wake me if you're out there

rip to c. s. lewis, you would’ve hated ai

can every writer and director in hollywood just get in a big big room and pinky promise to not release a movie about wwii for like 5 years. every summer we have to hear about a movie called Platoon about the untold story of one platoon who had to carry one mechanical part across occupied france and without it the allies would have lost the war. it stars every white actor in the UK

@mrtobenamedlater

i cannot overstate how good it feels to watch older movies where the actors were still allowed to look kinda weird and not be conventionally attractive. like it is genuinely healing

men used to deal with loneliness by writing shit like catcher in the rye or the death of ivan ilyich but now they go right to manosphere podcasts and peptides

what the hell does jordan peterson know about bone deep existential loneliness that dostoevsky can’t body better? hell, i’d even say you’d get more out of reading bukowski and it’s hard for me to pay that man any real compliment

the gentle and curious way joe asks “what did it do to you?” is the only time he’s been funny and he didn’t do it intentionally

anybody else ever read those emotionally traumatizing children’s books from ewtn about the butterfly and the goldfish that almost died from getting left outside in a puddle after trying to get into a baptismal font or the starving rat who reenacted the prodigal son or the poor sick baby who died

greased rat days