Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
I'm catching up on Swan Boy and this is the realest shit I've ever seen. Like, this is exactly what kids watch on YouTube it's fuckin precise.
My Dinner With Crystal 7
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YOU CAN FEEL THE CHEMISTRY THROUGH THE SCREEN
They should sack off Hollywood and reunite the 90s dream team by bringing in Nigel Slater.
Quick thought on "the 'Be Kind' mob" stuff the Telegraph likes to shart out on a regular basis - they've mistaken a politics rooted in compassion for one that mistakes civility for kindness. Sometimes brutality is necessary, because your opponent is too powerful and too belligerent to be
If I was *defending* the legacy of Rod Liddle, I would simply not bring up his domestic abuse, paedophilia and racism.
Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.
Okay we all have criticism for the hegemonic goliath that is American culture but one thing that I love is the continued practice of treating the Muppets, including the denizens of Sesame Street, as if they are real, living entities. I dunno I think it's a charming bit of collective whimsy.
Cookie Monster is in the booth with Boog at Wrigley, will be singing Take Me Out (to the ballgame, not the Franz Ferdinand song, unfortunately) in the 7th
Look as long as you all know that I love books, read clever books, only love good clever books, read good books, smell the old book smell of good clever books and love book, you don't need to "like" any of my posts.
Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this
The thing about Jaws, the thing, right, the thing about Jaws is *you cannot make a sequel*. It was about what it was about and it doesn't... right, listen, you could even try to remake it but that thread to the second world war represented by Quint would be lost. The Mayor is no longer satire.
let's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?
(the context is that Cormac McCarthy had a "relationship" with a 16-year-old homeless girl when he was 42. People have used the word "muse" for her but I can think of one for him)
No Country for Old Women, more like
I think a lot of ppl within the media really, really enjoy the idea of ppl on the left, or even progressive people of any kind, being baited by columnists. The whole ‘I may not agree with him but he wasn’t afraid to slay the odd sacred cow’ thing is entirely conditional on who the cow was sacred to.
Sir Mix-A-Lot, after careful consideration:
I Love Mature Women with Big Butts!
12, but it increases substantially if you include stuff I *would* eat but can't.
Now with alt text. I would happily eat every item.
close to calling the cops on this guy with the teletubby avatar getting in my mentions to drone humorlessly about how the vatican arranges scented dried flowers when visiting france’s capital. yep, it’s the po-po for po-faced po posts re: posed paris pot pourri popery
Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:
until this post i always imagined it was a normal-size frying pan and a very enterprising shrimp
The best part of “you’re telling me a shrimp fried this rice?” is imagining the tiny frying pan
I was worried I'd lose my drafts when I deactivated, but no. Still there. Phew.