Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
10.03.2026 03:09
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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
Yes, I know it's about the Richmond Tigers, but nevertheless.
A car with a licence plate reading IHRTRT.
You HRT and RT? Buddy, that's half my feed.
The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.
A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.
Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.
Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.
Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
So sorry to hear this, Matt. All power to the bookstore!
Noce to see Klaus Janson get a gallery show in NYC, and my pal George Gustines write about it in the NYtimes. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/a...
Photo of a woman wearing a shoulder brace. Caption: Shoulder Pain is Not From Sleeping Wrong. Meet The Real Enemy
I will destroy her
Your periodic reminder that one of Steven Soderbergh's finest films is on the Criterion Channel. (No, I'm not being hyperbolic. I'd cheerfully put it in his top five.)
If Archie was a pansexual dyslexic with an eidetic memory and Wolfe was a septuagenarian woman with severe sensory input issues, and there were giant monsters...
It didn't come with a specific injunction to recommend, but I really dug it and put him onto it. You might really like Robert Jackson Bennett's Ana and Din books, very Nero Wolfe, but fungal fantasy too.
@hopelessjen.bsky.social! Did @gregrucka.com get you onto The Daughter's War?
Our speculative fiction book club's selection for March! I'm excited.
God, we knew how to make 'em then.
People of taste love Lae'zel. Really nuanced performance too if you get some hours in with her.
What's good about this is we canonically know that this look can be adapted to all body types.
Today in Australian Millennial aging, realised that the Youth Group cover of Forever Young (the one from The OC that was everywhere for a bit) is further away in time from now than the Youth Group cover was from the original Alphaville version.
If *I* were Sony, I'd just make up a new hero and give him all of Spider-Man's villains that you own. They can't stop you from doing that. These are all background characters for The Fog or Danse Macabre or Mr. Citizen now.
That should read "visually impaired" sorry.
I prefer capitalisation in such cases, just because it's format neutral and disability friendly. Colours and boldness can be challenging for the disability impaired, but most readers (digital or personal) recognise capitalisation. Also replicable easily in copies, like handwritten notes.
@coopercooperco.bsky.social
Deep in the weeds now, imagining Beastman with Brandt's personality, David Huddleston's Skeletor.
"You're a fool, He-Man! And the fools always lose!"
That's just, like, your opinion, Skeletor
Now all I can think about is what Shaggy's battleform would be if imbued with the Power of Greyskull
#ChangeALetterAndRuinABand
The Chex
The Velvet Udderground
Bruce Springspeen and the E Street Band
we live in the ruins of a greater civilization
Secret Nazi Garry Shandling
There was a big essay about it recently I enjoyed, positing her as suspended between two modes of heroism, and how informed that is by his studies and experience of war.
acoup.blog/2026/01/03/n...
Fucking hell. Not just the crime against buns, but the taunting of the calendar. Coles, what hath thou wrought?!
the concept that you can eat a meal from a different culture's cuisine every night is an absolutely huge pleasure compared to the vast majority of humans who ever lived.