If you know my work, it’s down to Matt. He championed not only what I did, but what everyone at @brightwalldarkroom.com was doing when we first decided to have a go at creating a magazine. My entire career traces back to his generosity of spirit, and I know I’m not the only one.
so sorry matt ❤️❤️
happy birthday robert!!
wait....
went a little nutty re: disclosure day on substack because i don't think we're talking enough about disclosure day!!!! read my theories!!!!
Season by Christina Bothwell (American, b.1960 ) Medium: cast glass and ceramic.
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I’m 62 years old, I live in Tampa, I eat corn and beef everyday, I always have a titleist hat on, and Iran is the biggest threat to my freedom
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Be a little nicer to regular people. Gotcha-ism isn’t activism. The world is crumbling and no one is doing shit. We all keep hoping, but I just know someone out there must still really want to impress Jodie Foster. My heart tells me it is so.
the scooby doo comp you made in your letterboxd review was one of my first warnings that i simply wasn’t missing anything!!
scream is my favorite horror franchise and i will never see scream 7, i don’t feel sad about it, i won’t be reading about it, and it’s really as simple as that
Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.
Off the top of my head:
www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email
Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
(looking out the window at fascists goose-stepping down my block) hmm not sure which subscription to cancel over this one
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when we're right we're right!!!
you are correct, thank you! will edit. the one woe of substack is being my own editor and proofreader lol
alert the booktok presses!
i wrote about wuthering heights, the classic-lit-turned-teen-movie pipeline, and why it's cool to judge a film for what it *actually* is and what it's *actually* trying to be... and not what it's not!
I wrote about Alysa Liu and how refreshing it is to see an athlete who enjoys what they do as an art and self-expression in the landscape of sports where being a great athlete is always presented as a miserable and joyless exercise flaminghydra.com/issue-509/?a...
i think about that green coat almost every day of my life. and the matching scarf??? get outta here. rocks so hard.
AND the coolest-dressed women you’ve ever seen
mirror selfie of me in my bedroom
cleaned my mirrors
I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.
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When she left Gavin for a guy named Blake Shelton it was never more over
that i certainly agree with!
i think (and marketing is probably to blame) that people expected something more transgressive and instead got a sort of fantasy light erotica version of the story aimed at teens. again, not sure if it’s wholly successful at being that, but the amount of Cool Guys mad it’s tame is corny imo lol
i think they are simply operating in different modes and styles and have different intentions. p&p is more realistic, WH is whacky otherworldly stylized adaptation
