Phil Christman

@philipchristman

pretty good writer. philipchristman.substack.com.

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Phil Christman@philipchristman· Jun 2

First new pair of glasses since the pandemic

Phil Christman@philipchristman· May 22

I tried to keep this meme going and I asked myself "What does it *look* like he's singing" and my first thought was honestly [unbearably beautiful chords] Candy says [candy says] I've come to hate my body and all that it requires in this world

pope leo, the one true, da chicago pope, the man who could make even an american baptist consider signing up with team papist, looking like he's deep in song

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Feb 12

We will be here *all week.* we will never leave

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Feb 3

though it would be more in the spirit of your post if I had responded to this with "early 90s Dave Foley in drag" preview.redd.it/cnz1bwinuwcc...

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Jan 9

the mouth of Sauron from "return of the king" (2005) saying the dumb shit JD Vance just said about Renee Good of sainted memory and then deservedly getting his head cut off by Aragorn for it. sic semper yannow?

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Dec 17

ngl proud of this bit www.christiancentury.org/voices/pover...

The sadism inherent in gossip horrifies me, but what really sends me over the edge is the poverty of aesthetic and psychological imagination it often reveals. I love Henry James and George Eliot, in part because both novelists often define their characters against the reader’s desire to type them. They tell you who a too-hasty observer would assume their characters are, what stereotype they are just one or two crucial degrees of complexity away from becoming. This is one reason why James, infamously, takes so long to say anything. But it feels to me like a deep truth about how people are: We are defined in part by the people we almost are, the clichés we try to stop ourselves from living out. They pull on us like gravity, and we fight them, and we become the person revealed in that fighting. While lesser novelists—and almost all novelists are lesser than James and Eliot—vivify old character types, these writers both challenge the types and acknowledge their very real presence in human social life.

Gossip tends to work like a bad novelist. It smooths everything out. It turns complex actions into simple, legible ones and cuts ambiguities down to a single dimension.

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Dec 3

listen, cats *love* my shit

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Nov 22

timeline cleanse

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Nov 21

for whatever reason I just love these obviously AI-generated ads for dumb psych apps

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Oct 12

Jon Pertwee (“Catweazle”)

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Oct 12

Aug Butley (“The Mickelthwaites,” “Gearbox,” “Doctor Who”)

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Oct 12

Crazy Unclington-Unclington (“Shabby’s Place,” “You Wot Mate,” “Let‘s Prank Harold”)

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Oct 12

Cyril Hacked-Ough (“Dir. Haz. Ops.,” “You’ve Got Us Well In the Soup This Time, Festinger,” “Doctor Who”)

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Oct 12

Dai Bloughit (“The Baxleys of Hemmenway Hall,” “Penrose’s Pensioners,” “I Say! There’s A Spaceman In the Coalbin,” “Doctor Who”)

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Oct 12

Harold “Curly” Mountbattington (“Whispers Amidst the Henges,” “Cor! I’m Knackered!”, “Doctor Who”)

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Aug 27

Oh damn Kenneth Kitchen died

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Aug 13

Say hello to Jack and Lila

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Aug 8

not to mention this amazingly accurate summary

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Aug 8

dude how can you leave this on the table?!?!

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Aug 1

Damn, this is good defector.com/toward-a-the...

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Jun 3

it’s tanenhausmas!!

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Apr 16

thisclose to the screen for a fiftieth anniversary screening of one of the greatest movies ever made

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Apr 13

It’s Palm Sunday bitchez

Man with palm leaf in his suit jacket pocket

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Apr 12

Reading McLuhan on Francis Bacon and imagining a Baconized Warren Zevon singing “Send printers, guns, and magnets/the shit has hit the fan”

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Mar 29

When I read stuff like this (swiped from another poster) it makes me want to find a studio executive and do something Unlikable

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Mar 23

I am about to kick Frank’s ass

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Feb 19

I could not imagine more contemptible people if you paid me

headline from CNBC reading "White House posts video of immigrants in shackles, calls deportation footage 'ASMR'"

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Jan 23

this is my watchword for the foreseeable future

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Jan 22

naming my son “Mekons Rock ‘n’ Roll” (1989) but then only saying all that when he’s in real trouble

Phil Christman@philipchristman· Jan 20

the most important passage in @biblioracle.bsky.social’s important new book about writing in the age of AI