Jesse Schotter
@schotter.bsky.social
Modernism, film, fiction. Professor at Ohio State.
My book Hieroglyphic Modernisms is a mere $19.98 all this weekend thanks to @edinburghup.bsky.social ‘s sale!
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November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My book Hieroglyphic Modernisms is a mere $19.98 all this weekend thanks to @edinburghup.bsky.social ‘s sale!
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
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November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Making my students read David Denby’s notorious review of Do the Right Thing and of the many enraging things he says the worst is him referring to Radio Raheem as a “black boy.” Bill Nunn was 36!!!
November 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Making my students read David Denby’s notorious review of Do the Right Thing and of the many enraging things he says the worst is him referring to Radio Raheem as a “black boy.” Bill Nunn was 36!!!
No Bears
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
No Bears
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[me, yesterday, watching the Arabic Zohran ad] dick cheney would die if he saw this
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
[me, yesterday, watching the Arabic Zohran ad] dick cheney would die if he saw this
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Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
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Here’s what the #NoKings crowd looked like from the steps of the Ohio Statehouse. @colsunderground.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Here’s what the #NoKings crowd looked like from the steps of the Ohio Statehouse. @colsunderground.bsky.social
Define “perfect ending”
October 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Define “perfect ending”
As a long-time Paul Thomas Anderson skeptic I am pained to inform you that One Battle After Another is great.
October 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
As a long-time Paul Thomas Anderson skeptic I am pained to inform you that One Battle After Another is great.
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Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
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Aug 27 in University District History: Strangest Fair lineup EVER. Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Theolonius Monk--the elite of American contemporary jazz--perform amid the hog judging, horse races, and 4-H kids from Darke County at 112th Ohio State Fair. In 1965.
August 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Aug 27 in University District History: Strangest Fair lineup EVER. Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Theolonius Monk--the elite of American contemporary jazz--perform amid the hog judging, horse races, and 4-H kids from Darke County at 112th Ohio State Fair. In 1965.
Agree with #1 as well but, as with everything the Ringer publishes, if you’re only going to include 9 performances from non-English language films, why not just say you’re only considering English-language films? Also, it’s gotta have Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky!
August 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Agree with #1 as well but, as with everything the Ringer publishes, if you’re only going to include 9 performances from non-English language films, why not just say you’re only considering English-language films? Also, it’s gotta have Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky!
Age verification? I played Ladder on my parents’ Kaypro computer.
July 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Age verification? I played Ladder on my parents’ Kaypro computer.
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when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
Columbus folks: my wife and I have gotten three calls over the past month purportedly from the Franklin County Sheriff Department trying to scam us. Wife called the actual sheriff department today to report this and they were like “oh yeah that’s happening constantly. Nothing we can do!” Cops, man.
July 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Columbus folks: my wife and I have gotten three calls over the past month purportedly from the Franklin County Sheriff Department trying to scam us. Wife called the actual sheriff department today to report this and they were like “oh yeah that’s happening constantly. Nothing we can do!” Cops, man.
I remember, pre-Colbert Report, seeing Stephen Colbert recite a long section of Ulysses at a Bloomsday event. He was great! And apparently he’s a longtime fan of the novel.
July 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I remember, pre-Colbert Report, seeing Stephen Colbert recite a long section of Ulysses at a Bloomsday event. He was great! And apparently he’s a longtime fan of the novel.
The full article is even worse; I can’t believe Rolling Stone is just reinventing the section asshole. Guarantee that this guy has read one (1) book, and it’s On the Road. Also probably read the first 100 pages of Infinite Jest and then gave up.
July 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The full article is even worse; I can’t believe Rolling Stone is just reinventing the section asshole. Guarantee that this guy has read one (1) book, and it’s On the Road. Also probably read the first 100 pages of Infinite Jest and then gave up.
My last one I've already post a few months back about, but holy shit is Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World great. Hilarious, soul-crushing, formally experimental in multiple ways--no film has better captured the hellscape of late capitalism.
July 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
My last one I've already post a few months back about, but holy shit is Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World great. Hilarious, soul-crushing, formally experimental in multiple ways--no film has better captured the hellscape of late capitalism.
I couldn't get in to Apichatpong Weerasethakul films until I saw Memoria. His most accessible film--not saying much!--it keeps eluding one's comprehension, changing and transforming itself until an astonishing climax. Shoutout to his brilliant Syndromes and a Century too!
July 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I couldn't get in to Apichatpong Weerasethakul films until I saw Memoria. His most accessible film--not saying much!--it keeps eluding one's comprehension, changing and transforming itself until an astonishing climax. Shoutout to his brilliant Syndromes and a Century too!
So absolutely grounded and convincing in its naturalism that it almost becomes symbolic, Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu involves a medical attendant taking a dying man from hospital to overcrowded hospital. An astonishing performance by Luminița Gheorghiu, in 2 of the films in my top 20!
July 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
So absolutely grounded and convincing in its naturalism that it almost becomes symbolic, Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu involves a medical attendant taking a dying man from hospital to overcrowded hospital. An astonishing performance by Luminița Gheorghiu, in 2 of the films in my top 20!
Concealing an astounding amount of ethical and formal complexity beneath its simple surface, Jafar Panahi's No Bears is an absolute miracle. Its meta layers--a filmmaker who is and is not Panahi making another film--only add to its intellectual and emotional power. Funny, heartbreaking, furious.
July 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Concealing an astounding amount of ethical and formal complexity beneath its simple surface, Jafar Panahi's No Bears is an absolute miracle. Its meta layers--a filmmaker who is and is not Panahi making another film--only add to its intellectual and emotional power. Funny, heartbreaking, furious.
Jose Luis Guerin’s In the City of Sylvia. Inspired very loosely by Vertigo, this is a gorgeous, almost dialogue-free celebration and critique of the aesthetic and erotic pleasures of looking, one that subtly links its present narrative to a long tradition of Western art, from Petrarch to Manet.
June 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Jose Luis Guerin’s In the City of Sylvia. Inspired very loosely by Vertigo, this is a gorgeous, almost dialogue-free celebration and critique of the aesthetic and erotic pleasures of looking, one that subtly links its present narrative to a long tradition of Western art, from Petrarch to Manet.
Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light: an essay film about Chile’s Atacama Desert, threads interviews with astronomers, anthropologists, and mothers of the disappeared into an intellectually demanding and emotionally overwhelming meditation on trauma and memory. Everyone should watch this.
June 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light: an essay film about Chile’s Atacama Desert, threads interviews with astronomers, anthropologists, and mothers of the disappeared into an intellectually demanding and emotionally overwhelming meditation on trauma and memory. Everyone should watch this.