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I love this movie so much.

Bill Paxton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman are my favourite actors but really they’re all great!

Twister (1996)

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Você sabia? O legado de "Twister" (1996)

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While I definitely had a crush on Helen Hunt in twister as a kid. And her fashion sense influenced mine for years to come. As an adult lesbian Wendle Josepher is so much hotter.

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Hermès campaign for their rendition of Jean-Michel Frank furniture shot at Kevin Wendle’s former Quai Anatole apartment with an interior by Joseph Dirand.

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Helen Hunt and Wendle Josepher in Twister (1996)

[1morey]

In retrospect, Haynes from Twister gives off big lesbian vibes.

[somejack]

I notice that in your Twister posts you called Dr. Haynes “Patty”. I didn’t think she was given a first name anywhere in the movie or credits and I’d actually done a post of my own discussing making up a first name for her for a fanfic because of that. Where was she called Patty?

The subtitles on Netflix a little while back called her Patty and Haynes interchangeably! Also in an interview with a bunch of the cast the actress (the wonderful Wendle Josepher) said that she played "Patty Haynes" and described the character as a grad student for Beltzer.

She's one of a few characters I decided to bring back in a reboot script that I'm writing, wherein she runs a doppler lab for the University of Oklahoma!

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THE WEEKLY PIC: Andy Warhol would have been 90 years ago today, if he hadn’t had the bad luck to die too soon.

As his biographer, I think a lot about what Warhol’s most notable, complex contribution to art might have been. (I.e., I need to be reminded of why I’ve been sacrificing a big chunk of my life to his.) On the radio today, on the Marketplace Morning Report, I suggested that his idea of “Business Art” might be the winner. As he (maybe) said, and might have meant (or not): “Making money is art, and working is art - and good business is the best art.”    

It’s easy to see this idea as a lame excuse that Warhol used for selling out: There’s no doubt that he sometimes made bad art for no reason other than to make money. But a lot of the ventures people have said were only intended as money-makers were actually anything but.

He’s been accused of deciding to manage the Velvet Underground for  commercial reasons – but if he wanted to make money off rock, why choose the most audience-unfriendly band of its era? He could certainly have found his own Monkees to sponsor.

Almost none of his films made a real profit and Interview magazine, as I’ve often been told, lost money year after year.

The only ventures that really made him rich were the ones that had least to do with making money, at least on the surface. Most of his profits came from his society portraits, which depended for their financial success on Warhol staying  within the bounds of a normal artist’s persona. His practice as a portraitist, that is, was where he had to work hardest to hide his business-art project behind an appearance of dedication to the art of the old-fashioned handmade objet.  But I think he knew perfectly well that these most art-like of objects were where he was most fully practicing “business art,” and that they had least to do with anything like serious traditional artmaking. The portraits involved complex conceptual gambits that Warhol enjoyed foisting onto  patrons who were under the misapprehension that they were buying  attractive pictures of themselves.

Only Andy Warhol could have been least sold-out at precisely the moment when he was most dedicated to selling. Or, put another way, with the society portraits his biggest profits ended up coming from his most uniquely conceptual art.

Joseph Kosuth, eat your heart out.

(Portrait of Warhol ©1965 Lawrence Fried and ©2017 Patricia Fried and Lauren Wendle, courtesy Vaughan Silk Screen Factory)

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TNWN: Rays vs Royals — a series preview

TNWN: Rays vs Royals — a series preview

His name is Joseph Patrick Wendle. Say his name! (Photo Credit: Tampa Bay Rays) After sweeping the New York Yankees in the Bronx, the Tampa Bay Rays will continue their second road trip of the season when they start a three-game set against the Royals in Kansas City on Monday. The AL Central-leading Royals took three of four from the Blue Jays this weekend past. The Rays enter Kansas City…

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Tampa Bay Rays: Y’all wanted Wendle? Well here’s Joseph Patrick Wendle!...

