Robin & Siouxsie

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The owner (?) of my local movie theater had this to say about the Michael Jackson movie. He also posted his essay over by the actual box office

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Past a certain age, a man who listens to Radiohead can be a bad thing

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@cowboy_dumbass @bookcase666 @EPM108 I didn’t love this movie but I disagree. It gives him an arc. Otherwise he doesn’t have an arc, if he’s already selfless and willing to sacrifice his life. That said, placing the flashback here is silly and makes his decision less impactful

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@dennisbhooper The so-called great American short story is about guys like Don’s neighbor Carlton striving and failing to be what they think a man should be. Don is that man, effortlessly, and yet it’s not enough. Your average Carver protagonist would kill to be Don. Don can’t stand being Don

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@LapisLazuli828 @snorp3D I’ll check it out, thank you!

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@LapisLazuli828 @snorp3D Can’t put Wii games above a certain file size on a FAT32 drive which is a bummer

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@EdonTWT Dark Shadows

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@TambourineManDN @paul9639 @nonregemesse Don’t they famously have a cousin who can’t travel because he lost his leg and lives out his days at Highgarden? Even if everyone else was at the sept, he’s not going anywhere

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“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.”

I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics:

https://t.co/joyE4BRUG2

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@erio1__11 @T43736689 @cwik_greg I mean, yeah. Ethan Frome is Wharton’s shortest so it’s the one high schoolers read. Does that make it less literary than Age of Innocence? Putting together a curriculum often comes down to “what do we reasonably have time to cover?”

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@verandamusings @benshotonfilm @DebasedDandy Lot 49 easily. Plus that one you can read in a day (and reread the next day if you’d like)

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@_Mark_Walsh_ “The Man Without Qualities” is a sprawling novel of ideas that kinda fits the bill nonetheless. Very relatable if you feel like life is passing you by

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@KunibertRandolf @sorrytotweet @bogwitchbooks This is one of my pet peeves with GOT. They crucify the masters in the same way the masters used crucifixion, like a directional signpost, with one arm stretched out and the other nailed to their bodies. Just felt like a contrivance to differentiate from Earth cross imagery imo

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@bakeyflakey @Madame_Ennui @DavidAstinWalsh “Can she fix Tony or only make him a more efficient monster?” You can’t have that without the interplay of “How will Melfi balance her ethics + moral code working with Tony?” That episode closes the book on the latter, unanswered, and abandons the former, the heart of the series

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@bakeyflakey @Madame_Ennui @DavidAstinWalsh Spoilers ofc for Sopranos but I never liked how Employee of the Month was seen as the ultimate test for Melfi and her decision to forego revenge meant… what. No further character development now bc she passed the humanity test? Also marks a pivot from (imo) the show’s central q:

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@antpaxton @thedadlitpod @_motherslug Yup but this is right before he pursues his train buddy’s wife. Poor Rory Gilmore, one of the more tragic storylines on Mad Men. Come to think of it, maybe he should’ve been reading The Bell Jar in this scene, though that might’ve been a touch on the nose

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@thecandykeynes @coopercooperco Forgetting who said “if Tarantino read Pynchon he’d never shut up about it” but The Bride kinda is DL-inspired…

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@coopercooperco Nobody saw Running Man but it faithfully adapted the “TV as a drug to keep the population docile” bit. It works because of a retrofuturistic aesthetic that gets dropped halfway through the film. Despite its runtime, OBAA is too lean for worldbuilding like that

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@coopercooperco The whole “tubeheads” thing could work, but it would be about phones, and it’d seem hacky to discuss because 1. “Phones bad” is done to death and 2. OBAA has too many plot beats that rely on phones. Eddington managed both of these things but it was a very different movie