Phone cases are a psyop and inbox zero is for those with no allies.
My phone has no case and once a week I drop it down a flight of stairs and in this way it grows strong! My thousands of unread emails and text messages provide fortification against my enemies.
arbitration process for Spotify wrapped
Hallmark movies explore the American question: is America werewolf country or vampire country?
Hallmark believes America is werewolf country and Therefore its love interests represent the values of prioritizing community or "The Pack" over individual desires. Its rejections of "big city" love interests who focus on career are a repudiation of what it views to be the vampiric vices of avarice and self-interest. Yet in rejecting vampires, Hallmark rejects the vampiric values of ambition, individualism and aestheticism (coded foreign) while wholeheartedly embracing the core American/werewolf principles of conformity, surveillance (pack bond), & closed stratification systems (alphas -> lack of social mobility).
But what if there was a third way? I would argue that sea monsters
Sixteen Candles has in many ways aged the worst of the John Hughes movies, yet Jake Ryan (hot) has no personality or aspiration outside of Samantha's desire, rendering him Object, which explains its enduring appeal
Moo Deng stress ball - squeeze???
how to get WES ANDERSON to direct next Muppet movie? Both the Muppets and Anderson create metafiction and evoke emotion by embracing artificiality. The Muppets are repertory players who star in and are the subject of their art: they make movies about them making movies and TV shows about them making TV shows. Where does the real Kermit end and the Kermit he's playing begin? Anderson has his own stable of repertory players (Schwartzman, Murray, Wilson) and deploys his own cinematic tricks to ensure the viewer remains conscious of their own position as viewer qua viewer: narrators, an aesthetic so perfect as to be unreal, an obsession with stories as subject matter: plays, magazines, childhood (the most unknowable story we can tell ourse
Magic Mike 3's focus on female interiority (emotional) rather than female interiority (sex) profoundly misunderstands
The transition of the internet from Cat-driven
- lolcats
- grumpy cat
- keyboard cat
to Dog-driven
- WeRateDogs
- original Shiba non-evildoge memes
- pup/pupper speak
indicates that we as a society havebut have the turntables turned? the Zoom cat lawyer enjoyed a brief moment of fame during the pandemic but the This is Fine dog has since become emblematic
How the FUCK is Launchpad McQuack both a billionaire's pilot/chaffeur (Duck Tales)and a superhero's sidekick (Darkwing Duck)? Two of the most incompatible careers I have ever heard!! Imagine telling your billionaire boss you can't take him to Paris because you have a secret personal life that takes precedence. Imagine telling your superhero boss you can't save a bunch of orphans because you have to drive a billionaire to the bank. Having-it-all memoir and podcast when?