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Hans B. Schmidt part 4 Upon being asked if he knew the name Hans Schmidt, Fr. Braun described him as a priest who had formerly been assigned to St. Boniface's Church but had also moved to St. Joseph's. Inspector Faurot and Detectives Cassassa and O'Connell arrived at St. Joseph's Rectory at 1:30. After Faurot pounded on the door, the senior pastor, Fr. Daniel Quinn, opened the door, led them into the parlor, and awoke Fr. Schmidt. Upon being confronted by the Inspector and the Detectives, Fr. Schmidt admitted, "I killed her! I killed her because I loved her!" Fr. Schmidt then described the murder and dismemberment in detail. As his fellow priests watched in horror, Fr. Hans Schmidt was taken into police custody. Apart from killing his young, pregnant "wife," further investigation revealed that Schmidt had a second apartment where he had set up a counterfeiting workshop. Authorities also suspected Schmidt of the murder of Alma Kellner, 9, whose body was found buried in the basement of St. John's church in Louisville, Kentucky, where Schmidt had previously worked. The body had been burned, but authorities suspected the killer had initially tried to dismember her. The janitor, Joseph Wendling, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder based on circumstantial evidence and bloody clothing found at his house. A media spectacle ensued, comparable to those caused by the Scott Peterson and Mark Hackingcases of a later era, as the New York papers competed against each other with an ever greater degree of sensationalism regarding the case. After feigning insanity during his first trial, which ended with a hung jury, Schmidt was eventually convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair. On February 18, 1916, Fr. Hans Schmidt died in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison. He remains the only Roman Catholic priest to be executed for murder in the United States. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/BsiqQ7RhQgf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9tcm7usx5vnp

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American League East – Wes The Sports Guy

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American League East – Wes The Sports Guy

* – indicates new to team

+ – indicates injury

1. New York Yankees

With the addition of Stanton, the Bronx Bombers have become more formidable.

2. Boston Red Sox

There’s a nice mix of young talent and veterans to compete for at least a Wild Card spot.

3. Toronto Blue Jays

This looks to be a transition year for the Jays and a lot depends on the health of their best players.

4. Baltimore Orioles

The last hurrah for the current roster with a power driven lineup, but a suspect rotation.

5. Tampa Bay Rays

They dismantled the roster and are preparing another crop of young players for the big leagues.

