Sounds like Masters of the Universe is going to be this year’s Karate Kid: Legends.

Went to the Hemingway House on our trip to Key West last week and now I’m on a big-time kick. Blitzed through In Our Time and gonna read The Sun Also Rises next. I think the Nick Adams stories whip ass (there’s one that’s pretty racist though 😑)

Oh man, I really like that new Olivia Rodrigo song. Genuinely the first thing of hers I’ve heard.

Something something liminal horror as people experiencing spaces that typically only support staff and custodians and construction workers send fleep.

Gen Z horror be like “imagine talking to a girl and going to an office” OOOOooooOooOooo

How big is that second weekend Backrooms drop gonna be tho?

Trip entertainment

I still need to finish the vampire one sometime, but this is the biggest gaming news I could hear outside of an Elden Ring 2

A woman tried to flirt with me at the valet because she thought I was Adam Scott.

There’s a dude at this airport gate who’s talking loudly into the phone: “well I don’t know much about (fill in the blank) or (x) but I’ll tell what I do know…” And all I could think was how much it sounded like Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

Turns out, the answer to “how to avoid dreaded second act problems” isn’t “don’t have a second act at all”

Tonight’s viewing

No, but for real, if you haven't watched this vid with the sound on, you sort of have to. It might be the greatest bit of AI audio corruption I've heard so far.

Never forget that CNoles went to the Women’s March in LA.

Every round of discourse about this place starts from a conscious decision to ignore the fact that we are all well aware Bluesky is a retirement home for posters. That’s why we’re here in the first place. We’re here to answer prompts about movies and bands we’ve seen and wait for It to happen.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. I loved RMN, and Mungiu was incredibly gracious and talked to everyone who came to the screening.

I repeat (though probably not here): if someone like JB Pritzker were to drop some kind of massive economic new deal as the pillar of their campaign, it would be a gamechanger for 2028

Holy shit. I can’t remember the last time this happened.

He’s right.

I’m sure he won’t run but in this tiny part of my brain, this feels a lot like that time Obama made Trump feel bad at the Correspondent’s Dinner.

Again I ask, Spider-Man Noir? Why not just watch The Long Goodbye or read some Ross Macdonald?

lol….lmao….lmfao

introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen Deftones (7x) Nine Inch Nails (2x) Hum (3x) Failure (2x) Queens of the Stone Age (2x) Mono Radiohead Minus The Bear Melvins The National Seeing Tomahawk in July!

A new Alan Moore book came out this week and you could hear a pin drop trying to suss out any discussion about it. I guess that last one didn’t go over so hot?

This part.

Least Essential, you say??

Widow’s Bay: That was definitely an episode directed by Friendship/The Chair Company’s Andrew DeYoung 👍

The biggest problem with Keisha Lance Bottoms is that the more voters know about her the more they hate her. She is the worst possible candidate to represent Dems in the crucial #GAGOV primary, and based on her liberal use of Generative AI slop, she is learning the wrong lessons from the primary

🤔

All this, and…come the general, there’s about a million more voters who show up that have no interest in the primaries. How you think that’s gonna turn out?

We could have had it all. 😔

Welp, good going, Democrats. I guess that’s another eight years of a Republican Governor for Georgia.

Rep. Thomas Massie has conceded. Republican voters have rejected the member of their own party most responsible for forcing the vote to release the Epstein files. All because Trump, a man named in the Epstein files thousands of times, didn't want them released. That says a lot. None of it good.

Ah well, it was nice to have hope for a bit there.

Still early, but if this holds, congrats to the GOP for securing eight more years in the Governor’s mansion.

🚨For the first time, the Senate has voted to hold a debate on a war powers resolution to end the Iran war. 4 GOP 'Yes' votes: Cassidy LA, Collins ME, Murkowski AK, & Paul KY 1 Dem 'No' vote: Fetterman PA A defeat for Trump and GOP leaders.

lol Rubio stock rising

Two more votes for Jason Esteves. Let’s take Mayor Quitter to a runoff and win this thing in November. #anybodybutKeisha

You've probably heard that pioneering comics scholar John Lent died a few days ago. He was a very early comics academic--and one who brought attention to Asian and other international comics... and wrote over 90 books(!). Ya know what would be a great (posthumous) salute to him? #eisners

Today is Election Day in Georgia and polls are open! This campaign has always been powered by people — organizers, volunteers, supporters, and Georgians who believe in building a better future for our state. I’m deeply grateful for the trust you have put in me.

I'm guessing it's because it's a UK-based list, but I agree with #1 in principle. Reading broadly is good, and lists should reflect that.

I never would have guessed Ossoff would have become unbeatable. Hannah and I were joking that he’s going to be on the VP shortlist before we realized we probably manifested something that will really happen.

Terrific round-up if you need it for Georgia's Democratic Primary ballot tomorrow: theatlantaobjective.substack.com/p/a-2026-dem...

that approval rating gonna be in the 20s before you know it.

24 hours out...I think Bottoms falls short and will be forced into a runoff. That runoff will likely topple her because she'll have to actually campaign, something she seems to be reticent to do.

I’ve been saying this for over a year now. It’s going to be the biggest blue wave since 2006.

Big Top Pee-Wee

Just read an M. John Harrison story about a guy who gets so mad about a football match, he puts an axe in his face. And then it sparks a trend of people doing the same thing. Good stuff!