@geniusbastard
Cinéaste maudit. Educator. Dad of 2. Quinquagenarian. Man of Appetites. Film writer. UCLA '94, M.F.A. '99. 2nd gen native Angeleno. Pro-union. Anti-fascist. Clearly not the actor from NICKEL BOYS. He/Him.
wrote about Soderbergh's *The Informant!* a cheerful movie about a compulsive liar, which feels pretty dates in our current era when a compulsive liar rules us all in ways that are anything but cheerful. www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
Wait wait wait are you telling me Donald Trump was dishonest about something!?!?!
We didn’t lose Vietnam! It was a tie!
oh good can we stop acting like tom cruise is cool like everyone suddenly started doing like 5 years ago for reasons i still don't fully get
🔵 Democrats flip another seat in the New Hampshire State House.
Democrat Bobbi Boudman wins a special election in a Trump+9 district, after losing the same seat by 14 points in 2024. A 13-point Democratic overperformance.
Very good.
Called it. bsky.app/profile/this...
Yeahhhhhhh
Hate on the Trump 1 "adults in the room" all you want, but Jim Mattis apparently stopped this war from happening in 2018 by saying, as soon as Trump left the meeting where he ordered strikes, "Gentlemen. We're not doing any of that shit."
I’m listening to Alice Coltrane’s “Lord of Lords” for the first time.
You are an embarrassment and a traitor to your constituents @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
Liberation offered by a predator?
No thanks
Doesn't matter. I would argue that putting a struggle artist on an Academy Award nominated Black actress is racism.
X post: Apparently, The New Yorker ran a story with an illustration of Wunmi Mosaku that was obviously not intended to represent her well, so I redid it real quick in a similar style. Took 15 minutes & a love of Black women ❤️
i feel like i’ve been trying to warn about anti-blackness & racism at The New Yorker for years now but sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words…
13 is middle school
I have told the kids if they need a moment (today we are watching the part where the murder occurs) to just step out. No need to let me know. Brutal.
Showing high school students THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR this week. They’re riveted. Going to end the unit with FREE SOLO (after TPN, we need something not devastating) and then a wee of experimental film before spring break.
I think BLITZ is phenomenal. I often wonder if another filmmaker from a less prestige background had made that exact same film if more people would’ve been open to it rather than bemoaning that the director was trying to make something that was epic and populist.
Happy birthday!
Jello Biafra is hospitalized after a hemorrhagic stroke on Saturday. He's stable. True to form, he joked "I've fallen and I can't get up" mid-stroke.
https://boingboing.net/2026/03/09/dead-kennedys-jello-biafra-hospitalized-after-hemorrhagic-stroke.html
The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.
Assholes are trying to ban ELLE CAMPBELL WINS THEIR WEEKEND again, so please consider purchasing a copy if you want to support a novel about non-binary adolescence. shop.scholastic.com/parent-ecomm...
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, describes an 11-minute standing ovation for Stalin where the first person to stop clapping was arrested and sent to the Gulag
Then that's not equality, dipshit.
Bad Bunny turns 32 today and his number one fan Jon Hamm turns 55 today.
It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.