Player to Watch: OF Aaron Judge New York Yankees

Best Acquisition: OF Giancarlo Stanton New York Yankees

New Kid on the Block: SS Willy Adames Tampa Bay Rays

Yankees Lineup

1. LF Brett Gardner

2. RF Aaron Judge

3. DH Giancarlo Stanton*

4. C Gary Sanchez

5. SS Didi Gregorius

6. CF Aaron Hicks

7. 1B Greg Bird+

8. 3B Brandon Drury*

9. 2B Tyler Wade

Bench

INF Ronald Torreyes

INF Neil Walker*

OF Jacoby Ellsbury

Rotation

1. Luis Severino

2. Masahiro Tanaka

3. Sonny Gray

4. CC Sabathia

5. Jordan Montgomery

Setup

Dellin Betances

Closer

Aroldis Chapman

Manager

Aaron Boone*

Red Sox Lineup

1. RF Mookie Betts

2. LF Andrew Benintendi

3. 2B Dustin Pedroia+

4. DH J.D. Martinez*

5. 1B Hanley Ramirez

6. SS Xander Bogaerts

7. 3B Rafael Devers

8. CF Jackie Bradley Jr.

9. C Christian Vazquez

Bench

INF/OF Brock Holt

INF Eduardo Nunez

1B/DH Mitch Moreland

Rotation

1. Chris Sale

2. David Price

3. Rick Porcello

4. Drew Pomeranz

5. Eduardo Rodríguez

Setup

Matt Barnes

Closer

Craig Kimbrel

Manager

Alex Cora*

Blue Jays Lineup

1. LF Curtis Granderson*

2. 2B Devon Travis

3. 3B Josh Donaldson

4. 1B Justin Smoak

5. DH Kendrys Morales

6. SS Troy Tulowitzki+

7. C Russell Martin

8. RF Randal Grichuk*

9. CF Kevin Pillar

Bench

INF Aledmys Diaz*

INF Yangervis Solarte*

OF/1B Steve Pearce

Rotation

1. J.A. Happ

2. Marcus Stroman

3. Aaron Sanchez

4. Marco Estrada

5. Jaime Garcia*

Setup

Ryan Tepera

Closer

Roberto Osuna

Manager

John Gibbons

Orioles Lineup

1. 3B Tim Beckham

2. SS Manny Machado

3. CF Adam Jones

4. 2B Jonathan Schoop

5. 1B Chris Davis

6. LF Trey Mancini

7. DH Mark Trumbo

8. RF Colby Rasmus*

9. C Caleb Joseph

Bench

OF Craig Gentry*

INF Engelb Vielma

C Chance Sisco

Rotation

1. Alex Cobb*

2. Kevin Gausman

3. Dylan Bundy

4. Andrew Cashner*

5. Chris Tillman

Setup

Mychal Givens

Closer

Brad Brach

Manager

Buck Showalter

Rays Lineup

1. LF Denard Span*

2. CF Kevin Kiermaier

3. 3B Matt Duffy

4. RF Carlos Gomez*

5. C Wilson Ramos

6. 1B C.J. Cron*

7. DH Brad Miller

8. SS Adeiny Hechavarria

9. 2B Joey Wendle*

Bench

OF Mallex Smith

INF/OF Daniel Robertson

C Jesus Sucre

Rotation

1. Chris Archer

2. Blake Snell

3. Jake Faria

4. Nathan Eovaldi

5. Matt Andriese

Setup

Sergio Romo

Closer

Alex Colome

Manager

Kevin Cash

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Orson Bean, Free-Spirited Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies at 91

Orson Bean, the free-spirited television, stage and film comedian who stepped out of his storybook life to found a progressive school, move to Australia, give away his possessions and wander around a turbulent America in the 1970s as a late-blooming hippie, died on Friday in Venice, Calif. He was 91.

His death was confirmed by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office on Saturday, which said it was investigating his death as an accidental vehicle accident. Mr. Bean was struck and killed by a car on Friday while crossing the street, Capt. Brian Wendling of the Los Angeles Police Department was quoted as telling reporters.

Early in his career, in the 1950s and ’60s, Mr. Bean, a subtle comic who looked like a naïve farm boy, was ubiquitous on TV, popping up on all the networks as an ad-libbing game-show panelist (a mainstay on “To Tell the Truth”), a frequent guest of Jack Paar and Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show,” a regular in playhouse dramas and, in 1954, the host of his own CBS variety show, “The Blue Angel.”

He also starred on Broadway and Off Broadway, made Hollywood films, founded a society of Laurel and Hardy aficionados, amassed a fortune and was blacklisted briefly as a suspected Communist.

In 1964, captivated by a progressive-education theory, he created a small school in Manhattan, the 15th Street School, that made classes and most rules optional, letting children run, scream and pretty much do as they pleased. For the remainder of the decade, Mr. Bean devoted himself to the school, paying its bills, covering its deficits and working harder and harder.

He often performed in five television panel shows a week, squeezed in nightclub acts and a Broadway show, married a second time and added more children to his growing family. But he felt overwhelmed by the trappings of success and by turmoil in a nation caught up in conflicts over the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of leaders and a political drift to the right.

“We were having babies and the money was rolling in so fast we had to push it out,” he recalled in an interview with The New York Times years later. “We had a four-story townhouse and a live-in maid. We loved it, but I was starting to freak out. I became convinced that the country was going fascist.”

Believing America’s generals were planning an imminent coup d’état, Mr. Bean abandoned his thriving career and moved his family to Australia in 1970. He became a disciple of the Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich and wrote a book about his psychosexual theories, “Me and the Orgone.” (The orgone was a pseudoscientific theory about a universal life force.)

When the book appeared in 1971, Mr. Bean returned to America with his wife and four children and for years led a nomadic life as an aging hippie and “househusband,” casting off material possessions in a quest for self-realization.

“We were so sure we didn’t want to be possessed by things and so intent on not having them that we gave away almost everything we owned,” he wrote in a 1977 Op-Ed in The Times. “We entered what I now call our late hippie stage. We tossed the kids into the van, bummed around the country, sponging on our friends and putting the kids in school wherever we happened to light.”

