- LA Confidential - Klute - The Exorcist - A League of Their Own - Vertigo

Tie between telling certain family members to their face that their actions meant they did not get to know my child and hosting deep fried Cajun Thanksgiving for found family in Los Angeles every year. And the main shitty guy died this year so I WIN.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

I’m late but Interview With the Vampire is the best show on television and it ain’t even close.

Jump scare.

Set up a monthly donation to the LA food bank today. The hunger is about to be catastrophic.

Some assbutt thinks Trek fans are mostly male? The peace-loving, post-capitalist meritocracy, home to thoughtful morality tales in which cultural understanding is more likely to solve the problem than phasers? That Trek?!

I did roast Broadview ICE feds a lot today. “Cowards,” “you’re a disappointment,” “Shame” “if you’re so proud of what you’re doing show your face” “What you’re doing is evil.” “This is wrong” “do you tell your children that you destroy families?” Every (true) guilt trip I could think of. #abolishICE

You guys wanna see a dead body

You know, whatever else there is to say about DC comics firing me, I have to say it felt deeply satisfying to tell a suit, "I get it, it's important to keep the faceless mob of Nazis happy"

This. I love the act of writing. It changes you, and you change the world. It is spellcraft. It is witchery. Why would I ever deprive myself of the act of sorcery?

People at CBS who worked in scripted arena hated working for a whole array of assholes so much the place leaked like a sieve. At diff points, mgmt was so angry about my reporting, execs speculated furiously about my sources & methods. I know this bec I was sent recordings of those rants (twice lol)

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

Clinging to one bit of good news: JOHN CARPENTER’S films are featured on the Criterion Channel. He deserves a home in the art house, the grindhouse, and the movie theater around the corner. Long live Carpenter!

Annual Spooktober viewings have begun. Night one - Trouble Every Day. Okay, so look. I love Beau Travail. Claire Denis is a genius. This move is bad. The violence is as misjudged and gratuitous as Vincent Gallo’s entire existence, and he’s also in this movie. Wishes it were Ducournau’s Raw. 3/10.

I truly cannot tell you how many times I have watched that movie G20 where Viola Davis keeps beating up bad guys and ripping her dress shorter and looting armor and weapons off all the men trying to hurt her and her family and then like stunt driving and piloting a helicopter, etc. 10/10 every time.

it's HAPPENING! I've revealed the subject of my next book and it's YES of course, it's a deep dive into #BattlestarGalactica! For that news and a few thoughts on the #BSG convention that just took place, read this! 💚🔥 www.moryan.com/its-official...

shit ain’t over til it’s over

this is sickening. fuck these fucking fuckers!

My review of last week's Foundation is now up after a technical snafu. I don't know how this show blends like forty different kinds of science fiction not only seamlessly but symbiotically

This week's Foundation is fucked up and magnificent even by Foundation standards. What a goddamn television program

“The fact is that our Present has become the very Past we desperately hoped we had outrun. History, as it turns out, has swifter feet than even the most alert of us could’ve expected.”

Crow T. Robot said trans rights

They got Oscar off The Gilded Age playing Langella's Skeletor on Foundation, and it fucking rules. "Does this metal seem dead, Empire?"

one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end

I believe this is JB’s version of saying it’s on sight.

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

This week's Foundation includes a gigantic psychedelic android, a man with a robot skull mounted on his scepter who yells "IT IS THE BRAZEN HEAD OF GOD, AND IT WILL SCREAM YOUR FATE ALOUD," and one half of the season's most tender romance killing a ferret out of spite. This show whips ass

People are shouting "LOOK HE'S THE BEST WE CAN DO" about the Governor of California, meanwhile the Governor of Illinois is out here talking like John Wick while *also* standing up for trans people.

BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN

Yes, this. ALSO I’ll add: we are too damn used to most D politicians standing for nothing. Newsom seems different & exciting because he does stand for something. The problem is that something is **his own ambition** We can do better than Temu Patrick Bateman. He’s a shitty opportunist & will fail 👎🏻

Hey so just fyi, if you're abandoning trans rights you're abandoning all civil rights At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too

and if your gynecologist says “take two ibuprofen” take a vicodin. maybe two

What I would give for a Star Trek Andor. A Trek that actually challenged power today—that resonated not just as nostalgia, but as a rallying cry. One that spoke directly about the world we’re living in, the forces shaping it, and the struggles we face now. That’s what Trek should still dare to be.

As a fan of the books from the age of ten, I have had a whole dysfunctional (but fond) relationship with the #Foundation show, but I have to say that finally seeing the vault open at the Third Crisis is like LOTR fans getting the Peter Jackson films. That was so dope.

My main man Ricky breaking it down.

That’s Emperor Spaddy.

This morning I can’t stop thinking about the latest episode of Foundation and how we’ve been trained to see Brother Dawn (over multiple incarnations) and Gaal Dornick.

Truly one of the best room of writers ever assembled. Man, I miss this job.

Boom goes the 305 dynamite.

Love our First Speaker.

New Felker-Martin has dropped. A beast slouches towards us, many eyed and merciless. We hand the beast a party hat and bottle of Jarritos. We welcome the beast. The beast is in charge of the music. The beast loves M83. We dance as the beast devours us.

Only because every single film they made was a masterpiece.

A thread of Asimov quotes and nods from Foundation Season 3 that I haven't seen people mention. I'll update here and there as I recall 'em. Up first: The Robot-worshipping Inheritance needed a hand signal of some kind, like someone crossing themselves. I suddenly remembered my Caves of Steel.

Going through Indiana yesterday, the gorgeous toll worker who took my card was mid-conversation and said to someone on her phone, “He is not welcome in the house of the Lord.” When I asked who we were fighting, she answered, “My two year old.” There is a poet working on the 90/94, y’all.

Truer after last night's episode than it's ever been before. What a performance. What a character.

Foundation is cooking so hard it's all I can do to list the ingredients and get the hell away from the stove. TV should always be this beautiful, savage, and strange.