Charles S. Freeman (trying to be thankful, dammit)
@cspencef.bsky.social
PC(USA) interim pastor in the Quad Cities, ex-musicologist. Highly intolerant of BS and willful ignorance. Music, sports, religion, attempted humor, whatevs. AI is unethical at its root. h/h/h hymnsbycharlesfreeman.blogspot.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Is Tarantino planning to run for president or something? This just seems more and more gross every time I see this come up.
Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Most filmmakers know better than to publicly torch another director’s film or an actor’s performance, but Quentin Tarantino has never really played by those rules. On a new episode of Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast, where the pair ran through their top 20 films of the century, Tarantino used his praise of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” as a springboard to lay into one of its key performers: Paul Dano.
Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’ at The Playlist.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Is Tarantino planning to run for president or something? This just seems more and more gross every time I see this come up.
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Please tell me nobody is surprised by this.
It's not shocking that an organization formed by an asshole and staffed by assholes to try and make more assholes has an asshole problem.
December 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Please tell me nobody is surprised by this.
I’m guessing women would be surprised to hear this.
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I’m guessing women would be surprised to hear this.
Honestly, when Tarantino starts ranting here he sounds too much like Trump for me to take him seriously ever.
Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Most filmmakers know better than to publicly torch another director’s film or an actor’s performance, but Quentin Tarantino has never really played by those rules. On a new episode of Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast, where the pair ran through their top 20 films of the century, Tarantino used his praise of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” as a springboard to lay into one of its key performers: Paul Dano.
Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’ at The Playlist.
dlvr.it
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Honestly, when Tarantino starts ranting here he sounds too much like Trump for me to take him seriously ever.
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Begging reporters to make this distinction. She did not "cite" the Bible, she *invoked* the Bible.
"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."
Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.
"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."
Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.
There literally wasn't a single citation given. Even when she referred to the Bible--the ONLY text she refers to by name--she couldn't even cite which verses she quoting.
I was an English student at OU. I can fuckin guarantee that any one turning in an essay like this--Bible or no--would get a 0.
I was an English student at OU. I can fuckin guarantee that any one turning in an essay like this--Bible or no--would get a 0.
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Begging reporters to make this distinction. She did not "cite" the Bible, she *invoked* the Bible.
"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."
Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.
"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."
Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.
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I guess we’ve answered the question of what it would take to knock the Epstein files off the top of the news cycle…
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I guess we’ve answered the question of what it would take to knock the Epstein files off the top of the news cycle…
Openly attributing godlike powers to DJT…
Noem: You made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You even kept the hurricanes away
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Openly attributing godlike powers to DJT…
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Look out, Heaven… www.gocomics.com/overthehedge...
Over the Hedge by Michael Fry & T Lewis for December 2, 2025 | GoComics
Read Over the Hedge—a comic strip by creator Michael Fry & T Lewis—for today, December 2, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
www.gocomics.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Look out, Heaven… www.gocomics.com/overthehedge...
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Thanks for holding that nugget until now, Jonathan! I hope your book sells negative copies.
December 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Thanks for holding that nugget until now, Jonathan! I hope your book sells negative copies.
So they’re singing Angels We have Heard on High but it’s labeled Angels From the Realms of Glory.
They’re not even in the same meter, folks…
They’re not even in the same meter, folks…
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
So they’re singing Angels We have Heard on High but it’s labeled Angels From the Realms of Glory.
They’re not even in the same meter, folks…
They’re not even in the same meter, folks…
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🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
I named my fists Mahler and Strauss because they just keep going and going and going and going and going…
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I named my fists Mahler and Strauss because they just keep going and going and going and going and going…
Reminds me of the ST:TNG episode where Wesley and Ashley Judd were the only ones who hadn’t gotten sucked into that weird headset game that some alien was using to take over the Enterprise: www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...
Target quietly adds ChatGPT to its cart
Target’s ChatGPT experience rolls out in beta just before Thanksgiving.
www.retailbrew.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Reminds me of the ST:TNG episode where Wesley and Ashley Judd were the only ones who hadn’t gotten sucked into that weird headset game that some alien was using to take over the Enterprise: www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...
My little tree in my little space.
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
My little tree in my little space.
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Trump going in for his brain exam
December 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Trump going in for his brain exam
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Lane Kiffin's LSU contract will pay him the equivalent of my Louisiana public university annual salary every two days
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lane Kiffin's LSU contract will pay him the equivalent of my Louisiana public university annual salary every two days
“Whose voice? A distinct one for each musical work—but not the composer’s voice. Probably a piece that attempted to represent the composer directly would achieve banality at best and petty self-aggrandizement at worst.”
—Douglass Seaton
sunypress.edu/Blog/2025/Ro...
—Douglass Seaton
sunypress.edu/Blog/2025/Ro...
Romantic Voices
sunypress.edu
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“Whose voice? A distinct one for each musical work—but not the composer’s voice. Probably a piece that attempted to represent the composer directly would achieve banality at best and petty self-aggrandizement at worst.”
—Douglass Seaton
sunypress.edu/Blog/2025/Ro...
—Douglass Seaton
sunypress.edu/Blog/2025/Ro...
This seems on point. www.gocomics.com/brewsterrock...
Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for December 1, 2025 | GoComics
Read Brewster Rockit—a comic strip by creator Tim Rickard—for today, December 1, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
www.gocomics.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This seems on point. www.gocomics.com/brewsterrock...
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So what did the Trump regime do to Jesus today?
(Mt. 25:40)
(Mt. 25:40)
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
So what did the Trump regime do to Jesus today?
(Mt. 25:40)
(Mt. 25:40)
A hymn possibly suitable for lighting the Advent candle for the second Sunday, often associated with peace. hymnsbycharlesfreeman.blogspot.com/2018/11/adve...
Advent hymn: A voice cries out in the wilderness
A voice cries out in the wilderness: “Prepare the Lord a way!” A voice calls out of our loneliness for night to break into day. We cry ...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A hymn possibly suitable for lighting the Advent candle for the second Sunday, often associated with peace. hymnsbycharlesfreeman.blogspot.com/2018/11/adve...
Y’all keep putting this up every year, one of these years it’s actually gonna happen and then you’re gonna look real bad…
42 Million Dead In Bloodiest Black Friday Weekend On Record https://theonion.com/42-million-dead-in-bloodiest-black-friday-weekend-on-re-1819574242/
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Y’all keep putting this up every year, one of these years it’s actually gonna happen and then you’re gonna look real bad…
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To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.