somewhere in the untold depths of toho's computer network lies a folder full of low resolution highly compressed jpg images that are to be used exclusively for ultra uhd disc menus.

it's late. gonna knit and watch the 4k of 'showgirls'.

that film masters up of 'the crawling eye' is either a smoothed-over upscale of the old image dvd master or the worst hd transfer i've ever seen. surely the hd master that made its way to blu-ray from anolis a few years ago is licensable? surely?

sorry. knew i said i'd try to have some new shit up today, but you gotta understand. i had to take a nap and eat a pizza and watch 'the movie orgy'. so yeah.

gonk

i guess i took up two hobbies in the lead-up to the holidays... knitting, and vhs tapes produced by regional news stations about catastrophic weather events.

The piece, syndicated from KFF Health News, that aired on Fresh Air and was published to the NPR website. It is... not good. Shock. Surprise.

knitting updates: ya boi can purse stitch. i mean... not well. yet. still. progress.

tbh the entire family in 'a christmas story' is coded neurodivergent af. and jean shepherd spent at least one episode of his radio show talking about dirigibles for forty straight minutes. so.

got an ad for this in my inbox and jfc i thought christian cage had a christmas movie for a second...

it's tradition.

so all of the modern editions of the 1987 film 'take me out to the snow land' are varying degrees of smoothed over crap-o-la. bleh. but the laserdisc master?... they didn't even add a video mask to the laserdisc master. it's just as-shot in-camera 1.85, light bleed and all. amazing.

double pointed needles? more like...schmubble bointed beedles... (...i guess i've learned how to use these too. cool...)

shameless christmas eve plug. will try to have some new stuff up for the weekend. happy holidays to those who care. and to everyone, don't let the bastards grind you down.

knitting continues apace. i can now purl.

full piece, via archive. "...but since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery..." jfc my dude. snap into a slim jim and chill the fuck out. web.archive.org/web/20251223...

Global TV is a low-effort conservative-leaning private network, and this wasn’t “treachery” this was “it was the weekend before Christmas and they just broadcast the episode that was sent to them digitally by CBS on Friday”, no one in the office on the weekend even if CBS tried to warn them

finally, a real reason to hate david brooks in addition to all of the other real reasons that already existed to hate david brooks.

David Brooks is now the third alleged Jeffery Epstein associate at the New York Times. This potentially includes A.G. Sulzberger, the current chairman of the NYT board. The NYT published this piece by David Brooks about Epstein less than a month ago. Why did their executive leadership allow this?

that is... a lot of Jean Shepherd. www.youtube.com/@greenteablend

i guess i'mma go learn how to knit shit i don't know

joys of ebay. five books. one seller. four listed as used (good) that arrive brand new. one listed as brand new that arrives looking as though it were run over by several trucks. what the fuck.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

can I cook? oh yeah, I can cook. that dino nugget parmesan over there? sauce is fuckin' home made.

New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...

a swedish saga of bleak and snowy sci-fi inaction, just in time for the holidays.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

Watching the spiked 60 Minutes episode on YouTube, thanks to @phillewis.bsky.social. It's not like the Trump admin didn't have its say. At about 4:15 mark, there is footage of Trump saying CECOT was "great facilities, very strong facilities" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lenF...

holy shit.

i dunno, but you gotta find joy in the little things. like how there's this one absolute dogshit-encoded shot in that new 'The Odyssey' trailer that just dropped, and it looks like this.

I've been searching for years, but suddenly, on the thrift store vhs rack, it's there. The rarest of the rare. A screener copy - still in shrink, tamper seal intact - of the tokusatsu / aerobics crossover VHS that was pulled last minute from commercial release. It's 'Varan the Bunbelievable'.

happy solstice. i added a blog to the front page. more sometime.

idiots still being like "but ai democratizes art" when bill rebane's been out there making movies for more than sixty goddamn years, showing all of us the way.

im on now! :)

a swedish saga of bleak and snowy sci-fi inaction, just in time for the holidays.

you think you're tough? you don't know me. i watch 'invasion from inner earth' for fun. for. fun.

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tomorrow's news today.

i look at the current state of my country as it enters its two hundred and fiftieth year, consider what brought it to this place and where it appears to be heading, and carefully choose my words...

me: i'm feeling good. i'm feeling creative. i'm feeling like i want to write about some classic winter films. meanwhile, the 'classic' winter film i write about:

watching the life expectancy of players diminish in inverse proportion to the average asking price of new releases and realizing the laserdisc era is back in the most infuriating least fun ways possible.

amused to see that the recent Atlantic piece on the extra exam-time crisis links, with perfect comic timing, to a 2019 Atlantic piece suggesting that perhaps arbitrary exam time limits should be nixed entirely.

time to party like it's 1993.

REALITY !

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

all of these will sound more believable to the youths than crackle.

not fond of film masters in the least, so it's a bittersweet pleasure to finally see more of the wade williams horde in distribution again... link is to the film masters williams playlist on yt, which shows 'target earth' (12/18) and 'the crawling eye' (12/22) as upcoming.

the agony and the ecstasy of all those times you can see haruo nakajima's brow-line and nose poking through the little holes in daisensogoji's neck...