In his dropout years, as he recalled in a memoir, he experimented with psychedelic drugs, communal sex and other excursions into self-discovery. His peripatetic family collected driftwood and books, and at night read aloud to one another. When he had to, Mr. Bean scratched out a living by making commercials and animated film voice-overs.

By 1980, he was bored with inactivity. Moving back into the public spotlight, he reappeared in television movies, soap operas, game shows and episodic series. Over the next three decades, he took recurrent roles in “Murder, She Wrote,” “Normal, Ohio” and “Desperate Housewives.” He also appeared in many movies, including “Being John Malkovich” (1999).

While he eventually performed in some 50 television series and 30 films, he is often remembered for early panel shows, which, in contrast to the culture of greed, noise and kitsch of modern game shows, were low key, relatively witty and sophisticated.

��We were much more intelligent then,” Kitty Carlisle Hart, a frequent panelist with Mr. Bean, told The Times in 1999. “It sounds like an awful thing to say, but it’s true.”

Mr. Bean was born Dallas Frederick Burrows on July 22, 1928, in Burlington, Vt., to George and Marian Pollard Burrows. His father, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, was a Harvard campus police officer. His mother, a cousin of President Calvin Coolidge, killed herself when Mr. Bean was a teenager.

Mr. Bean graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in 1946, was drafted into the postwar Army and served with occupation forces in Japan. He was an accomplished magician, and after being discharged changed his name to Orson Bean and worked Boston nightclubs with tricks and gags that evolved into comedy routines.

He was blacklisted for attending two Communist Party meetings, but it blew over and hardly slowed his career. Nightclub work in Baltimore and Philadelphia finally landed him in New York at the Blue Angel and the Village Vanguard, where the pantheon included Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl and Woody Allen.

Fame followed him onto the Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen and Merv Griffin shows. He was on “The Tonight Show” so often that he became a vacation substitute for Mr. Paar and Mr. Carson. He appeared on “Playhouse 90,” “Studio One” and other television dramas, and starred on Broadway with Jayne Mansfield in the 1955 comedy “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?” and with Melina Mercouri in the 1967 musical “Ilya Darling.”

Mr. Bean married the actress Jacqueline de Sibour in 1956. They had a daughter, Michele, and were divorced in 1962. He and his second wife, Carolyn Maxwell, were married in 1965, had three children, Max, Susannah and Ezekiel, and were divorced in 1981. He married the actress Alley Mills in 1993, and lived for many years in Venice, Calif. His son-in-law was Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who died in 2011.

Taken with the unorthodox ideas of A.S. Neill’s Summerhill School in England, Mr. Bean, who never got beyond high school, bought a building in Chelsea in 1964, hired four teachers and opened the 15th Street School with 40 pupils in nursery, kindergarten and lower elementary grades. It taught self-reliance by making lessons and most rules optional, hoping to instill responsibility.

In 1964, Mr. Bean also helped found the Sons of the Desert, an international fraternal organization devoted to the films and lives of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Named for the duo’s 1933 movie, it has a Latin motto: “Duae tabulae rasae in quibus nihil scriptum est.” (“Two blank slates on which nothing has been written.”)

Mr. Bean wrote a memoir, “Too Much Is Not Enough” (1988), and a humorous book, “25 Ways to Cook a Mouse for a Gourmet Cat” (1994), which included recipes for Corned Mouse and Cabbage, Burritos con Raton, Mouse Bourguignon and Souris Printemps.

Elian Peltier and Yonette Joseph contributed reporting.

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Game 157: Six Games to Go

September 25, 2018 by Mike

The Yankees will start Gary Sanchez in the Wild Card Game and it is right move

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Good win last night. The Yankees beat the Rays at their own game with the bullpen and knocked them out of postseason contention in the process. That was satisfying. That doesn’t mean the Rays will lay down these next three days, of course. It doesn’t work like that. They still want to win and make life miserable for the Yankees. The magic number for homefield advantage in the Wild Card Game is four.

