Zane Davis
@ztdavis.bsky.social
Father, husband, reader, traveler. Launching new tech into eldercare. He/him.
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Garden of Earthly Delights
December 16, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Garden of Earthly Delights
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
This is why Pynchon has so much fun with detective novels.
this is a difference you see between more "traditional" detective stories (holmes, poirot etc), where the dapper detective is more removed from the action itself, and noir and hardboiled detective fiction, where the troubled, traumatized, alcoholic detective shapes and is shaped by the plot
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is why Pynchon has so much fun with detective novels.
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this is a difference you see between more "traditional" detective stories (holmes, poirot etc), where the dapper detective is more removed from the action itself, and noir and hardboiled detective fiction, where the troubled, traumatized, alcoholic detective shapes and is shaped by the plot
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
this is a difference you see between more "traditional" detective stories (holmes, poirot etc), where the dapper detective is more removed from the action itself, and noir and hardboiled detective fiction, where the troubled, traumatized, alcoholic detective shapes and is shaped by the plot
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If you need a stocking stuffer for a youth, Ultimate Confections in Wauwatosa has you covered.
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
If you need a stocking stuffer for a youth, Ultimate Confections in Wauwatosa has you covered.
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Can confirm as others have noted that this is maximum Minnesotan rage.
This one isn’t downloadable but if you have TikTok go watch it. Well worth your time www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr4gRL7v/
@Mercado Media video credit #minnesota #illinois #louisiana #america
TikTok video by June Osborne
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December 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Can confirm as others have noted that this is maximum Minnesotan rage.
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Watching 2001 at a sold out theater at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social, discovering how HAL is straight up pure comedy.
It’s a Wonderful Life at the Music Box as well.
Watching my kids dance in the aisles of The Oriental Theater at a showing of Stop Making Sense.
It’s a Wonderful Life at the Music Box as well.
Watching my kids dance in the aisles of The Oriental Theater at a showing of Stop Making Sense.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Watching 2001 at a sold out theater at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social, discovering how HAL is straight up pure comedy.
It’s a Wonderful Life at the Music Box as well.
Watching my kids dance in the aisles of The Oriental Theater at a showing of Stop Making Sense.
It’s a Wonderful Life at the Music Box as well.
Watching my kids dance in the aisles of The Oriental Theater at a showing of Stop Making Sense.
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Art Institute membership is by far the best way to spend money if you live in Chicago. And coming here for the members' hour is the one thing I ought to do far more. Even if the Monets make me homesick
December 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Art Institute membership is by far the best way to spend money if you live in Chicago. And coming here for the members' hour is the one thing I ought to do far more. Even if the Monets make me homesick
The Turin Horse, 2011, directed by Béla Tarr.
December 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The Turin Horse, 2011, directed by Béla Tarr.
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Current* conditions near Empire, MI:
December 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Current* conditions near Empire, MI:
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You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
Movie you’ve watched more than six times in a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Marvel.
a black and white photo of a woman wearing a white headpiece
ALT: a black and white photo of a woman wearing a white headpiece
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times in a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Marvel.
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I’m gonna start using this quote from the character Settembrini from Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain in reply comments.
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I’m gonna start using this quote from the character Settembrini from Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain in reply comments.
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The CTA holiday train is on the Brown line tracks today, so it’s game day if you want a shot at making this photo
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The CTA holiday train is on the Brown line tracks today, so it’s game day if you want a shot at making this photo
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This is so f’d up—people being singled out, essentially for their race, on what is supposed to be a joyous day of their citizenship ceremony and being told they can’t proceed
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This is so f’d up—people being singled out, essentially for their race, on what is supposed to be a joyous day of their citizenship ceremony and being told they can’t proceed
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Round 2. Dig in.
It’s your civic duty to vote in Round 2 of our Best Milwaukee Thing of 2025 Bracket
Vote! Vote as often as you like! Just vote! And may the Best Milwaukee Thing win!
milwaukeerecord.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Round 2. Dig in.
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it's how we end up talking about Sinners and Nope like they're naturally aligned, instead of talking about how Nope, Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Sinners together mark the dawn of a new age of existentialist blockbusters
black creators of various stripes are often forced into categories so as to make them legible and (i’d say) shrink the ambitions of their work.
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
it's how we end up talking about Sinners and Nope like they're naturally aligned, instead of talking about how Nope, Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Sinners together mark the dawn of a new age of existentialist blockbusters
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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XKCD's role is not to make me cry, but it did. xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
XKCD's role is not to make me cry, but it did. xkcd.com/3172/
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Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
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obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good