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Brice Ezell

@briceezell.bsky.social

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Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL.
PhD in English, University of Texas.
Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy.
Writing a book on Tom Stoppard.
Also a denizen of debate-land.
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Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical bases of society. Stoppard has been a playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. He was knighted for his contribution to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. .. more

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · Jan 14

Years ago, I started noticing that post-2016 America could best be divided into days that felt like SOUTHLAND TALES and days that felt like TRUE DETECTIVE season two. I put this theory of mine into words for the good folks at @mid-theory.bsky.social: mid-theory.com/2025/01/14/t...

The Southland-Vinci Theorem

Using Los Angeles as a synecdoche for the nation, these stories ambitiously try to chart the scale of America’s degradation, only to find that it’s easy to become artistically inchoate in the proce…

mid-theory.com

Reposted by Tom Stoppard

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 5h

Notice: “work sucks” when directed at men means that we need better working conditions and higher pay. “Work sucks” when directed at women means that they should drop out and have babies.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 8h

Same!

Holidays Ryan @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 8h

Feeling real deep despair, as a teacher, about how p much every school in the country is encouraging students to use the plagiarism-and-brain-damage dehumanization machines

Reposted by Tom Stoppard

Holidays Ryan @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 8h

Feeling real deep despair, as a teacher, about how p much every school in the country is encouraging students to use the plagiarism-and-brain-damage dehumanization machines

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 14h

My hot take is that if McDaniel looked and talked like Dan Campbell but was otherwise exactly the same, he wouldn’t be on the hot seat and the story would be “what can you expect him to do with Tua?” But because he likes analytics and looks like a coffee shop millennial he’s a target.

Marcel Louis-Jacques @ml-j.bsky.social · 1d

Tough day for the "McDaniel lost the locker room" crowd

Dolphins beat the Bills 30-13 for their first win over Buffalo since 2022

De'Von Achane finishes with 225 scrimmage yards and 2 TD -- he's the first player in franchise history to record multiple career games with 225 scrimmage yards

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

My fascination with Henri Verneuil peaked this year with I… FOR ICARUS, basically a French JFK over a decade before Stone’s movie came out. Sleek and sharp mainstream cinema that’s morally clear-eyed in a way that’s sadly all too relevant still. boxd.it/axnQK9

Reposted by Tom Stoppard

Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know how to say it any more clearly than this: if Democrats are willing to scrap something like ACA subsidies, you have to be willing to tell them you’re not going to vote for them. And then actually do it.

You can’t keep voting for ppl who sell us all out to compromise with fascists

Reposted by Tom Stoppard

Marcel Louis-Jacques @ml-j.bsky.social · 1d

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

Medievalists will be pleased to know that Atlanta Vintage Books has Greenblatt’s THE SWERVE filed under fiction.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

But people will act like Trump has to come out and say a slur on-mic for us to credibly call this administration racist, which it is.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele , and 40 more Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele, Simon Hix, Norbert Schwarz, Jon Pierre, Steve Peers, David Feldman, Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip N. Cohen, Martin Paul Eve, Andrew Curry, Lesley A. Hall, Robert J. Spitzer, Juan Cole, Trevon D. Logan, Gerald Friedman, Alison Johnson, Victor Galaz, Will Lowe, Claudia Diehl, C. Kirabo Jackson, Michael H. Whitworth, Michael D. McDonald, Anne Norton, Brian Keegan, Jason Lyall, Mark Robinson, Tom Stoppard, Karen L. Cox, Julie Novkov, Brooke Harrington, Rebecca Zorach, David S. Tanenhaus, Nancy M. Wingfield, Magda Teter, Seth Frey, Aidan O’Sullivan, Virginia Sapiro, Dunlap, David Darmofal, Peter Jacobs, Kristina McElheran

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d

As a film in its own right, undeniably stunning and emotionally powerful. As an adaptation: kind of a failure. The pros undeniably outweigh the cons, but part of me wonders if there’s an unadaptability to Denis Johnson’s novella.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 3d

