Eric Shmeric

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Film/Media/Comm/Sound MAKING STEREO FIT www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/ Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Sondheim, Philip Roth, The Dark Tower, Twin Peaks, Pale Fire, Calvino, and Taylor Swift. "The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza

Rowlf the muppet
The cover for Criterion's upcoming blu ray release of Jerzy Skolimowski's THE SHOUT
Covers for all 8 of Kundera's Czech era books
A stack of 5 Kundera books, 8 Calvino books, and 2 Radiance blu rays (Joan the Maid and Hi Mom)
Rob Lowe playing the sax in ST ELMO'S FIRE
Blu ray box design
Screenshot showing AI recognizes Eric Dienstfrey as a film scholar and historian, with data.
James Talarico Opens Up Lead Over Ken Paxton May 27, 2026 at 7:02 am EDT By Taegan Goddard A new Public Policy Polling survey in Texas finds James Talarico (D) leading Ken Paxton (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 45% to 38%.
“The ardor in her, the spirit in her—always on the move, always starting things, being boring as unbearable to her as being bored—a terrific writer, really. And an enormously appealing child. I was thinking she’s like some impassioned little sister of Kafka’s, his lost little daughter—a kinship is even there in the face. I think. Kafka’s garrets and closets, the hidden attics where they hand down the indictments, the camouflaged doors—everything he dreamed in Prague was, to her, real Amsterdam life. What he invented, she suffered. Do you remember the first sentence of The Trial? It could be the epigraph for her book. ‘Someone must have falsely traduced Anne F., because one morning without having done anything wrong, she was placed under arrest.’” Philip Roth The Ghost Writer
Streep (looking pissed) and Nicholson (smiling, holding his son) on a plane in HEARTBURN
"Then I was a man. In fact I was forty. I realized I saw the age of forty from a child's viewpoint." "I know the feeling," I said. "Forty was my father's age. All fathers were forty. I keep fighting the idea I'm fast approaching his age. As an adult I've only been two ages. Twenty-two and forty. I was twenty-two well into my thirties. Now I've begun to be forty, two years shy of the actual fact. In ten years I'll still be forty."
new cover for Nabokov's THE GIFT
The TOC for Calvino's SIX MEMOS
Weird Al in 3D
The poster for Kore-eda's After Life
Two people wearing a Taylor Swift shirt thay says "SOMETIMES FREUD IN HAND, SOMETIMES PORTNOY, SOMETIMES BOTH."
A broken telephone pole being propped up solely by telephone lines.
Still from Trouble in Paradise
Cover of the book.
A chart of Dow Jones Futures crashing
Sound Pioneer A recent invention by the Russian, Prof. Poliakoff. has revealed the fact that a patent warrant was issued to him in Germany for the recording of sound on film by an electrical process as long ago as 1899. This probably makes him the first man to have electrically recorded sound on film.
The new "retro" for Buick 8, Dr Sleep, and Cell
the monster's inc logo covering mike's face.
The original yellow cover for PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT.
Linda Richmond
Jason Alexander book "Acting without Acting"
Chris Farley driving in a car, speaking into a radio, saying "Diane, 11:30 am, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."
the spines of the books
the poster for THE FIXER
The cover for the new blu ray of HI MOM
Lifetouch is not named in the Epstein files. The documents contain no allegations that Lifetouch itself was involved in, or that student photos were used in, any illicit activities.
Screenshot from the game "The Humans"
The cover of Roth's EVERYMAN next to a quote from Swift's SOON YOU'LL GET BETTER: "You like the nicer nurses. You make the best of a bad deal."
The cover of Roth's EXIT GHOST next to a quote from Swift's RUIN THE FRIENDSHIP: "It was not an invitation. Should have kissed you anyway."
The cover of Roth's THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA next to a quote from Swift's EPIPHANY: "Just one single glimpse of relief to make some sense of what you've seen."
The cover of Roth's THE DYING ANIMAL next to a quote from Swift's WOULD'VE COULD'VE SHOULD'VE: "If I was some paint did it splatter on a promising grown man."
The cover of Roth's AMERICAN PASTORAL next to a quote from Swift's MIRRORBALL: "I can change everything about me to fit in."
The cover of Roth's SABBATH'S THEATER next to a quote from Swift's MARJORIE: "If I didn't know better, I'd think you were talking to me now."
The cover of Roth's THE FACTS next to a quote from Swift's DEAR READER: "Never take advice from someone who's falling apart."
The cover of Roth's THE COUNTERLIFE next to a quote from Swift's EXILE: "You're not my homeland anymore."
The cover of Roth's THE GHOST WRITER next to a quote from Swift's WOOD: "And the so-called friends who'll write books about me if I ever make it."
The cover of Roth's THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE next to a quote from Swift's ME!: "Troubles gonna follow where I go, and there's a lot of cool chicks out there."
The cover of Roth's MY LIFE AS A MAN next to a quote from Swift's VIGILANTE SHIT: "And she looks so pretty driving in your Benz. Lately she's been dressing for revenge."
The cover of Roth's THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL next to a quote from Swift's END GAME: "Will you call when you're back in school? I remember thinking I had you."
The cover of Roth's THE BREAST next to a quote from Swift's WOOD: "New heights of manhood."
The cover of Roth's OUR GANG next to a quote from Swift's THE SMALLEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED: "If fifty years will this all be declassified?"
The cover of Roth's PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT next to a quote from Swift's YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN: "I'm just like 'Da-am. It's 7 am.'"
The cover of Roth's WHEN SHE WAS GOOD next to a quote from Swift's MY TEARS RICOCHET: "And I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home."
The cover of Roth's LETTING GO next to a quote from Swift's CONEY ISLAND: "What's a lifetime of achievement if I pushed you to the ege but you were too polite to leave me?"
The cover of Roth's GOODBYE COLUMBUS next to a quote from Swift's AUGUST: "Will you call when you're back in school? I remember thinking I had you."
Temple leaders signaled in June that job cuts were likely as officials tried to reduce the university’s structural budget. At the time, Fry pointed to a long-term dip in enrollment, specifically a decline of 10,000 students since 2017, with much of the loss coming during the pandemic. As of fall 2023, Temple had just over 30,200 students. However, the public university just logged its highest-ever number of first-year student deposits — 6,313 — indicating a second year of growth in Temple’s first-year class on top of a projected overall enrollment increase of roughly 200 students, according to Fry’s announcement.
Cover to OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Cover for OTHER WORDS THAN THESE by Stephen King and Peter Straub
screenshot from the SNL ad for Dillon/Edwards Investments, wherein they reveal that they waited too long to choose a URL, and the only one left was www.clownpenis.fart.