I was honored to write this essay for @treblezine.bsky.social.
Long live Daft Punk!
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I was honored to write this essay for @treblezine.bsky.social.
Long live Daft Punk!
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#MedievalMeme
Along with those DOGE bro interviews, this is some pretty compelling evidence that our country is run by children.
Basically a retelling of “Predator,” but the gnarly stunt work makes for some decent late night popcorn viewing. Also, watching this film while America wages a foolish war for a foolish man was an… interesting experience.
My ★★★ review of Patrick Hughes’ #WarMachine (2026): opus.ing/diet/528448
It's amazing how utterly dumb the DOGE bros are and how little they let their total lack of intelligence, accomplishment and talent get in the way of breaking things that actually intelligent, accomplished and talented people had built.
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is banning press photographers from department briefings on the U.S. war on Iran because he didn’t like the way he looked in recent photos.”
Our country is run by VeRy SeRiOuS individuals.
Drop something black and white.
I’d heard bits and pieces of the story over the years, but finally reading the entire account was, like you said, heartbreaking.
Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.
Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.
expertoptout@superhuman.com
Last month, the Aunt Bettys reunited along with a couple of guests to play a 30th anniversary reunion show following Lost in Ohio’s reissue of their self-titled debut. (If you lived in the world of ’90s Christian alternative music, then this is kind of a big deal.)
One of Studio Ghibli’s best, and one of my all-time favorite films.
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Trump will throw even his closest advisors under the bus to save his own skin.
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
I think “Because I just don’t know enough about it” could apply to a LOT of what Trump says and does.
Proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
A deeply cynical take on the samurai genre that really needed more than 70 minutes to tell its multi-layered story.
My ★★★ review of Hideo Gosha’s “Samurai Wolf II: Hell Cut” (1967): opus.ing/diet/528173
It gets a bit muddled at times, with storylines that feel half-baked. But it’s all worth it to watch Walton Goggins saunter across the post-apocalyptic wasteland as a mutant bounty hunter.
My ★★★½ review of #Fallout, Season Two (2025):
Tsui Hark, Jet Li, and Rosamund Kwan are absent from the fourth “Once Upon a Time in China” film, which ultimately feels like a silly retread of its predecessors.
My ★★ review of Bun Yuen’s “Once a Time in China IV” (1993): opus.ing/diet/528047
The most outlandish aspect of this classic “end of the world” sci-fi flick is the wealthy industrialists who donate their fortunes, no strings attached, for the good of humanity.
My ★★★ review of Rudolph Maté’s “When Worlds Collide” (1951): opus.ing/diet/528066
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
An ambitious and earnest but ultimately vapid film about human connection.
My ★★ review of Andrew Stanton’s “In the Blink of an Eye” (2026):
AI companies (and their investors) sure do seem to love imagining a future in which human artistry, creativity, and talent are devalued in favor of ease and convenience (and lots and lots of money).
I cannot think of a single actor today who has the charisma of fox Robin Hood. that's gotta be the real reason it's not moving forward. who tf can pull off proposing to Maid Marion during a stampede? NO ONE, that's who
Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.
5 years ago today, the 4th and final #Evangelion film was released in Japanese theaters, bringing Hideaki Anno’s ambitious and convoluted “Rebuild of Evangelion” project to a close.
I’ve been an Evangelion fan for decades and wrote this to try and make sense of it all.
Christians sure do love their acronyms. My ’90s college group once threw a rave (I know, I know) but advertised it as a “Righteous Adventure in Vital Encouragement,” or something like that.
The women in Blackwater Holylight make music that exists at the crossroads of metal, grunge, psychedelia, and shoegaze. Listen to one of the highlights from their new album, now available on @suicidesqueeze.bsky.social.
