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Brendon @brendonbouzard.bsky.social · 17d
I'm doing a study of patient film grammar for my debut feature BIRDWATCHING. Lemme know if there's anything you think I should watch. #FilmSky 📽️
BIRDWATCHING watchlist/inspirations
a feature film I'm going to make about loneliness, voyeurism, and the california condor these are either movies i've seen and appreciated or movies that i need to watch that seem to vibe with what i'm...
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Congratulations to Yale University, good of you taking Youngstown State down a peg.
November 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
A little late to post but this is a Thai tea Basque cheesecake I made for Thanksgiving. It was very good and very autumnal— Thai tea has a lot of spices we associate with the fall like cardamom and star anise.
Basque cheesecake in a box. It’s got a burnished/burnt top typical of basque cheesecakes. The actual cake itself is orange because the cream in it was infused with Thai tea.
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
The two worst things here are:

1) Turkey so dry it turns to sawdust the moment you put a knife to it.

2) Is that just a bowl of macaroni
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 3h
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
A Thanksgiving spread of foods.
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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badideas.bsky.social
Prequel to Dune where you’re in tactical gear behind a ridge sighting in the scope on your plasma rifle as your commanders Bong Joon Ho and Celine Song and Guillermo Del Toro prepare to launch the atomics against the Butlerian data centers deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho Jokes Wants To Organize Military Squad To “Destroy AI’ As Jenna Ortega Says “We’ve Opened Up A Pandora’s Box” – Marrakech
Bong Joon Ho Jokes Wants To Organize Military Squad To “Destroy AI’ As Celine Song, Jenna Ortega Address AI Fears- Marrakech
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November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
A brilliant writer who celebrated the dance between the hemispheres of the brain. My wonderful tenth grade English teacher (RIP Mrs. Groos) placed ARCADIA at the end of an unconventional, bespoke syllabus. She loved how nimbly it moves between intellectual play and emotion. I'll cherish it forever.
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
I don't believe in god but increasingly I think satan is real.
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I've recommended this book to dozens of people over the years: to me it is the great horror novel about the age of social media, written long before social media existed. A nightmare about a society going feral.
jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d
Happy Holidays! Every day until Christmas, I'll use this thread to rec a book to help you with your gift list. Let's start with THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN by Giorgio De Maria, translated by Ramon Glazov, and republished with a foreword by moi. Buy from your fav indie. (Alt text = more detail.) 1/?
Cover of Twenty Days of Turin, with text in white showing foreword by Jeff VanderMeer, author Giorgio De Maria, Translated by Ramon Glazov centered down the middle over black and white art Satan Sowing the Tare by Felicien Victor Joseph Rops, a Belgian artist of the late 1800s. Description of the novel: In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the city’s occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: what’s shared can never be unshared. An allegory inspired by the grisly neo-fascist campaigns of its day, The Twenty Days of Turin has enjoyed a fervent cult following in Italy for forty years. Now, in a fretful new age of "lone-wolf" terrorism fueled by social media, we can find uncanny resonances in Giorgio De Maria’s vision of mass fear: a mute, palpitating dread that seeps into every moment of daily existence. With its stunning anticipation of the Internet―and the apocalyptic repercussions of oversharing―this bleak, prescient story is more disturbingly pertinent than ever.
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
weird that audiences by and large disappeared the moment executives started turning to algorithmic models to determine what projects to greenlight
shutupmikeginn.bsky.social Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 2d
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
Watching THE THIN RED LINE in the same year that SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was released was such a mindfuck for fourteen-year-old me. Movies could look and feel like this? They could tell stories this way? They could explore themes like this?

It changed my life.
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
Love something in this world like Katy Perry loves killing old people through complex and devilish real estate swindles.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
Imagine if Ryan Lizza's revenge porn substack miniseries is how we found out that the Trump campaign cooked the assassination attempt.
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
hey fucko don't end part 3 like this

(i did not pay for access to the lizza stuff)
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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No matter what the story is, they'll try to use this to change the story on ICE activity and they'll fail, like they did with the Kirk martyrdom campaign. Normal people just fucking hate this shit and want it all to end.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
I'm moving soon so I'm on Facebook Marketplace a lot. The main Facebook feed is just totally dead. No posts by anyone I know. It's all just content from various accounts I don't follow and wouldn't follow (megachurch pastors, diy home repairs, etc.)
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Will it even be a scandal when we find out in like three days that Karoline Leavitt sicced ICE on her nephew's mother because of a custody dispute
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
They're both very good albums, but for me they're both like, the second best albums by their respective artists. I love Buhloone Mindstate and think Surfer Rosa is less hit-or-miss than Doolittle. Anyway, I went with De La Soul.
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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[completely unironic voice] the greatest generation
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
would hate to pedal my pennyfarthing bicycle around a city with enough housing to accommodate working class communities
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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sleepy potato
cwarzel.bsky.social Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 3d
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
brendonbouzard.bsky.social
As always, planning my Thanksgiving around the annual screening of MARGOT AT THE WEDDING.
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM