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As a Cincinnati resident who walked into this movie totally blind (based on my enjoyment of Lanthimos' previous films, I decided to avoid reading *anything* about this one ahead of time) while also being fully unaware that it had been filmed here, this movie was a real trip. Because several significant scenes were shot in downtown locations near my work, including places I typically visited or at least walked past a few times a week, over the course of the film I started to wonder if I was experiencing a random paranoid schizophrenic episode.

“There is no rebellion. There’s only me earning a paycheck.” — The Songwriter, Under the Silver Lake This has been a rough few years for Occam’s razor, the problem-solving principle that argues for shaving off unlikely explanations when trying to reach a conclusion. We live in an age where a conspiracist could be elected president, buoyed by a phony public crusade to delegitimize his predecessor—a time when a D.C. pizzeria was the suspected site of a child sex ring, when QAnon followersawait the coming of John F.

“There is no such thing as disunity. There is only the great binding nothingness of things.” — Stephen Root, The Empty Man In Alan J. Pakula’s 1974 political thriller The Parallax View, Warren Beatty stars as Joe Frady, an investigative reporter who pokes into the assassination of a congressional candidate atop Seattle’s Space Needle. His ex-girlfriend, a TV journalist, had witnessed the killing and comes to him in a panic three years later, because six other witnesses have since died under mysterious circumstances.

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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Dir. Adam Wingard 115 min. There are so many Godzilla movies being produced right now that the titles themselves have started doing the math, though it’s hard to say whether Godzilla Minus One plus Godzilla x Kong equals more than a lot of monster fights. Still, more than a little franchise fatigue has started to sink in with the Hollywood “MonsterVerse” pictures, even though iconic beasts with 38 (Godzilla) and 13 (King Kong) films made about them over the decades have proved their longevity.

Next Wednesday, October 11, the amazing people at The New Republic are hosting “The Stop Trump Summit” at The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street in New York City. Per TNR: “The New Republic is hosting one of the most exciting and important events of the season: The Stop Trump Summit. With Donald polling at the top of the Republican field, and the danger of a catastrophic second term looming on the horizon, we are gathering some top thinkers and commentators in politics for a day of urgent conversations.

I probably pay too much attention to how San Francisco is portrayed in the national media. The constant attacks on San Francisco and the description of it as some kind of crime ridden dystopia from Fox News and other right wing propaganda outlets no longer bother me. I have come to expect that from the far right. However, when more reality based major national media outlets cover San Francisco I pay a little bit more attention.

This is a special post, stepping away from my normal housing policy and research issues, to give a personal account of the opposition to the proposed accommodation centre for International Protection Applicants in Trudder House, Newtownmountkennedy. I want to emphasise that what follow is not based on any academic research. I am also not a journalist, and none of the below has been fact checked. This is just my impressions of what has been going on, with the sole purpose of informing people who might be trying to get their heads around this new turn in Irish politics.

welcome to another week of playful sensemaking from the unrandom, the nexialist hello, you! i hope this e-mail finds you chill. this week i’ll keep the intro short, as you’ll see a bunch of reports, some great new music, the power of play and games (and love), some content about community and futures thinking (all the stuff i love). it’s the usual, except not exactly (?). enjoy and don’t forget to share the love 🫀