Do By Friday

The Pitiless World

LINKS * Oscar the Grouch's cousin, Herkimer Monster [https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Herkimer_Grouch] * Battle of Oriskany [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Oriskany] * The Rest Is Entertainment [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFQzde6zng&list=PLlXvi8VrhiOHkON7TjoKuGTCwccvJYEmk&index=1] * Graham Norton Show [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graham_Norton_Show] * The Claudia Winkleman Show – Trailer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMVV7jL0Hv0] * QI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QI] * 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Out_of_10_Cats_Does_Countdown] * Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oul9nDB06yQ] * SNL March 7th hosted by Ryan Gosling [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VbvUxj-hw&list=PLS_gQd8UB-hJMC2lFNtYBvzvQkeU_h4dy] * Washington's Dream - SNL [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk] * Mikey Day on Heidi Gardner Breaking During Beavis and Butt-Head Sketch with Ryan Gosling - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVPHUU56zxs] * Bill Hader Skipped 'SNL50' Because Anxiety, Had Migraines, Vision Loss [https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bill-hader-skipped-snl50-anxiety-migraines-vision-loss-1236480549/] * Inside SNL's Iconic Studio 8H [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNbvSWjz4Sc&t=18s] * Tom Shales — Live from New York [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84178.Live_from_New_York] * Chris Fleming: HELL - Trailer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-C8Icj-ew] * ⁨Chris Fleming: Live at the Palace⁩ [https://play.hbomax.com/movie/bd06a15f-cfa8-462e-bb19-7e5669665c8a] * LUDO'S Broken Bride: A Rock Opera [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXd0WeBfKNU] * Werner Herzog [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog] * Grizzly Man (2005) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Man] * Fitzcarraldo (1982) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo] * Burden of Dreams (1982) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_Dreams] * Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguirre,_the_Wrath_of_God] * Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Forgotten_Dreams] * Into the Abyss (2011) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Abyss_(film)] * My Best Fiend (1999) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Best_Fiend] * Klaus Kinski [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Kinski] * Radical Dreamer (2023) [https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/werner-herzog-radical-dreamer/umc.cmc.4cqqha4impnyo5cyj5s0106bw] * Free Solo (2018) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Solo] * Like Stories of Old — "The Inner Chronicle of What We Are" (YouTube) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1W5wAGzCpU] * Like Stories of Old — "When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie" (YouTube) [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stories+of+old+werner+herzog+two+filmmakers] * The Outsiders — S.E. Hinton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(novel)] * The Westing Game — Ellen Raskin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Westing_Game] * Stargirl — Jerry Spinelli [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargirl_(novel)] * ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy] * How To Ban Conversion Therapy [https://nebula.tv/videos/philosophytube-how-to-ban-conversion-therapy] * Pavlok wristband [https://pavlok.com/] * Shiatsu [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiatsu] * Lactic acid [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactic_acid] * Wake Out app [https://wakeout.app/] * Apple Fitness+ [https://www.apple.com/apple-fitness-plus/]

Bonus Dog

LINKS * Knot (unit) - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_(unit)] * Matthew Walker knot - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Walker_knot] * Knotter Notes - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@KnotterNotes] * New molecular knot is most complex yet - Science News [https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-molecular-knot-most-complex-yet] * NAUGHT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/naught] * Pizza Hut Take Fans on a Trip to the Past - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/dining/pizza-hut.html] * Blondie - Dreaming - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU3-lS_Gryk] * Last One Laughing UK Season 2 | Official Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsEWNVZk4xY] * Alan Carr and Bob Mortimer stand out in Last One Laughing season 2's hilarious brand-new trailer - Digital Spy [https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a70607016/last-one-laughing-season-2-trailer/] * 8 Out of 10 Cats - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@8outof10catsOfficial] * Epstein island Pokémon Go stop removed after fan outrage - Polygon [https://www.polygon.com/epstein-files-pokemon-go-stop-little-saint-james-sundial-where-is/] * Chonk - SNL - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRGKSwsD7ac] * The art of misdirection | Apollo Robbins | TED - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZGY0wPAnus] * A Chorus Line (1985) - Dance: Ten, Looks: Three Scene (4/8) | Movieclips - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsFZDrRvoM] * CARROT Weather for iOS and Android [https://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/] * The Body Keeps the Score a book by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. - Bookshop.org US [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-body-keeps-the-score-brain-mind-and-body-in-the-healing-of-trauma-bessel-van-der-kolk-m-d/9e63236863805513] * Buddhism Is Not What You Think a book by Steve Hagen - Bookshop.org US [https://bookshop.org/p/books/buddhism-is-not-what-you-think-finding-freedom-beyond-beliefs-steve-hagen/5934180bdf115742] * Opinion | This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-van-der-kolk.html] * What Went Wrong Podcast | The Behind-the-Scenes Drama Behind Your Favorite Films [https://www.whatwentwrongpod.com/] * A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV series) - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Knight_of_the_Seven_Kingdoms_(TV_series)] * How To Ban Conversion Therapy | Philosophy Tube - Nebula [https://nebula.tv/videos/philosophytube-how-to-ban-conversion-therapy] * Philosophy Tube - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@PhilosophyTube/videos]

