A lot of previously respected learning institutions are going to find themselves with only the failsons of fascists to "educate" in the coming years.

#12 The Descent (2005) There are about 5 movies on this list that, depending on my mood, I will claim as my favorite & one of them is The Descent. A perfectly paced meditation on what it means to be a monster.

Really feel like all this man wants to do is talk about penises & everything he's done so far has just been laying the groundwork for him to talk about penises nonstop

#12 The Descent (2005) There are about 5 movies on this list that, depending on my mood, I will claim as my favorite & one of them is The Descent. A perfectly paced meditation on what it means to be a monster.

It’s never simply utopian to believe that our societies can be (and have been) organized differently.

Transactional modes of relating to one another alienates people from each other and from the land.

A culture of care and stewardship can change that.

it's awesome* that food shopping has devolved into a game* of "ok who's been the least fash this week that still stocks the seven things we need?"

I'd actually love to watch more movies that feel like fun little larks right up until everything goes insane if anyone has recs! Kill List comes to mind, though 'fun little lark' probably isn't the BEST descriptor for the first half of that . . .

Recently I read somewhere that because driving is a complex & potentially dangerous activity our brains need extra focus to handle it & one of the ways they achieve that focus is by essentially turning off empathy.

#11 The Wicker Man (1973) Folk horror has been back in vogue for at least a decade now but there's still nothing like The Wicker Man. Songs! Animal totems! Weird ideas about virginity! It feels very silly right up until it doesn't.

laura palmer / everybody scream

#10 Mandy (2018) In which Nicolas Cage out-Nicolas Cages himself. If I were a billionaire I'd give Panos Cosmatos $100 million and free reign.

You cannot be fucking serious

"Constantly externalizing internal conflicts" should come right after "every accusation is a confession."

Well I say letting the wealthy continue to vacuum up all the wealth in the world is killing society and the planet we inhabit.

It really was an amazing read!

October book #1: The Unicorn is Iris Murdoch's take on the 1960s dimestore gothic romance. This is a book about about a bunch of weirdos trapped in a stately home between a sea cliff & a deadly bog. If that isn't enough to sell you, everyone is secretly gay & constantly chugging whisky 5/5

Historically I've chosen to extend my hatred of the CSI franchise to all of CBS, so I'm kind of excited to watch Bari Weiss burn it down.

It's weird that they let Zapp Brannigan write a Times op-ed.

Wow, guess we better get half a million cars off the road.

#9 The other heavy hitter from the 1970s on this list is 1973's The Exorcist, a movie about how horrible it would be if God was actually real. Probably a perfect film. Skip Exorcist II but III is very much worth a look if you've never.

The photograph on the album cover, "Fate Descends Towards the River Leading Two Innocent Children" (1970), is by photographer Jan Saudek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1935. Two months after the album's release, Czechoslovakia ceased to be a country. At 90, Saudek lives in Prague, now in Czechia