Ashes or Bones

"Young mayor gets caught using police gym for pickup basketball" is the plot of a kids movie where the mayor is the hero

Ms Lovett turning to a song refrain to explain the lie (“poor thing”). No one does it like Sondheim

YOJIMBO is so fuckin funny. We need to pump the brakes on Seven Samurai adaptations and start pumping out more Yojimbolikes

The rebellion against the concision of AI is to be verbose and wasteful with your words. You must take the theater kid path of flowery language; your humanity depends on it

DJ playing Celes’ song from the opera house and the club is going crazy. Ultros has been removed

“Crazier even than Hot Wheels.” The proof! He’s openly admitting how much of an unwashed child he is. Now we all know for sure he smells like chopped hotdogs and bile, the same as his peers

I'm fuckin sick of this shit man. in retrospect Biden was way too lenient on Putin

Oh wow yay Genocide Boy made a Matchbox looping road play set and those thrusters will never malfunction and completely kill the driver

tired: is history an art or a science wired: art and science are history

I can’t get past the “little orcs” line. It strongly implies Treebeard was content with genocide. Who else if not the children of orcs?

From: Kakania (1989), dir. Karen Aqua

Magician’s Nephew trailer looks pretty good

What is abundance if not an excuse for your rich man waste

you know what, palmer? you've convinced me. there are some deaths i consider good and aligned with our natural and national order.

Some people got annoyed that I didn't use the KJV for the quoted sections in Pentiment but a) the KJV didn't exist yet b) why would Bavarian Catholics be using it even if it did (lol)

Ah, the McRib Index

I think the WW3 nuclear conclusion could be jumping the gun, if only slightly. I worry more about the precursor to global annihilation: timidity in the face of the next nuclear blast. What if no one responds to the next nuclear catastrophe?

Sorry to Mario

I’m sick of Richard III remakes. Fuck Olivier. I’m sticking with the original (Burbage version)

Somewhere in Heaven Pat Robertson is smiling

Everyone say a prayer today for the hardworking people at joydiv dot org

look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world

Why Romeo and Juliet. Stop it

Are there people out there who will make a bycocket hat with a 4 ft bill?

In the 80’s and 90’s, a major selling point for the linear Disney Channel was that it had no third-party ads or commercial breaks

Me: There’s no such thing as a left wing Mormon these days and that’s a shame Ken Jennings: I will leverage my position as a global celebrity to restore the Law of Consecration, God’s TRUE Law

You know, Donald, starlings are an invasive species in North America,

They should redo Starship Troopers but the aliens get to win

Seriously not even interested in hearing about a Joanne 2nd Round of Hogwarts hatewatching. Read some Dahl ffs

a small part of my problem with the doomsday claims of ai researchers is that the "AI researchers" never look like this

so judge judy is a monarchy. interesting

Time is overdue to stop handing it to the South Park guys. They’re lousy do-nothing centrists on their best days and 1993 libertarians stuck in a time warp otherwise

Even aside from Rowling being an insane monster, Jesus fuck I am sick of hearing about Harry Potter

It’s torture, guys!

this bit seems especially important

It’s scary to think that if anything happens to Natalie Harp, JD Vance could become the most powerful person in the world.