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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself
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Can you count, suckers?! I say the future is ours, if you can count
Started learning Argentine tango tonight and when I can do these effortless travels I'll know I've made it

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The Tango Lesson - Sally Potter & Pablo Veron 2 - 1997
YouTube video by Everything Tango
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December 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
O, for a muse of fire that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Had a long flight and finally watched Interstellar. I'm a big Nolan hater but this might be my favorite film of his, despite Anne Hathaway being completely wasted

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
My favorite part of the Bloomberg bus shelters is the huge gap at the bottom that lets in wind and rain. Keeping my torso dry but my shoes and calves soaked is actually a perfect metaphor for his administration
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Family mac and cheese recipe fits 2.5 lbs of cheese and 1.5 lbs of pasta into a 9x13 pan, defying both logic and physics
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thanksgiving and Christmas were the only two times a year my Italian American family would do "American" food, which I still don't understand
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).

I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"What one man can do, another can do! Say it!!"
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Billions of Federal dollars poured into suburbian development while starving cities of the same. The racialized, mass suburbanization of post-war (45-72) is one of the most well-studied parts of this period. You're usually unfairly maligned but here you're doubling down on your ignorance
"In a perfect state of nature everyone would share my preference for a dense, urban, car-free environment" is a pretty idea but I think we should be forced to grapple with the possibility that many pretty ideas are not correct
Will's gotta stop with bad housing takes. Americans did not merely reveal preferences. There was concerted government action to destroy old urban housing, impose exclusionary zoning on new construction, plus massive subsidies for highways and individual mortgages that gave us SFH sprawl.
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Andy Byford waking up with a wicked hangover after partying all night in front of a burning effigy of Cuomo wondering if he can stand a second night of dismantling Catholic plots to gain power
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The DJ at Mamdani HQ playing Unwritten as the entire crowd sings along is 🤌
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Cuomo lost because Lloyd Braun suggested name tags
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I would also like to take over local fraternal organizations. How many members does my local Masonic or Elks lodge have? No idea. Let's go find out
an idea that crossed me, that i have no concrete reason to believe would work in practice, is that groups like DSA (or just not-dead-on-arrival regional democratic party orgs) should pickup robust schedules of happy hour at X where X is a rotating list of bars/parks/libraries
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Dick Van Dyke outlived Dick Cheney so I think that's a point in favor of chimney sweep being a healthier job than war profiteer
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The best way to cook a turkey is in parts, pulling individual pieces when they're done. It's easy to butcher it yourself!
What's gonna be on your thanksgiving plate?
November 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Marathon Day stay winning. One of the best days of the year in NYC
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Reposted by Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself
Omg 😭
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I really like this style of subway signage and I'll be bummed when they destroy this. Managed to get the 4 train blowing by in reflection
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I'm going with the United Healthcare Single Shot Revolver with included Plastic Tarp this open enrollment period. A proven and cost effective health plan for life's most important moments
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Mastermind is gorgeous with really solid performances but, whew, perfectly recreates the tedium of male ennui which makes for a tedious film

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
October 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
What the fuck Naroditsky died?!
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Jamie Taco stole his lines. The director doesn't do anything. Jamie took 15 of his lines. He's here to take them back because he loves his wife
Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Forgot the camera work, the physicality in this movie is fantastic. Sean Penn's bowleggedness, Benicio del Toro's is a fluid solid, Leo's clowning, Teyana Taylor moves like a downed powerline. Really good time at da movies

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
October 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Younger Brother from Ragtime grows up to be Gringo Zapata
October 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM