The Underline

The peeling wallpaper of a decaying world

Backrooms, Covid, video games, slop, and the future of film

Jun 15 • Danny Sullivan

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Computers can only play games

Computer Power and Human Reason, chapters 1-3

Jun 1 • Danny Sullivan

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May 2026

I was a ghost. I was the barber.

The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

May 18 • Danny Sullivan

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3

April 2026

Dudes rock and business is booming

Tulsa King as the anti-Sopranos

Apr 13 • Danny Sullivan

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Perfect alexandrine lines in The Caboose Who Got Loose

A rare instance of good verse in a children’s book

Apr 6 • Danny Sullivan

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March 2026

A portrait of the artist, burned out and in despair

Your Name Here (Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff, 2025)

Mar 2 • Danny Sullivan

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February 2026

I figured the leader should be the one of us with the capacity for abstract thought

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Feb 13 • Danny Sullivan

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I bet if we kissed you’d taste like a wild beast

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)

Feb 2 • Danny Sullivan

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January 2026

Past and future, work and vocation

Life updates, housekeeping

Jan 9 • Danny Sullivan

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Death Note as millenarian apocalyptic

This is so stupid

Jan 5 • Danny Sullivan

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December 2025

Fuck it Dude, let’s go bowling

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Dec 8, 2025 • Danny Sullivan

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9

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November 2025

Book Report 11/13/25

Isak Dinesen, Margaret Doody

Nov 13, 2025 • Danny Sullivan

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