love how @neworleanspelicans were less than 2% likely to win 3 minutes into the 2nd half before coming all the way back to win in regulation. #NOPvsMIN

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

the revelation that Steven Soderbergh & Scott Z. Burns had developed a STAR WARS project for Adam Driver that Disney's leadership failed to greenlight vaguely reminds me of how Radiohead took time to record what should've been a Bond theme for SPECTRE that EON then rejected. youtu.be/o4mIWoLg69Y?...

to while away shut-in time due to icy conditions, i rewatched THE KNICK, and conniving hospital administrator Herman Barrow's character arc of secretly enriching himself by skimming off budgets for otherwise legit construction projects felt uncannily reminiscent of tᴙump, the WH ballroom & now this.

coming off WONDER MAN, i'm rewatching SHANG-CHI & THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS on Disney+ w/ Destin Daniel Cretton & co-writer Dave Callaham's audio commentary. my biggest takeaway is how a boutique blu-ray label oughta release a special edition of SHORT TERM 12 featuring new commentary from Cretton.

THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY. 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️🍏

it has taken what could result in my 50th year on earth for me to see a Nick Cave song nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards, yet somehow it is neither the one i most want to win—"i lied to you" from SINNERS—nor the one i think will win & i'd be ok w/ that result—"golden" from KPDH.

w/ an impending winter storm & the usual advisory warnings that accompany it, is there anyone else who thinks that being told to compulsorily drip one's hot & cold water taps on every faucet in one's domicile is playing right into the hands of big wastewater & their sewage industrial complex?

in an atypical reversal of course, @cecy.ai @markhardboiled & i jokered *correctly* to win tonight's @geekswhodrink as "🖕We've got your dark mode QR code ordering right here!🖕" (at The Highball at Alamo Drafthouse – South Lamar in Austin, TX w/ @JohnWSmith @JSterlingPound) app.foursquare.com/s...

please let it be known that this is how i want the news broken to me when It Happens.

welp, by once again jokering the wrong 16-point round as usual, @MarkHardBoiled & i finished out of the money instead of tied for 1st on tonight's @geekswhodrink (at The Highball at Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX w/ @JohnWSmith @JSterlingPound) app.foursquare.com/s...

just from having seen its trailer, i think the filmmakers behind MERCY (2026) have made a crucial misstep in thinking that ppl would pay to see in a theatre Chris Pratt *NOT* get executed.

as much as i hate how the banner for this petition seems to have been created using genAI, i hate the idea of mobile phones being the sole method for ordering food & drinks during movies at the Alamo Drafthouse even more, so as useless as this is, please consider signing it.

Rian Johnson am listening to #GoodOnePodcast ep you'd recorded at Vulture Fest prior to the release of GLASS ONION, where you mention having posted the KNIVES OUT timeline on twitter. however, since that site's essentially dead/useless, could you please skeet it, the GLASS ONION & TLJ ones on here?

If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.

given whom she would be replacing as the DCEU WW, Simu Liu being quoted in interviews that he thinks his THE COPENHAGEN TEST costar Melissa Barrera, who was notably sacked from the SCREAM franchise for posting pro-Palestine sentiments to her IG, should be cast as the DCU's new Wonder Woman is 👨🏻‍🍳💋

Demario Davis is as great as always, but one of the lasting ways Dennis Allen's regime w/ the #Saints has negatively impacted their future is having Zach Baun & Kaden Elliss in the bldg as potential running mates to Davis, putting all his eggs in the Pete Werner basket and letting both of 'em walk.

Chris Myers has become the new Dick Stockton, in terms of supplying play-by-play for a wholly separate football game that only exists in his addled mind and isn't ever actually the one Fox is paying him to call. #NOvsATL

409 of the 457 features & shorts i had watched last year were seen theatrically. shoutout to @AlamoDrafthouse Cinema (& #FantasticFest ), @AustinFilm Society, @sxsw.com and the IMAX Theatre at Bob Bullock Story of Texas Museum for having made that possible. #LetterboxdYIR

as has been decreed by @secretbase it is my modest hope for 2026 that everyone latches onto referring to this impending super bowl as "super bowl lex" to the chagrin of the NFL, and then the next 9 super bowls as lex 1, 2, etc., to further twist the knife. www.patreon.com/post...

as cynical as i've become, i'm still a total sucker for that little sigh captured at the very beginning of the studio version of jeff buckley's cover of "hallelujah" on GRACE. it gets me every time.

