Eleanor Coppola, writer and director (HEARTS OF DARKNESS), creative partner to her husband Francis and mother of Roman and Sofia, has died. She was 87.

Variety — variety.com/2024/film/obit…

my apologies slovenian vernacular joinery…i wasnt familiar with your game…

Junior high and high school teachers are apparently showing students GATTACA a lot. The ’90s canon.

The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Yep. The “through-line from the O.J. trial to Kanye West” as I put it in 2015: decider.com/2015/05/29/the…

me, in a new city after one sip of coffee: “I could live here”

Text remains the loveliest medium

Been harping about this for a while now and it seems like finally — *checks notes* — one person in the United States or Canada (so 1 in nearly 400 million people) will finally get a poster with Criterion Collection cover art.

Everyone knows it, but all the extra tech stuff that is added to car dashboards, windows etc... isn't even worth it. It breaks, or costs a fortune to fix, and it doesn't even make your life that much better, and people just say they want something simple back.

Student: 'Professor Socolow, did you hear OJ Simpson died?'
Me: 'Let me tell you, it was a perfect June day in Los Angeles...[50 minutes later]... and THAT's how the OJ Simpson trial changed the world.'
Student: 'Um.. wasn't today's assignment about the Federal Trade Commission?'

Was Twitter the first place OJ’s death was announced? That’s sort of interesting.

O.J. was born the same year as my dad.

O.J.: Made in America youtu.be/Zmca421urfo?si…

Working out in sunglasses, a mesh top, and leather pants. One of the last true rockstars 😭😭

'24 #NCAAWBB Natl. Championship ended the season with a bang on ABC & ESPN

🏀18.7M viewers, peak 24M
🏀Up 89% from '23 & 285% from '22
🏀Most-watched basketball game (men's or women's, college or pro) since '19
🏀Most-watched sporting event since '19 (excl. football & Olympics)

“Unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, a lovely day.” —George Carlin

The fucking Sun, man.