Films, Music, Philosophy/Literature. Mostly Hockey and Nietzsche. -~- Letterboxd: https://xitter.cf/t.co/90g6mGcSxU
Joined January 2014
- Tweets97.5K
- Following913
- Followers2.1K
- Likes50K
Pinned Tweet
New Blog Post!
Nietzsche and Callicles, A Reappraisal of the Influence Claim
romtable.wordpress.com/2023/…
Skill issue
OK, I'll bite. If John Cassavetes is so insanely influential and brilliant, why have I not heard about him until recently?
I've been on a side-quest with classic and esoteric movies, mostly through the Criterion collection. I've watched dozens of Criterion closet picks from filmmakers and actors I admire.
They pick Cassavetes films ALL THE TIME. Probably more than any other director except Scorsese. I haven't seen a single Cassavetes film. I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about a Cassavetes film outside of those videos.
I'm not a slouch on film, I've got a pretty wide spread on what I've seen & what I appreciate. How has Cassavetes slipped through that net so completely for so long?
Romulus' Apotheosis retweeted
You’re comparing apples to oranges. Don’t be a coward and put the chad on Grindr then compare his numbers to hers. Your phone will break with his notifications
🚨 DATING APP EXPERIMENT 🚨
We put 6’3” Terra Chad up against an overweight woman in NYC for 24 hours.
Terra Chad: 340 likes
Her: 677 likes
She literally DOUBLED a 6’3” attractive guy.
Read that again.
One of the biggest misconceptions in modern dating is that Chad is playing on easy mode.
He is.
But Women are playing a completely different video game…
Romulus' Apotheosis retweeted
it's sorta funny to watch companies reason this from first principles over many years when it's like...a very well-established fact of basic consumer psychology that people don't like to see new fees introduced at the end of a transaction. the Free Shipping Principle or whatever.
I think a lot of you are misunderstanding the frustration. what's annoying is paying a cleaning fee and then being asked to clean. it feels like double dipping. it may be illogical, but you'd get less complaints about "$100 fee but you don't have to do anything" versus "$50 fee + load the dishwasher"
Romulus' Apotheosis retweeted
I'm old fashioned but I don't think journalists should be telling people ("joking") to go kill themselves
real talk @BradMBradford, you ran a hell of a race. it’s prob hard to not have really dark thoughts but please know you are alone and you should give into them
"I have no visual sensibility, it turns out."
Hilarious self-realization... Not sure Sorkin is the properly self-critical type though.
Romulus' Apotheosis retweeted
If I were Brad, the message in the days/weeks to come will be that this was the dry run for 2030 when Nate Erskine-Smith and Mike Layton split the left. Brad ran a great, positive campaign for #Toronto and he almost pulled off what would’ve been a historic defeat of an incumbent.
Romulus' Apotheosis retweeted
It can’t be real. It can’t it can’t it can’t it can’t it can’t it can’t
There should be an immediate community note on anyone peddling this nonsense.
Canadian province of British Columbia just elected a Conservative government for first time in decades. Here's part of the story why, me in the @theAtlantic from 2025 theatlantic.com/internationa…
Romulus' Apotheosis retweeted
I feel like saying "Quirk Chungus" is a bit more embarrassing than being "Quirk Chungus"
I don't think this is what people think of or mean when they talk about vague posting
This quoted post is unavailable.
I think the bass tone captured in the early David Axelrod albums is pretty much perfect.
open.spotify.com/track/4nZVh…
Romulus' Apotheosis retweeted
Left-NIMBYISM is much funnier. Yeah, i'm a socialist, except in the case of housing, where I believe in zealously protecting the rights of property owners to form a cartel at the expense of the poor. Let's build some parking lots in city centers for suburbanites to park in!
