Thrilled to see THE ANIMATRIX on the big screen this morning, thanks to @secretmovieclub.bsky.social! Also, the hallway to the subterranean restrooms at the Million Dollar Theater felt thematically appropriate.

I attended @thedorkydiva.bsky.social's Dagobah Swamp Social as Irvin Kershner, after last year's appearance as Larry Kasdan at their Hoth Bash! (You may be able to guess what madness will be committed upon my facial hair next year....) Please note the stack of Saja rocks I added to my build-a-bog:

Trading my Disneyland annual pass for a Lucas Museum founding membership and not looking back.

I just backed STUCK IN THE GLOBOSPHERE on Kickstarter:

Animatrix on the big screen!

Visiting the Barnsdall Art Park for a screening of The Rocketeer! There's an exhibit of artifacts bookended by a comp sketch for the cover of Howard Hughes' jetpack blueprint folio and one of the four final props made to be burnt on screen. (It was rescued from the fireplace after an early take.)

I saw Laraine Newman play Dobbu Scay tonight, and all is right with the world.

Werner Herzog should be in every wrestling documentary.

Reality Escape Pod did an episode with someone who helped bring the book S / Ship of Theseus into the world, and one of the wildest revelations? Rumors of the book using scent to make the book smell older was just that - rumor and apophenia.

I need a time machine so I can visit WB Movie World Gold Coast between 2003 and 2007.

Tickets on sale for @retrowdw.bsky.social RetroMagic California! Come learn some fun Disney history! www.retrowdw.com/events/retro...

I know they aren't likely to bother offering a popcorn bucket for the one-night Speed Racer IMAX rerelease next week, but if they did it should be this prop from the movie:

I saw someone bemoan the current, combat-free state of The Matrix Online fan-hosted emulator as a "walking simulator," and I thought that sounded like heaven so I jacked in for a few hours.

I just backed “SLEEPY HOLLOW, 1998,” a Story Delivered to Your Mailbox on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jay...

In honor of Sid Krofft's passing today, this is the (incredibly tall) map for "The World of Sid and Marty Krofft" amusement park that hung in his office when I visited him in 2019. Here's a download link in case you'd like to print one out for yourself: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

"The author is purely dead, and a year out the corpse is decomposing fast." — Blue Prince's Tonda Ros on @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the launch of Blue Prince we are giving away a set of our exclusive Gamescom 2024 Blue Prince pin and lanyard. 🎂🎉 To enter make sure you're following us and @blueprincegame.bsky.social & repost this post. Winners will be announced 17 April 2026. Good luck!

Today's reference material: A 1946 Dell paperback with a callout for a "crime map on back cover" in the form of a charming cutaway illustration. With this being a tie-in printing, I'm tempted to check if the diagram matches the movie set.

Jason Fulford "carries a bag around with him that contains one solo exhibition at a time, which he shares with ppl he meets in his daily life. People were invited to participate by allowing one of the buttons on their clothing to be removed + replaced with a button from the previous participant."

Mad respect to Topps for including in their Disneyland 70th trading cards the unbuilt Uranium Hunt in Tomorrowland where guests would have used Geiger counters to search for real uranium embedded in the rockwork. I'll take any walkthrough attraction I can get, no matter how radioactive.

Caught THE BRIDE! before it leaves theaters and, surprising nobody, I loved it. I only have one question. (Complimentary) Did Maggie Gyllenhaal play IMMORTALITY?

An extra on the Rocketeer has shared his collection of personal photos from the set, and he captured some real gems. www.facebook.com/groups/16471...

The idea that persistent narrative systems in theme parks require animatronics and an AI backend displays both a profound lack of imagination and a complete ignorance of what has already been achieved in this space. This dream has been achieved by human actors and human-curated story systems.

Believe it or not, I tried to talk her out of this sign. (She was immediately swarmed by @blueprincegame.bsky.social players at our small local protest, and I've never been happier to be wrong.)

I don't share this fandom, but it makes me happy to see legacy properties developed by people who deeply love them.

In the post-post-postgame of Blue Prince, I still like to visit Mount Holly occasionally to set little goals for myself. After many days and more rerolls than I had planned to burn, I finally managed to fill up my dining room table! Does it never end?

Fellow members of the Haute & Freddy royal court, I am pleased to report that the CD edition of "Big Disgrace" contains song lyrics! (If your physical media proclivities had exclusively favored vinyl, you may want to make an exception on this occasion.)

Apparently Fortnite is vaulting their Daft Punk experience on the 19th. If you haven't had a chance to pop in, it is a surprisingly lovely communal postscript.

I wish Pixar published visual dictionaries for their movies. (Currently basking in the HOPPERS afterglow.)

I saw Haute & Freddy perform at Bob Baker Marionette Theater last night, a perfect pairing of act and venue that turned out to be a delightful performance collaboration. (All bands should incorporate marionettes at every available opportunity.) Their first album "Big Disgrace" drops this Friday.

Strangers sometimes send me weird things in the mail, but I'm not complaining. Happy 4th, Starcruiser.

Please take the wheel with your hands at ten and two, exercise your human free will, and go see "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" in a theater while you still can. I would consider it a personal favor.

The saddest part of this story is not that Bob Iger's imagination hasn't expanded since his days as a weatherman, but that a WGA writer was not being paid to write drafts for a studio for two and a half years. That's not how development is supposed to work.

The idea of a Gene Roddenberry & Lucille Ball action figure two-pack is equal parts hilarious and beautiful. I'm stunned. Here's hoping this launches a sub-line of behind-the-scenes Star Trek figures. I'm pulling for DC Fontana and Wah Chang in the next wave.

Oh, thank goodness.

I'm going to need someone to take away my Discogs account before I fall too far down this rabbithole.

Celebrated my beloved Gore Verbinski's grand return to cinemas by sampling both items on the "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" movie tie-in menu at NORMS.

Every story beat played like gangbusters to a sold-out crowd. From the cheering children behind me to the adults whooping for a bygone patriotic stand against fascists, The Rocketeer is needed more in 2026 than he was in 1991. (The New Bev screened an immaculate original release print.)

Logging off for a bit.

I had some Blue Prince dice engraved, so I can reroll my office as needed.

Today on @thedigitalbits.bsky.social website – EXCLUSIVE: Speed Racer (2008) is coming to 4K in 2026 & Happy New Year from The Digital Bits! thedigitalbits.com/columns/bill...

By popular demand, his-and-hers whale subtitle shirts, available now on TeePublic: Hers: www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8559... His: www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8559...

Seeing the Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special on a big screen with a packed house was transcendent.

The Cloud Atlas 4K disk from @shoutstudios.bsky.social includes a new 2-hour retrospective documentary, which reassembles the team to discuss a project they poured their whole hearts into 14 years ago. I found it deeply touching. The Wachowski faithful should not hesitate on this release.

Did some calling around, and these are the theaters in greater L.A. where someone was able to confirm to me over the phone that they have 3D showings of A3 at the standard 24 frames per second. (Didn't bother with the big chains—AMC, Cinemark, and Regal—so someone else can make that their project)

Triennial meeting of the Payakan fan club was a rousing success. FIRE & ASH has more themes, more drama, more sex, more drugs, and more whale subtitles than I ever could have dreamed. I loved it. I'll see as many of these movies as they care to make.