The genius of Jesus Christ Superstar, aside from the great music, locates in how it is not actually about Jesus at all. It is about myth, celebrity, and superstardom. The cruelty of politics and the impossibility of leading a true revolution. Our yearning to make it all make sense.

Ventura Blvd. Wednesday, 6:37am.

Starting off my "Cowboys and Gangsters" class next week with a screening of "Shane," a film that still resonates with today's students. A great way to begin by asking students to critically interogate heroism in genre films.

Starting to think there might be some bots on Bluesky

Just casually getting a coffee in studio City

RIP to the great Rickey Henderson. I still have his rookie card from when I was five.

I read the article. The U.N. spokesperson gives many reasons for the struggle to get aid into Gaza. Yet forgets to mention one word in this list. Just like the guardian.

At least once a week I want to float a Kubrick multiverse theory that Delbert Grady in "The Shining" is actually the ghost of Alex DeLarge's father from "A Clockwork Orange"

You gotta admit, the Trump cabinet would make a pretty great season of "The Surreal Life"

Trump's genius, if we can call it that, locates in how he preempts criticism through clowning. Chaplin famously mocked Hitler for stealing his mustache in "The Great Dictator." Trump's orange makeup and red tie is self aware. He is already a clown. The clown cannot be clowned if openly a clown.

Screener season starting early this year! Can't wait to watch this tonight

Leaving Twitter and joining Bluesky feels like stepping off the rocket ship at the end of "When Worlds Collide."