Jake Cole
@jakecole.bsky.social
Freelance critic and terminally online figure. Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/jakepcole/
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Jake Cole
@jakecole.bsky.social
· Nov 19
You know what, we do movie prompts all the time and I enjoy them but where my real heads at, 1 like = 1 favorite heavy metal album
I think Robert Duvall was the first actor I was cognizant of being transfixed by just when they were calmly talking. My parents are big on NASCAR so I saw Days of Thunder early on and was more interested in his weary quality than the racing.
Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I think Robert Duvall was the first actor I was cognizant of being transfixed by just when they were calmly talking. My parents are big on NASCAR so I saw Days of Thunder early on and was more interested in his weary quality than the racing.
I found a focusing hook for a 100th birthday piece on Miles Davis but even just outlining it for pitches I’m chuckling at how vast a topic it/he is. Simply one of the most important cultural figures of the last century, from this or any country!
February 16, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I found a focusing hook for a 100th birthday piece on Miles Davis but even just outlining it for pitches I’m chuckling at how vast a topic it/he is. Simply one of the most important cultural figures of the last century, from this or any country!
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I took a leap into the dark by purchasing the US rights to Dorothy Richardson's magnificent but woefully underappreciated autobiographical novel, Pilgrimage. Now that folks are reading our new edition, it's nice to hear that it was worth the effort. Available now:
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
February 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I took a leap into the dark by purchasing the US rights to Dorothy Richardson's magnificent but woefully underappreciated autobiographical novel, Pilgrimage. Now that folks are reading our new edition, it's nice to hear that it was worth the effort. Available now:
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
Katherine LaNasa talked to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about how her dance background helps her navigate the timing and movement of shooting The Pitt. Folks, we’re saying and we’ve been saying, actors need to be made to take dancing lessons again.
February 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Katherine LaNasa talked to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about how her dance background helps her navigate the timing and movement of shooting The Pitt. Folks, we’re saying and we’ve been saying, actors need to be made to take dancing lessons again.
They’re calling it the must-miss event of the season in Atlanta
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is headlining a fundraiser for former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ bid for governor next weekend while he’s in Atlanta for his book tour. #gapol
February 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
They’re calling it the must-miss event of the season in Atlanta
“Sparta couldn’t go to war further than like one day’s journey away because they were so terrified of slave rebellions” is fun to think about in relation to these people, specifically.
February 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
“Sparta couldn’t go to war further than like one day’s journey away because they were so terrified of slave rebellions” is fun to think about in relation to these people, specifically.
Legolas is the archer but Gimli is the one who shot his shot.
After a feast on the grass, Galadriel gives gifts to the Company.
Aragorn—a sheath for Andúril, and a green Elf-stone.
Boromir—a belt of gold.
Merry and Pippin—silver belts.
Legolas—a bow.
Sam—a box.
Frodo—a phial of light.
Gimli names a strand of her hair. He receives three.
Aragorn—a sheath for Andúril, and a green Elf-stone.
Boromir—a belt of gold.
Merry and Pippin—silver belts.
Legolas—a bow.
Sam—a box.
Frodo—a phial of light.
Gimli names a strand of her hair. He receives three.
February 16, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Legolas is the archer but Gimli is the one who shot his shot.
When I celebrate Valentine’s Day this is what I celebrate.
49 years ago today
Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson of The B-52′s making their worldwide debut at a Valentine’s Day house party in Athens, GA, February 14, 1977.
Photo by Kelly Bugden
#punk #punkrock #newwave #womenofpunk #theb52s #history #punkrockhistory
Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson of The B-52′s making their worldwide debut at a Valentine’s Day house party in Athens, GA, February 14, 1977.
Photo by Kelly Bugden
#punk #punkrock #newwave #womenofpunk #theb52s #history #punkrockhistory
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 PM
When I celebrate Valentine’s Day this is what I celebrate.
Something I keep thinking about that makes me laugh is that Emerald Fennell tries to make a rare Wuthering Heights adaptation to foreground the class rot that is so crucial to the text but then makes Nelly the servant the second most evil person after Mr. Earnshaw. She just can’t help herself.
February 16, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Something I keep thinking about that makes me laugh is that Emerald Fennell tries to make a rare Wuthering Heights adaptation to foreground the class rot that is so crucial to the text but then makes Nelly the servant the second most evil person after Mr. Earnshaw. She just can’t help herself.
This is a very innocuous post about the one context in which one non-metric unit of measurement tends to be more useful in conversation and to the surprise of no one the non-US Anglosphere is making ape noises at it to distract themselves from living in states 10% less bad and stupid than America.
Celsius is the scientist temperature measurement in that it’s the most conceptually coherent , Fahrenheit is the engineer temperature measurement in that it’s actually optimized to be useful for it’s main use case of communicating everyday temperatures.
February 16, 2026 at 9:56 AM
This is a very innocuous post about the one context in which one non-metric unit of measurement tends to be more useful in conversation and to the surprise of no one the non-US Anglosphere is making ape noises at it to distract themselves from living in states 10% less bad and stupid than America.
