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"THIS IS AMERICA, YOU LIVE IN IT, YOU LET IT HAPPEN. LET IT UNFURL" Thomas Pynchon . The Crying of Lot 49 . 1966
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"Thanks for the American dream to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. ... Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams."
William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer
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January 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Thanks for the American dream to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. ... Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams."
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Historian Rutger Bregman is a well-respected proponent of a universal basic income. The Guardian has called him “the Dutch wunderkind of new ideas.”
The BBC invited Bregman to give this year’s Reith Lecture series.
Before airing, the BBC removed one sentence from his lecture, “A Time of Monsters.”
The BBC invited Bregman to give this year’s Reith Lecture series.
Before airing, the BBC removed one sentence from his lecture, “A Time of Monsters.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Historian Rutger Bregman is a well-respected proponent of a universal basic income. The Guardian has called him “the Dutch wunderkind of new ideas.”
The BBC invited Bregman to give this year’s Reith Lecture series.
Before airing, the BBC removed one sentence from his lecture, “A Time of Monsters.”
The BBC invited Bregman to give this year’s Reith Lecture series.
Before airing, the BBC removed one sentence from his lecture, “A Time of Monsters.”
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Good morning. This article by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Good morning. This article by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
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Carter Burwell (with scenes from "Barton Fink", "Gods and Monsters", "Adaptation" and "Hail, Caesar!" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Carter Burwell (with scenes from "Barton Fink", "Gods and Monsters", "Adaptation" and "Hail, Caesar!" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD
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Mr. Peanut with William S. Burroughs
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Mr. Peanut with William S. Burroughs
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Chronologically:
Mason & Dixon
Against The Day
Shadow Ticket
Gravity’s Rainbow
V.
The Crying of Lot 49
Inherent Vice
Vineland
Bleeding Edge
Mason & Dixon
Against The Day
Shadow Ticket
Gravity’s Rainbow
V.
The Crying of Lot 49
Inherent Vice
Vineland
Bleeding Edge
October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Chronologically:
Mason & Dixon
Against The Day
Shadow Ticket
Gravity’s Rainbow
V.
The Crying of Lot 49
Inherent Vice
Vineland
Bleeding Edge
Mason & Dixon
Against The Day
Shadow Ticket
Gravity’s Rainbow
V.
The Crying of Lot 49
Inherent Vice
Vineland
Bleeding Edge
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William S. Burroughs on Saturday Night Live, 1981
William S. Burroughs on Saturday Night Live, 1981
Let's rewind the videotape to November 7, 1981. That's when Beat writer William S. Burroughs made his first appearance on American national television. Appropriately, it was on the irreverent, late-ni...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
William S. Burroughs on Saturday Night Live, 1981
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WISHING THINGS AWAY IS NOT EFFECTIVE
October 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
WISHING THINGS AWAY IS NOT EFFECTIVE
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September 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.
September 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.
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BOTD Jean Renoir!!! MCCT5: 5)Woman on the Beach 4)This Land is Mine 3)Bete Humaine 2)Grand Illusion 1)Rules of the Game
More:
Orson Welles: wellesnet.com/thanksgiving...
Geoffrey Macnab: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
@martinkeady.bsky.social thescriptlab.com/features/the...
More:
Orson Welles: wellesnet.com/thanksgiving...
Geoffrey Macnab: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
@martinkeady.bsky.social thescriptlab.com/features/the...
The Top 10 Renoir Movies - The Script Lab
Has there ever been a father-son double act to rival that of Auguste and Jean Renoir? It is a rule...
thescriptlab.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
BOTD Jean Renoir!!! MCCT5: 5)Woman on the Beach 4)This Land is Mine 3)Bete Humaine 2)Grand Illusion 1)Rules of the Game
More:
Orson Welles: wellesnet.com/thanksgiving...
Geoffrey Macnab: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
@martinkeady.bsky.social thescriptlab.com/features/the...
More:
Orson Welles: wellesnet.com/thanksgiving...
Geoffrey Macnab: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
@martinkeady.bsky.social thescriptlab.com/features/the...
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
In the Future: ...
September 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In the Future: ...
David Byrne . In The Future . 1985
David Byrne - In The Future (1985)
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September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
David Byrne . In The Future . 1985