Rewatched Sirk’s ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS again last night—such unashamed beauty in a movie about shame. So much atmosphere, not just in the color and light, but in the lenses, the blocking, the pacing, and the moments of punctuation. Russell Metty was a cinema genius.

The New York Times George Gene Gustines reports the Will Eisner Estate is up for sale, including rights to the groundbreaking, much admired comic creator’s most famous character, The Spirit https://downthetubes.net/how-much-for-will-eisners-the-spirit/

#IceOut #PrettiGood #NoKings #FirstAmendment #GeneralStrike

This Batman also roams San Jose and helps the homeless, giving out bottles of water and even a cape if they look like they need a blanket.

Now accepting name-change suggestions:

I’m realizing that the origins of “cape” is “old man being suddenly awakened in olden times and dragging your blanket with you”

You guys are sleeping on William H. Macy in TRAIN DREAMS.

Hey WRITERS—there’s a pretty good Paddy Chayefsky doc on HBO MAX you should take some time to dig into. While it doesn’t delve into his personal life, there’s still plenty of great stuff.

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

Devastated by the passing of Roger Allers. A beautiful storyteller, artist, human. Love to all who knew him. He once drew a portrait of my dogs for no reason. And nailed their souls. And then gifted that drawing to me. Who does that? Thank you, Roger.

The absolute accuracy of this.

Top Shelf Friday time 🎉 What's a comic in your collection that you think deserves to be on that top shelf? Whether its a key, rare, or just one you love ❤️ This week, a classic from @crazymorse.bsky.social -- MAGIC PICKLE #1! Such a fun book! #TopShelfFriday #comicbooks #comicsky

Every time I hear a broadcast story contain a sentence with “ICE is___” , all I hear is “ISIS___”.

Hey @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social —what is this nonsense? Allowing ANY validation of AI in the creative arts is bad optics and bad leadership, setting a mis-aligned example for rising artists. Do better. filmstories.co.uk/news/san-die...

East Bay #Noir

I think “cold blooded” is inaccurate. His blood was hot—with panic and fear and ignorance and immaturity—symptoms of finding himself in a “job” he’s unqualified for, in possession of tools he isn’t properly trained to use and shouldn’t have, and a defective moral compass. Hot-blooded murder.

ICE agent was not in the vehicle’s path when he fired at driver, video shows

I come from sort of a “showbiz“ family with a lot of writers and they all look down on actors and this is why.

Happy New Year, everyone! A perfect excuse for new adventures, and I’m super excited that our oldest is diving into a year-long project to document and analyze 52 gothic flicks, starting here with THE INNOCENTS. Follow the adventure on his Substack, if you dare—! open.substack.com/pub/finnmors...

Telling oil companies before you tell congress and the press lmao can you make it more obvious what this is about

ok, wait…we’re removing presidents from power who claim they won fairly? Well, shit, let’s keep the ball rolling.

Statement on Trump’s military actions in Venezuela.

ok, wait…we’re removing presidents from power who claim they won fairly? Well, shit, let’s keep the ball rolling.

Support Steve Rude! I just picked up a bunch of digital sketchbooks from his web store. www.steverude.com/collections/...

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Cheers to those of you who have already made it into 2026–! And cheers to those of us on the West Coast still fighting the good fight of 2025. Almost there, friends. Hold on.

Anyone got the time?

I hope you guys had a good one. I sure did.

here we go (police incident report follows)

In Opinion Rob Reiner “was hilarious and sometimes bitingly funny, but he was never the kind of guy who would take over the room. He had a beautiful sense of uninhibited freedom, fully enjoying the life of the moment,” Martin Scorsese writes in reflection of his friendship with Reiner.

So…the Department of Selective Justice?

Hey KFOX 98.5, Bay Area—there are other bands than Aerosmith and AC/DC. And Steve Miller Band isn’t one of them. FYI. Also, fuck your ICE ads. #overplayed #fuckICE #KFOX

Neighborhood midday foggy noir.

Great speech, Trump, but I think the American people have already spoken.

Please call your reps to help trans kids. A lot of bad stuff is flying under the radar with the holidays coming up. Doesn't matter how blue your district is. 5calls.org/issue/gender...

Look, grab your loved ones and hold them tighter. Tell them, unprompted, how you know them to be worthy of loving. They’ll get a hint of how they’ll be remembered. So much loss needs to be offset with active love in the present. Start there, you guys.

Absolutely rattled, saddened, and bewildered by this news. Rob Reiner was pivotal in so many ways. Rob Reiner’s influence will remain pivotal in so many ways. Let us remember him well.

Taking a break from the sickening tragedy to focus on the beauty for a moment. Rob Reiner achieved something so rare and coveted that artists and entertainers dream of and rarely achieve: cultural permanence. How many times have you made a reference to something going to 11? Shouted "Inconceivable"?

More super rough dev for THE MURDER OF MAKE-BELIEVE…these three are central, but even they don’t know how or why. They’ll discover spotlight isn’t for everyone. #graphicnovel #bts #wip

SINNERS rewatch: This will stick. The sound choices alone—hearing a secondary story during exposition—and it’s a step forward. Take the aspect ratio shifts for punctuation, pushing to engage cinema in a similar fashion to how lenses are used for emotional impact, and it’s another step forward. 1/2

Someone’s buying that company, and man, we better hope it’s Netflix if it’s anyone.

THE MURDER OF MAKE-BELIEVE dev exploration continues—the plan is to paint this book, but it’ll likely have some mixed media and different styles to delineate different things. It is thematically tackling ADHD, after all. #graphicnovel #wip

I’ve been ensnarled with the writing of my next book. It’s an autobio—tackling being an adult, and a storyteller, with ADHD—focusing on half-finished stories and working on my kid’s LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS production. And yeah—this guy plays a round-about part. youtu.be/NgV63l9khBQ

Yeah. I never realized, until digging in, where Make-Believe began for me. The Neighborhood was part of it. And it’s part of what shaped me as a storyteller, and it plays a part in my next book. www.facebook.com/FredRogersPr...

My next book is a bit of an autobio—but it’ll touch on a few things that helped shape me. Like this. youtu.be/bGZNjnuGLBw?...

And can I direct it?

Scott Wills paints a background for the first run of Samurai Jack (2001–2004), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Cartoon Network Studios