I'd never insist that anyone happy making rice on the stovetop get a rice cooker. But when someone starts out asking how to cook rice, I will definitely recommend getting a rice cooker.
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I'd never insist that anyone happy making rice on the stovetop get a rice cooker. But when someone starts out asking how to cook rice, I will definitely recommend getting a rice cooker.
NSFW a band Fuck Marry Bikini Kill
Love that "goat" has become a contronym.
How fucking degrading the indignities of this hellscape have become.
"Merriam Webster don't like to be fucked by anybody except Mrs. Webster."
Small achievement in the midst of heavy shit.
"The salmon mousse!"
Even in 1985 as a 15-year-old I was amused that Marvel unironically used the "mighty hunter" sense of the word for an X-Man villain. Bugs Bunny had already irrevocably made that use impossible.
PTA ranked (before One Battle): 1. Phantom Thread 2. There Will Be Blood 3. Punch-Drunk Love 4. Licorice Pizza 5. Magnolia 6. Boogie Nights 7. Hard Eight 8. Inherent Vice Haven't yet seen The Master (waiting for a theatrical screening at this point)
People with the facts on their side tend to underestimate the power of repetition (or simply get bored/frustrated). You need to plainly state the true thing over and over and over and over. Make it rhyme if you can.
A lot of people a lot of the time would rather be right than effective.
A lot of people a lot of the time would rather be right than effective.
Perry is one of those authors I’ve read at least a dozen books by. And I’ve enjoyed each of them.
Thomas Perry, one of the greatest thriller writers of the past four decades, has died, per his publisher, The Mysterious Press:
It's the beard. I know about Redford & I needed a 2nd glance. Obvious once you know
I’m guilty of this. Until I found out it was Redford, I thought it was Grizzly Adams. I’ve still never seen JEREMIAH JOHNSON, but, importantly, I’ve also never seen THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GRIZZLY ADAMS.
Probably helps that one of my favorite shows as a single-digit-aged kid was Grizzly Adams.
Wait, people don't recognize this as Robert Redford? (I mean, I guess that makes sense, but this looks just like Redford. Assuming you know who he is.)
Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. watching a movie 2. local blueberries in season 3. when your kid does something cool that reminds you of you yet it's not something you'd ever have thought to do 4. slang 5. when it's 68º and you can take a walk without feeling gross
I'm sorry for your loss, Martyn.
On this day in 1963 Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins were murdered by white supremacists using a bomb to destroy a church. These murdered children are what political violence looks like. Say their names.
It’s Costco pumpkin pie season, motherfuckers
(trying to explain "fuck, marry, kill" to a black widow spider) no it's *three different* guys
It’s better than I remembered and I remembered liking it.
Make a band a fruit: Granny Smith Black Mambazo
I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
It’s Costco pumpkin pie season, motherfuckers
It does good manners a disservice to pretend you can advocate for racist views politely. That’s not good manners. That’s evil dressed up in camouflage.
key message: "they" not "us"
Icelandic Provisions' strawberry-flavored oatmilk skyr "yogurt" is better, though still not quite as good as their straight-up skyr.
Tried cashew-based "creamy yogurt alternative" for the first time today. Supposedly strawberry flavored, but there was at most a whiff of strawberry. Willing to try other brands (this was Trader Joe's), and it's not at all disgusting, but not good enough to compete with real yogurt.
wake up babe new blue & black dress just dropped
Niche design-related observation: The longer I work in content strategy (and related fields) the less I identify as a straight-up content person. Most content strategy and content design roles feel artificially limited.
I remember when I was young in the '80s and assumed someone would be wrapping up that Ripper case any time now.
Last time I used a job coaching service they clearly fed my old one into ChatGPT and turned into a bloated monstrosity. Have not been able to face going in and un-fucking it up since.
both the 90s and 00s are Seattle film fest movies for me
very easy to tell who a) charlie kirk was personally polite to b) has mistaken that interpersonal politeness for goodness
Least popular features I've seen by decade, per Letterboxd: 20s: Frybread Face & Me 10s: Deconstructing the Beatles: 1963 00s: Ljubljana 90s: Boy from Mercury 80s: Hard Way 70s: Angels Hard as They Come 60s: Unnaturals 50s: Las Vegas Story 40s: Star Dust 30s: Devil Is Driving 20s: Toll of the Sea
Regardless, I'm very sorry that she had to see that.
Yeah, at least 4 of these are movies I fully intend to see at some point — Mononoke and Stalker, also Dracula and Häxan. Most others I'd be fine with seeing, and just haven't made it a priority.
Most popular film on Letterboxd I haven't seen, per decade: 20: Saltburn 10: Joker 00: Coraline 90: Princess Mononoke 80: Grave of the Fireflies 70: Stalker 60: The Sound of Music 50: Alice in Wonderland (Disney) 40: Bambi 30: Dracula 20: Häxan 10: Intolerance
If you're fascist, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and advocating for all of those as reasonable positions, I don't care how polished you are. You're not actually being civil. "Civil fascist" makes as much sense as "gourmet poisoner."
If you ever wondered why some Wikipedia articles are titled "murder of ____" and others "killing of ____":
Yeah people on the Criterion Channel sub are not super optimistic
Repeal the 2nd Amendment.
I read this in high school when I had not seen many of the movies at all. I keep meaning to track down a copy and read it again — and I'm even more curious to hear there are followups!
I’ve always found it amusing that the original quote is “the plural of anecdote IS data,” and the “is not data” version came later.
I was glad to see someone chimed in with "That Thing You Do" early on, which is the other IMHO inarguable answer to this question.
