When your house hippo is cold.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Fever-riddled me drew this in Procreate the other day and sleepless Mucinex me colored it in Photoshop. Not for anything in particular, but it felt good to actually draw and color something start to finish for once...

Of all the creative and technical skills I possess, many involving spatial reasoning, somehow I have to completely relearn how to wrap presents every year.

Whether you're a STAR WARS fan or just a model builder, this new X-wing deep dive is outstanding. @ilmvfx.bsky.social www.ilm.com/how-to-build...

Very sick, watching recent (presumably) mid-tier movies I missed: The Amateur - veers to safer waters every time it almost takes an interesting turn Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: no real tension despite lots of plot complications but basically swaggers its way to being fun anyway.

Something uniquely dystopian about the Minute Clinic when the iPad check-in thing isn’t working, the waiting room is full, and all the many regular shoppers in the CVS are all hacking up lungs.

Could not be more psyched to see this news!

Hard to overstate how much your relationship to American Christianity will affect your take on the new Knives Out. I'm a long-time exvangelical still working through a lot of religous trauma, and I still found it affecting, but everyone's mileage will vary.

Should get out and shovel snow, but decided to doodle a zombie instead. I forget how much I enjoy Procreate.

Bro made his own 16mm motion picture camera. Definitely one of the coolest things I've seen all year, and a better explanation of how cameras work than I even got in film school. youtu.be/ZAtYJYfV2nA?...

My flow state when having to write code requires German YouTube DJ streams thumping at illegal BPM's. You know: Hackers (1995) shit.

Hell yeah.

Get their views about Kyle Rittenhouse on the record too, while you're at it. You know...for posterity.

We accidentally got smart home bulbs that have default physical-light-switch-based behaviors that are as inscrutable as they are stupid. Oh, and they can't be altered in favor of default, ya know...light switch behavior? I fear a beast inside me has been roused and may never know slumber again...

Netflix pretty much openly despises cinema as a medium so this is bad news all around, even beyond the basic “gee, seems like this ought to be nixed on the most basic anti-trust grounds imaginable.”

Working on a thought-tool called "stupid drunk guy in a bar". Works like this: If the take you're responding to is essentially being mumbled by a clearly very stupid drunk guy in the bar you're at, is it worth starting a big public discussion with him?

Guys, I don't know if I'd emotionally be okay if I was in any of these auditoriums and cathedrals while Anna Lapwood plays LOTR arrangements on some of the biggest pipe organs in the world. www.tiktok.com/@annalapwood...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever

Found this in a box of my childhood books while rearranging some things. Maybe explains my enthusiasm for our work on King’s Watch, eh @marclaming.bsky.social @jeffparker.bsky.social ?

Unless we, as engaged and media literate viewers, are SUPPOSED to feel like the ending was how the studio would recut it because that would fit the themes in a super meta way? I have enough faith in Wright to almost allow for that, but, still…blek!

Based on the last five minutes alone I’m going to be a Running Man truther that Edgar Wright didn’t have final cut.

Two random music callouts for the day: 1. Alan Parsons Project's I Robot & Poe concept albums still go incredibly hard. Don't sleep on them. 2. For all it's faults, Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow's score ain't one. Big, brassy, and fun like a Williams and Giacchino love child.

there is nothing i hate more than swype insisting I want to type worth instead of with

Predator Badlands has Samurai Jack and Ray Harryhausen in its DNA. Honestly the kind of well-executed, mid-budget genre fair the movies have been missing. Memorable/unique score and sound design too.

I think the almost zealous commitment to 'Lore' and 'The Canon' that has risen over the past decade is the most frustrating and restrictive cultural movement we've seen, on par with how streaming means no one commissions tv beyond one series at a time anymore.

Turns out Vince Gilligan is good at this Twilight Zone shit. PLUR1BUS pilot is really effective.

The Kickstarter campaign for my first solo comic, DREAMHOUSE is live! I'm so excited for y'all to get to read this very weird, personal, creepy comic! kck.st/4oJZSDq

bestseller this year i hear

The Affinity being free and an all-in-one app thing gives me the heebie jeebies. The AI stuff, the requiring a Canva login...

Local rock quarry is setting off such Looney Tunes amounts of explosives today that the motion sensitive Halloween decorations on our porch keeping going off. Normal, right?

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

This man is near the top of my "boy, I hope nothing ever comes out to show he was a creep all along" list.

Putting away ALL the laundry for the household took the combined runtime of The Fog & Silence of the Lambs, but it’s done AND I got to enjoy two stone cold bangers. Couple that with seeing ET at a drive-in last night & it’s been a good movie weekend. Sad I couldn’t make it to GTD’s Frankenstein tho.

Cinemas playing FRANKENSTEIN right now!! frankensteingdt.com

How do I mute baseball as a whole concept?

We’re just innocent men

What, at the time, seemed like a middling adventure film and a typically hohum Disney live action outing, now feels like a copper bottomed classic by dint of the fact that no one knows how to make this kind of picture anymore.

Best news I’ve seen all day. Great show.

Still trying to decide if I'm a Lunatic, Hater, or Punk Trash

Something cathartic and proper about the inflatable frogs showing up in real life to confront fascists when the other side used frog memes from anonymous online spaces to help get us into this mess in the first place.

Worried I spammed the neighbors in our small community Discord too hard with thoughts about NYCC before several of them go. Maybe went too hard belittling Wall-of-Prints sellers in Artist Alley…is that possible? Can someone more articulate and less mean please describe why they’re the actual worst?

You and your wife simply MUST troll the frozen appetizers at the supermarket & choose-your-own-adventure to some kind of dirtbag charcuterie heaven. Feeds the twisted gerbil in your brain that craves takeout but it costs about 800% less. Pretend to (or actually have) the muchies for max XP.

My mid-life crisis is daydreaming that I can live in an 80's arcade styled hobbit hole/bunker, & just make music on analog synth gear. Do I know anything about music or audio engineering beyond what I've used in video editing software? Nope! Does that dampen my enthusiasm at all? Also nope!

Gradually refining my tastes and preferences until I have nothing to talk about with anyone

Not even joking when I say that this would be for the capital Gee Greater Good.

Had the uncomfortable realization that if you did an update of The Producers, the reasons Springtime for Hitler was a success would probably be different in a 2025 setting.