UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Dr. Vaughn Joy
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The violent race riots in Belfast are exactly what Trump, JD Vance, and Fox News were trying to make happen to Haitians in Ohio during the campaign and what they wanted to happen to Somalis in Minneapolis as well
Please Use AI
As I have learned this week, some like it hot, so you guys can't be mad at me for talking about how fucked up Some Like it Hot (1959) is.
But it's a fascinating film that can profess a moral philosophy while also utterly refusing to live up to it, in this case, that good people aren't bad men.
This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame
This review of Some Like it Hot was really inspired by this post from Marisa Kabas that has been rattling around in my head for days:
Get the boomers in your life away from genAI - entirely.
Incidentally no one should be using energy-hogging tech unless they are solving climate catastrophe, pandemic modelling or similar. The roots of human suffering today aren't a lack of "AI" or bullshit devices.
As I have learned this week, some like it hot, so you guys can't be mad at me for talking about how fucked up Some Like it Hot (1959) is.
But it's a fascinating film that can profess a moral philosophy while also utterly refusing to live up to it, in this case, that good people aren't bad men.
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
Planning ahead for public scholarship? Some upcoming anniversaries & observances:
July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
60th of Medicare’s operation – Jul 1
200th of Adams and Jefferson deaths – Jul 4
80th of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock – Jul 14
Pitching, creating, and publishing public scholarship can all happen rapidly or take months, so it's always a good idea to plan ahead where possible! Obviously things come up on the daily now that lau...
"My therapist would be proud of this decision" is the gold star sticker of adulthood
Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."