Just lost my mind seeing a video of a guy making a dish to “lower my cortisol” he called Viking stew and then to top it off the first ingredient was POTATOES.
February 16, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Just lost my mind seeing a video of a guy making a dish to “lower my cortisol” he called Viking stew and then to top it off the first ingredient was POTATOES.
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Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
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There are a handful of albums that I can divide my life into “before and after hearing this” and this is one of them. This is what you would hear if you put your ear to the WB water tower where the Animaniacs are trapped.
'Naked City' isn’t great just because of the novelty, it’s great because Zorn’s conceptual vision is both rich and surprising, folding in lounge and dark ambient among other genres.
www.treblezine.com/john-zorn-na...
www.treblezine.com/john-zorn-na...
John Zorn : Naked City - A gleeful jazz-noise experiment | Treble
On Naked City, John Zorn and his collaborators (feat. Bill Frisell and Yamatsuka Eye) obliterate the traditions of jazz while having a blast.
www.treblezine.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:10 PM
There are a handful of albums that I can divide my life into “before and after hearing this” and this is one of them. This is what you would hear if you put your ear to the WB water tower where the Animaniacs are trapped.
Rubio is so racist and dumb he can’t even pull the much funnier and more accurate move of claiming America deserves royalties on the Beatles because Little Richard was responsible for them both as the guy they wanted to be and their first major headliner to support.
(put another way, weird to say, as Rubio does, that Europe produced “the genius…of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,” who were self-consciously playing music rooted in the traditions of the African diaspora.)
February 15, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Rubio is so racist and dumb he can’t even pull the much funnier and more accurate move of claiming America deserves royalties on the Beatles because Little Richard was responsible for them both as the guy they wanted to be and their first major headliner to support.
Police have released this Ring footage of the suspects, please contact them with any information you might have.
February 15, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Police have released this Ring footage of the suspects, please contact them with any information you might have.
Me getting mad at wide swathes of new Pitt watchers: this is not a show with heroes and villains, merely professionals trying their best in a broken system against them
Me when Ogilvie is on screen: not even hell can keep you safe from me
Me when Ogilvie is on screen: not even hell can keep you safe from me
February 15, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Me getting mad at wide swathes of new Pitt watchers: this is not a show with heroes and villains, merely professionals trying their best in a broken system against them
Me when Ogilvie is on screen: not even hell can keep you safe from me
Me when Ogilvie is on screen: not even hell can keep you safe from me
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
I woke up this morning to a flooded kitchen/foyer from my decrepit apartment’s water heater busting and I needed to see this to appreciate how much worse things could be.
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I woke up this morning to a flooded kitchen/foyer from my decrepit apartment’s water heater busting and I needed to see this to appreciate how much worse things could be.
Every single tactic these pigs use is right out of the most feverish castle doctrine paranoia about suspecting your neighbors. Everything you’ve ever heard from a conservative relative about not stopping to help others because it’s an elaborate trap is what they actually are doing, gleefully.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Every single tactic these pigs use is right out of the most feverish castle doctrine paranoia about suspecting your neighbors. Everything you’ve ever heard from a conservative relative about not stopping to help others because it’s an elaborate trap is what they actually are doing, gleefully.
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UCLA’s **faculty unions** said no, and the govt is backing off. Its admin was so ready to comply the might have already set up an autopay for the wire transfer bribe money.
UCLA said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is backing off.
Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering.
Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.
Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering.
Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
February 14, 2026 at 8:47 PM
UCLA’s **faculty unions** said no, and the govt is backing off. Its admin was so ready to comply the might have already set up an autopay for the wire transfer bribe money.
Putting cherry cordial on here in a worst competition is like using that first level jump to final world in Mario Bros. God even the lovingly taken photo looks like the necrotic fasciitis from The Pitt.
February 15, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Putting cherry cordial on here in a worst competition is like using that first level jump to final world in Mario Bros. God even the lovingly taken photo looks like the necrotic fasciitis from The Pitt.
What I enjoy about this most is the more than slight insinuation that this was made primarily for the benefit of Canada’s moron neighbors (hello!) to finally understand.
The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:
February 14, 2026 at 8:18 PM
What I enjoy about this most is the more than slight insinuation that this was made primarily for the benefit of Canada’s moron neighbors (hello!) to finally understand.
Almost done with the fourth omnibus of Chris Claremont’s X-Men run and one of the last big arcs (the Kulan Gath one) comes a bit too far out of nowhere but otherwise it’s wild that this gets up to CC’s 100th issue and he’s still cooking. Even Kirby was phoning in FF itching to leave at that point
February 14, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Almost done with the fourth omnibus of Chris Claremont’s X-Men run and one of the last big arcs (the Kulan Gath one) comes a bit too far out of nowhere but otherwise it’s wild that this gets up to CC’s 100th issue and he’s still cooking. Even Kirby was phoning in FF itching to leave at that point