Milch is a good reminder that great artists are not inspired by drugs; whatever great art they create is despite whatever crutch they lean on to self-medicate. I hate the poisonous myth of the glamorous artist who snorts inspiration (which was why techbros built druggie chatbot plugins, after all).

I think this is spot on.

I keep telling brilliant students not to get PhDs not because they aren't capable, but because if I show them the job boards for the last couple of years and the graphs, not even the fabled hubris of an undergrad who wants to be a professor can get through. There are no jobs.

First one is an onion kugel. It's what was left of a traditional meat kugel, likely a version of the OG kugel mentioned over a millenia ago.
During the war, when meat was scarce, my great-grandfather aunt, Trana Twersky, Skver Rebbitzen, continued making it just with the sautéed onion. And it stuck.

a lot of movies about the REAL meaning of christmas are finally sinking in

Watching people trying to have a good faith discussion of a bad faith discussion is making me bonkers

actually i bet i can blame joseph campbell, i never read his work but i 100% imagine his conception of the hero's journey involves an upright white person going on a quest a resolutely avoiding all temptation to fuck

these guys were following antisexual archetypes, serious 19th c-style prudery

lucas's OTHER problem is he pathologically sucks at writing dialogue

star wars was an homage to low-budget serials like flash gordon and i absolutely think there's some hays code antisexuality baked into some of the dna. american graffiti isn't great (imo) but it's not as antithetical to the notion of teenage sexuality, even if it's all sublimated into cars

The best thing about this thread is that despite its cadence it is in no way a joke

90% of Israel-Palestine discourse is stupid for exactly this reason: everyone is right (yes yes bothsidesing blah blah sue me)

there really are no two ways to regard human beings as subhuman; all the implications are exactly the same, every single time.