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My new favorite Filipino restaurant in town (and one of the best, period): Paolo Dungca’s Kayu; everything was delicious, and, if not exactly authentic, inventive and generous

He’s not wrong

Wondering if this is Ally McBeal’s fault youtu.be/NrctRtlds64?...

Baby Rapper!YouTube video by Found Footage Festyoutu.be

Why don’t you like my critique of Christopher Nolan, I’m not no limburger

recent bot followers that evoke Songs to Remember era Scritti Politti or Slanted era Pavement

What does Emily Wilson think of HER PRIVATE HELL

My 2 am tinnitus sounds like late 90s Rolling Stones

Mr. T: a drink with jam and bread and respect

I would never have revisited it if it weren’t for my wife and M-i-L, but after watching a lot of Lewton, seeing The Sound of Music on the big screen for the first time, and not seeing any Lewton in Mark Robson’s later career, I was surprised how much Val Lewton I see in TSOM.

The kind of thing that happened two blocks from my house when I was 12. h/t Jeff Krulik who was there

Yellowman, making the most of the end of the alphabet youtu.be/HV46OGU7ksE?...

Yellowman ZungguzungguguzungguzengYouTube video by diggingcratesyoutu.be

Hugh Beaumont telling Kim Hunter to drink her milk in THE SEVENTH VICTIM suggests a very different cast for ROSEMARY’S BABY

Pertinent to Little House discourse because the og was pretty woke with one weird exception: Michael Landon clearly had a problem with the Irish

That Wasn’t Me, That Was the Baguette, is the name of the Benny Hill skit that played out at the supermarket checkout line this afternoon

Come for the rogue’s gallery of Downtown New York; stay for the unlikely conversion narrative. My @spectrumculture.bsky.social review of Adele Bertei’s vivid, moving memoir spectrumculture.com/2026/07/19/n...

No New York — A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene: by Adele Bertei - Spectrum CultureAn impassioned musical memoir presents a rogue’s gallery of punk and Downtown New York figures, conveying all the thrills of that fertile scene without glossing over its myriad dangers.spectrumculture.com

Mystified by reviewers who don’t think GHOST SHIP (Robson, 1943) is horror. Such a deep suspicion of authority in the middle of war? Dix is so understated and ordinary that his weakness is all the more terrifying. Fascinating.

There are plenty of unforgettable images in I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE but what impressed me on a rewatch was a forgettable one: Betsy’s interview takes place in a room w/o mystery, except: it’s snowing outside, hard, which sets up contrast and theme with a subtle visual flair. A perfect film.

Are eventbrite tickets transferable? I was going to see Alison Krauss tonight but it was postponed to Sunday, so I’ll have to miss the Jon Langford house show—willing to hand off my Hogford ticket to a DC reader, it sold out fast

“I work in a morgue, honey, if you don’t mind that I smell like decomposition then go ahead and sit down.” —- a tattooed lady to someone (not me) on the Green Line

Remembrances of Projects Passed