Praise for Sam Rockwell’s performance on White Lotus dominated my Threads feed last week, but here comes Emile the Goat to say “hold my hay.”

Trump and Elon hawking Teslas in front of the White House, Hitler proudly inspecting a model of the new “people’s car”. History really does often “rhyme.”

Riviera on Mars for Musk and his OMP Coder Kids.

I don’t want to be a “judgie” older person, but this trend where dogs pose with their tongues out for selfies strikes me as silly, and it’s obvious they are just imitating Gen Z kids.

“Weather Channel Headline and Most Online Reporting Wreak Havoc on Established Traditions of Copy Editing”

A tip o’ the cap to chatgpt:

I’m convinced Musk and his bros think of us as a massive SIMS simulation, and they get off on injecting chaos and watching their characters react. I want to start a “We are not your SIMS” movement.

I learned the phrase “folie à deux” after seeing one of my favorite films, “Heavenly Creatures,” years ago. Generally, one person is the inciter, the other a follower.

Rewatched “Rosemary’s Baby” and it was resonant in unexpected ways. (Spoilers): selfish deals with the devil, ostensibly friendly evil neighbors cheering the destruction of the current order and celebrating “year one”, a woman whose body is controlled by others — more reality show than escapism.

I had never watched Brett Baier before the Kamala Harris interview, and I was distracted throughout with the feeling that he looked like someone from a mid-20th-century comic strip.

Wolf Blitzer is 76 years old. CNN showed an “Election 2000 Flashback" with Wolf Blitzer, and it appears to ME he was also 76 years old back in 2000. Adding to this mystery is this recently discovered daguerreotype of Wolf Blitzer at 10.

The Bizarro world of Trump female supporters who believe he is a “protector.”