On the mound tonight is Luis Severino, who is potentially making his final start of the regular season. He lines up to pitch tonight and on the season’s final day. My guess is Severino will only start the final game if it’s a must-win for homefield advantage. Otherwise he’ll be held back for the Wild Card Game, even if he’s only on the roster as a reliever. If this is his final regular season start, I hope Severino dominates, and goes into the postseason confident. Here are tonight’s lineups:

New York Yankees 1. LF Andrew McCutchen 2. RF Aaron Judge 3. 1B Luke Voit 4. DH Giancarlo Stanton 5. 2B Neil Walker 6. 3B Miguel Andujar 7. C Gary Sanchez 8. SS Adeiny Hechavarria 9. CF Brett Gardner

RHP Luis Severino

Tampa Bay Rays 1. RF Mallex Smith 2. 3B Joey Wendle 3. LF Tommy Pham 4. 1B Ji-Man Choi 5. 2B Brandon Lowe 6. DH C.J. Cron 7. CF Kevin Kiermaier 8. SS Willy Adames 9. C Adam Moore

RHP Jake Faria

It is it hot, humid, and rainy in St. Petersburg today. Good day to play indoors. Tonight’s game will begin at 7:10pm ET and you can watch on YES locally and ESPN out-of-market. Enjoy the ballgame.

Injury Updates: Aaron Hicks (hamstring) went for an MRI today and it brought back good news. There’s no tear. The hamstring is still tight and Hicks is day-to-day. Best case scenario, basically. “We feel like we dodged a bullet,” said Aaron Boone … Didi Gregorius (wrist) took ground balls today without throwing. He is still receiving treatment and said he feels better than he did yesterday, when he felt better than he did Sunday. Gregorius will see the doctor for a check-up tomorrow … Gleyber Torres was scratched from tonight’s lineup with tightness in his groin/hip. He spent a few weeks on the disabled list with a hip problem earlier this year, remember. Torres was scratched as a precaution and is available off the bench.

The Yankees will start Gary Sanchez in the Wild Card Game and it is right move

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IN This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, the academic Whitney Phillips explored at close quarters the world of online trolls. She embedded herself among the natives of websites like Reddit and 4chan and studied the toxic banter that is their stock-in-trade, a blend of postmodern nihilism, overt bigotry, and “voluntary, gleeful sociopathy over the world’s current apoplectic state.” The trolls’ knack for appropriating and repurposing mainstream media tropes prompted Phillips to label them “cultural dung beetles.” At the time of the book’s publication in 2015, one could have been forgiven for thinking that its subject was a niche subculture — a marginal if disturbing societal pathology on a par with any other sort of hooliganism. Within a couple of years it had become, by some accounts, something like a political force. There is a widespread perception that the enthusiastic support of a broad constituency of trolls, online pranksters, and far-rightist cranks played a decisive role in propelling Donald Trump into the White House in the 2016 election. This assessment sat very nicely with the trolls themselves, who were all too happy to take the credit for Hillary Clinton’s defeat. In the days after Trump’s election, a triumphant post appeared on 4chan’s notorious /pol/ message board: “We did it. /pol/ saved America.”

In Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House, the BBC broadcast journalist Mike Wendling casts doubt on this take. Wendling points out that the Republicans’ share of the white vote had barely budged compared to Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful run for president in 2012. For all the hype around Trump’s unorthodox and brashly chauvinistic campaign, his electoral victory had more to do with the Democrat vote slipping away than with any right-wing surge. Moreover, it is doubtful whether the alt-right was ever a self-aware and contiguous movement in the months leading up to the election. Wendling cites Google Analytics data indicating that the term “alt-right” was relatively little known prior to Hillary Clinton’s alluding to it in her Reno speech of August 2016. Clinton’s attempt to warn voters about this burgeoning radical fringe appears, in retrospect, to have put wind in the sails of the American far right, giving a sense of unity to what was in fact a hodgepodge of disparate elements. Wendling argues that the influence of sites like 4chan has been similarly overestimated: “[I]t is […] quite clear that the average voter in a key Midwestern state was much more likely to come into contact with Facebook, or someone who’d been on Facebook, than they were to be ‘red-pilled’ by 4chan.”

