Jason Mittell

@jmittell.bsky.social

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Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell

Jeep with large sticker in cursive reading Fuck Ice
The Beths in concert at Higher Ground in Burlington VT
We Are Lady Parts band
"You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, YOU'RE the asshole." - Raylan Givens, JUSTIFIED
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Chris Pratt on PARKS & RECREATION, starring in the Johnny Karate Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show
The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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Poster for WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Poster of the film 9 TO 5
"Optima FTW!" written in the font Optima
Storefront in Palma, Spain, with a picture of an older woman in leather pointing at "Black Month -60%"
Triple-necked 19th century mandolin found in the Museum of Musical Instruments in Castello Sforzesco, Milano
Street sign reading Dickhardtstraße
Caption: “Coffee Mugs, Shoes, Toilets & Shadows: The Object-Oriented Online Aesthetics of Frank Kelleter’s Photography” Slide with pictures of an empty coffee mug, legs/shoes of three people, a toilet, and a shadowy image.
Grave of Pierre and Marie Claire Bourdieu at the Cemetery Père-Lachaise in Paris
Window sign for Crispin Glover Record Shop
Lucy Dacus on stage
Family Circus meme, where mother asks kid "Are You in the Epstein Files?" and he replies "Not Me!"
Jimmy McNulty from THE WIRE, telling his kids "Remember that spy game? Front and follow, kids."
Paragraph reading: "Ohio State said it will offer new general education courses and help faculty adapt existing courses to incorporate AI. The university will now require students to take an AI skills seminar, and it will incorporate workshops into existing framework like the First Year Seminar program. The seminars are optional one-credit courses tailored to first-year students in specialized subjects like Fantasy Worldbuilding in Television, Know Your Recreational Drugs and soon, AI."
Web screenshot reading: The Rehearsal The Rehearsal is a gripping drama series that delves into the intricacies of the theater world. Set against the backdrop of a prestigious acting school, the show follows a group of ambitious students as they navigate the challenges of honing their craft. With its compelling characters and intense storylines, The Rehearsal explores themes of ambition, sacrifice, and the pursuit of excellence in the performing arts. Audiences will be captivated by the raw emotion and fierce competition showcased in each episode of this gripping drama. Cast of The Rehearsal Nathan Fielder Self 6 eps. Full The Rehearsal cast...
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Richard Dreyfuss and Terri Garr in Close Encounters
Issue of THE ONION with the headline DOJ REMOVES ALL MENTIONS OF JUSTICE FROM WEBSITE. Subhead: Online Content Promoting Justice, Impartiality Undergoes Total Purge
NYT Spelling Bee for 4/23/25 showing LUDIC as not in word list for UDILECT letters
The [Bush] aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” – Ron Suskind in New York Times, 2004
Opinion - David Brooks Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime
Greenland has mythic significance for the race pseudoscientists surrounding Musk, Vance, and Junior, who are enamored of what 20th-century Italian fascist Julius Evola called “fabulous Hyperborea” — Arctic regions that are supposedly the primordial homeland of a divine race of white-philosopher priests. It is highly unlikely Junior is unaware of the connection. Bronze Age Pervert, for example, has been open about his hope to “rebreed the original Aryan race” in the Arctic, and the white nationalists in his circle have been known to post maps of an American empire that, like Hitler’s lebensraum, show the incorporation of all the “white” nations — Russia, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, and even South Africa — into a single unit. The fantasy of a white nationalist beachhead in Greenland is something an Xbox sword-wielding hero homunculus would dream up — the essence of tech-bro fascism, if you think about it. Greenland has become so central to the MAGA imaginarium that Vance is sending his wife Usha there later this week.
Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
IMDB credit of Bryan Cranston playing Griffin Mill
M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the author of 11 books, including “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” which won the National Book Award in 2017. Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) became a New York Times Opinion columnist in 2022. She is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, the author of “Thick: And Other Essays” and a 2020 MacArthur fellow. @tressiemcphd Bret Stephens is an Opinion columnist for The Times, writing about foreign policy, domestic politics and cultural issues. Facebook
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Boarded up theater with Yahoo Serious Festival on marquee, from The Simpsons
Trump yelling at kid mowing the lawn
Merriam-Webster screenshot: Obstruse Definition & Meaning: The meaning of OBSTRUSE is abstruse.
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SORRY TO BOTHER YOU movie poster
Film posters for This is Spinal Tap, Real Life, Truman Show, David Holzman's Diary, The Show About the Show, The Mask, The Blair Witch Project, Curse of the Blair Witch, Bob Roberts, Punishment Park, CSA: Confederate States of America, F for Fake, Close-up, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, and Stories We Tell
The [Bush] aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” – Ron Suskind in New York Times, 2004
The Beths at Higher Ground in Vermont thisSeptember
Walter White: "I blame the government"
Dave Foley as post-apocalyptic radio DJ
In a standoff, Ray shoots Cooper's doppelgänger. Woodsmen tear at his body, revealing an orb with BOB's face. Ray flees and informs Jeffries that the doppelgänger may have survived. The doppelgänger awakens. In a flashback to 1945 New Mexico, the first atomic bomb is detonated, Woodsmen occupy a convenience store and the Experiment spews smoke containing an orb bearing BOB's face. In the building above the purple sea, the Fireman observes these events and levitates, emanating a golden mist and an orb containing Laura Palmer's face. His companion, Señorita Dido, sends the orb to Earth. In 1956 New Mexico, a woodsman descends to the ground, enters a radio station and repeatedly broadcasts a mysterious message, rendering listeners unconscious. A bug/frog-like creature hatches from an egg, enters an unconscious girl's room and climbs down her throat.
Lake Street Dive at Shelburne Museum
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #180,094!
The Beths at Higher Ground in Burlington Vermont
More like BAT OUT OF HELL -> Daytime Friends - The Very Best of Kenny Rogers
Kent Brockman, newscasting with a sign reading "Hail Ants"
And in fact, Walz had been on the radar of the Biden-Harris team for a year. Not many Democratic leaders had braved the Iowa State Fair last August, when a primary battle was raging between Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans, all of them aiming harsh rhetoric at each other — and at Democrats. But Walz showed up, at the request of the Biden campaign. And the Minnesota governor made a surprising splash at the fair, chomping a pork chop on a stick, talking up the administration’s accomplishments, teasing that his state’s fair was superior and generally needling Republicans.
Congressman Furlong and his aide Will from VEEP
Still from THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
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