Went to see Casablanca this afternoon. It's still nearly perfect. Every character is compromised except for Victor Laszlo and Major Strasser, who push each other like opposing magnets, forcing everyone to make a decision. It's something I never hear anyone mention. It'll be on my mind for a while.

1960, Bud Sagendorf

1960, Bud Sagendorf

1960, Bud Sagendorf

He worshipped Dickens and went to visit him. CD lived to regret it.

All true, but that's true of most stories about gods.

For a fleeting moment, he was able to feel and process normal human emotions. Shuddering, he cleared his head and went back to thinking up AI prompts.

Celebrating #NationalCartoonistDay with Charles M. Schulz, Carl Barks, Ernie Bushmiller, & Marie Severin.

"You're a bad wife." "I'm not. Who said I am?" "Not to make your husband a cup of tea. Terrible." "He knows I'm not a bad wife." "Giving him sour milk instead." "It wasn't sour." "Disgraceful."

The actual video can be found on TikTok and IG, and it's something to see. Part Oval Office address, part Queen's speech. She seems much less frail than recently and is in good humor, as ever. As always, a canny communicator.

Sparky embraced the darkness.

I have nothing to add to what my friend says here, other than to be dead for four centuries and to have vanishingly few peers as a playwright means you were doing something very real. No nobleman accomplished that. I'll never believe it.

Well... it's obviously Billie and David. That much was clear to me from the get-go. But I suspect he knows that if he's going to drag them back onstage here and now, he also has to say something about the future of DW. What that is, and how effective that tale is, remains to be seen.

You know the Beatles were stacked when "Another Day" was the *weakest* of their single singles (It's a great song)

What a week. Good grief...

The show has been moved to SEPTEMBER 17! Buy Tickets Now! OMSI.edu #omsi #EmpiricalTheater #buyticketsnow #portlandoregon #pdx

Buy tickets now. And bring plenty of quarters.

It's a big, big show, Portland. Hope to see you there.

I extend to you and your families my best wishes for a happy Easter.

This is pretty cool.

Yes, Scorsese. Of course, but it hard to define any of his films by their purported genre. Tge Godfather, as well. TLGF is absolutely a crime film, though. It's just a great one.

Today is a good day to remind you that Bob Hoskins recorded a throwaway reggae track for THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY soundtrack. I've yet to spot it in the film, but I wasn't looking for it last time. youtu.be/tdHLLxmmLkw?...

Dusty, 1967 youtu.be/QR4vE9xL3yk?...

Chaucer: "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour" T.S. Eliot: "April is the cruelest month" Poetry nerds: FIGHTT!!!!!!

So... what is #audiodrama, anyway?

My band of actors is doing a show I wrote. If you're near Portland, OR, I'd love it if you came to see us.

Watching Caves of Androzani on the new DW box set. Robert Holmes was the best writer ever to work on Doctor Who, and it's really a shame he isn't as well known as others who passed through those halls.

Mmm. Ungalvanized bucket...

The Poe movies have little to do with Poe, but they are good movies. Also, you get to see Peter Lorre attack Jack Nicholson.

There is no Felix the Cat. It's just Mickey Mouse when he's messed up.

Congratulations to @petemctighe.bsky.social on the Warriors of the Deep Special Edition. A truly astonishing accomplishment in editing and rethinking a piece of legacy media. Well done, sir!

We haven't had a normal summer in a while. I'm not expecting things to improve in my lifetime.

Many of my faves are gathering and making a film? Tell on, social media, tell on...

Spring is in the air

Celebrity dinner party. You can invite two people.

@wychstreet.bsky.social I want Michael Sheen to do the voice of Werewolf Jones.

I have a big show coming up. Hope to see you there. If not, can you please tell folks about it? Thanks!

Paul Thomas Anderson, the son of Cleveland's beloved Ghoulardi aka Ernie Anderson cleans up!

I think she should've won for "The Bride."

Now Batman can finally track him down.

Donald had anger issues, but Mickey was always heavily armed.

People everywhere had secret twin siblings. You couldn't even rely on the Force to give you a heads up.

William Hartnell would be flabbergasted by all of this coverage, not least of which because he'd be 118 years old.

I haven't noticed much discussion of this, but "The Nightmare Begins" is Nicholas Courtney's first appearance in Doctor Who. I just put that together. Good to have that back. #doctorwho #missingepisodes

"I mean, if it's only episodes of #TheDaleksMasterplan that you want, Drathro, we have plenty of them. Don't we, Dibber? On the ship." "Oh, The Daleks' Masterplan. Yeah, we've got so much of that we're bored of The Feast of Steven." #DoctorWho

This is true. I hope this happens a few more times in my lifetime. It's always a happy moment.

Always good news when lost media turns up, but when it's a couple episodes of Doctor Who, well...

It really is.

Can’t post a link because of the paywall but THEY FOUND MORE MISSING DOCTOR WHO! EPISODES 1 AND 3 OF THE DALEKS’ MASTER PLAN!

Lost Doctor Who episodes found in 'eclectic' collection The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.