I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic
Not trying to say it was some beautiful paragon of integrity before all this. I’m well aware that Batman was always what made the world turn. But I wish “we are in X business because we like it, and we try to make money by producing a good version of it” was a real way to run a business.
Warners made a lot of the good movies & most of the good TV shows. But that can’t exist because:
- the phone company doesn’t want to pay taxes!
- what people really want is Dr Pimple Popper!
- oh shit no they don’t! … but there’s $ to be made buying the existing good stuff and never making more!
Frankly I love it that we have a hugely competitive Best Picture race—two profitable movies with big ideas, big entertaining set pieces, big movie stars, the whole deal, and literally at the same time, the market* insists the studio that made both of them must cease to exist
*couple rich guys
You can’t make a Tomelette without breaking some Gregs.
Anything that might make the streets a little safer and easier for humans, Kathy Hochul will flirt with but then oppose.
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NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
“Now we all know mechanical handles. What if, instead, we introduced something new that was harder to find, and capable of failing, in an emergency”
For popular sporting events I don’t actually care about, I usually just decide to root for whichever team comes from the better city. Absolutely no help today. I lived in Boston for a year and hated it, so maybe Seattle? But Boston at least is on the east coast and has a subway?
i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol
NEW: A huge win for ICE in the 5th Circuit tonight clears the way for the agency to mass detain people facing (and fighting) deportation proceedings. District judges all over the country — including dozens of Trump appointees — had rejected this policy.
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good sentence
"What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.
“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said.'"
Get a better name, Comrade Josh.
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Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image
The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
I’m not sure there are national implications? I can count on one hand (SF, Boston, DC, Chicago) the number of cities in America that have transit networks robust enough that congestion pricing is a viable policy. America isn’t really setup for it.
I find "America isn't really set up for it" to be an annoying rebuttal to any sort of proposal to reduce car dependency. Our leaders used policy to create a system of car dependency and we can sure as hell use policy to undo that. There are absolutely barriers, but do nothing is not a solution.
It’s a great podcast and I have tremendous respect for both hosts but if they are about to proclaim The Social Network to be the best movie of the past 25 years I am going to implode.
♫ Oh there’s no place like home for the holidays,
Peanut worm and boring peanut worm
That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?
CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
I have precisely as much TV programming experience as Bari Weiss — none — but I can at least promise you that if I were suddenly in charge, I would not choose to air forums on “Cars: Are they bad?” or “Has ‘The Social Network’ become overrated within the Fincher oeuvre?”
(from @status.news)
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
Probably the second Jurassic Park movie, by courageously taking the very embodiment of “movie magic” and redirecting it straight into the toilet
OKC has outscored opponents by 437 points this season, the largest differential through the first 25 games of a season in NBA history.
90 points higher than the team with the second-best differential, the 2007-08 Boston Celtics.
no i do not want to give you my email for 10% off. and furthermore, I don’t think i should have to click a button that says “i’m a dumb bitch” to indicate that. you’re a website that sells blankets and you can’t speak to me like that.
Americans, of course, are famous for not using cars
Screenshot from email: "We recently announced that Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO. This unites our leading entertainment service with Warner Bros.' iconic stories, bringing some of the world's most beloved franchises like Harry Potter, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Casablanca, Game of Thrones and the DC Universe together with Stranger Things, Wednesday, Squid Game, Bridgerton and KPop Demon Hunters."
The opening of this email from Netflix about their acquisition of Warner Brothers does not have me feeling super-confident about how they will treat the classic film archive now in their care. "Franchises" like ... Casablanca? Which is the single classic movie mentioned in a list of TV shows & IP?
If real movies are going to go this fully extinct, at least we got to go out with One Battle After Another.
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Thrilled to be joining the amazing legal team at @politico.com! This beat is the center of the political universe, IMO, and no one is covering it better.
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