I'm so glad we got three KNIVES OUTs but I wish we'd gotten three ZERO EFFECTs.

that neither @eavoss.bsky.social nor @ryanarey.bsky.social mentioned this tremendous tidbit in their breakdown videos for @rianjohnson.bsky.social's WAKE UP DEAD MAN is a crying shame.

w/ Ben Johnson imbued w/ Dan Campbell's irrational sense of brazen analytics, we're rooting for the Bears to score their go-ahead TD & then go for 2 for the 46-42 scorigami. #SNFonNBC

the ineffable ability, that the score from this 1min 15sec clip continues to demonstrate to instantly de-age me by no less than 40 years in an instant, may be among the darkest of all magicks. youtu.be/i1NKoMNy5bY?...

since 2022, i've negotiated the perilous expanse btwn 1 & 25 Dec each year w/o hearing "Last Christmas" by Wham! to tally my 4th #Whamageddon in a row. to quote Hans Gruber in DIE HARD, “…and when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.” *mic drop*

w/ 2 full days to go, this'll be my last year participating in #Whamageddon b/c the inordinate number of ppl who feel obligated to post AI slop to disclose getting Whammed feels indicative of how this once-noble pursuit has been co-opted by the 𝘄͟𝗼͟𝗿͟𝘀͟𝘁̲ ppl, clearly bereft of any imagination or whimsy.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

the world is still an absolute hellscape, but that hellscape hits just a little bit different when both the @NewOrleansSaints AND @NewOrleansPelicans are on active winning streaks. it's been so long for both teams to have stacked multiple victories i'd clearly forgotten how great it feels. ⚜️

today marks the 1st day on which @neworleanssaints & @neworleanspelicans —each w/ 2-game win streaks—have both won a game since 7 january 2024, on which the saints beat the falcons 48-17 in the dome, and the pels beat the kings in sacramento, 133-100. ⚜️ #whodat h/t: Andre Johnson w/ @fox8live.com

#whodat and actual tears shed at hearing "i'm shipping up to boston" over a replay of Charlie Smyth celebrating his game-winning TD for @neworleanssaints

getting swept by the Saints should be grounds for playoff elimination

#NowRewatching: only makes sense to me, but since i had squandered rare chances to see Clint Bentley's TRAIN DREAMS theatrically, making up for it w/ another viewing of @RianJohnson 's WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A #KnivesOut MYSTERY (at @AlamoDrafthouse Cinema – Village in Austin, TX) app.foursquare.com/s...

Rat calendars! Now with a working website! www.elementalwoodworks.com/calendar-2026

@rossjacksonnola #whodat media0.giphy.com/med...

#whodat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #saints win by the skin of their teeth!

a notable aspect about #SpotifyWrapped day is starting the clock till the new year's eve, during which period one has complete amnesty to listen to any music that won't count toward next year's recap, so go nuts, y'all! it's like 28 days of the purge.

i need for Letterboxd to allow me to log Jack White's performance during halftime of the Detroit Lions game on thanksgiving, if only to award this opening steadicam maneuver the ★★★★ it so clearly merits.

my 1st ever time for a #NBACup game features @NewOrleansPelicans w/ Zion back in the lineup hosting the memphis grizzlies. #PelicansGameday (at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, LA w/ @hannahha #BabyPairOfJordans #PapaHa for Memphis Grizzlies at New Orleans Pelicans) app.foursquare.com/s...

#NowWatching: the 6pm advance screening of latest whodunnit from writer/director @RianJohnson WAKE UP DEAD MAN, followed by a live-streamed q&a w/ him from somewhere else. (at @AlamoDrafthouse Cinema – South Lamar in Austin, TX for #WakeUpDeadMan – A #KnivesOut Mystery) app.foursquare.com/s...

@rodneyascher please be advised that i think about your short film THE S FROM HELL at least once a month ever since i saw it at #FantasticFest

thx to @austinfilm & @alamodrafthouse i've gotten to see the 3 titles topping this list in cinemas but i'd drop everything if one of 'em were to program anything like this that were to include SHE DIES TOMORROW, PALM SPRINGS, THE EMPTY MAN or BARB & STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR.

winona ryder was among my 1st ever celebrity crushes, and i will never not stan my quirky, too cool for school queen, but her nervous energy on hot ones is more than my introvert battery has a vicarious capacity to withstand.

when the reposted image found its way into in my skyline, i knew its alt text would be satisfying, and let's just say…

what fox may or may not realize about having done this is how much it just dumps so much more fuel on the pettiness fire for falcons hate week. ⚜️

nearly a week has elapsed since i watched Edgar Wright's adaptation of THE RUNNING MAN, and i couldn't quite identify at the time why it just didn't sit right for me. i just learned that principle photography had been shot in Bulgaria & Glasgow, and the latter might explain why its vibes were off.

after having accidentally seen the SEND HELP trailer, i can't help but hope one of our more knowledgeable writers about film is already sitting on a 1500-word piece about how it is a gender-swapped remake of Lina Wertmüller's 1974 movie SWEPT AWAY… & waiting to post it on their patreon or substack.

appreciate @mattgoldberg for exhaustively bringing attention to the disconnect btwn the viral-by-design marketing for DIE MY LOVE! and THE RUNNING MAN not translating into box office for those films, compared to THE SUBSTANCE, SINNERS & BARBIE, but he's burying the lede here. www.commentarytrack....

w/ the #saints on their bye week means i was already having an enjoyable autumn sunday when their poor play couldn't hurt me, but both a #scorigami & a bucs loss rolled up into one is the cherry on top.

it's finally something resembling full-on autumn 'round these parts, but please indulge me in nominating my friends' 7-year-old's shower sea-shanty as next year's song of the summer, assuming we all live that long.