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Revisited All that Heaven Allows and admittedly Im just in the bag for Sirk, for a multitude of reasons, not the leastof which is how much he values emotional ostentation as a logical result of offending and oppressive societal modifications on the soul...
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A ★★★★★ review of All That Heaven Allows (1955)
These are first world white people problems but they are their problems, and the import of these mores and asphixiating value systems being given melodramatic support is what makes Sirks films so pote...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Revisited All that Heaven Allows and admittedly Im just in the bag for Sirk, for a multitude of reasons, not the leastof which is how much he values emotional ostentation as a logical result of offending and oppressive societal modifications on the soul...
boxd.it/cbwkdX
boxd.it/cbwkdX
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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bob's hamburgers sign, meade, kansas, 1993
October 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
bob's hamburgers sign, meade, kansas, 1993
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“The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what ‘works,’ but art opens up what is possible.” Not the damn pope making me tear up.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what ‘works,’ but art opens up what is possible.” Not the damn pope making me tear up.
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We lost something as a culture when kids stopped doing weird as fuck Universal Monsters puzzles. #FilmSky #Halloween
November 1, 2025 at 5:27 AM
We lost something as a culture when kids stopped doing weird as fuck Universal Monsters puzzles. #FilmSky #Halloween
Made me think of you for a few reasons @holywellstreet.bsky.social
For William Powell's birthday, I wrote a short piece about how he had chemistry with everyone, including inanimate objects. I think this came from being aware of his surroundings and also *interested* in whatever was around him. He was ALERT. More: www.sheilaomalley.com?p=196579
August 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Made me think of you for a few reasons @holywellstreet.bsky.social
The gods are taunting me @holywellstreet.bsky.social
Don’t miss a rare 35mm screening of Alexander Dovzhenko’s EARTH this Sunday at 7pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
Live musical accompaniment by Whine Cave (who also accompanied our screening of THE UNKNOWN this past winter). Not to be missed!
Live musical accompaniment by Whine Cave (who also accompanied our screening of THE UNKNOWN this past winter). Not to be missed!
August 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The gods are taunting me @holywellstreet.bsky.social
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This clip aged like fine wine.
July 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This clip aged like fine wine.
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Word on the street is that Cole's French Dip is closing next month... here's why Angelenos can't let it happen. esotouric.substack.com/coles
Word on the street is that Cole's French Dip is closing next month... here's why Angelenos can't let it happen
Gentle reader,
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July 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Word on the street is that Cole's French Dip is closing next month... here's why Angelenos can't let it happen. esotouric.substack.com/coles
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I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as *the* sickness of our political era.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
June 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as *the* sickness of our political era.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.
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Exactly, years of reactionary centrist hand-wringing have trained the population to see a textbook authoritarian crackdown as merely an overreaction to a legitimate threat.
"Sure, foreign students are being disappeared. But weren't they rabid antisemites and aspiring totalitarians?"
"Sure, foreign students are being disappeared. But weren't they rabid antisemites and aspiring totalitarians?"
worrying that years of “campuses are dangerous hotbeds of intolerance,” “students are the enemies of academic freedom,” type narratives have been useful in massaging the public so we will more readily accept that snatching and renditioning students for speech is okay
March 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Exactly, years of reactionary centrist hand-wringing have trained the population to see a textbook authoritarian crackdown as merely an overreaction to a legitimate threat.
"Sure, foreign students are being disappeared. But weren't they rabid antisemites and aspiring totalitarians?"
"Sure, foreign students are being disappeared. But weren't they rabid antisemites and aspiring totalitarians?"
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Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism
March 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism
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The campaign leadership that Vice President Harris inherited from Biden was not great! They shoved this guy in a box!
March 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The campaign leadership that Vice President Harris inherited from Biden was not great! They shoved this guy in a box!
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The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders | The United States Army
U.S. Army Heritage Asian American & Pacific Islander Microsite | The United States Army
web.archive.org
March 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
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Your re-segregation of the day.
The first Native American and second woman to Chair the National Endowment for the Humanities, Shelly C. Lowe, has stepped down from the role “at the direction of President Trump.”
Trump Pushes Out First Native Chair of National Endowment for the Humanities
Shelly C. Lowe has left her position at the NEH “at the direction of President Trump,” the agency said.
hyperallergic.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Your re-segregation of the day.
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New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
March 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
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I hate these fascist motherfuckers with every cell in my body and with nearly equal timbre I hate the cowardice of the only people in a position to oppose them who treat it like they were playing crazy 8s over cocktails and watercress sandwiches
March 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I hate these fascist motherfuckers with every cell in my body and with nearly equal timbre I hate the cowardice of the only people in a position to oppose them who treat it like they were playing crazy 8s over cocktails and watercress sandwiches
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drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image
February 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image
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People don’t write songs about jazz vampires like they used to.
February 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
People don’t write songs about jazz vampires like they used to.