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I cannot believe Bob Barker lived as close to 100 as possible without going over.

No matter how hard the partying on Friday nights, I'd still wake up Saturday mornings to watch Pee-wee's Playhouse (a fave among the collegiate set in the late 80s). God tier, that show.

“No longer mad like a horse / I’m still wild but not lost” Her voice isn’t just beautiful, it’s piercing. The sheer power of it, fierce but tender, can make you cry. I was a fan right from the get, and always will be. youtu.be/I4Sp7hVI4Ak

"I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach." At long last, The Boys of Summer video in glorious HD, with its rear-projected beach reveries, dreamlike DTLA and Hollywood streetscapes, and furious little drummer boy. Mesmerizing. youtu.be/6RUIeX6UCT8

I guess step 1 in my eventual exit from this hellsite is to unfollow its liege and his lickspittle, depriving myself of their moronic self-aggrandizing "observations"

I’ve heard political theorizing from high school kids that’s less simple-minded and juvenile

Looks like the Prez is still at the W.

joker: if you kill me, you can save all these people batman: no, if i kill you, that means that i'm no different from you joker: batman: joker: have you ever heard of the trolley problem

@JFrankensteiner As with Welles’s Touch of Evil (for example): uses the medium as it will and as it pleases. Thus, never dull, always fresh, forever modern.

Jean-Luc Godard's ingenuity on Breathless; one of the most significant resets in any medium, it's hard to imagine most movies I love existing without it, without him. A giant. (Via Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody)

In fairness, this threat created by global warming is legit. But the snazzy graphics, the apocalyptic language ("torpedo of moisture"!), the mood of dread… an absolute classic of the genre! Hats off, @nytimes!

Wow, the inadvertent comedy of the NYT's yearslong "California is doomed" obsession reaches the god tier with this one! nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Unravels! Setback! @NYTimes puts a fresh spin on its long-running, half-baked L.A. Dystopia meme: @LATimes is in trouble, thus L.A. is!

Amazed how often these days I find myself uneasily contemplating what’s to become of Kim Wexler. (And Gene Takavic, of course.)

Happy Fourth!

1977. 45 years. Finally, someone has the common sense to target Vader's breathing apparatus.

@perlstein Thanos mode

Sandy Hook 2.0. Again, the inexpressible grief, the impotent fury. The cowards with their thoughts and prayers. A republic stuck in the same hellish rerun, drenched in the blood of its children. We are lost.

Not sure I can take much more of this.

*sigh*

All I know is, Ignacio Varga had better survive Better Call Saul so we get a spinoff called "Nacho" with Mando. cc: @AMC_TV