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Rod will somehow manage to argue that liberals are both the decadent Weimar Republic that provoked the rise of the Nazis *and* the Nazis themselves.

Genuinely baffled that anybody at Boston Dynamics seriously thought they were building a death ray for peaceful purposes only.

Make Gutter Racism Disqualifying Again

Where do we find this Tiny Desk Concert, @npr.org?

SNL UK continues to be a marvel

remember watching this cbc news feature on him several years ago and being amazed by his talent and enthusiasm, he clearly loved the work he was doing and contributing to that history

If the golem becomes ensorcelled, the coven may need to assume operational burdens related to ensorcellation and the golem’s fel status. This may cost extra mana points.

Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

Ideas are merely MacGuffins, the Discourse is the end unto itself, so when you have staff and/or ChatGPT, doing the reading is for chumps.

Omg

can a person's transporter pattern fit in dropbox

obama and the out of touch elites don’t understand that for most americans, cheesecake factory is the fanciest restaurant in all history. for them, the abcs are like mozart. they think of stewie griffin as socrates. liberals must stop condescending them.

the true SNL. the only SNL!

Narcissistic self-pity is not the same as self-awareness, guys.

John Hartford, disco icon of Hamburg

Finally getting started on season 2 of The Lowdown and Betty Gilpin is exactly the right kind of chaos to put up against Ethan Hawke in this show.

Oh good, I'm two years too old

From a young age, I noticed the difference between a writer and an actual historian on the American Civil War.

And give him a red card for this while you’re at it

"Where's he supposed to put his foot?" - something no commentator ever said about a Romero straight red that was lighter than that yellow for Palmer.

Own goal's still a good goal

trying to think of a use of preemptive pardons that don't indicate deep failure of a political system. coming up short

Don't know this person, but I'm so happy for him that he's just discovered a wonderful movie.

Sports But Make It Jacques Tati.

Checking in the ball game, and if this Brewers pitcher didn't have a butt he'd disappear when he turned sideways.

"Jojo Robot" is *chef's kiss*

What are the cross-tabs on furry party preference?

Tolkien's light as a licensing history: Two Trees: open access, geoblocked Silmarils: all rights reserved, oath-enforced Sun & Moon: lossy public release Eärendil's star: CC0 Galadriel's Phial: CC BY-SA White Tree: a fork lineage

If Rubio doesn't know the difference between discrete and discreet, that might explain a few things about this administration.

Big, if true

Trying to pick just one Tom Waits role is tough, but I do really love his turn in BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (2018)

Lou Reed in FARAWAY, SO CLOSE (1993) Whether this is merely a good movie rather than a great one can certainly be argued, but I love it nearly as much as its predecessor.

Nic Cave and the Bad Seeds in WINGS OF DESIRE (1987)

The Plimsouls in VALLEY GIRL (1983)

Ah yes, "North Tustin," the unincorporated mostly white community that wants to trade on goodwill associated with Tustin but not pay the taxes or have to live next door to the wrong sort of person. Good on Kylie, cause her family are most likely staunchly anti-union.

People are misreading this; he's not making an ethical argument, he's upset that he was tricked into seeing a film that didn't star a virgin.

Welcome to the ONBA

I have three complementary surveillance metaphors I prefer to use: * The selfie * The interrotron * The dash cam

I think it’s very funny to be writing a memoir called Surprised by Joy, and then midway through writing it you meet the woman you’re going to eventually marry and her name just happens to be Joy

Because in the end, our personal feelings are all we can rely on to know what's true and real, right?

Always very interesting to see how People is framing this sort of story

watching the 4K release of Ronin with frankenheimer's commentary and learning that the car chases in the movie were happening *at speed*. no camera tricks or anything, they were straight up *racing*. "we set up all the actors in high performance driving school so they were used to the speeds."