Not the Horse's Problem

LINKS * NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2K9ccMREOI] * Final Results | 2025 Sanrio character ranking Official Website [https://www.sanrio.co.jp/special/characterranking/2025/en/] * Badtz-Maru | Hello Kitty Wiki | Fandom [https://hellokitty.fandom.com/wiki/Badtz-Maru] * Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview - BBC News [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtBS8COhhhM] * Scoop (2024 film) - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_%5C(2024_film%5C)] * Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2025) Official Trailer - Uma Thurman [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SzkFgEqB6Y] * South Devon Pike Adventure | Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer | Gone Fishing 605 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E6gmYgSLqM] * "The Pokémon Company Group Reveals 2026 Pokémon Day Plans, Including Pokémon Presents Video Presentation Celebrating 30 Years of the Brand" - The Pokémon Company North America Official Press Site [https://press.pokemon.com/en/releases/The-Pokemon-Company-Group-Reveals-2026-Pokemon-Day-Plans-Including-Pok] * “I've missed an old website of mine, so it will be back soon.” - Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/hotdogsladies.bsky.social/post/3mfl45hqzks2u] * Disney's Living Characters: A Broken Promise [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIgV84fudM&t=13977s] * Seven Dwarfs Costumes Through the Years | Disney Wiki | Fandom [https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_Dwarfs_Costumes_Through_the_Years] * David Naughton - Makin' It - 1978 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln7HrIJw__I] * Dr. Pepper - "I'm a Pepper" TV Commercial 70's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvCTaccEkMI] * MASH - The Last Supper (1970) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRHN5vxnZrI] * The Greatest American Hero Theme Song | 1981 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtwP92sQ-a8] * Moist and Worried - Corner of the Sky #25 - The Incomparable [https://www.theincomparable.com/cots/25/] * Homes & YoYo (1976) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-VYg4w64k4] * Master and Commander - Russell Crowe observes a walking stick. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE_HkfoXzv8] * Kākāpō - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81k%C4%81p%C5%8D] * Kakapo: Flightless Parrot | Benedict Cumberbatch | BBC Earth [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3a88_SjJR0] * Kea - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kea] * Parrot Bites Off Car Antenna [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ySekeNGiw] * New Zealand's Meat Eating Parrot [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VySjAxjvZsw]

Enthusiastic Horse

LINKS * Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It Official Trailer - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFWU_475o0c] * The Paragons - "The Tide Is High" - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc] * Blondie - The Tide Is High - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAb8Q9X2xAc] * The Number Ones: Blondie's "The Tide Is High" (Stereogum) [https://stereogum.com/2081226/the-number-ones-blondies-the-tide-is-high/columns/the-number-ones] * I've Never Seen A USB-C Charger This Good! - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jAeEPHvDyA] * It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Chirping - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zoQfqPnMA8] * Off Menu_ podcast - Lucia Keskin [https://www.offmenupodcast.co.uk] * Linksys WRT54G: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source (Tedium) [https://tedium.co/2021/01/13/linksys-wrt54g-router-history/] * Aldus Pagemaker - The Interface Experience: Bard Graduate Center [https://interface-experience.org/objects/aldus-pagemaker/] * Desktop Publishing: The PageMaker Revolution (Computer History Museum)https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/306 [https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/306] * Butterick's Practical Typography [https://practicaltypography.com/] * Library of Congress Classification - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification] * MLA Style Center [https://style.mla.org/] * The Chicago Manual of Style [https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org] * The Remarkable Story of Roget's Thesaurus (Merriam-Webster) [https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/rogets-thesaurus] * Guardian style guide: A | Information | The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-style-guide-a] * David Remnick [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Remnick] * David Remnick once suggested 'reconsidering' New Yorker's diaeresis! - The Washington Post [https://archive.is/P6xTc] * Eustace Tilley [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_Tilley] * The True History of Eustace Tilley (The Comics Journal) [https://www.tcj.com/the-true-history-of-eustace-tilley/] * The Elements of Style, by William Strunk--A Project Gutenberg eBook [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37134/37134-h/37134-h.htm] * The Elements of Style PDF [https://www.jlakes.org/ch/web/The-elements-of-style.pdf]

