Mr. Singer, like every right-thinking East Coaster, ranks Twizzlers way above Red Vines. It is good and correct to do so. Also, those are my go-to movie theater candy (despite my saying that, the Mrs. is correct about what #1 should be).

It's been so long since we've had a day without a trailer for a Zendaya movie.

Eating a croissant while watching Sinners is the new version of playing Dark Side of the Moon while watching The Wizard of Oz.

The fact that the two pictures in question are pitted against each other in people's minds so this ends up not being the big takeaway is the worst thing about award season.

I recently received my big book on Scorsese from here. One of the cool things about ordering from here is that you get free stuff along with your order. I got a whistle (my second), a small popcorn bucket (my fourth), a bookmark (my third), and a coupon code for 15% off my next order from the shop!

The more ads for AI products I see, the less I respect the actors who perform in them.

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

Holy crap that's insane! Absolutely an end of an era.

I don't want to be the one to tell Matt that AFI probably won't put Gymkata on this list either (even though they should).

The Beetle House cookbook! I had a friend who was a bartender at Beetle House so I'd go there and visit her all the time. The Mac and Cheese was always my favorite thing to order.

Geez, am I going to become a comic book reviewer again?

The Fables of Erlking Wood by @juniba.bsky.social and @adityab.net is a deep, fully realized mythological fantasy that finds importance and power in the shape of folklore. It spans centuries and takes you through every emotion while intersecting multiple narrative throughlines. (cont'd) 🧵

She really defined the look of "my" DC. Those great 80's DC pre-Vertigo books. Swamp Thing. Animal Man. The Question. She gave those books a certain "feel" that made those stories so visually sophisticated. She's a legend and an unsung hero of comic books.

OH MY GOD!!!!

3-on-3 in the elimination round of a tournament is stupid. I get that you don't want to end the gold medal game with a shootout, but 3-on-3 ain't it.

RIP Tom Noonan. youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg?...

I just watched Colbert's interview with James Talarico, and now YouTube won't load for me. Coincidence?!?!

Geez. Both @derfbackderf.bsky.social and @natepowell.bsky.social are releasing new books this fall. 2026 might actually be somewhat awesome.

100% want this too. Anything Nate Powell does is an automatic read for me.

Oh man, it's going to be about The Masses, something I've always wanted to know more about. On the one hand, I want this book right now. On the other hand, my birthday is in mid-September....

Age verification? I was in my late 20's the last time I heard a restaurant hostess ask "smoking or non?" when seating me.

@alejandrobot.com Alejandro Ar-The Bone Temple-a.

I'm glad to finally have read They Called Us Enemy, @georgetakei.bsky.social's memoir of his time living in internment camps when he was a young boy during World War II, co-written by Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott and artistically rendered in classic manga-ka style by Harmony Becker. (cont'd) 🧵

@oeming.bsky.social I can't wait for the story where William of Newbury gets abducted by aliens.

I can't believe my timeline was full of people celebrating Sal Buscema's birthday all day today, and this is how the day ends. That's depressing, but it was still worth it to celebrate him.

I just read, and was totally charmed by, A Radical Shift of Gravity by Noah Tapalansky and Kate Glasheen, published by @topshelfcomix.bsky.social. It's a touching and personal story of love and dreaming in the face of massive global unknowable tragedy. We always need more of this kind of thing.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

George W. Bush watching all this and going "oh shit, we could have just done that?!"

This is just incredible.

Can all of you please stop putting Stephen Miller all over my timeline?

QTP with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers Hard Mode: No Gundam series, Battletech or Macross allowed.

This seems about right. (RIP Rob Reiner)

Everything about this made me so dizzy.

If I was still in the comics reviewer game, I would totally apply to this. I wouldn't win because I wasn't really any good at it, but it's still fun to qualify for things. Anyway, boosting this in case anyone out there wants to go for this.

More soap in one bar than everyone in Deadwood ever used!

I talk these up all the time. I love that there's an awesome online book store where I can buy Deadwood-themed soaps.

It really is a testament to how difficult it is to get a job in television and media right now that Jimmy Fallon still has people working for him. I'm sure the only reason everyone there hasn't quit en masse several times by now is that there's nowhere else to work right now.

Help! A friend just made a very generous and thoughtful offer that would be helpful, and I just can't handle the idea that someone wants to do something nice for me. Can't we all go back to just being sarcastic and inane all the time?

Whatever happened to Film Crit Hulk?

Five Characters in Search of an Exit Death's Head Revisited The Obsolete Man

C.

What is a "Superhelter?"

Post a famous bathroom scene.

I guess what I'm trying to tell you is, I love my new Spirited Away bento box, which I purchased from @mzspress.bsky.social and @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social, and I'm going to use this literally everyday for lunch whether I'm home or not. mzs.press/HO-HO-Holida...

I'm going to watch this, point at the screen, and loudly shout to nobody "I follow her on BlueSky and subscribe to her Patreon!" And then I'll probably bump my knee on the coffee table or something.

They had this game at the bowling alley near where I grew up. We used to play this every chance we got. It was so loud in there that we couldn't hear the music, until one day my friend listened closely and noticed "they're playing Eat the Rich!" Then we realized it was an Aerosmith game.

Buy stuff from here! Including the Deadwood soaps!

He should hire @danmcdaid.bsky.social.

Somebody please give Jon Hamm a good role again. I can't keep seeing him in every ad that runs on TV.