Yorgos is on an insane heater right now. KINDS OF KINDNESS has only grown more brilliant for me, and I loved this the most I've loved his films since THE FAVOURITE.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 8d

This excellent line by @hamrahrama.bsky.social about a film I didn't like encapsulates in part what I, a guy who perhaps masochistically got a PhD in English on this kind of dramatic literature, love about Yorgos in the last decade. KINDS OF KINDNESS is straight up theatre of the absurd.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 8d

This is, for my money, the best run of movies by a living director at the moment.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 8d

If you're ever out on the Central Coast, there's honestly something strange and dreamy about it during this change in time. I miss it still.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 8d

"It's RIDICULOUS and SOCIALISM to ask that the GOVERNMENT get involved in health care... unless I need it pwetty please!"

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 9d

I have seen at least five moments in the last five innings of this game that could begin a Secret Base "Rewinder" video.

Reposted by Tom Stoppard

Evan "Evan" Sawdey @sawdeye.bsky.social · 11d

The band Caravan Palace are one of the best electro-swing groups to ever do it, and asked me to white the oral history of their 10-year-old masterpiece, ROBOT FACE.

I agreed, and this month-in-the-making work is now up on PopMatters. Enjoy!

www.popmatters.com/caravan-pala...

The Complete Oral History of Caravan Palace's

Ten years ago, electro swingers Caravan Palace released a masterpiece that defied even their own fans. (Robot Face) is what their legacy hangs on.

www.popmatters.com

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 12d

It’s Warren Zevon time on Wheel

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 12d

"Sure, you have physical proof of multiple kinds, but what about what our Nazi Robot says?"

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 12d

I see The Daily Wire is trying to corner the market on "American 'Catholics' who are actually Protestants and just use 'trad' Catholic optics to legitimize their own beliefs"

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Anna O. Law, Colin F. Camerer , and 27 more Shannon Vallor, Anna O. Law, Colin F. Camerer, Will Jennings, John Horgan, Steve Peers, Bryan D. Jones, Eric Goldman, Smith, Rebecca Tushnet, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Michelle L. Mazurek, Scott A. Imberman, Bessma Momani, Brian Keegan, Mark Rice, Tom Stoppard, Woodrow Hartzog, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Greg Linden, Julie Novkov, Rebecca Zorach, Hilary J. Allen, Aviel Roshwald, Tobias Singelnstein, Stella M. Rouse, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Dana Howard, David Darmofal

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12d

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 14d

This is a new one for the scam text playbook: “invite your mark to become the protagonist of a gothic novel”

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 15d

I don't know that I'd put it for myself as you have here, but I will say this: I feel quite emotionally resonant with the fiction of Cormac McCarthy lately, so, I guess, same?

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 15d

The last time I spent any Harry Potter money was quite a long time ago when I went to the Universal LA Harry Potter theme park, and barring a massive change of heart on JKR's part (backed by putting money where mouth is), I won't give money to anything she's got her licensing dollars on.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 15d

Folks who, like me, grew up with these stories and have a connection with them: there's nothing wrong with having your own bond with the books you've kept from childhood, or feeling a tie to the series (a character, a movie, etc). You can feel that way AND not give this ghoul any more money.

Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social · 16d

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 15d

I don’t understand why set pieces get this kind of hate, especially since they’re so often generated by good offense

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 16d

Here’s my PTA rank now that I’ve seen all of his movies (PUNCH-DRUNK my one missing piece). 4-6 a logjam that could change at any time.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 16d

Rewatching BOOGIE NIGHTS for the first in a long time tonight. A blast, to be sure, but I’ll say this: if Pureflix wanted to make a movie about how working in the porn industry leads to moral downfall… obviously it wouldn’t have the swears and sex, but the general plot beats would be pretty similar.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 16d

I say this not to mitigate how terrible the White House thing is, becuase it is, but the other possibility about the renovations is that he wants to leave behind something no one can deny is his when he does leave.

Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 20d

and if you think he's going to willingly leave his newly renovated manse Jan 20 2029....
This demolition is a statement of *ownership*

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20d

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

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