JB Kalf
@enchilada89.bsky.social
previously @enchilada89 on twitter, looking forward to the new frontier
Does the new Bi Gan movie have a plot, I get that it's orgasmic/transcendent/magniforious but does it actually have a plot????
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Does the new Bi Gan movie have a plot, I get that it's orgasmic/transcendent/magniforious but does it actually have a plot????
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Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize
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UNLOCKED: The best thing I've written all year. On Horses, Salò, and Pasolini's "indigestible art."
Horses (Santa Ragione, 2025) - exp.
Horses and the legacy of Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom, and Pasolini's "indigestible art."
expzine.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
UNLOCKED: The best thing I've written all year. On Horses, Salò, and Pasolini's "indigestible art."
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Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
December 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
Visited home for Thanksgiving and my DS Lite still works, Might buy some GBA or DS games when I get back if I can get them cheap
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Visited home for Thanksgiving and my DS Lite still works, Might buy some GBA or DS games when I get back if I can get them cheap
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There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.
finished Joyce's Dubliners for the first time, got halfway through The Dead before giving up after slogging my way through the book (don't worry I read the final passages), Best way I can describe my dislike is that his work is Ibsen (fine on stage but a slog to get through in a 200 page book)
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
finished Joyce's Dubliners for the first time, got halfway through The Dead before giving up after slogging my way through the book (don't worry I read the final passages), Best way I can describe my dislike is that his work is Ibsen (fine on stage but a slog to get through in a 200 page book)
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Hey photography folks drop 4 fav still photographers
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Hey photography folks drop 4 fav still photographers
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
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Kingdoms of the Dump is one of the year's most charming RPGs, an Earthbound-inspired game set in a world made of trash, where you fight in landfills and heal with moldy sandwiches. Which is fitting — it was made by two janitors.
This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
How Two Janitors Made One of the Year’s Most Charming RPGs
‘Kingdoms of the Dump’ reflects the democratization of video-game development.
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Kingdoms of the Dump is one of the year's most charming RPGs, an Earthbound-inspired game set in a world made of trash, where you fight in landfills and heal with moldy sandwiches. Which is fitting — it was made by two janitors.
This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Parallax View's 4-minute montage sequence is magnetic and invasive, I haven't stopped thinking about it since watching the movie three weeks ago, I think it works more with a Jungian mindset than the Freudian one Paluka seemed to suggest in the commentary
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Parallax View's 4-minute montage sequence is magnetic and invasive, I haven't stopped thinking about it since watching the movie three weeks ago, I think it works more with a Jungian mindset than the Freudian one Paluka seemed to suggest in the commentary
It's incredible that the new Running Man movie spells out literally 3 better endings than the one that's shown
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It's incredible that the new Running Man movie spells out literally 3 better endings than the one that's shown
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"Is it smart for the democrats to keep pushing the Epstein issue as we go into the midterms??? Should the party downplay the international child trafficking ring reaching to the top of government? How well is not feeding kids to rich pedos polling in Iowa this week? Can we triangulate this somehow
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"Is it smart for the democrats to keep pushing the Epstein issue as we go into the midterms??? Should the party downplay the international child trafficking ring reaching to the top of government? How well is not feeding kids to rich pedos polling in Iowa this week? Can we triangulate this somehow
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“Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless,” “both shows the fashioning of the New Wave as a modern myth and confirms the enduring power of that myth,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/BdzrsR
The Joyful Mythology of “Nouvelle Vague”
Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless” embraces the legend of the French New Wave and its enduring influence.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless,” “both shows the fashioning of the New Wave as a modern myth and confirms the enduring power of that myth,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/BdzrsR
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A section of dialogue choices between the player (blue) and Outer Worlds 2 character Ethel Tinsley (red). The full tree of choices for the conversation is shown on the right. The dialogue is written in OEI Tools, a tool made by and for Obsidian Entertainment
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A section of dialogue choices between the player (blue) and Outer Worlds 2 character Ethel Tinsley (red). The full tree of choices for the conversation is shown on the right. The dialogue is written in OEI Tools, a tool made by and for Obsidian Entertainment
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the parallax view (alan j. pakula, 1974)
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
the parallax view (alan j. pakula, 1974)
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[less than a week after dems sweep elections]
chuck schumer: have we tried my same old bullshit?
chuck schumer: have we tried my same old bullshit?
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
[less than a week after dems sweep elections]
chuck schumer: have we tried my same old bullshit?
chuck schumer: have we tried my same old bullshit?
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heartbreaking piece about how SNAP suspension is hurting people in Texas www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Human Toll of the Suspension of SNAP
The food-assistance program serves around forty-two million Americans. In Texas, even people with decent jobs are feeling the pain.
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
heartbreaking piece about how SNAP suspension is hurting people in Texas www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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99% of memoirs should have been or remained essays. like what do you mean you're a 29-year-old brooklyn transplant and you wrote 70k words about your life. you better have been a war correspondent before you picked up that podcast mic. you better have been raised in a fundamentalist cult
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
99% of memoirs should have been or remained essays. like what do you mean you're a 29-year-old brooklyn transplant and you wrote 70k words about your life. you better have been a war correspondent before you picked up that podcast mic. you better have been raised in a fundamentalist cult
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“Lakefront,
more phantom cramps.
Absent waves. Slip
knots, boats lisp against rope
as they sing that old song, the one
that starts with should.”
From “Boon Lake” by Hazelyn Aroian in ISSUE 27!
more phantom cramps.
Absent waves. Slip
knots, boats lisp against rope
as they sing that old song, the one
that starts with should.”
From “Boon Lake” by Hazelyn Aroian in ISSUE 27!
Hazelyn Aroian "Boon Lake" — THE SHORE
POETRY
www.theshorepoetry.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Lakefront,
more phantom cramps.
Absent waves. Slip
knots, boats lisp against rope
as they sing that old song, the one
that starts with should.”
From “Boon Lake” by Hazelyn Aroian in ISSUE 27!
more phantom cramps.
Absent waves. Slip
knots, boats lisp against rope
as they sing that old song, the one
that starts with should.”
From “Boon Lake” by Hazelyn Aroian in ISSUE 27!
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"So, after all this time… I forgive you, Bioshock Infinite."
@unabridgedgamer.bsky.social explores Bioshock Infinite's strange interpretation of Christianity:
@unabridgedgamer.bsky.social explores Bioshock Infinite's strange interpretation of Christianity:
Forgiving, and Forgetting, Bioshock - Unwinnable
If there is one constructive lesson that can be learned from Bioshock Infinite, it’s the crucial, fundamental need for forgiveness.
unwinnable.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"So, after all this time… I forgive you, Bioshock Infinite."
@unabridgedgamer.bsky.social explores Bioshock Infinite's strange interpretation of Christianity:
@unabridgedgamer.bsky.social explores Bioshock Infinite's strange interpretation of Christianity:
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I know there’s been a lot of news lately but uh, has any Transportation Secretary in the history of the US ever had this many airplane disasters and airport shutdowns in nine months..?
As air traffic controllers face a second missed paycheck next week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sounds the alarm that the system is nearing its breaking point.
Travelers Could Face ‘Mass Chaos’ If Shutdown Lasts Another Week, Transportation Secretary Says
As air traffic controllers face a second missed paycheck next week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sounds the alarm that the system is nearing its breaking point.
www.forbes.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I know there’s been a lot of news lately but uh, has any Transportation Secretary in the history of the US ever had this many airplane disasters and airport shutdowns in nine months..?
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