Brandon Harris

When I stopped being a studio executive 4 years ago, I felt further away than ever from being the director I had briefly been in my youth. Tired of waiting, I willed this into existence. Not sure we have 15 years left but never waiting 15 years again. deadline.com/2025/10/a-fres…

I’m trying to avoid posting for Lent, but I want to be clear about my position, as it seems we may be on the brink of decisions of historic consequence: The US & Israel were the ones who launched a sneak attack against Iran. Trump himself compared it to the attack on Pearl Harbor. We opened the war with an attack that killed nearly 200 little girls at school. If the Japanese had done that at Pearl Harbor, it would still be on page one of every history book recounting the attack to this day. To then punish the civilian population of Iran by destroying power and water infrastructure, which can only be intended to cause mass civilian suffering and death, simply because they have not capitulated, is a war crime of the highest order. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen are under no obligation to follow such an order, and shame on any officer who orders them to do so.

It took 4 days for the César Chávez abuse allegations to spark a nationwide purge: statues torn down, streets, parks and schools renamed, holidays canceled, and politicians now running for cover. Meanwhile, Epstein’s abuse has been public since 2019. Still. No. Client. Arrests.

@suzania Genuinely think one of the driving forces of the spiritual crisis within the professional class is no one understanding what anyone else does for work, not being able to really explain what you do for work, and underlying it all the vague feeling of shame that everything is fake.

@RobertTalisse Subject of my forthcoming book from Bloomsbury Academic.

BTW, Soderbergh's *The Limey* is still an amazing film

I was a huge fan of Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, and Michael Winterbottom’s THE TRIP films, but now I’m watching the full TV series versions of them on the @criterionchannl, and it is dawning on me that this is one of the great artistic accomplishments of the century.

@saylordocs I have never once seen popcorn for $20 at an american movie theater.

Netflix didn’t kill movie theaters. $20 popcorn 🍿 and $12 water sealed the coffin.

Running from an active shooter only to be killed by an active shooter in uniform. I hate it here so much.

Cereal in his moving car, heater by the beach, that rarest of Americans: a role model.

Loved it from the start.

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister announces decree to freeze rents nationwide due to Middle East crisis.

Stopped living at 81 to pay respect to Kobe.

@piersmorgan Um, not really

So not only has Iran brazenly lied about its ballistic missile range capacity, but this means it can probably hit the UK with them - and we have zero, I repeat ZERO, defence against these missiles. Very worrying.

Crazy how a burger, fries, and a drink is cheaper at Chilis than almost any fast food place in America rn.

Potentially a hot take, but Afroman's victory against police corruption is more inspiring than any PoC or Minority story pushed on us by Hollywood in the last 6+ years.

I unlocked my Oscars essay, “From Soup to Nuts to Blood.” therealsarahmiller.substack.com/publish/post/1…

How do the Penn state football players from 1985 all look like corrupt 40yr old cops from New Jersey with 5 kids, 2 mortgages, and 3 prior tours to ‘Nam in their early 20s? It’s crazy how low the collective test levels have gotten each successive generation.

this is the hardest court sketch i’ve ever seen

@BigMeanInternet True but you can always just five finger discount MLB games at sportsurge.net

Fucking stupid I can't just put on KNBR and listen to the Giants spring training game. Need to make sure you're not losing that revenue? Really?

In 1962, a struggling McDonald's franchise owner in Cincinnati walked into Ray Kroc's office with an idea for a fish sandwich, and Kroc told him: "You're always coming up here with a bunch of crap. I don't want my stores stunk up with the smell of fish." That franchise owner was Lou Groen, the neighborhood around his restaurant at 5425 West North Bend Road in Cincinnati was 87 percent Catholic, and on Fridays during Lent his daily sales had dropped to 75 dollars. He had a wife, twins at home, and a McDonald's that was bleeding money one meatless Friday at a time. He had watched the Frisch's Big Boy across the street doing full business every Friday because they served a fish sandwich, and he had gone to Chicago to tell Ray Kroc that McDonald's needed one too. Kroc was not interested. The reason Kroc was not interested turned out to be that he was already working on his own meatless Friday sandwich. It was called the Hula Burger and it was a slice of grilled pineapple with a piece of cheese on a bun. Kroc believed in it enough to propose a competition. On Good Friday 1962 both sandwiches would be sold at select locations and whichever one sold more units would earn a permanent place on the McDonald's menu. Groen's granddaughter Erica Shadoin, who still owns and operates that same Cincinnati franchise today, later recalled what her grandfather said the moment he heard Kroc's idea: he knew immediately that his fish sandwich was going to win. The final score on Good Friday 1962 was Filet-O-Fish 350, Hula Burger 6. Kroc bought Groen a new suit as his prize. What Groen had understood and Kroc had missed was something almost embarrassingly simple. The Catholic population of Cincinnati was not avoiding meat on Fridays because they wanted pineapple. They were avoiding meat because their faith required it, and what they wanted in its place was something that actually tasted like a meal. A breaded halibut fillet with tartar sauce on a steamed bun tasted like a meal. A grilled pineapple ring with cheese on a hamburger bun tasted like someone had run out of ideas on a Thursday night. Groen had spent months perfecting his recipe before he ever went to Chicago. He had even noticed one of his employees putting a slice of cheese on a fish sandwich he was making for himself one afternoon and decided it was a good enough idea to steal. That half slice of cheese has been on every Filet-O-Fish ever since. By 1963 the sandwich was rolling out across the entire McDonald's system. By 1965 it became the first new item ever added to the permanent McDonald's national menu since Kroc had taken over the chain. Ray Kroc acknowledged the Hula Burger's failure in his autobiography Grinding it Out, writing: "It was a giant flop when we tried it in our stores. One customer said, I like the hula, but where's the burger?" Today McDonald's sells 300 million Filet-O-Fish sandwiches every year. Twenty-three percent of those are sold during Lent. Lou Groen retired in 1985 owning 43 McDonald's franchises. He passed away in 2011. His granddaughter Erica still runs the restaurant at 5425 West North Bend Road in Cincinnati where the whole thing started, the 66th McDonald's franchise ever opened, the place where a desperate man with 75 dollars in daily Friday sales invented one of the most enduring items in the history of fast food because a pineapple slice on a bun was never going to be the answer. © Eats History #archaeohistories

@SamQuinnCBS Juwan Howard too.

@SamQuinnCBS Ron Harper is on this team.

Kevin Love is one of the co-captains of my “remembered for who they were when they won their ring and not who they were at their peak” All-Star Team along with Ray Allen.