Brice Ezell
@briceezell
Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL. PhD in English, University of Texas. Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy. Writing a book on Tom Stoppard. #COYS
I know at least ONE manager can pull off going 1-0 and then parking the bus in a major tournament…
The tableaux of the first 100! Here's to many hundreds more, @videodrome.bsky.social.
Excited to talk, I'm sure, about Luddites with the @mid-theory.bsky.social CAPITAL reading group tomorrow!
Karl Marx, identifying the tendency in libertarians to question what the bright line is for the age of a child in 1867.
This great passage, in particular, points to another great scene from the cinema, the Club Silencio scene in MULHOLLAND DRIVE. "This is all... a tape recording." A scene that feels like a whole moment in history, in a way.
A perfect visual accompaniment to the Baron von Westphalen's new mega-zeppelin!
Wouldn't be the fourth of July without a particularly stupid iteration of a very American kind of post: "Yeah, you think raises are good, but that means you owe more in taxes, so actually you're making LESS money."
May we all blast the closing SOUTHLAND TALES musical accompaniment as we watch the fireworks this evening
Rich considering that the right has just fully (1) rejected actual constitutionality in favor of their policy preferences [see the end of Alito's dissent] and (2) decided that birthright wasn't the status quo reality, but above all: if there's one opinion guilty of "verbal puzzles," it's Thomas'.
The Delon, sadly, was not a good movie, but it is one of his best performances. THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD didn’t get the release it richly deserved. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
You know Vance is so substanceless as a thinker when he’s getting swiftly and succinctly rebutted by… this guy
I’ve long said that the American right seems to think that free market capitalism just has the “Traditional Christian Morality” software patch included in it, which… is contradictory. First time I’ve seen this stupid idea articulated so explicitly, so naturally it was JD Vance saying it.
Reading through the birthright citizenship dissents, and, boy, it sure is curious how much the Constitution becomes a "living document" for putative originalists when it needs to be "live" in order to advance right-wing policy!
How my World Cup group stage guess went / My guess for the updated knockout bracket as it stands
*me getting ready to show a French speaking person BLUE STREAK for the first time* bonjour, are you ready for the
A classic thing you see in bad conversion stories: "Because this old incredibly stupid belief of mine was disproven, I gave credence to the thing/person doing the disproving."
One of my favorite types of sentence in a critical review: a cleanly constructed sentence that, by simply stating facts, illustrates a core flaw of its subject.
This bozo level argument is a natural outgrowth of capitalism, in that it reveals someone who has come to see art only as an end product, and not an act of human/cultural expression.
Just recorded a pod with @jessehawken.bsky.social about SOUTHLAND TALES, just after Trump's UFC birthday at the White House (insanely SOUTHLAND-coded), and today Nancy Mace put this out. Richard Kelly truly saw it all.
Had the good fortune to see a great performance of this play here in ATL tonight. Even more than THE FLICK, this to me is Annie Baker’s best work for the stage.
This, from @profspur.bsky.social, best articulates the class reality of Premier League teams. In either world - PSR or no PSR - this is the case. The question is: does PSR help balance the situation for the non-aristocrats? I'd say it does. profspur.substack.com/p/why-spurs-...
Another thing SOUTHLAND TALES predicted: theologically starved Evangelicals hoping for global war because they believe it wil usher in the Rapture.
A memorable exchange from the script version of the (undeveloped) SOUTHLAND TALES prequel trilogy film
Job market so bad that you literally have to be Cate Blanchett to get even just a VISTING gig!!
The thing I don't understand with so many of these Business Mindset guys is... like, they get the concept of "scale," right? Not EVERYONE can start a business. It's straight up unsustainable as a market proposition. I get that this is just Protestant-coded chiding but still.