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• Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It Official Trailer - YouTube
• The Paragons - "The Tide Is High" - YouTube
• Blondie - The Tide Is High - YouTube
• The Number Ones: Blondie's "The Tide Is High" (Stereogum)
• I've Never Seen A USB-C Charger This Good! - YouTube
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Chirping - YouTube
• Off Menu_ podcast - Lucia Keskin
• Linksys WRT54G: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source (Tedium)
• Aldus Pagemaker - The Interface Experience: Bard Graduate Center
• Desktop Publishing: The PageMaker Revolution (Computer History Museum)https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/306
• Butterick's Practical Typography
• Library of Congress Classification - Wikipedia
• MLA Style Center
• The Chicago Manual of Style
• The Remarkable Story of Roget's Thesaurus (Merriam-Webster)
• Guardian style guide: A | Information | The Guardian
• David Remnick
• David Remnick once suggested 'reconsidering' New Yorker's diaeresis! - The Washington Post
• Eustace Tilley
• The True History of Eustace Tilley (The Comics Journal)
• The Elements of Style, by William Strunk--A Project Gutenberg eBook
• The Elements of Style PDF

• Marty Supreme | Official Trailer (A24)
  Josh Safdie's new film about a ping-pong hustler, starring Timothée Chalamet.
• How A24 Created a Viral Marty Supreme Spectacle (Vogue)
  The jacket drops, the Balenciaga collab, and the marketing machine behind the film.
• Orlando (1992, Sally Potter)
  Tilda Swinton as Virginia Woolf's time-traveling, gender-shifting nobleman — this week's mini-challenge.
• Watch Orlando free on Tubi
  Go watch it. It's right here.
• Quentin Crisp
  Plays Queen Elizabeth I in Orlando; Merlin imprinted on that image.
• Tony Zhou, "Edgar Wright: How to Do Visual Comedy" (Every Frame a Painting)
  The video essay that made everyone realize Wright is doing something nobody else does.
• The Wicker Man (1973)
  The original folk horror — the thread connecting Hot Fuzz, Midsommar, and The Witch.
• Off Menu podcast
  Florence Pugh's episode, in which she reveals she does not drink water.
• Off Menu — Lucia Keskin (Chi With a C)
  BAFTA-winning comedian, discussed in the member show. "The quietest guest we've ever had."
• Claire Foy had intestinal worms from filming The Crown (Yahoo News)
  The truly disgusting reason she no longer drinks caffeine.
• Man throws shoes at Bush
  They all throw their shoes.
• Sarrasine — Balzac (Project Gutenberg)
  The Balzac novella about a sculptor who falls in love with a castrato — the text Barthes famously dismantled.
• S/Z — Roland Barthes
  Barthes's semiotic disassembly of Sarrasine — Merlin's "oh fuck you, you should read Sarrasine" recommendation.
• Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach — Kessler & McKenna (U of Chicago Press)
  The book that changed Merlin's life in a 1988 Gender Studies class: what if there weren't just two genders?
• Gender Trouble — Judith Butler (PDF)
  The definitive text — Alex's rec that Merlin bought a beautiful copy of and still hasn't read. Here's a free one.
• Who's Afraid of Gender? — Judith Butler (Bookshop.org)
  Butler's newest book — the one Alex was actually talking about. Why are we weird about gender again?
• "A Question and Three Answers" — Merlin Mann
  Three perspectives on one question about being trans in America.
• Claude Code (Anthropic)
  Alex is getting into it and making $200; Merlin's teaching his to not watch Tommy read the paper.
• Good Time (A24)
  The Safdie Brothers' sweaty Robert Pattinson thriller — context for understanding what Safdie does.
• Uncut Gems (A24)
  Adam Sandler in a diamond district panic attack — the other essential Safdie before Marty Supreme.
• The Curse (Paramount+)
  Safdie and Nathan Fielder's deeply uncomfortable TV series.
• Ricky Jay
  Magician, card sharp, actor, historian of the unusual — referenced during the shoe-throwing bit.
• Baby Driver — Opening Titles / Coffee Run (feat. "Harlem Shuffle")
  The scene that is its own argument. Edgar Wright syncing every footstep, every door, every beat.
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, "Bellbottoms"
  The song that opens Baby Driver and never lets go.
• Ayoade on Top — Richard Ayoade (Bookshop.org)
  Ayoade wrote an entire book about the Gwyneth Paltrow movie View from the Top. It's called Ayoade on Top. Of course it is.
• Olivia Colman is hooked on Ayoade's book premise | Graham Norton
  The specific clip — Ayoade explaining View from the Top to a delighted Olivia Colman. Truly one of the great things.
• Can I Ask You a Question? by Jennifer Venditti (A24 Shop)
  Venditti's casting book — the woman who found the faces for Good Time, Uncut Gems, and Marty Supreme.
• Billy the Kid (2007, Jennifer Venditti) — watch free on Tubi
  The documentary that led to her casting work with the Safdies.
• Defunctland, "Journey to EPCOT Center: A Symphonic History"
  A feature-length orchestral documentary about EPCOT Center that has no business being this good.
• Defunctland, "Disney's Animatronics: A Living History"
  Bonus Defunctland for the curious.

