Seems like a good time to reshare Gilbert Sorrentino’s evisceration: evandara.org/2024/12/08/t...

Those looking for a Spotify version can head here: open.spotify.com/playlist/3oB...

Includes Middle Kids, Waxahatchee, Josh Ritter, Amanda Anne Platt, Jason Isbell, Carminho, Jessica Pratt, Pernice Brothers, Blondshell, John Cale, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Ben Lee, and others…

“It is a grin that, once seen, can never be forgotten. Money is everything is what that grin says, what the scene says, and what the film says. In this final moment, the truth of the film strikes at us with metonymic power through the stilted images of celebration and victory and joy.”

“The final scene of the film is ambiguously eerie, and its strangeness is emblematized in George Bailey's near-maniacal grin, one that is equally composed of shame, fear, gratitude, and self-loathing…”

This brilliant Gilbert Sorrentino essay about the film was published 20 years ago in Context, which was connected to the @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social — intelligently altered my perspective of the movie, particularly the character of George Bailey.

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What about "flushing toxins"? Sorry, but no. Pee doesn't work that way. Your kidneys clear toxins upstream before the concentration of urine is determined. Drinking more water just dilutes the toxins you already filtered, it doesn't increase the total amount of toxin cleared.

Fantastic work, Teresa! Hope the #MedEdChat migrates over (if it hasn’t already).

If by chance you were listening to Heart of the Continent at 7:00 this morning, I’m going to need to write John a fresh postcard.