The great Todd Snider has passed. Such a great human being and fantastic songwriter. Here's the first song I ever heard from him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZWu...

As a tangent, I will personally confess that every time I see Ruby Bridges as she is now, I am struck not only by how young she is but also how gorgeous.

No, but she sure as shit birthed me two kids who do. Driving off the road and crashing on their own screens because they're too busy watching mine and laughing at me.

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

Everyone talks about the geyser of blood bit in this movie but not enough is said about the celebrating-with-closet-guy scene, perhaps the most endearing moment ever in a movie that also features a geyser of blood. #driveinmob

Does Beetlejuice Beetlejuice get better in the second half? What a dud so far.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Hey! I FINALLY have prints available of my work on InPrnt. They make high quality art prints, in case you were looking to give any of my work as a gift this season ✨https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/jessfink/

Say what you want, but AI is the future.

Gang, I've enjoyed Mark Bonnar in all I've ever seen him in, even though he always plays a smaller role, and even when I don't fully care for the work itself. What should I seek out as his real showcase? So far: Dept. Q, Catastrophe, Operation: Mincemeat, and a great episode of Would I Lie to You?

Going to choose a Saturday soon to show either Harakiri or Samurai Rebellion to students on the big screen—if you're around the middle of Missouri, join us. I waver on which of those is my favorite samurai movie, but I never waver on Tatsuya Nakadai being one of the greatest actors of all time.

Live from tonight's local City Council meeting:

I remember when I realized I didn't have to hate The Dead anymore because it was time to move on to hating Phish.

Revisiting this old book of mine was definitely not on my bingo card. (For a Kickstarter anthology thing that I'll send around once it's announced.)

GIVE US THE GOOBERS! The release of 'Gemlins' in 1984 unleashed a horde of lil' party monster imitators. On The Pink Smoke, brave space bounty hunters @thelastmachine.bsky.social and Chris Funderburg round up the Gremlins Rip-Offs! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

This is a good reminder for me to tell you that Nightingales is one of the most underrated TV shows of all time.

This months STICKER CLUB is BALLER OLD LADIES - we love them! My Patreon is the best way to join up! $5 every month new stickers patreon.com/kylestarks

If I had access to a time machine, I would use it to convince Jerry Reed to cover Fleetwood Mac's "Never Going Back Again." (This is one again a Blue Sky post for which I am the only conceivable audience.)

this shit right here is wrecker shit, as much as wrecker shit as any online leftist has done, if not more so. no wonder so many people are repulsed by anyone (rightly) saying 'vote blue no matter who', the most powerful elected Dem in the nation won't do it! it undermines the whole coalition! jfc

...Who among us could have seen this coming?

the poorly looped opening bars of "new york, new york" in this are so funny

My Director shirts are only $16 at the moment. Enjoy! www.teepublic.com/user/filmmak...

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

We'll be one day late for Godzilla day, but if you're a student of mine, or around the university, Cinema Society is watching Godzilla Minus One Minus Color on the big screen tomorrow, followed by what I'm sure will be a passionate discussion afterward!

Hadn't seen La Marca del Zorrillo before. This looks insane: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5AK...

Never seen an unenjoyable movie that featured Edward Everett Horton. He even killed it on Rocky & Bullwinkle.

@davidlambertart.bsky.social You may have read this before, but just in case, I was sharing it with someone else and think you'd appreciate it: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/83ub5...

Stephen Collins’ splendid strip from last Saturday’s Guardian. There’s top-notch storytelling in play here.

Super excited for @thekylestarks.bsky.social sticker club announcements (next April's especially, since we're watching one of the all-time great time travel TV episodes tonight). If you're not in on his Patreon, you're missing out! www.patreon.com/cw/kylestarks

Drew up a poster for what was probably my favorite movie at age 6: the Rankin-Bass/Topcraft animated feature FLIGHT OF DRAGONS

Happy Halloween!

This Monday is final order cut-off for BATMAN/GREEN ARROW/THE QUESTION: ARCADIA #1. @gabrielhardman.bsky.social is in peak form here, you will not want to miss it! (And check out those gorgeous Kevin Nowlan and Cowan/Sienkiewicz variants -- the latter is also available in foil!)

Mission Hill was a favorite show. Now it’s not available to stream or buy. I guess it’s not in the content moderation algo on YouTube either. Here’s the whole series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ZM...

Asking this again in the daytime because I realized asking a question at midnight doesn't net you answers.

I feel like casting Randall Flagg is the same as Judge Holden. They need a considerable degree of "preacher" vibe to them. Like Mitchum in NIGHT OF THE HUNTER gone even more bent.

I am available for commissions. www.shaenon.com/2017/04/08/p...

I am late this year in getting around to my annual October reading of scary short stories that are new to me, so if you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

A little worried I got too close to the reference on this one. Help me decide whether I need to go back and tweak it: can you tell which actor's picture I was looking at when I drew this?

FYI, the piece of music for a sneaky villain or for creeping through a haunted house is "Mysterioso Pizzicato."

"Gone is the classic Franken-steen vs. stein scene, gone is the song and dance number, it's almost like Del Toro has stripped out the comedy and instead made a morality tale about science without ethics."

Democrats announce plan to expand and rename all ICE concentration camps in honor of notable immigrants and civil rights leaders of American history if elected.

I am never going to learn how to parry in a video game. Don't put parrying mechanics in front of me, because I am just going to ignore them in favor of wildly swinging my sword around.

A pulse-pounding thriller about a promising political candidate who found out twenty years ago he was given a career-destroying Nazi tattoo by the Deep State while he was a drunken marine on holiday in Europe and has to get to the bottom of the conspiracy in Robert Ludlum’s THE OYSTERMAN WEEKEND

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

I imagine this is a prime time for foreign surveillance gadgets to be planted at the White House.

Keep practicing whatever it is that you love doing. If Chris Samnee can somehow continue to keep leveling up by inventing new levels, you can too.