• Patton Oswalt - KFC Famous Bowls - YouTube
• Reconcilable Differences #279: I Promised Myself I Wasn't Going to Be Excited - Relay
• Jeremy Renner Official - Wikipedia
• The Rock Diet - What Dwayne Johnson Eats in a Day
• Series 7, Episode 7 - 'The perfect stuff' | Full Episode | Taskmaster - YouTube
• Don't Blink! | Blink | Doctor Who - YouTube
• Blink (Doctor Who) - Wikipedia
• "The Stallone Tangent" - Episode #133 - The Flop House Podcast - YouTube
• I Fifteen Love You | Do By Friday
• DBF Episode 62: I Fifteen Love You : r/DoByFriday
• Merlin Mann’s Taskmaster Starter Episodes - YouTube
• Prompt 3
• iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement
• Drafts MCP Server for Claude/AI Integration - News & Updates - Drafts Community
• Claw: macOS app for Claude Code
• Synology
• CleanShot
• MacWhisper
• Nora’s Wu-Tang Tattoo on The Leftovers: The Story Behind It
• Chappelle's Show - Wu-Tang Financial (ft. RZA and GZA) - Uncensored - YouTube
• Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance (Official Music Video) - YouTube
• Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character, by Kay Redfield Jamison (Alfred A. Knopf) - The Pulitzer Prizes
• Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire a book by Kay Redfield Jamison - Bookshop.org US
• U.S. Citizens Testify Against ICE Agents in Minneapolis - YouTube
• Renee Good’s Brothers Give Emotional Testimony on DHS Tactics - YouTube
• Tubi - "Orlando" (1993)

Next week's challenge: watch Orlando (1993)

• The Nutty Professor (1963)
  Jerry Lewis as Professor Kelp / Buddy Love
• Hank Azaria on Professor Frink
  Based him on Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor
• Tropic Thunder
  Simple Jack; "you went full [redacted]"
• Be Kind Rewind
  Video essays on women in film history
• Stewart Lee
  British comedian; Paul Nuttall of UKIP
• Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
  BBC Two series (2009-2016)
• Tailscale
  Mesh VPN; part of the Iron Troika
• Amphetamine
  macOS app to prevent sleep
• AutoMounter
  Keeps network shares mounted
• Synology
  NAS; Merlin's home server setup
• TP-Link Archer AX55
  The router
• NextDNS
  DNS with ad blocking; Iron Troika member
• Cloudflare
  Third member of the Iron Troika
• DynDNS
  Dynamic DNS; the old way
• Let's Encrypt
  Free SSL certificates
• Passkeys
  Passwordless authentication
• Hide My Email
  Apple's email aliasing
• Linda Stone
  Coined "email apnea" and "continuous partial attention"
• "Are You Breathing? Do You Have Email Apnea?"
  Linda Stone's original article
• Claude Code as elevator music
  Matt Webb on the contemplative rhythm of working with Claude Code
• J. Edgar Hoover
  FBI director; Clyde Tolson
• Cary Grant & Randolph Scott
  Lived together; "Riding the Trails Alone"
• The Carter Family
  First family of country music
• Cowboy Carter
  Beyoncé's country album
• Country Music (Ken Burns)
  2019 documentary series
• Trypophobia
  Lotus seed pods; a clown situation
• Pansy Division
  Queercore band; pun on Panzer Division
• Reformation Iconoclasm
  Defacing religious art