They hate cities because we are a two minute walk to delicious taco truck tacos #HatersGonnaHate

So come on down, and get yourself a free, that’s right, free air fryer! We need the space, and this big boy takes some space. Ain’t that right Tex? That’s right Edna!

Anyone in the Chicago area want an air fryer, or know someone who does? A good model, I’m told, never even taken out of the box. (I won it.) It’s free for whomever wants to take it off my hands, you just need to come to Noble Square to pick it up. DM me. This HAS to be a good deal for someone!

Jack Nance in "Twin Peaks" - BOTD

Haven’t done my #LastFourWatched in awhile, but this was a fun run. Four decades, four acclaimed directors.

Damn it sure would be embarrassing for the writer of this if there were any medical conditions where people could walk but not for long distances

Out on the town on the quest for the moral life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, being moral too.

Getting my teeth cleaned tomorrow, what are some last minute gifts I can pick up at the dentist’s office? I’ve been procrastinating.

*Tim Kazurinsky Old Man Voice* We didn’t have cuties as a convenient, on-the-go citrus. We had naval oranges, they were hard to peel and they had a thick layer of pith you couldn’t get off, the segments were hard to separate, but they were SEEDLESS! And WE LIKED THEM!

Time for a REAL Christmas movie! @davistheater.bsky.social

“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then." -Philip K. Dick #BOTD

My Letterboxd review of Dead Man’s Wire

It’s because your guy is a scumbag, James Woods. It’s embarrassing that he has to piss on the grave of someone you personally know for you to see it.

Carl Reiner's last acting role was in the quarantine-era THE PRINCESS BRIDE home edition, done as a fundraiser for @wck.org Carl played the grandfather in the final scene, opposite Rob Reiner as the grandson😢

At Siskel, now seated for

4 u @nattopping.bsky.social

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I saw The Sting when it was released. My parents took me to the drive-in, said, put your jammies on, you’ll fall asleep. I insisted I wouldn’t, they didn’t say I *couldn’t* watch, but fall asleep I did. Finally watched it proper yesterday, in the theatre. What a treat. Newman and Redford are iconic

Sorry upper Midwesterners, you can have sun, or non-lethally cold temps, but never both, thems the rules.

the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver

To carry on the theme I’m rattling on about - grief as depicted in art - here is Robert Frost’s Home Burial. What it is *about* doesn’t require explanation. What it is, and how you relate to it, are for you to discover in the reading, and are uniquely yours. (As is grief.)

Man, if any of all y’all fellow Twin Peaks fans are objecting to emotional manipulation in Hamnet, we need to talk.

My Letterboxd review of Hamnet.

Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives.

“R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?” My dude would be amazed how my employer- provided plan works.

Take it from a guy of a certain age, being of a certain age and sounding off on how uncool the new band the youngs are into isn’t the flex you think it is.

cannot believe the title of this wikipedia article is actually wenis

Honestly, I’m ready to ditch everything Apple and Google and just get a Moto G for the few apps I use, and for calls and texts. I do very little internet browsing, because as a source of info, “THE Internet” has ceased to be. If I need to look something up, I open DuckDuckGo and head to Wikipedia

How long can I keep that 1️⃣ up there? This #apple iOS update looks like absolute garbage.

Visited, three spirits… #YoLaTengo

Someone should do a noir detective film using music from spaghetti westerns that also twists the facts of an historic event starring Matthew Lillard and Paul Dano from the perspective of just their well-manicured bare feet. Then Tarantino will love their acting.

Jill (Claudia Cardinale) in Once Upon a Time in the West, providing important clues with facial expression, expecting her husband to meet her at at the train station, only to find he isn’t there.

Happy Birthday, Tom Waits! Here’s the man himself with some advice on dealing with bad days, for whomever needs it.

William Carlos Williams, The Sparrow

“Thyme is the weakest pizza seasoning. Not that it’s bad, it’s just… I’m eating this margherita pizza, and the thyme just isn’t of the same caliber as the fresh basil leaves. That’s my only criticism.” - Quentin Tarantino, probably.

Anyway - directors with 10 feature films, most of them solid - nursing most likely dumb grudges, then telling on themselves about it, because they have a platform to give vent to that stupid little itch, embarrassing themselves. They are just like us, aren’t they? (Maybe not.)

Need to raise my social standing, please Quentin, if this message reaches you, please cast shade on me.

I have a feeling this will be the most controversial FIFA Peace Prize since 1938 when they awarded it to Adolf Hitler

To the woman walking out of the Davis Theatre screening of Crimson Peak last night saying “I knew everything that was going to happen, but it was beautiful to look at.” What the hell kind of twisted Gothic Horror Re-envisioned By Guillermo del Toro sixth sense do you have?

Lovin’ this front door so much… #BettyBoop

Insightful piece for anyone who has ever felt an uncanny connection between current U.S. politics and the fiction of #PhilipKDick , by Jeff Hewitt

To Live and Die in L.A. is a Christmas movie

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

My Letterboxd review of Kwaidan.

I’m not alone in this opinion, yay! No disrespect for Goodfellas at all; I just think Casino checks a box or two more of things that make a movie great.

Had an issue with a UPS delivery that required talking to a human, which of course they make it almost impossible to do: you have to give gibberish responses to “trick” the voice prompt menu to put you through. Of course Philip K Dick predicted this in the 1950s Link to Galaxy Mag with “Autofac”

Post your favorite “Transformers” character. Wrong answers only.

Happy #Caturday

Well, getting together with family is great (no irony or sarcasm intended), but based on my observations from at least a couple of airport gates, I speak for quite a few of us when I say: that holds as long as there is an end date to the holiday reunion. 🙏