First up on today’s #Noirvember double feature, a moonshine runner tangles with a gang of car thieves over a hot-rodded 1940 Ford coupe, in FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF DARKNESS! Then, a safecracker turns detective when his demolitions mentor is killed, in WRECKED DEADENING!

always be there

they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk

Today's office

do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”

A pair of small-town dramas for today’s #Noirvember twin bill. First, a gangster returns to his rural hometown for vengeance on those who made his childhood a living hell, in DIARY OF A RED-HEADED STEPCHILD! Then: A vagrant serving time on a prison farm falls for a local girl, in THE HARDEST LABOR!

Not to put out an oil well fire, mind you; just for the hell of it.

Not remotely the issue, but kids, Graham Linehan is living proof that what you mom told you is true: if you keep making that face, it WILL freeze that way

The main difference between their characters is that I would view Butthead as being morally culpable for his crimes in a way I wouldn’t for Beavis. Beavis I’m almost instantly arguing down to manslaughter, Butthead is full Murder One

LRT: The Church started losing me around SOMETIME ANYWHERE, but for the stretch between THE BLURRED CRUSADE to PRIEST = AURA, there was no one who could touch them. Still my platonic ideal of a guitar band.

Another album that’s having a 40th birthday this month. For me, it was as world-changing as PSYCHOCANDY was. Also, I never made the connection until now that it was produced by the same guy who did NEW GOLD DREAM. MW-P explains: martywillson-piper.com/heyday/

30% of male friendships are texting them their own picture and writing "this asshole"

Reading DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL and rooting for the Franks to get busted

A couple of years ago, when M*x L*nd*s lost his laptop, he was despondently posting the loglines from the "sixty unfinished screenplays" of which the world had been deprived, and EVERY SINGLE ONE was a "reimagining" of some familiar property in an "X meets Y" construction. IT AIN'T HARD, Y'ALL

LRT: If coming up with original movie pitches is so hard, how come I do sixty of them every November as A Bit?

make something new! here im gonna take literally 15 seconds: a donkey wants to be a rodeo horse. songs by tyler childers.

Today, the #Noirvember film festival takes a look at the scourge of demon rum. First up, a boozy private eye tries to reconstruct evidence lost during a drunken spree, in THE LONG HANGOVER! Next, an alcoholic priest is blackmailed into a fraud scheme, in OVER THE INFLUENCE!

Goddam Zeus is at it again

It's important to test your product name in a range of languages and cultures, exhibit one million:

I want to watch a six-part series on the Haitian Revolution 😕

Randy Newman would like a word

We're not trapped in there with them, they're trapped in here with us -- and if we were ever to really exercise our power, there aren't enough Pinkertons in the world to stop us

These people think the New Deal was about giving a handout to working Americans, when it was primarily about FDR keeping the necks of his millionaire friends out of the guillotine

Personally, I prefer an American who Can-O

Hey, @bsky.app, are we ever going to get the ability to schedule posts? I need to do A Bit

But seriously, is there something wrong with that lady's face

god she writes like Garth Marenghi

The Washington State University Cougar Marching Band freakin' played Trogdor at their halftime show this weekend! And made ME! My husky head finally gets its due! 50 freakin' yards high man!

Top 5 Scorseses as of today (no particular order) THE LAST WALTZ KUNDUN AFTER HOURS THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST GANGS OF NEW YORK

imagining this text spread out over like ten narration boxes on a page of Orion punching holes through a million parademons

Their "economic anxiety" is that they earn high five figures and have convinced themselves they're worth six but (((Someone))) is holding them back

Local Woman Savors Smell of Own Farts

It’s #Noirvember by gaslight for today’s double bill, with two tales from the early days of criminal psychology: A DERANGEMENT OF MORALS, with second great feature THE ALIENATIONIST!

Relatable

Friday: Work training 8 am - 4 pm, dinner, profreading 8 pm - 2 am, sleep Saturday: Proofreading 10 am - 1:30 pm, work shift 2 pm - 9 pm, proofreading 10 pm - 4 am Chat is this sustainable

Thought prompted by @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN: What elevates a work from horror (or misery porn) to actual tragedy is that before everything goes wrong, we get at least a glimpse of how it all *could* have gone right.

Our #Noirvember double bill: A blackmailed executive must choose between the woman he loves and his company’s reputation, in THERE BUT FOR MURDER! Then, a crime lord dreams a city of mirrors that becomes an inescapable prison, in the South American magical-realist noir ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITARY!

"Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins." — Dizzy Gillespie

I have no interest in reading any headline about Marjorie Taylor Greene or any other scorned Republican "blasting" Trump, unless said headline also includes the phrase "...with a gun"

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

If you wonder why I am how I am, ZBS is a big part of it

When we say "her career should be over," don't get it twisted

The simplest way to end the immigration discourse would be a law that any new rule applies to the richest people first, not the poorest. Sort that spreadsheet Highest to Lowest, apply. Deport the children of immigrants? Bye, King Charles, bye all the Trump kids except Tiffany.

This was about the media-driven push to replace Biden on the ticket, but my God we're seeing it everywhere now

I GO LOOKING FOR POSE REFERENCES AND I FIND THIS ABSOLUTE GEM OF AN IMAGE

The guy from that band you like made a solo album. It was described as 'autumnal' and all the reviews were four stars out of five.

Today’s #Noirvember double feature: Two low-level crooks find love and danger as they plan the big score that will set them up for life, in the moody French thriller THIEVES SUCH AS WE! Then, a janitor’s sexual obsession descends into homicidal madness, in THE FACE ON THE BATHROOM FLOOR!

Full day of training. Regular work shift tomorrow. D's out with her brothers for the evening, at the McCartney show in Buffalo. Big proofreading job due for the (now) side gig, on danger money. Time to fire up THE LAST WALTZ on Tubi and get to grinding.

"What need have I of all your sacrifices?" says the Lord... Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is offensive to Me... Learn to do good. Seek justice. Aid the oppressed. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Plead for the widow." Isaiah 1.11 to 17