Alt-Right’s concise survey of the 21st-century far right begins by introducing the reader to the world views of various neo-Nazi ideologues, such as Richard Spencer, who is forthright about his white nationalist agenda: “I want what could probably be called a global empire […] a homeland for all white people, whether you’re German or Celtic or Slavic or English.” Wendling observes that the standard tactic deployed by trolls when arguing with liberal or left-wing opponents online — “exaggerate, simplify, burn down the straw man” — is echoed in the rhetorical modus operandi of media outlets like the far-right news organ Breitbart: “They are up front about their biases, which resonate with and whip up their core audience. It’s a messy, shouty tabloid mainlining hashtag steroids.” The book features pithy pen portraits of some of the main players, like Milo Yiannopoulos (prior to getting the Breibart gig he was “a megaphone looking for a movement”) and Alex Jones, whose Infowars program boasted some eight million viewers prior to being shut down. Jones’s bizarre brand of paranoiac extremism reached its nadir when he told the grieving parents of children murdered at Sandy Hook that the massacre had been staged, and that they themselves were active participants in a liberal conspiracy designed to compel Washington to pass gun control laws.

Wendling’s prognosis is relatively sanguine. He observes that many of the alt-right’s alliances have splintered since Trump took office, and that several of its big personalities have fallen out with one another. The alt-right brand certainly seems to have lost some of its luster of late: it is indicative of the term’s disrepute that even someone as petulantly obnoxious as the far-right journalist Paul Joseph Watson recently felt the need to expressly distance himself from the alt-right in a tweet, even though — as Twitter users were quick to point out — he had aligned himself with the movement in a number of older tweets. The Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson, who is perhaps a few centimeters to the left of alt-right but shares some of its obsessions, recently claimed not to know who the alt-right are. None of this quite amounts to repudiation, but it does point to a telling ambivalence, at the very least, about the connotations associated with the label. Wendling is probably right to speculate that this particular iteration of American far-rightism will be crushed by the weight of its own contradictions and the feckless incompetence of some of the personalities involved. But it will persist in some other guise so long as its underlying pathologies continue to proliferate, particularly if mainstream news outlets like Fox News continue to provide a platform for bigotry and hatred.

The most illuminating insights in the book are Wendling’s brief but revealing interviews with various ordinary people who identify as alt-righters. Taken collectively they constitute a somber and pathetic portrait of stunted and self-pitying manhood finding consolation in chauvinism. That a great many of them are single and or childless would be unworthy of note were it not so conspicuously off-brand: “For a group obsessed with the promulgation of a race,” Wendling notes wryly, “many activists seemed supremely disinterested in actually breeding.” Another common trait is their apparent inability to grasp the connection between discourse and real-life events — a somewhat ironic failing, given their fixation on the power of media. One particularly conscientious interviewee tells Wendling that he takes “great pride in making sure that nobody I meet or interact with from any race […] is affected by my beliefs in any physical way.” The archetypal alt-righter wants to have his fascist cake and eat it: one moment he is railing in blustering earnest; the next, when people are murdered — as happened in Charlottesville in August 2017 — it’s all just an ironic lark.

Wendling draws an apt analogy here between the radicalization of young would-be jihadists and the creeping brainwashing that ensnares vulnerable and credulous young men in right-wing online communities: “Once drawn in, they are conveyor-belted along a path of ever-more-extreme content, and slowly drawn into a radical bubble which warped their sense of reality.” A penchant for MAGA caps and Confederate flag-waving is merely one manifestation of the phenomenon at hand; the loose-knit community of self-styled “incels,” or “involuntary celibates,” several of whose members have carried out mass-casualty atrocities in recent years, is another. Though stereotypically populated largely by scrawny “beta” types, theirs is unequivocally an ideology of radical chauvinism every bit as dangerous as the militaristic machismo of common or garden neo-Nazism. “Alt-right” was only ever a buzz phrase; it may be fading from prominence, but the death cult remains at large. Homicidal mania is the logical end point of all such movements: both in the macropolitical context and at the level of the individual, they stand for nothing except the negation and destruction of the other. As one 4chan poster put it in those dog days of 2016: “I wanted to see everything burn and get lots of happenings.”

¤

Houman Barekat is a writer and critic based in London, and founding editor of Review 31. He is co-editor (with Robert Barry and David Winters) of The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online (O/R Books, 2017).

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