leah toth
@thescrvnr.bsky.social
assistant professor | film + modern literature + sound studies | music: amelia courthouse | footfalls records | notions
I don't know what the crossover fandom between The Searchers and Columbo is, but I love that Vera Miles plays both the bossy, pants-wearing Laurie Jorgensen and the unapologetically sexy Vivica Scott. Even the name Vivica Scott is 70s sexy
And she also plays Janet Leigh's sister, Lila, in Psycho
And she also plays Janet Leigh's sister, Lila, in Psycho
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I don't know what the crossover fandom between The Searchers and Columbo is, but I love that Vera Miles plays both the bossy, pants-wearing Laurie Jorgensen and the unapologetically sexy Vivica Scott. Even the name Vivica Scott is 70s sexy
And she also plays Janet Leigh's sister, Lila, in Psycho
And she also plays Janet Leigh's sister, Lila, in Psycho
How this went: the lone male in the class slut-shamed the protagonist in Fantomina. The girls left class wanting to see Belle de Jour, lol. Even in south Georgia in 2025 there is an appetite for subversive media featuring female sexual autonomy
December 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
How this went: the lone male in the class slut-shamed the protagonist in Fantomina. The girls left class wanting to see Belle de Jour, lol. Even in south Georgia in 2025 there is an appetite for subversive media featuring female sexual autonomy
Last week of classes is in the books!
December 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Last week of classes is in the books!
Also, JJT's Bandcamp Friday contribution: I'm not sure I'll ever understand exactly what "blackened Hyperborean dream-crust" is, but these covers of The Amps and Morrissey sound like if the OG versions were a little heavier and.... crustier? 😀 Anyway, been jamming them for weeks. You should listen.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Also, JJT's Bandcamp Friday contribution: I'm not sure I'll ever understand exactly what "blackened Hyperborean dream-crust" is, but these covers of The Amps and Morrissey sound like if the OG versions were a little heavier and.... crustier? 😀 Anyway, been jamming them for weeks. You should listen.
Happy Bandcamp Friday! Everything at SPINSTER, including my albums broken things (2024) and ruby glass (2019), is on sale 20% with code BCFRIDAY25.
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Happy Bandcamp Friday! Everything at SPINSTER, including my albums broken things (2024) and ruby glass (2019), is on sale 20% with code BCFRIDAY25.
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I don’t think the intended effect of this article was to make me once more want to pick up Infinite Jest—the typical audience for which represents a good half of my (awful) dating past. Or maybe it was?
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I don’t think the intended effect of this article was to make me once more want to pick up Infinite Jest—the typical audience for which represents a good half of my (awful) dating past. Or maybe it was?
Chicken stock is going 🧄🧅🥕🥘🤗
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Chicken stock is going 🧄🧅🥕🥘🤗
Pretending (I believe) to cast about for words, Beckett wrote in a letter to his long-time extramarital partner Barbara Bray the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read about coping with loss, “leave the rest to the stream, to carry now away and bring you your other happy days.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Pretending (I believe) to cast about for words, Beckett wrote in a letter to his long-time extramarital partner Barbara Bray the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read about coping with loss, “leave the rest to the stream, to carry now away and bring you your other happy days.”
I think far too often about how much I would love to see this face be punched when it’s making this exact expression. Every time I come across this video. Just… you know. Clock him right in the nose.
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think far too often about how much I would love to see this face be punched when it’s making this exact expression. Every time I come across this video. Just… you know. Clock him right in the nose.
just wanna give everybody a chance to openly rip on me because I *still have* a mindspring address
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
just wanna give everybody a chance to openly rip on me because I *still have* a mindspring address
Spooool! Happiest moment of the past half million.
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Spooool! Happiest moment of the past half million.
Anybody else reading Elisa New's email to Woody Allen via the balcony 'honest subtitles' scene from Annie Hall?
"not strictly dictated or delimited by the lines themselves? Listen to me--what a jerk!" ugh
"not strictly dictated or delimited by the lines themselves? Listen to me--what a jerk!" ugh
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Anybody else reading Elisa New's email to Woody Allen via the balcony 'honest subtitles' scene from Annie Hall?
"not strictly dictated or delimited by the lines themselves? Listen to me--what a jerk!" ugh
"not strictly dictated or delimited by the lines themselves? Listen to me--what a jerk!" ugh
Finally finished Nashville! I think my favorite scene is after Lily Tomlin and Keith Carradine's characters hook up and he tries to make her jealous by calling another girl up to his room. She gets dressed, pecks him on the forehead--or was it his cheek--like a mom, and leaves. Baller move tbh
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Finally finished Nashville! I think my favorite scene is after Lily Tomlin and Keith Carradine's characters hook up and he tries to make her jealous by calling another girl up to his room. She gets dressed, pecks him on the forehead--or was it his cheek--like a mom, and leaves. Baller move tbh
Holding out 😀
Was 55 in the bedroom this am (thanks, “original windows,” as our realtor put it)
Was 55 in the bedroom this am (thanks, “original windows,” as our realtor put it)
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Holding out 😀
Was 55 in the bedroom this am (thanks, “original windows,” as our realtor put it)
Was 55 in the bedroom this am (thanks, “original windows,” as our realtor put it)
JCO ripping on Elon Musk on his own platform is my favorite thing on the internet right now
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
JCO ripping on Elon Musk on his own platform is my favorite thing on the internet right now
The way Shaheen got ratioed 😭 You love to see it x.com/senatorshahe...
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The way Shaheen got ratioed 😭 You love to see it x.com/senatorshahe...
Gotta say, I’m a little excited about the cold snap. I think Wisconsin seeped into me a bit ❄️
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Gotta say, I’m a little excited about the cold snap. I think Wisconsin seeped into me a bit ❄️
Saving this for an upcoming train ride. Move over, serious literature!
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Saving this for an upcoming train ride. Move over, serious literature!
What, Bobby? 🤨 He never did exactly find his way with words, did he?
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
What, Bobby? 🤨 He never did exactly find his way with words, did he?
Why I still read the comments. (Also, imagine posting sympathy of DICK CHENEY’S family on the day a Democratic Socialist wins a high-profile election.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Why I still read the comments. (Also, imagine posting sympathy of DICK CHENEY’S family on the day a Democratic Socialist wins a high-profile election.)
Came here to make fun of Staten Island and saw this. Having connections to both places I can’t overemphasize what a dumb take this is.
What if Left Wing Barner and their 128 likes traveled south of Northern Virginia sometime
What if Left Wing Barner and their 128 likes traveled south of Northern Virginia sometime
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Came here to make fun of Staten Island and saw this. Having connections to both places I can’t overemphasize what a dumb take this is.
What if Left Wing Barner and their 128 likes traveled south of Northern Virginia sometime
What if Left Wing Barner and their 128 likes traveled south of Northern Virginia sometime
I mean we don’t have any pictures of ourselves, nieces, nephews, or other family up, but Donna is representing on the fridge. Pour a little out for DJ; jam an unhinged Playing in the Band
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I mean we don’t have any pictures of ourselves, nieces, nephews, or other family up, but Donna is representing on the fridge. Pour a little out for DJ; jam an unhinged Playing in the Band