Cris (without an H)

After seeing it tonight I’m solidly team Sinners. If it wins every category it’s in I will feel totally fine with that

SINNERS may be the most correctly rated movie of 2025

MARTY SUPREME demonstrates that we can still make stories with extremely unlikable characters

This is the second time this year I’ve seen TEB put forth a provocative main character take, and I’m genuinely trying to remember if this is new or if he was always like this. I didn’t really frequent his blog except for the numerous times people linked to it, so I’m not sure.

the Will to Power keeps encountering the shoals of reality

This led me to learn that John Navazio died two years ago at only 69. When I met John, his mission as a plant breeder was nutrition, especially adding carotenoids and anthocyanins to staple crops. That didn't end up being his legacy but it's how I'll always remember him

TIL about peens

Dang that one was complicated

Parseword #43
⏱️ 1m11s
💎 Perfect

If you don't finish the book IT DOESN'T COUNT TOWARD THE PERSONAL PAN PIZZA

Jonathan Frakes beyond belief clips played at half speed make him sound like a drunk dude at the bar YouTube video by Geriatric_Millennial

when the going gets tough, the tough break out Slow Frakes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wY...

I am on the verge of dying from that video right this moment

Handel Water Music YouTube video by Cordless Music

The original album format was, of course, the suite; and as anybody who has loaded their classical CDs into iTunes can tell you, the single-track shuffle-stream paradigm is extremely ill-suited to a multi-movement work

"This too shall pass" is important but of course some things are more transient than others

"I thought this thing was normal because I was born during its brief historical window" is something I think about often, not just for the album format but for, say, democracy

It's fascinating that we who were born into the Album Era naturally thought of it as an appropriate evolution of the art form, and it's going to turn out to be a relatively brief artifact of a very specific mode of distribution

Tabernacle rock

Just yesterday I was revisiting #NotYourShield , and recalling the irony of the slogan, where GamerGaters were counting on women and minorities to provide them cover by defiantly claiming they would not be used as political props

Shouting above the din of our Rice Krispies

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

HELL yeah

Remember how great The Odd Couple was?

I don't want to hear Noah Smith's neologism for how black people in the US vote

there's always somebody saying something

It's interesting how one thing a sufficiently long boycott teaches its participants is that we really can get along without the thing forever

The Search

also xkcd.com/638/

"Obviously we wouldn't use a sublight communication medium!"

Fired for rocking pieces of flair like only a queer can do

Today I learned that was little Cynthia Nixon

Cis manager fired from Transgender Chili's

Bilbo Baggins as he appears in the 1977 Rankin-Bass animated production of The Hobbit

If you ever hear me say "actually the Hobbit movie is pretty good" you know it looks like this