Ursula le Guin on HP: I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a school novel, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.
Since tomorrow is Rihanna’s presser for her Super Bowl halftime show let’s remember when Prince did his and instead of answering questions he busted out a 12 minute show for the media
HBO has understood the power of ‘water cooler’ television on Sunday nights for a quarter century. You only get that from a weekly episodic series. Binging will never replace the unity of everyone experiencing something at the same time.
for capturing my proudest moment, presenting Animatronics I Would Fuck But the List Gets Progressively More Chaotic as I Go (and an honorable mentions: Animatronics I Think Fuck Each Other)
If you ever wonder what kerning a font is like, it's kind of like what those people in Micro Data Refinement were doing on their computers in Severance.
This seems credible, but I think the meaningful distinction not captured in this chart is: how much does party leadership parrot, or at least not quash, conspiracy theories? In that I don’t think the two parties are the same.
Leftists and conservatives are about equally prone to conspiracy theories; they just prefer different ones.
>0 = more common among conservatives
<0 = more common among lefties
0 = equally common on both sides
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-022-09812-3…
Crosby, Stills & Nash at Woodstock, their very first public performance. David Crosby once said: “Everyone in the world who we thought was cool- Hendrix, Dead, Airplane, Who- was standing at the back of the stage watching us.”
What film that has a reputation for being "bad" or a "flop" (critically or commercially), and that hasn't been reclaimed as misunderstood or "good, actually," do you think should be?