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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 7h

Summer Interlude (1951) feels like Bergman’s first attempt at what would later become Summer With Monika, ✨and it’s occasionally unbearably embarrassing to watch the young lovers at the center of this memory play drama falling entirely in love not just with each other but with love itself, and yet…📽️

A ★★★½ review of Summer Interlude (1951)

Ingmar Bergman’s Black Swan, Summer Interlude feels like a first attempt at what would later become Summer With Monika, and because it’s early and because Bergman is still figuring out what works and ...

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 12h

Lafayette, Georgia.

18 miles south of my hometown, and if you’re a local, it’s luh-FETT.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 13h

The angry goose meme, two panels

top panel:
WHICH FASCISTS WAS WEIMAR
ERA ANTIFA
FIGHTING IN 1932?

bottom panel:
WHICH FASCISTS, MOTHERFUCKER?I

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 16h

🌞The number one movie was The Godfather

🌛 The number one song was “Horse With No Name” by America.

🌅 The NYT best-selling book was Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War.

Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 17h

i think we should just do horoscopes based on what the number one movie at the box office was the day we were born, it seems more scientifically rigorous

Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 17h

“I do not think it is radical to want to avoid suffering, especially while eating.”

The always revolutionary @jayasaxena.com on how maybe (just maybe) your cocktail shouldn’t hate you.

Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 17h

"Am I wrong not to want to brace? I am braced all day. I want to unclench. I want to slip into something comfortable." slate.com/life/2025/10...

It’s the Quickest Way to Ruin a Great Cocktail. Thankfully, Bartenders Are Finally Cutting It Off.

The era of bracing bravado is coming to an end.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

anyway somebody please let me write a big essay about being driven so mad by living through history that I read all twelve books of A Dance to the Music of Time in like six weeks

Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

I finally finished A Dance to the Music of Time and basically this is what A Dance to the Music of Time is about

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 1d

Rev David Black of Chicago’s First Presbyterian Church was part of NYC’s Judson Memorial Church’s Community Minister program a few years back.

What Rev David is bringing to protests in Chicago is what we’re going to need right here in Manhattan before too long.

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 1d

I swear to God, if 2025 takes Dolly Parton…

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 1d

“Say goodbye to the past!”

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the Bronx and Harlem at our paper shredding events — we cleared out old junk mail, built community, danced, took family portraits and enjoyed frozen treats (it still felt a lot like summer). Thanks to everyone who joined.

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 Ridin' in my GNX with Anita Baker in the tape deck, that's gonna be that “Sweet Love.” 🎶

Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 1d

28k-Mile 1987 Buick Grand National

Bid for the chance to own a 28k-Mile 1987 Buick Grand National at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #214,577.

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · Nov 30

The photo from the “don’t email my wife” meme with the word “harbor” replacing “email.”

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 2d

The score is strange and off-putting, particularly toward the beginning, and there’s an uncomfortable level of DePalma-directed misogyny, but almost 50 years on, Carrie (1976) is a phenomenal movie, not just a horror movie.

Good enough to make you wish that maybe this time, the bucket won’t fall.📽️

A ★★★★ review of Carrie (1976)

After watching 3 Women the other night and thinking to myself that 3 Women just might be an unofficial sequel to Carrie, I had to find out for myself and confirm or deny my theory. Carrie, the novel,...

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 3d

I haven’t seen any actual episodes of Breaking Bad or The Wire and you know what, I think I’m going to be fine going forward without.

Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never seen one minute of Girls and I’m sure it’s great but I’m absolutely never gonna watch one minute of it (“I live in America, Louis, I don’t have to love it,” basically)

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 4d

short guys who don’t want to date tall women is one thing (I have many opinions but that’s not the subject here), but tall guys who don’t want to date tall women are like oh so you really just want to buy your own sweaters for the rest of your life, huh

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never seen one minute of Girls and I’m sure it’s great but I’m absolutely never gonna watch one minute of it (“I live in America, Louis, I don’t have to love it,” basically)

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 4d

The poster for this 1974 Italian “whydunnit” with Elizabeth Taylor is phenomenal.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

THE DRIVER’S SEAT

WAS SHE
REALLY
MAD ENOUGH TO PLOT
HER OWN
MURDER?

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 4d

AAAAWOOOOOOO /
Karl Ove Knausgård

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 4d

Levi’s 501 Phone Jeans,
jeans for your phone

Lauren Kirchner @lkirchner.bsky.social · 4d

Had a dream last night they were selling shirts and pants to put on your phone, so you could pick out your phone's outfit every day, like it was a little doll

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 4d

On the one hand, there was definitely a time when I would carefully plan the first listen of a new CD and it would involve taking it for a drive in my car stereo …

But on the other hand, we’re talking about my first listens of
Boys For Pelé,
or Kid A,
or Speakerboxxx/The Love Below …

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 4d

are swifties okay

patreegs on instagram says

You need to listen to it once completely through while driving a car alone. Then you have to
listen to it indoors lying down. THEN you pick a few and listen to them WHILE you read the lyrics on your computer. You WILL find that you misheard some of the lyrics. DONT panic. Its COMPLETELY normal and healthy. DONT think about taylors life yet and DONT try to make sense of the lyrics and DONT panic if you dont like some of the songs at first bc your brain will LEARN to like them (evolutionary mechanism).
THEN, continue listening on loop as needed but have 2-3 that you sometimes just listen to on repeat. THEN re-emerge into the world and connect with others about their response to the text. THEN apply practically to your life. THEN examine how they fit into taylors. At this point you can start to lightly engage in online discourse if that feels healthy and safe.

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 4d

In the end, Super/Man (2024) made me want to go and immediately watch the 1978 Superman, the movie that invented the modern superhero movie. Because the lesson wasn’t that Hollywood could make us believe a man could fly, but that a man put on a cape and turned his own humanity into a superpower.📽️

A ★★★★ review of Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)

Once again, I made the choice to watch a documentary on a plane. And once again, I decided to watch a documentary about someone I admire way too much. It’s entirely possible that higher altitude and d...

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 5d

We’re all just human after all. A person can’t just be a cinematic visionary without a few missteps here and there. And it’s not like Bergman’s To Joy (1950) is all that bad, but while it gets the framing right, the story that gets us back to where we start just isn’t all that compelling?📽️

A ★★½ review of To Joy (1950)

You know, we all have to figure things out. We’re all just human after all. Can’t just be a cinematic visionary without a few missteps here and there. And it’s not like Bergman’s To Joy is all that ba...

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 5d

The easy synopsis for The Swimmer (1968), and not at all an inaccurate one, is that men will literally swim all the way home before going to therapy.

Such a truly disturbing film, like a Twilight Zone episode where the stakes are unbearably high, but also strangely beautiful. And very sad. 📽️

A ★★★ review of The Swimmer (1968)

Just imagine, you sit down in the theater for a movie in 1968 because Burt Lancaster was on the poster and you love that Burt Lancaster and it looks like he’s going to spend most of the film in his sw...

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 5d

If they stick to the exact letter of the law on this (“no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States”), I don’t see the problem.

Defector @defector.com · 5d

Treasury Department has plans to mint dollar coin featuring Donald Trump's likeness: defector.com/treasury-dep...

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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