Theymaphrodite

LINKS * Marty Supreme | Official Trailer (A24) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9gSuKaKcqM] Josh Safdie's new film about a ping-pong hustler, starring Timothée Chalamet. * How A24 Created a Viral Marty Supreme Spectacle (Vogue) [https://www.voguehk.com/en/article/art-lifestyle/a24-marty-supreme-marketing-strategies/] The jacket drops, the Balenciaga collab, and the marketing machine behind the film. * Orlando (1992, Sally Potter) [https://sallypotter.com/film/1198/Orlando] Tilda Swinton as Virginia Woolf's time-traveling, gender-shifting nobleman — this week's mini-challenge. * Watch Orlando free on Tubi [https://tubitv.com/movies/674755/orlando] Go watch it. It's right here. * Quentin Crisp [https://crisperanto.org/] Plays Queen Elizabeth I in Orlando; Merlin imprinted on that image. * Tony Zhou, "Edgar Wright: How to Do Visual Comedy" (Every Frame a Painting) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag] The video essay that made everyone realize Wright is doing something nobody else does. * The Wicker Man (1973) [https://www.rialtopictures.com/catalogue/the-wicker-man] The original folk horror — the thread connecting Hot Fuzz, Midsommar, and The Witch. * Off Menu podcast [https://www.offmenupodcast.co.uk] Florence Pugh's episode, in which she reveals she does not drink water. * Off Menu — Lucia Keskin (Chi With a C) [https://shows.acast.com/offmenu/episodes/lucia-keskin] 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) [https://ca.news.yahoo.com/crown-star-reveals-truly-disgusting-161613980.html] The truly disgusting reason she no longer drinks caffeine. * Man throws shoes at Bush [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFH7C3vkK4] They all throw their shoes. * Sarrasine — Balzac (Project Gutenberg) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1826] The Balzac novella about a sculptor who falls in love with a castrato — the text Barthes famously dismantled. * S/Z — Roland Barthes [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374521677/sz/] 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) [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo3629888.html] 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) [https://selforganizedseminar.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/butler-gender_trouble.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) [https://bookshop.org/p/books/who-s-afraid-of-gender-judith-butler/19d09bc97a55a6d0?ean=9781250371911&next=t] 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 [https://merlin.ghost.io/a-question-and-three-answers/] Three perspectives on one question about being trans in America. * Claude Code (Anthropic) [https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code] Alex is getting into it and making $200; Merlin's teaching his to not watch Tommy read the paper. * Good Time (A24) [https://a24films.com/films/good-time] The Safdie Brothers' sweaty Robert Pattinson thriller — context for understanding what Safdie does. * Uncut Gems (A24) [https://a24films.com/films/uncut-gems] Adam Sandler in a diamond district panic attack — the other essential Safdie before Marty Supreme. * The Curse (Paramount+) [https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-curse/] Safdie and Nathan Fielder's deeply uncomfortable TV series. * Ricky Jay [https://rickyjay.com/] Magician, card sharp, actor, historian of the unusual — referenced during the shoe-throwing bit. * Baby Driver — Opening Titles / Coffee Run (feat. "Harlem Shuffle") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYv2a_VF328] The scene that is its own argument. Edgar Wright syncing every footstep, every door, every beat. * Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, "Bellbottoms" [https://shoverecords.bandcamp.com/track/bellbottoms-2] The song that opens Baby Driver and never lets go. * Ayoade on Top — Richard Ayoade (Bookshop.org) [https://bookshop.org/p/books/ayoade-on-top-richard-ayoade/57a797b4c528c85e?ean=9780571339143&next=t] 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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0BWXXM8Q9o&t=100s] 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) [https://shop.a24films.com/products/can-i-ask-you-a-question-by-jennifer-venditti] 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 [https://tubitv.com/movies/583900/billy-the-kid] The documentary that led to her casting work with the Safdies. * Defunctland, "Journey to EPCOT Center: A Symphonic History" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBB_QeKhcM] A feature-length orchestral documentary about EPCOT Center that has no business being this good. * Defunctland, "Disney's Animatronics: A Living History" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNca1L6CUk] Bonus Defunctland for the curious. [https://bucket.contiguous.me/images/dbf/fatyeh-orange.jpg]