Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

The Punisher movie came out in 2004 & was popular with troops in Iraq, w/ a soundtrack single by Drowning Pool who did a big USO tour in Iraq in 05/06, & every base had weird little souvenir shops that had shirts and hats emblazoned w/ Punisher skulls. We’re forever reckoning w/ the “War on Terror”

I remember telling someone this one time in relation to guns from Indiana coming to Chicago and they did the confused dog head tilt

Oh cool, we’re getting openly partisan over in the direct VA communications. Love that, great sign

no AI can ever dream of capturing the absolute batshit frenzy of any Uwe Boll film also they can't tell their critics to meet them in the fuckin ring about it

Give Ali the belt you cowards!

If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation.

well fuck…

Saw Kiss of the Spider Woman for the first time just like a month or two ago, been thinking about it ever since. @mattbaume.bsky.social is one of my fav video essayists and this was a fantastic (and sadly relevant) watch

Never got to see Cher live, but this Farewell Tour record is fantastic. I grew up listening to Heart of Stone on cassette in my mom’s car, since picking it up on CD earlier this year it’s now in regular rotation in my car, got me in the nostalgia

Anyway, evergreen

Podcasting is oversaturated, think i’m gonna find a street corner to stand on and rant from

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

wrote a new song, this is one my of my solo outings, was feeling inspired by a lot of convos and such i’ve had recently, and of course all the goings on, and anyway, yeah. new song

I was in highschool when this movie came out and I very much remember my friend group seeing it in the theatre and then assigning each other which characters we would be. I will not be disclosing who I was. I will be listening to this tomorrow.

My fav genre of music is songs about water that are about sex 😂

Happy rapture day all!

If I’m James Gunn and I have free rein over DC films, I’m giving Julie Taymor the production budget of Titus (adjusted for inflation) and the movie about The New Gods. But that’s just me

I am once again begging wrestling companies to put women on their commentary desks

And this is why RT scores cannot be trusted. 🥰

Kittie’s been one of my all time fav bands ever since Spit dropped 25 years ago, stoked to see them getting the respect they’ve long deserved 🤘🏻

If you’re in/around Chicago and looking for accounts to follow that are working hard to share accurate and verified info about the local goings-on, i recommend in no specific order- @unraveledpress.com @thetriibe.com @peoplesfabric.com @igd.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org

Holy shit y’all- new The Muppet Show! The way I audibly made excited noises when I read this startled my cat, I am so beyond stoked for this!

this is just how people looked in the 80s

Was a guest on the Salud Cabrones Podcast to talk about all my past lives- wrestling, the army, comedy, and my current life as a musician, you can watch the YouTube version, or stream on podcasty places

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Service guarantees citizenship

After a run as Spider-Man, Nightcrawler next becomes possessed by the Spirit of Vengence, with a super-charged Catholic Guilt infused Penance Stare. Also his tail is a flaming bone-chain when he transforms into Ghost Rider. It looks kinda goofy.

Do you think the universe where we got the NIN Year Zero tv series on HBO is having a better time than we are?

These ghoulish fucks

I wrote a new piece over at FBC about how folks have been responding to CK’s death, I don’t write often, serious pieces even less, but, yeah… Anyway…

Haven’t performed live since ‘21, was nice to knock the rust off

Tonight at @liarsclub.bsky.social $15 8pm

Listening to the new Ho99o9 album and getting ready for a job interview, perfect combo

Gonna tell my kids this is the White Stripes

Show week! @whatweowethedead.bsky.social record release show, we’re partying at @liarsclub.bsky.social this Wednesday, 8pm, $15 at the door

Lots of accounts sharing misinformation for clicks + shares. This doesn't help anyone. "Salt trucks, routinely used in Chicago winters to combat ice on roadways, were not deployed this weekend to deter ICE, the city said, despite claims made on social media videos." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

LL Cool J getting his show intro interrupted by Doja Cat as Max Headroom referencing the 87 signal interruption before she brings out Kenny G to kick off a musical number is a wild choice for the MTV video awards to start

Finally digging into the Hand Me the Mike podcast by @daniellamazzio.bsky.social & greatly enjoying the exploration of Michael Shannon’s career Fun trivia about me, I was once given a framed playbill for Simpatico signed by Michael Shannon as a gift for officiating a friend’s wedding cuz I’m a fan

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.

The new @faetooth.bsky.social is proper doomy

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Fuck all of this.

The Craft Legacy’s greatest crimes are A- feeling more like Charmed than The Craft, and B- feeling like the start of a series as opposed to a stand-alone movie. That said, it was still pretty decent. So was the Charmed reboot series for that matter. That was actually really fun once it got going.

Jeremy Davies is one of those cats who shows up in shit and I’m always like, “oh hey it’s that guy, fuck yeah”.

Rewatched the 2024 remake of The Crow this evening and I stand by everything I wrote the first time I saw it

This is good, but it makes Dems crawling over each other to throw trans people to the wolves that much more shameful and disgusting.

Goddamn, i forgot how pretty Billy Zane is in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

Really really starting to regret ever talking about gender with my shrink from the VA right now…

Part of the marketing for the 2000 X-Men movie was a fake campaign site for an bigoted senator full of articles on the mutant threat, including one about how mutants need to be stopped ... because of their unfair advantage in high school sports.