Herodotus

Grad Student, history lover, bring it, I’m just hear to shout at windmills

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

Just figured out that we are becoming a nation of Britta Perry’s. In a bad way.

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

@karllager_4 @VegasKJ @BulwarkOnline Which is why I’m bring up the Nazi wife beater thing?

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

@RobGeorge @beyondreasdoubt Are most of the celebs that go to the Super Bowl fans of the teams?

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

Even though he drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth (Vickers, Work in Essex County, pg 98), this is a sad day.

[O.C. Register @ocregister]

Gordon S. Wood, influential scholar of the American Revolution, dies at 92 https://t.co/VeYN4k7RHc

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

@JoshuaClaybourn @EWErickson @MrPBnJ may we all regurgitate talkin' about, you know, the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

No one tell them how much Bruce Campbell made for Evil Dead.

[Luminous leads @Luminouslead]

She got 20k for 1 month of shooting

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

These same people think Susan Collins is too extreme for the senate.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

I get the idea that consultant-driven, robotic, talking-point politicians are both annoying and often incompetent and ineffective.

But the solution to that problem isn't to elect people *worse.* And the idea that messy and scandalous lives are somehow more "authentic" is absurd.

Hang out in a prison. Lots of authenticity there, not much leadership. We're supposed to be electing leaders, not people who remind you of your troubled cousin or your crazy uncle.

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

It’s a comedy and critics hate comedies that are actually funny.

[New York Post @nypost]

Why Scary Movie is making millions at the box office despite being panned by critics https://t.co/6VL5PMsvNd

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

I don’t think antagonizing the President with accusations from 6 years ago was ever going to inform the public.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WOW -- Trump crashes out and cuts his interview with Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged

"You're either crooked or you're stupid. Let's call it quits. Because I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her."

"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads.

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

@jaketapper Can’t understand why you missed Biden’s issues. Beyond me.

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

This movie is fucking stupid.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The ending of SUPERMAN (2025) feels like James Gunn planting a flag. After years of darker takes on the character, the final moments double down on optimism, compassion, and the belief that Superman’s greatest power is simply being Superman.

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

@kenaviba @VegasKJ @BulwarkOnline Just really going in for the Nazi tattoo domestic abuser guy huh?

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

That isn’t how it works. She made the money budgeted for her department. She could have negotiated points, it’s rare but happens. Here’s a good question: if they lost money should she have been paid less?

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

"Art director making $300 a day is a livable wage."

One thing people don't understand about the film business is it's feast or famine. You may not work for weeks or months so that money has to be saved and amortized.

Then the Obsession crew lives in LA, so they're paying the highest rents, highest gas, highest utilities, highest insurance (to be fair they keep voting for it, but that's another story).

A 14 hour day doesn't account for 1 hour of traffic each way. Indies can routinely go 12-18 hours.

Art department is an especially brutal crew. They are the first to get on set, the last to leave. No set, no shoot.

Then crew heads don't really get paid for their time. Reading the script? Free. Thinking about it? Free. Talking with the director? Free. Creative discussion, creative obsessing, detail planning on weekends. Free free free. The time on the clock is not the time on the job.

$300 a day on an 18 hour day, before gas or any other expenses, is $16 an hour. The off the clock work is double that. So $8 an hour. Now save that to survive the next actor/writer strike.

Is it a livable wage? Sure. In Iowa if you're a mid level stripper. Not a film crew in LA.

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

I have never understood how this level of dependency got mainstreamed. Smoking weed and having no family is loser shit when you are 35, much less when you are pushing 50.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Seth Rogen: “I smoke weed all day every single day”

“I equate it to shoes or glasses are shoes a crutch we use or are they a thing that we have culturally decided to make our lives easier and better that is exactly how weed is to me”

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

@VegasKJ @BulwarkOnline It more of “don’t listen to the people who promote the Nazi tattoo domestic abuser” type of thing.

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

@ING2Firebrand @MrPBnJ

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

Gotta go with the guy who lead the Yankees in 9th inning doubled in the month of August

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

You got the 1st overall pick, who are you choosing?

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

@GiancarloSopo @EWErickson CNN just yelled a football player for a week for supporting Trump. You think the left would allow Wynton Marsalis to perform near him?

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

@fleece_cannon @micsolana @jonfavs Yeah, cause it was a Nazi tattoo. Hope that helps.

[Herodotus @btmlineman]

@KyleKulinski Well I got good news and bad news. He wouldn’t sext your mom…….