The Pootie Tang prequel no one was expecting

There's some icky violence against women played for laughs in this but there are also some incredible images plus the story itself is great

I just realized that they neglected to address the Mr. America controversy in the Hulk Hogan four-part Netflix doc and now I'm mad. I'm aware that they were two totally different people but come on, man, you can't devote a minute to the lie detector test???

I will always read this title to myself in the voice of Ren screaming "my favorite friend!" when Kowalski is squeezing Stimpy

Richard Dawkins, dazed, wandering around the theater after the magic show, begging everyone he encounters for an answer to his question: "How was the magician able not only to put his assistant back together but also to do it without any visible saw wound scarring?"

These goddamn kids today with their attention spans ruined so thoroughly that they had to shave 66 seconds off a classic!

Humans have yet to top Lucky Charms

First trip to Camden Yards 10-3 over the Red Sox

New poem up at @hootreview.bsky.social! www.hootreview.com/2026/03/22/h...

When the hell is @criterion.bsky.social gonna do an early Christian Petzold Eclipse set???

It's so funny that A.I. enthusiasts think that people don't like their lazy loser tool for Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer reasons, and not that it is a lazy tool for losers, which is the real reason

I keep seeing "gynormous" in the 1997 British translation of the Ubu plays I'm reading and I looked it up because that seemed like an early use of what I assumed was 21st century annoying slang but it turns out to be 80+ years old!!!

Can't believe how immediately this worked out for them

I do not like when Kruk is not in the booth

I've only heard a song or two but ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead had a lot lighter of a sound than I was expecting

Maybe the Phillies getting rid of Nick Castellanos was like when there's a mystery file in the code of a program that does nothing but for some reason when you delete it, the program won't run properly

Everyone in this house hates deckle edged books WHY WOULD YOU INTENTIONALLY MAKE THE PAGES HARDER TO GET A GRIP ON???

Last night’s Philly Writers Circle was amazing, as always. If you haven’t been, you’re missing an electric, supportive, rad space for reading!

we used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Mike Pensions, Gary Literacy, Pete Socialsafetynet,

I've seen an alarming number of instances in the past 24 hours (3) where someone doesn't know that, in the Descendents song "Coolidge" where they do the four-part harmony "ahhs" and someone hits a bum note and says "sorry", they are doing it as a bit and have not made a mistake that was left in

There's so much media I can't even keep up with everything I'm interested to watch and that's only a small fraction of what's being constantly churned out and i would gladly trade all that for like i dunno, HEALTHCARE

It's not a dealbreaker to me as a fan but I do think wrestling would be a lot better if they had never introduced the tapout. Slapping the mat while in a submission hold used to be one of the best looking ways to sell!

Absolutely fucking vile how quickly antisemitism is now spreading on the left. Fix your fucking heads

First Ergs show 26 years ago today

The longer I live and the more I see, read, and experience, the further I'm convinced that worship is the worst human impulse

Get rid of your NYT subscription and tell them why, you don't need your fucking Wordle

These people are unwell

I am simply begging people to put information about their events, programs, projects etc in more places than just Instagram. It's fine to post on Instagram (obviously) but when that is the ONLY place that one can find info about what you're doing and hosting, that sucks! For so many reasons!!

I think if I asked nicely enough I could convince a bobsled team to let me do a ride along

No, this is NOT brunch. I still intend to eat lunch. This is pre-lunch, or prunch

I never understand the 100s of open tabs thing; just email the link to yourself, open the email to clear the unread notification, let the email sink lower and lower in your inbox til it's off the first page and totally out of sight, and then never open that email ever again!

Someone with a better brain for remembering these kinds of movie details than me could probably find a film within a film that ALSO contains a film within a film, creating a further nested watching experience

I would be embarrassed to read any book from any writer who would do this It's already bad enough to have had the author (Jeanette Winterson) of one of your favorite books (The Passion) praising A.I. as a writing tool

Imagine being this much of a fucking idiot

I try to not demean people's abilities or credentials but "A.I. Prompt Writing" as a skill is loser shit

It's a computer program

Tomorrow!

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

All these choices concern making a salable piece of work & have little to do with being an artist. A wealthy person can make a "bad" drawing as readily as a poor person, and the outcomes of b, c, & d mean that in that instance, you would not be considered the artist

With the WP book section closing and other publishing news, I think literary people really need to adopt a punk rock mindset. It's DIY or die these days.

A.I. slop has ruined trust in images to the point that it would now be impossible to convince most people that this unhinged album cover from 1984 is a piece of human art

"December 1963 (Oh What A Night)" followed by the David Essex version of "Rock On"

Ergs giggin' with Rodeo Boys in late March. We haven't been down to VA/NC in a while (18 years???) so it should a fun time!

Excited to be doing my first reading in a while at the next Philly Writers Circle show!

I'm reading a book about workers' movements that had momentum but ultimately failed & it's funny in a really sad way that in each of the two sections I've read so far (Paris 68 & Chile 72-73), the biggest obstacles to progress have been the center-left trying to maintain a look of electoral decorum

The Robby Starbuck response is one of the silliest things I've ever read in my life. And I have to assume when he's talking about Conquistadors he's talking about the no-name dead loser described here: youtu.be/T1uvzOeSkgc?...

Regardless of any evidence or how good a case the prosecution presents, a cop trial is always going to have the same problems a mob trial does. You're going to have to weigh the responsibility of putting in a guilty vote against the certainty that the defendant's cop pals will harass you afterwards

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously