Sarah Welch-Larson

Not now, widening gyre

Really dig the changes from the book that they’re signaling here

One of my favorite villain performances. Rest in peace.

Both Lula and the Seahawks won so maybe we can have nice things

Living courageously (playing MapTap on the train)

Man that curveball was gorgeous

Josh woke up the dog with his applause for that last run

Voted early! If you’re in Chicago, make sure to check downballot for judges up for retention (I know there are a few up this year that probably shouldn’t be judges, based on temperament and past decisions in and out of the courtroom). Injusticewatch.org is an Invaluable resource.

PAPER TIGER has a sequence that’s gonna give me nightmares (complimentary)

ICYMI, earlier this week @dodgyboffin.com wrote a rave for NAZA, an urgent film that could use more champions.

Today’s work productivity/will to live is brought to you by Florence + The Machine

Good morning, friends! Let’s go, Brewers.

Maybe the real whale was the bad dads we had along the way

RIP Tom Skerritt. A great actor who had an uncanny ability to show up in the most iconic movies, even if it was with the briefest part. I did a wide-ranging talk with him a few years ago that's still one of my favorite interviews [Gift link]: www.vulture.com/2021/10/tom-...

Man, Tom Skerritt!

Excellent news

Injusticewatch.org is an excellent resource for checking in on judicial records! Judge retention is huge, because whoever presides over the bench can and will affect the lives of everyone they see. That could be you! Or your neighbors! Vote out sketchy judges!

On NAZA, which you should seek out if it’s playing near you:

Co-sign, True/False kicks ass

The prophecy has been fulfilled: YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING has killed me stone dead

It seems likely I will be forced into trying to write this for the umptymillionth time before the end of this awards cycle but here is my basic rubric: if you have a medium-level expectation that the people/things you see on screen happened in your space-time continuum, that is a documentary.

Man CARNIVAL OF SOULS whips

I wrote about HEAT as a midlife crisis movie for @brightwalldarkroom.com

For the evening crowd

I wrote about HEAT as a midlife crisis movie for @brightwalldarkroom.com

New today on the site: The Midlife Crisis issue continues, with @dodgyboffin.com on Michael Mann’s HEAT

*looking at the worst post of my life* I must not post. Reactive posting is the mind-killer. Dunking is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the Bad Take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When the TL refreshes there shall be nothing. Only I remain.

On THE SOCIAL RECKONING:

ALIEN (1979) w/ @dodgyboffin.com!! We discuss evil, alienation, violations, organic mechanization, corporate dehumanization... and also, aliens, yes... aliens! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

This weekend: I joined @cowspod.com to talk ALIEN

This weekend: I joined @cowspod.com to talk ALIEN

My dog is nine years old today, everybody say happy birthday Sophie

Dealing with a perplexing professional issue at my day job, an occasion that has forced me to channel my inner annoying teen reporter

White Sox are killing me

From the bottom of the bilges of my Navy-brat heart, fuck Pete Hegseth

what I had to say turned out not to be a column

Today/this week/this month/this year