Like this is just a New Yorker cartoon with Heathcliff in it

Reddit is the place for you.

Return of the Obra Dinn has a great retro art style

It messes up my bike commute for the next several years, so I need you on my side for this one.

Oops, a fountain so sexy that BlueSky has labeled it as explicit content.

If this all circles back to the pee tape, I'll have to admit that the writers did a good job structuring the narrative.

In January I jumped to being a Times subscriber for the first time in years after WaPo went down in flames. In general it seems like the Times' arts coverage is both sparser and more populist than it used to be

"Chris, choose one movie that isn't boring as shit challenge" If I limited my list to mainstream US releases mostly made for the awards circuit pipeline it would look something like this, but there's a reason I'm not a populist.

"Chris, choose a movie with a female director challenge" I know I'm sorry American Honey was in my Top 15 and I owe Beau Travail another watch.

Four of these seem like they're on everybody's list, which I feel a little guilty about, but I guess sometimes things are acclaimed for a reason. (Also, wow, all-time great movies have really dried up in the past 10 years)

I saw Confucian Confusion and Mahjong when they played last winter at the Lincoln Center and was blown away at how good they were (and how much *better* they were when I wasn't watching torrented bootlegs with bad subs). That run of four films from Brighter Summer Day to Yi Yi is unparalleled.

This sounds like what eventually became this book (not quite to the level of Snoopy's bio on the dust cover, but from what I remember, the text of the book is completely a story that was supposedly written by Snoopy)

www.amazon.com/Snoopy-Was-D...

I'm convinced this account's fans are people who need to fill the hole left when the New Yorker dropped the Borowitz Report.

Credit to Bezos, though, "Instead of cultural boycotts, we should fix the country by making DOGE employees watch operas about tech entrepreneurs" is immediately recognizable as a 2025 WaPo op-ed.

And no self-respecting music writer should treat the complex political contradictions of Shostakovich as glibly as this essay does, but I guess when you view art solely through the prism of political problems, “Shostakovich defeated Stalinist censorship” is the sort of statement you end up making

I am also allergic to the idea that art is meant to teach us empathy, or serve a moral function at all. That’s prim Victorian-era nonsense.

Powerful assholes have a long history of willfully ignoring the aspects of art that would indict them specifically (Paul Ryan and Rage Against the Machine is the funniest example, but also, Trump's favorite film is Citizen Kane!)

But wow, I hate the argument that we should support the Kennedy Center because if Elon saw some stupid Steve Jobs opera then none of this would have happened. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...