I love the story Richard Beymer tells about how Lynch kept telling him to take bigger and bigger bites of the baguette until Beymer got so annoyed he just started eating it like a crazy animal and that’s what made it into the show. Incredible stuff
striking how everyone in this story says they voted for trump because they want to make offensive jokes. anybody who has close friends is pretty free to say off-color things in front of them bc of the shared understanding of what they actually believe. maybe try having friends!
The prospect of PTA having made a loosely threaded adaptation of Vineland as an action-comedy influenced by Alex Cox and Demme's Something Wild seems absolutely life changing. Also. Jesus Christ, DiCaprio as Zoyd Wheeler and Penn as Brock Vond... Stuff which dreams are made of
just remembered another wonderful part of Conclave: every 20 minutes Ralph Fiennes gets to visit with his personal opposition researcher, hear whatever gossip he wants, then thoughtfully say: The others can't know about this. We're in a conclave
As a self-identified Boomer Dad, I love so much that some of the strongest, most compelling Dad Rock voices on my timeline are women ❤️❤️. Garth and the Band forever.
This is one of the core reasons liberals inevitably lose to fascism—they think they can win with a clever gotcha, when they’ve actually already lost by presuming that the argument the fascists pose was in good faith to begin with.
The 12 Democrats who joined Republicans to pass the Laken Riley Act:
Catherine Cortez Masto—NV
John Fetterman—PA
Ruben Gallego—AZ
Maggie Hassan—NH
Mark Kelly—AZ
Jon Ossoff—GA
Gary Peters—MI
Jackie Rosen—NV
Jeanne Shaheen—NH
Elissa Slotkin—MI
Mark Warner—VA
Raphael Warnock—GA