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Life and death at Balthazar

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Fred Social 

Bring the beat in. 

on Fred again, a Berlinale mini-dispatch, and AI DJs.  


Fred again 

Fred again (explained)

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An interview with co-founder Lance Priebe.

interviews the co-founder of Club Penguin.

Club Penguin

Untitled design (94)

An announcement from Dirt’s co-founder Kyle Chayka, who launched the publication in December 2020. 

Untitled (2000 × 2000 px) (11)

Goodbye from Kyle! 

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Napoleon Dynamite, the ultimate food porn film.

looks back on the surprising, touching use of (kind of revolting) food in Napoleon Dynamite.

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Tina, eat the food

Naveen Andrews and Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout

An FTX tv show looms.

on FTX, Silicon Valley scammers, and the ascension of "content" as our highest cultural value.

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The grifter content mill

We are all Theodore from Her. (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Some choice words from Sydney.

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AI gone wild

Titanic

A timeless shipwreck fantasy. 

 on watching Titanic 3D in theaters, Tubi, and some fashion news.


Titanic in 3D

Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett in Carol

Innocence, fertility, and fragility in queer cinema.

on recurring motifs—vomit, eggs—in queer movies, in a piece originally published in issue 11 of The Fence Magazine.

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The female gays

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