I never feel less like I'm in a free country than when I'm in a fast food place that is rationing ketchup packets. that's a leading economic indicator, for me. when a place has the freeflowing unlimited ketchup pump? that's stars, stripes and fireworks on the fourth of july right there

trailer for a new spielberg scifi hits like an ice bath after a drought. blocking! staging! warms the cockles

do you think "this sounds like twitter" is something non-twitter people think about when watching KNIVES OUT or is it a "this reminds me of boss baby" type thing only twitter people say to bond with other twitter people

This meme expresses my feelings every 4am on this app.

Wolf Parade needle drop in HEATED RIVALRY...you gotta rise from the couch and salute the 🍁 for the duration of the scene

American Doctor Who, but it's just Don Draper saying things like "I want you to be my partner in this, not my servant" to another middle aged man before they go out and get drunk in the middle of the day together.

rip big frank

terrific albums that, amid a very overwhelming year (only workwise, thankfully), I just got to today

not to alarm anyone, but good news is still possible deadline.com/2025/12/seth...

bandcamp should let you search by merch object if it's gonna partially be a merch store. there's no reason i can't run a check for who got fly hoodies on there what is we doin

it's strange how there are about 6 tech companies that don't seemingly need to make a profit at any point in the next 1,000 years. i'm sure it'll be fine, economically, culturally, psychologically, to continue this way forever, though

has a single earned dollar been spent promoting Bradley Cooper's 2025 motion picture IS THIS THING ON? ? i genuinely would love to see what the workback schedule looks like on that campaign

it's so nice to finally be pandered to bsky.app/profile/lett...

MORNING SHOW log lines really are like "Corey nurses a cocaine hangover. Alex goes to the opera to get close to a Belarussian oligarch." and the episode will somehow cost 17 million american dollars. can't make this up, mimi leder rules

as a middle-aged guy who will ride for anything Tim Robinson does, it pains me to say that THE CHAIR COMPANY is just ok. which must mean there's a guy out there who is even more middle-aged than me who is eager to tell you this is the best thing Tim Robinson has done in years

once you get past how it can't produce the same result twice, gets tunnel vision like a robot vacuum stuck on a cord, is more error prone than a drunk junior associate and that's all *after* pouring 16x what the 1960s space race cost into it over 40 months, it's hard to believe this piece

this Austra album feels like a long time coming. really good pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

ok, one jay kelly float, i get. but two jay kelly floats is a bit excessive

thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle

as the #1 fan of a galaxy brain franchise purpose built for an audience that doesn't know how to read, I am excited to dig into this book!

not only is THE MORNING SHOW nonsense that shreds money like confetti, it has never once given into streaming bloat (every episode locks in at 53m or so) despite cramming in 900 different subplots and new characters every week. the portions remain astounding, it's the Mandarin buffet of tv

THE MORNING SHOW defaults to "blackmail" as a journalism practice more often than Jack Bauer defaulted to "torture" as an everyday part of espionage. still a tremendous show

THE NAKED GUN (2025): largely very sweet, like a grandpa asking you to pull his finger. if pamela anderson was in about 4-6 more minutes of this we might have had an oscar campaign on our hands

good song: janeinc.bandcamp.com/track/im-alive

all these websites. all these newsletters. 24 hour news networks. DMs, texts, whatsapp. carrier pigeon. morse code. all that and somehow i'm just now finding out there's a new Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani movie out there. come on

kudos to carol from pluribus making it to >3 episodes without going 'so...did everyone settle on one religion or what'

reminds me of that time in 2009 I made a dairy queen oreo blizzard with 'dairy queen oreo blizzard flavoured' oreos and obliterated the space time continuum

say what you will about POKER FACE (i'll say I'll miss it dearly) but streaming has really jacked things up in a 'what are we even doing here' throw-your-hands-up way at the mid-point of this decade, eh deadline.com/2025/11/peac...

shocked by the violence* in the MR. SCORSESE doc (*the HUGO erasure)

love the PLURIBUS detail where the other Unjoined people by and large get relatives and the best the hive mind can give Carol is... a person she kind of imagined. who wouldn't love a direct confirmation that the rest of the world doesn't get your whole deal

PLURIBUS S01E1

loved this at last year's TIFF; didn't get the traction it deserved then, but Mubi got a lucky pick up with this one mubi.com/en/ca/films/...

this Spiritual Cramp album...they studied the ancient texts. this is ripping off exactly the right 2002-2004 indie rock bands. inspired, humbling

if you think about the cache miles teller had right after WHIPLASH's award run, then you think about all the roles he's done since then (all of them), you'll get a nosebleed

there should be a substack tier where you pay so much that they let you be the copyeditor for the newsletter

ah shit i forgot to vote for mayor of new york again

i'm starting to think there's ~41 million other people like me are willing to mandela effect a 2025 world series win into existence, let's just hang the banner + print the hats and see if anyone else notices

the mood on Spadina is 100% "Doug F*rd fourth term" type dissociation on everyone's faces this morning

I wouldn't stoop so low to say that Dodgers didn't deserve it. I'll stoop even lower and say they were corroborating with the devil, the bullpen phone was a line straight to hell

evil, evil game. Evil.

this is how trey yeasavage is moving from the touch screen to the counter to pick up his tim's order from now on. kid will never have to walk another day on canadian soil, this is just public service

it rocks when your team has A Guy. would reccomend it

is it possible to be afraid of a baseball game

anybody else know of a coach who took out the guy who hit a 3 run home run earlier in the game and subsequently glitched their way into infinite baseball

when vladdy goes 1 for 6 in an "any run wins" game they gotta pull the Pizza Pizza ads, those are for winners

what is life. these are the kinds of questions a baseball game makes you ponder

I'm going down to the store, anybody want anything?

vibes are so outrageous that Pizza Pizza has unleashed the vladdy promos where he looks like paparazzi caught him stepping out at 4am to grab a box to go

I know a lot of people talk about "Ken Griffey's swing", "John Olerud's swing" but for my money there is nothing more beautiful than Alejandro Kirk: - 5'7 and built like a Welsh corgi - basically drops halfway into a splits on each swing - each swing is a Street Fighter "Shooooryuken" uppercut