Cody Harrison

I published this story about Pancho Villa, The Punitive Expedition, American imperialism, The Mutual Film Company and cinema as mnemonic device. I want to thank Sarah Broderick for choosing this piece and helping edit it and Yosh Haggerty for helping publish it.

The last time y'all kept saying Democrats would win in Texas, I didn't believe you. I still don't believe you. But last time, I promised to record myself singing this song (w/ choreography) if it happened. I repeat that promise now. I won't count on buying a cowboy hat, y'all. youtu.be/AALREbJZEZk

For other blankies on here, finding it increasingly funny that David Sims keeps calling 5’10’’ Robert de Niro “tiny” “slight” “littlest actor in Hollywood” “lacking inches”

It is Written that Henry Cuellar can only be defeated by Matthew Yglesias when he moves to the 28th as a stunt

I was taught that before the Fall early voting numbers meant something

“The bar’s in the globe, right?”

Are you saying the Oklahoma Thunder found a Mara-script in Saragossa?

Sleep Dealer (2008)

A movie podcast dedicated to envisioning what might have been in lost films

Moment in class today when someone said Casbah (as in citadel) and students heard caspa (as in dandruff)

New movie podcast where the hosts read detailed Wikipedia summaries of suspense films right before viewing and then talk about how much it ruined them

Squinting intriguedly hearing the plot of Digger, chuckling ruefully when it gets bad reviews, smiling serenely as people mount defenses of the movie, nodding sagely as I read how these staunch defenses are actually examples of gendered power imbalances, all while never getting close to seeing it

Further demonstrating my inability to live in this world by opening work emails with "Oh," as if I'm surprised

I was thinking re: Joyce Carol Oates, about Nathanial Hawthorne referring to popular, formula driven writers as a "damned mob of scribbling women." I think referring specifically to Maria Susanna Cummins formulaic (but pretty good) novel The Lamplighter outselling whatever dour book he had on offer

My daughter: What's a simulation? Me: So, you know the Kobayashi Maru?

Old books will be relay the most disgusting story you've ever heard and then the narrator will say "and sundry other improper Tales of such vile Character that this Christian Pen would fain the Innocent Ear had not heard It in the first Place."

I had occasion to remember watching A Grin Without a Cat for a film class in undergrad with my classmates. 30 mins in there were disgruntled murmurs, 1 hour in, the students were in open revolt. By 1h 30 I was the only person left in the screening room. By 2h 30 I was really vibing.

I have one that I always talk about which is this one.

My wife’s wisdom

Wu on redistricting if Dems get control: "You do the exact same thing that they did to you until they say mercy" and agree to national, bipartisan reform.

Reading Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall re: The Salem Witch Trials and now everything is Salem for me. I've got Salem goggles. Vampire movies? About the biting Salem witches? People apologizing for supporting Trump? Pathetic Salem judges asking for forgiveness? America? Salem.

I remember when Monica in Friends got fired over the phone for taking a "kickback" steak from the restaurant and frankly I didn't understand what was happening then at six years old, and still don't, but maybe it came from this meat heist

In a Houston suburb going into unprepossessing venues and ordering the chilaquiles

Can't wait for the whole of Bluesky, a site where you read and write little witticism, is divided into two camps that claims the other camp simply can't read. I'm so excited to see the epistemology, even the metaphysics used to define "able to read".

BREAKING NEWS: The United Nations’ top human rights body reported that it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran.

your mom: "You know that actor, Stephen Root? From Newsradio?" you (on 3rd movie podcast of the day): "Stephen Root! I LOVE ROOT! GOD Root! Dennis Mansky in Bicentennial Man? The guy with the office supplies! Berg in Black Rain? Got my pigs out rooting around for some Root! May his roots forevever

📺 El increíble deslizamiento de Elly De La Cruz

Folks hating on rationality on here which isn’t any skin off my nose me being a bit of an empiricist, but am I wrong that the whole vibe of bluesky is pretty rationalist

Had to get a new debit card, forgot to change my card number with my music subscription, music disappeared, only thing left is Beirut's The Rip Tide, no idea what that could mean

My brother just logged Häxan on his letterboxd. Called it an essay film which kind of blew my mind.

In the Wikipedia article about Brussels, they link to the page for waffle as "their local waffle"

I don't know who this Elizabeth Holmes is, what did she do, sell a toaster strudel that killed you or something? All I can guess is she said, ya know, I've always wanted to be the Elmyr de Hory character in my own F for Fake

What's the example of perfect casting?

ESPN still going with the provably correct outcome

Texas going blue because enough people have discovered Chili’s no longer serves chili

Dudes

BREAKING: It made the final cut. Congratulations, Michigan, you might have the best voting sticker of 2026.

I think we've reached saturation of the aerosolization of Liberal Currents in the bluesky atmosphere and will see a reduction soon in the parts per million

Egoistic desires would assert themselves paratactically alongside erotic ones IN THIS ECONOMY!

People with a fast little car hearing about the bluesky speed camera discourse

Pace the idea Christopher Nolan is not a poetic filmmaker, I’d suggest his poetry is the poetry of the abacus

Any runners have suggestions for running watches? Especially watches that don't malfunction or break easily.

The Big Shave is Scorsese’s van Gogh’s Skeleton with Burning Cigarette

Anyone who wants to quit because of woke, please send your tenure tracks to me care of et cetera et cetera, I will only be teaching Mexican Literature and Intro to Star Trek

During Woke 2 in Texas we'll have to say "have an infernal day"