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Eugene Navakas
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Lit. Ph.D. turned TV writer. Learning photographer. Art junkie.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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The Pope said go to the Music Box
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Robert Musil on business and film, 1930:

"In its present form, cinematography may not look like much, but once the big interests get involved--the electrochemical, say, or the chromochemical concerns--you are likely to see a surging development in just a few decades, which nothing can stop." (1/2)
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Chicago Botanic Garden, pre-snowfall
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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another huge problem writers are facing with a new james bond movie: james bond looks totally different now. its like hes a completely different guy
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
🎵And it's all in my head, but she's touching his thigh now🎵
He’s shooting his friend in the face in the sky now
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Someone in a Teams meeting just said “It’s the old chicken and the egg question isn’t it? Why did they cross the road?” then realised what they’d said and turned their camera off.
November 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The first two who come to mind for me are Sam Shepard and Peter Boyle, whom I first encountered through The Right Stuff and Everybody Loves Raymond, respectively. Buried Child! True West! The Candidate! Young Frankenstein! etc., etc. Little did I know.
For a long time, I thought Fred MacMurray was a lovable sitcom star in the vein of Dick York or William Frawley. In college, I saw him play cruel, cynical, exploitative, sexually insatiable men in Double Indemnity and The Apartment (released the same year My Three Sons premiered!). Mind blown.
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
November 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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#Booksky - this cult classic was legendary in the twitter lit scene back in the day and it's been out of print for ages. Fucking brilliant book from one of the most original and versatile voices on the block. You'll need to move fast if you wanna get a copy cos these aren't gonna stick around 🦩📚
Oh… some news from Badger HQ - we’ve pressed CTRL+P to get a small run of the brilliant ‘Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel’ by @drewgum.bsky.social back in print!!

A book this good deserves to be available, and will hopefully serve as a springboard for new titles in 2026!! 🤞🏼
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

#Ozymandias
October 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
October 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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public research, public goods, hanging on:

such a phenomenal conversation about debt, collective action, personal narrative, absurdist humor, and the power of art for social organizing!

thank you to The Debt Collective, Jason Wozniak, Kashana Cauley+ UIC English! everybody read The Payback!
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Wounds
Change one letter, ruin a candy

100 Gland
Change one letter, ruin a candy

Candy Porn
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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the term "what the absolute living fuck" gets thrown around a lot these days,
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Robert Musil's amazing chapter titles, example one zillion:

"General Stumm Invades the State Library and Learns about the World of Books, the Librarians Guarding It, and Intellectual Order"
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Some Like It Hot Pot
Mission Impastabowl
Make a movie food:

Silence of the Lamb-chops
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Holy smokes. Co-edited by Tony Kushner, if you needed any further boost. What a gift to anyone who loves theater and film.
This beautiful volume, a longtime passion project of my husband's, is out now. If you don't know the work of John Guare, treat yourself--he's one of our most important, funny, and original playwrights. (And as a bonus, the book includes his great Atlantic City screenplay!) www.loa.org/books/plays/
Plays - Library of America
Introduction by John Lahr
www.loa.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech.
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
How to Protect Your Right to Culture
The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.
hyperallergic.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A History of Violence comes to Criterion! Congrats to screenwriter extraordinaire @josholson.bsky.social.
October 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM