Deep Dish Nine

The debate about Avatar "having no cultural impact" is kind of a smokescreen for the actual argument which is that Avatar is "boring" and "bad" and "has terrible characters, worldbuilding, plotting and dialogue"

Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney are both so bad in "The Housemaid." I think they think they're playing off each other and contrasting their characters by having Seyfried doing way too much and Sydney doing nothing but it's just embarrassing for both

Amydog enjoying her new toy!

To all, a merry "Song about the day after Christmas as performed by a Robert Goulet impersonator from the flop HBO show Vinyl"

JARED GOOF

"please welcome the voices of huntrix" no they're just huntrix now. they're huntrix and they fight demons

you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you

"but do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?" I mean yeah that's the easy one

The seasonal focus on "A Long December" is distracting us from recognizing that "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" is the '90s "Visions of Johanna"

My annual Christmas reminder: The letters to Santa are not why Santa was found in court to be Santa in "Miracle on 34th Street." It was because prosecuting Santa Claus looked really bad politically for the judge and he was looking for any excuse to let him go. The moral is: Work the refs

Christmas presents for Amydog??!!

Alyssa Micaela - "Cowboy for Christmas" (2020) Hope she got it. Merry Christmas from Santa's Pub!

"Feliz Navidad": Proof if you write a song with two absolutely irresistible choruses you can pretty much call it a day at that

This Gwen Stefani song both sucks and is an obvious ripoff of "Christmas Wrapping" but you can't really get mad about a Christmas song sounding like another Christmas song

Happy birthday to our savior, Amydog. She's ten years old!

For years, people have wondered why Andy Williams's description of Christmas includes "scary ghost stories." The answer: Andy Williams is cool

Jon Langston - "I Only Want You for Christmas" (2022) This was filmed at legendary Nashville karaoke bar Santa's Pub, one of many country videos filmed there (but this is one of the few where it's explicitly karaoke). RIP Denzel "Santa" Irwin (1950-2025).

Fun fact, the original version of this, Alan Jackson's "I Only Want You for Christmas" predates Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by a couple years. There's only so many topics for Christmas songs!

I made a Worst Hit Songs of 2025 list I recommend reading through it rather than just checking the songs. Could spark some interesting conversations. :) buttondown.com/AlsThoughtsA...

I am taking the bold step of covering a show for my Patreon that people actually like! First taste is free, please give it a look.

When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67

Rest well lil pup

Bari Weiss literally runs a unaccredited conservative "college" out of a disused apartment store here in Austin containing a marble bust of her own head. Ain't a metaphor in the English language for her whole career that's gonna be more on the nose than that.

Is "Linus and Lucy" a Christmas song?

These people are gutter trash.

Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again AH, HA HA, HA HA, HA HA, HA HA, HA HA

Sometimes you work with cast or crew just once. Other times you make 5 movies with the same person. So instead of saying goodbye, on the last day of shooting, many of us say “See you on the next one.” Today, I don’t want to say goodbye, so let me just say, PJ, my friend, see you on the next one.

oh my god awful. RIP James Ransone, Ziggy in The Wire, Eddie in It Chapter 2, Deputy So and So in the Sinister movies variety.com/2025/tv/obit...

Boy, I sure dodged a bullet there --Drake and Nicki Minaj about each other

we're now streaming Amy's Dead-End Dreamhouse with @maggiemaefish.bsky.social to raise funds for World Central Kitchen

It's done.

I've never seen real genuine fear captured so vividly

Okay, on my way to Avatar 3. Let's see what symbolic mystical being gets murdered by the humans at the end of the second act. Current guess: A herd of space buffalo

'SNL' understandably sending its veterans home in the midst of a lost season. Hopefully Bowen can work out a buyout and re-sign with a contender before the playoffs.

So, Katy Perry's "One of the Boys," one of her first songs, the one about the tomboy learning to be girly to attract a guy

When the Gilligan's Island castaways were finally rescued, they found themselves forever changed and unable to reintegrate into their old lives. The Howells could no longer stand their rich snob friends. Mary Ann no longer loved her fiancee.

Some souls were simply born to be dogs.

I'd never give Amydog chocolate but part of me has never really believed chocolate is bad for dogs. How can two purely good things be bad for each other

Making the year-end lists was a lot easier when music videos still existed

This went viral in the bad way yesterday, but if you want a much smarter look at this kind of estranged mom, I really highly recommend this look at "estranged parents' forums," it really helped me understand the deeply toxic people in my life (thankfully not my parents)

In this essay, I argue that, like Bob Ferguson, PTA has been whisked out of his fixation on the distant past and forced by urgent circumstances to grapple with the terrifying realities of the present.

alert to @maggiemaefish.bsky.social, we have what is either the word's most or least appropriate reference to "My Octopus Teacher"

no one cares for Gaston he just has a good song no one needs a new origin story for Gaston

Amydog has figured out The System

My two-year-old nephew likes to point at Amydog and shout "...dog!" and so do I

me: always use alt text me after trump's response to rob reiner's death: actually...

Who could even argue. Good, fine work by the dictionary people