Fantastic conversation with Sam Spruell, the Sin Eater from Fargo's latest season, and - of course - The Wire Man from The Counselor, among MANY others.

When Janet Goldstein, my amazing 9th grade English teacher, gave me my first Harlan Ellison collection, neither of us could imagine the journey it would set me on.

I miss the fuck out of this guy.

One of my dearest and closest friends - and the man who made me want to be a writer - would have been 90 today.

There won't be another like him.

#HarlanEllison90

The people in charge of everything don’t actually give a fuck about anything.

He just couldn’t see it.

A day doesn’t go by when some white dude makes me want to apologize on behalf of all white dudes.

Seriously.

This feels like the first act of the latest remake of Body Snatchers.

Fucking fantastic. Sean Baker is easily one of the most interesting - and interested - filmmakers working today. This is a huge deal, and richly deserved.

Imagine if 8 years in, John Kerry or Al Gore or Michael Dukakis was STILL going around blaming their loss on everyone but themselves.

Extra points for exploiting women’s justified trauma and grievance for her own self esteem yet again.

Absolute sociopath.

Your daily reminder that none of these people believe in anything.

Great new documentary just dropped

As we all rev up for Furiosa, I'm seeing a lot of Harlan and LQ erasure going on.

(None of it from George Miller, btw, who has openly and cheerfully acknowledged the debt.)

So just a reminder - this is from 1975.

Being driven mad by digital screeners that were set up by programmers to be used by civilians (Like me). Like, literally impossible to sort out this convoluted system. Been trying to access a screener for 45 minutes, and am just giving up.

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Next time you see someone go off on liberal Hollywood, just remind them that liberal Hollywood helped make this cackling racist hag a star.

I mean, duh

This should be EVERYTHING

This is the one scene in Michael Mann's L.A. Takedown - the first draft of Heat that he did as a backdoor TV pilot - that I think is better conceived than the scene in the feature film.

This is the leadup to the two main characters sitting down to talk.

Bill Maher making the rounds of right wing media on his “Love me, I’m one of you!” tour

Good stuff here