Oooh, the digital version of this montage from REAL GENIUS!
(This sounds like hell to me, to be clear, not a grand idea.)
Sounds like they invented white noise with vocabulary. The sounds of people talking to have on in the background, no need for them to actually be saying anything. In fact, probably better if they're not.
Maybe the weirdest element of the Oliver North-Fawn Hall story: I remember criticism back in the '80s when people grouped Hall in with Donna Rice and Jessica Hahn, since there was no sexual element to that scandal beyond "Hall looked pretty." Wild that THIS is the couple that got married.
Ace Rothstein: Into the Casino-Verse
I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration
everything's glottal be
Everyone knows you navigate to the Netflix app, because if you press the button you pull it up on the TV and you have to log in on another device even though it’s just the TV and it’s a whole thing.
Letterboxd but you can only log movies you actually paid attention to
Rialto Theatre (Manhattan, NYC) – Opening of Val Lewton & Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People (1942). 🐱
I love the smell of Herdez in the morning.
Chipocalypse makes it sound like the White House ran out of Tostitos.
Don’t know who made this, but people have been sending it to me for years
The greatest Muppet Show guests who historically could have but never did happen: Talking Heads, Tom Baker, Sun Ra, Agnes Varda
I admire the depth of fandom on display here. Tattoo by Carlos Montilla www.instagram.com/closmontilla. I recommend visiting his Insta to see this in Reel form.
When you reskeet, should we reread in reskeet order or can we just skip over them?
yup every playlist I've done over the past 5 years or so is on Spotify AND Apple and usually also YouTube music.apple.com/profile/matt...
Who is using AI? The movie. Orson Welles is dead. Robert Wise is dead. Everyone responsible for making the movie is dead. Who's using AI? The rights owners? WHO? Who are they, and why is their decision portrayed as the movie's decision?
precisely!
Interesting use of active voice in this headline. If the movie itself is doing this, that’s bigger news than anything AI.
Reminds me of Isadora Duncan’s “If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.”
"Fantastic" has shifted from "rooted in fantasy" to "excellent" relatively uncommented on, and seemingly within the 20th century.
Will buy a print if those go into the shop
Rehearsal for Murder rips
"he keeps asking me to explain this!" yet if you think about it for two seconds you would not be able to explain it if you were actually innocent
always trying to figure out when columbo KNOWS until realizing the answer is always the same. threads nag at him but the second the killer starts trying to answer columbo's hypotheticals it's the constant tell. like, wow you really are invested in explaining why the mulch didn't track indoors
Yeah, the inability to say "gee, I don't know" gets them every time.
Not the only reason, but branding is not at all about nuance. Their willingness to commit to simple, direct messages and not spend time justifying any hypocrisy or inaccuracy or exceptions is powerful. (One reason "they're weird" worked so well Harris/Walz for a while.)
It was really fun meeting up with our local group of @seabirdreader.bsky.social posters to get to know each other offline and talk about some ideas for the app. We even saw some actual seabirds (along with the stuffed mascots) at The Deck, an aptly nautical bar on the Columbia.
'product placement' was one of those things that we thought would disappear through embarrassment but I guess we now know that being too embarrassing to survive doesn't stop things
Saying no is not rude. That's it. You can say no politely. You can be an asshole the way you say no. But SAYING NO IS NOT RUDE.
Probably not something I'm going to pursue at the moment, but thank you!
Yep. Having principles means sometimes giving up something you might otherwise like or enjoy. If your principles never cost you anything, do you have principles at all?
Mustard and sausages, I can see it. Sounds delicious.
This looks fantastic (and makes me want to commission a profile picture myself)
Genuinely can’t wait to see some linguists analyze usage of “during Covid.”
Thought that photo was late '80s Dan Hedaya for a moment, until I realized it was Farrell.
Caught Stealing: Does not nail some wild and necessary tone swings, but makes me curious about the novel.
Heat: Better than I remembered from 1995, and I remembered it was pretty good! Overstuffed, in a pleasant way.
Decline of Western Civilization: Respect it a lot, could've used a lot more talking and a lot less music because I have yet to warm to LA punk.
Everyone Else: Maren Ade, what a Regisseurin! Looking forward to Toni Erdmann, one of my "great 21st century movie" blind spots.
Night of the Juggler: Good shit! Run Brolin Run.
Materialists: Feels like it's attempting interesting things that don't really work out. Not embarrassing, but pretty bland.
First Reformed: Turns out when a lot of people say a movie is pretty great it's often pretty great. Best Ethan Hawke performance?
Twelve Monkeys: Hadn't seen it since the mid-'90s, and turns out I don't care for it as much as I remember.
First revisit of There Will Be Blood since it came out, and I think it's very good without hitting greatness. (Favorite PTA firmly established as Phantom Thread.)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: excellent character study, from that brief window when Albert Finney was playing young men.
Another RIP Terence Stamp viewing: The Hit. Hat tip to @scotttobias.bsky.social for recommending it on @thereveal.bsky.social.
This is scary but I'm taking The Film Maven off Substack and have transferred to Ghost. Not only does this give me complete ownership of my work, but also means I won't continue to lose money to Substack and Apple. I lay everything out for Subscribers here. thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/the-film-m...
One of my favorite details this time through: one of the scientists busy jamming with the aliens at the end wondering what is actually being communicated. The meaning isn’t important. The vibe is all.
Saw Close Encounters on 70mm today. I’m just old enough to remember when this was about as popular as Star Wars, and it seemed like maybe there could be room for weird personal one-off sci-fi movies in the culture. This means something.