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please I swear I’ll never ask for anything else again

meanwhile to me a blockbuster is, among many other things, an object through which we relate to each other; a prism through which we can communicate with each other; a terrain we can inhabit together for a while. It has enormous capacity to contain contradiction!

excited for when La Bola Negra comes out and we all do this same amount of being insane about Lorca

“The poet’s job is to forget how people do it.”

sea people this, sea people that, I see a lot of people who should log off and go run around outside

wanted to contribute to Odyssey discourse but unfortunately nothing I could say is better commentary than bsky's post settings

I post this essay too often, maybe, but that’s only because it contains the single best sentence I’ve ever written. On my favorite version of the Odyssey:

different specifics in my own version of this but they come out to the same thing: my sentences are only gonna get longer and weirder and there’s not a thing you can do about it. if the long sentence has one defender, it’s me; if the long sentence has no defenders, I have passed from this earth

this essay from @angelicabastien.bsky.social on what’s both my favorite performance in The Odyssey and one of the adaptation choices I found most frustrating is, unsurprisingly, spectacular

release the snark cut

Almost a year later, we've been able to make up over half of this loss — thanks *entirely* to new subscriptions 🙏— but we still need some help to make up the rest. All it takes to support BWDR is a $29 annual subscription, and in exchange you get full access to everything we've published since 2013!

one of the first recurring features we came up with when we were dreaming up @darkertimes.bsky.social was Hatchet Job, a series where we dig into why we didn’t like a particular work. to kick it off, I’m bitching about Stranger Things (again) www.darkertimes.com/hatchet-job-...

hey sorry i was weird earlier that's just who i am as a person

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

I went to see the restoration of The Piano at Lincoln Center on Friday (unbelievably beautiful, even better and weirder and freakier than I remembered) and I kept thinking of this quote the whole time. what a loss, what a legend

This breaks my heart. Love to you all in Berlin.

the last version of this was the best anyone looked on camera consistently over one ten year period, which is a harder question. the single best anyone’s ever looked on camera is a much easier question to answer: Sam Shepard in Days of Heaven

reposting this an additional time bc I feel so strongly about it, Women and Other Monsters is a spectacular book and the best thing that could possibly come out of this little cultural moment around Greek mythology would be for it to become the phenomenon it’s always deserved to be

I can’t believe it took me this long into the Odyssey discourse to think to post this but… if you loved the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis and you also love stuff Elon Musk would consider too woke, have I got a book for you

ORSON WELLES (dismissively): Well, they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night.