah Horvath, and Ted Lasso
It’s the 50th anniversary of the time Eric Clapton went onstage and told everyone who wasn’t British to leave the room and the country, and was the impetus for Rock Against Racism
Tom Waits has never cleared his throat in his life
Mr Roger Quimbly@rogerquimbly.bsky.social · yesterdayNo, AI subtitle generator, Tom Waits is singing not clearing his throat.
OMAC does the Unflinching Walk, 1974, well before any of the movie examples cited at TV Tropes.
carloskentscomics.bsky.social@carloskentscomics.bsky.social · 2d agoJack Kirby
Spider-Man will always work in every visual medium because (a) he is a Normal Teenager with Normal Problems and Secret Gifts, and (b) swinging between skyscrapers in daylight is awesome. What’s weird is that other superheroes are billionaires and aliens who either fly or prowl around at nighttime
Adam B. Vary@adambvary.bsky.social · 2d agoI'm seeing a lot of SUPERHERO MOVIES ARE BACK posts in the wake of #BrandNewDay's success. Spider-Man movies were breaking box office records well before the MCU existed. They are a cinema phenomenon onto themselves, because Spider-Man is a singularly resonant and relatable character.
Painful / Electr-O-Pura / I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
“Well we were just talking about the Christie Minstrels and now here’s Julie Christie!”
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 6d agoName your fav film cameo by someone portraying themselves.
This made me tear up. One of the absolute most important artists in my life, constantly reinvigorating my sense of what is possible in creative work. Hoping for a dignified final act after an extraordinary career.
Josh Slater-Williams@jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · last wk.Mike Leigh Says ‘Tender Loving Care’ Is Most Likely His Final Film Due to Illness www.indiewire.com/features/int...
A beautiful @newyorker.com profile by @mikespies.bsky.social of an ordinary woman who lived through extraordinary tragedy www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect
The majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men, a pattern that the gun-rights organization has spent decades denying.
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The real LRB heads are more excited about a new Jenny Turner piece
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s new and self-created version of the modernist sentence mixes Scots and English to resemble “a meandering, live thought-process”, as Ali Smith puts it: “poetic and realist and soaring and dark and local and strange all at once”.’ Jenny Turner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
There’s so much discourse now that a lot of discourse consists of attempts to rule other discursive interventions illegitimate in the desperate hope that we can somehow stem the tide of discourse
Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · last wk.Of course it's going to be interesting seeing what the top translator of the Odyssey has to say about the film. I want to hear that angle, that's a huge get for the LRB. It's also very weird to grab onto it as a kind of gotcha
If there was a big movie by a serious director about plumbing — and honestly that sounds great — I would definitely want to read, in addition to the assessments of all my favorite movie critics, a plumber’s perspective on it
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · last wk.My take on today's Odyssey controversy is, with all respect to everyone involved, that plumbers generally shouldn't review movies about plumbing.
This but sincerely! I’m inferring from the rest of Sam’s thread that he’s not really applauding the snobbery, but highbrow disdain is one of the necessary conditions for thriving middlebrow culture, it’s dialectical
Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · last wk.I think it’s nice that The Odyssey has brought back not only middlebrow blockbusters but old-fashioned literary snobbery
‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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ME: I’m from the future. they still sing of your deeds 3,000 years from now ODYSSEUS: cool ME: there’s a whole movie — that’s what we call an epic song — about you ODYSSEUS: sounds about right ME: it ends with you making a speech about how fucked up the horse thing was ODYSSEUS: what the fuck
Here’s my review of THE ODYSSEY: you really odyssey it!!
“The people in charge of this” know that, and they’re perfectly happy to have old people making fun of their design
My gastroenterologist's office is admirably accommodating to time travelers from the Middle Ages, many of whom probably do have gastroenterological issues
“room temperature” well that really depends on the room doesn’t it
The Do the Right Thing guys are all at the game together 💙💙💙
I started writing my recap down 21 in the second quarter because I didn’t want to stay up late. I just kept typing. I have not gone back and read or edited it. It’s 3400 words. Also, my house lost power when Castle was at the line at the end. Read it here: knickerblogger.net/2026/06/2026...
2026 NBA Finals Game 4 PREcap: Knicks 107 (3) – Spurs 106 (1) – KnickerBlogger
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Barack Obama Partners with Malcolm Gladwell for New Podcast About an 'Often Overlooked' Subject
Former President Barack Obama is teaming up with journalist Malcolm Gladwell for a new, eight-part podcast series with The History Channel that aims to remind listeners of 'powerful sources of hope' b...
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I know we’ve all read 100 articles like this, but I do recommend this one, especially for the series of questions at the end about how universities (not individual instructors) could change our practice. I’d love to discuss those
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
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