Movie Recommendation of the Week: FRANKENSTEIN (2025). Del Toro wanted to create the seminal gothic monster for Netflix and ended up reanimating Edward Scissorhands. Gory yet awkward with drama. Jacob Elordi as the bishounen creature is a highlight.

Having just seen this movie last night one character theme I hope people take away is the tech bro impatience of Victor. He gets bored of the Creature within days because it doesn't speak with a full vocabulary right away. They want an instant future and to be called geniuses without doing work.

Movie Recommendation of the Week: THE VANISHING (1993). George Sluzier's 'sellout' Hollywood remake of the euro-thriller by...George Sluzier. Three years after a woman's disappearance her obsessive boyfriend meets her abductor. Gloomy, disturbing. Jeff Bridges inexplicably does a weird Dutch accent.

Today I had to reteach a client how to Forward an email after he had a nervous breakdown because his phone's AI couldn't help him share a file attachment. Folks, this tech is more cognitively damaging than snorting butane.

The last good software ever made was the little pop-up telling you the caps lock is on when you're typing a password.

Movie Recommendation of the Week: THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Parts 1 & 2) (2023): Dumas's perennial swashbuckler gets an obligatory big budget French remake for the streaming content era. Grey and dour but dependably entertaining. It's got Eva Green going ninja mode, you're not above watching this.

Thanks to AI brainrot whenever I have questions for a client I have to email them one question at a time. Progress!

- Master of the Flying Neck Massager

Barack Obama adopted a third world trophy child only to discard her once she aged out of clout usefulness.

Because AI is lazy with its sourcing within a week after OpenAI released a Studio Ghibli feature all AI images became contaminated with the piss yellow Ghibli coloring. I predict a similar trend where this smirking jailbait daemon will be automatically inserted into every GIF and video.

It's Dudes Rock Autumn

Trump and Hegseth after the speech: "Well that was fun. It was a great idea to call them fat and woke and tell them to interfere in domestic politics. The generals have broken up into 4 or 5 different groups and are all conversing with each other. I'm sure they're just exchanging email contacts."

Inside the 'Alien: Earth' writers' room: "Guys, these late episode plot points are so dumb and the dialogue so lazy the only way this makes sense is if our main characters are chi..." (pause, followed by suddenly reaching for Episode 1 script and a Sharpie)

Ending a text-based communication with the punctuation 'lol' instead of a period or question mark makes clear the most important note to the reader; that the writer is a Millennial.

I remember watching the George Floyd protests in a split-screen and whether it was Atlanta or some podunk town in Iowa the police showed up to every protest with standard-issue RoboCop gear and weapons. They'll never run out, they've been preparing for us for decades.

Make a band singular. Hootie

Thinking of the @davidjroth.bsky.social review of the movie 'Starship Troopers' a few years ago where he notes how fascism's obsession with macho self-image eventually makes it weak and incapable. This is our nation's Klendathu moment.

Hoping I win the Powerball tonight so I can launch a dark money project of TikTok videos where surly art school girls recite vintage Matt Christman rants about the fecklessness of the Democratic Party, targeted at the inboxes of Dem lawmakers themselves.

True wisdom is realizing that influencer culture and 2020's content trends were most accurately predicted by the Weird Al movie 'UHF'.

It's a great character because he's an antagonist with a reasonable conflict with the main character but he's still a jerk that audiences don't like.

To a cat, the voice in their head telling them to tip over an object has the gravitas of Almighty God.

Slightly diminish a band: Kilodeth

Movie Recommendation of the Week: THUNDERHEART (1992). Neat little detective story set on a Native American reservation that punches above its weight with gorgeous photography (Roger Deakins), moody music (James Horner) and a murderer's row of character actors. An artifact of lost craftsmanship.

Yet again a Silicon Valley billionaire barges into an industry and 'discovers' a shittier version of an established business practice: in this case Sam Z. Arkoff's 'A.R.K.O.F.F. Formula' for a profitable movie (Action, Revolution, Killing, Oratory, Fantasy & Fornication).

When a fast food restaurant puts in a self-order terminal I stop going. I'm not doing an enrichment exercise to unlock my meal.

Movie Recommendation of the Week: TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991). Yeah, you've all seen it. Go watch it again, this time studying an AI that's quiet, unobtrusive, knows its limitations and whose evil overlords are implied to have hard-programmed the product to stop it from deleting itself.

Maybe the elite just don't want us all to know that Epstein had an awesome dinosaur park on his island.

Movie Recommendation of the Week: THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (2018). Anthology of Western shorts culled from the story junk drawer of the Coen Bros. The highlight of them, 'Meal Ticket', is the best narrative illustration of the relationship between a small business owner and his employee.

It's so cool that a leftist won a municipal primary election and the New York Times immediately did the journalistic equivalent of Operation GLADIO to stop him.

Here in LA they have billboards for an "all-natural" sunscreen made of Tallow. Either the beef oil is great for frying shit or it's great for not-frying shit. It can't do both!

Movie Recommendation of the Week: STEPPENWOLF (2024). Evil, violent absurdist spaghetti western from Kazakhstan. When gangsters kidnap her son a traumatized, near-mute woman must rely on Eurasia's version of The Joker to get him back. Murder, revenge, synth music, YURTS! It's all here.

Post-Covid we're too stupid for jokes this subtle. The New York Post will have this on page one by Wed.

This is what Fox News proclaimed Michelle Obama's healthy eating initiative was going to do.

NY liberals having to replace their mayor because his crimes leave him open to Trump's blackmail and immediately deciding to nominate Andrew Cuomo.

I think a lot about that Heritage Foundation/Project 2025 guy who said last year that we are in the middle of a second American Revolution and it will be "bloodless as long as the left allows it to be."

Give any big-media journalist (including this guy) a time machine and they would use it to fearlessly tell the truth about Hitler in the year 1946.

The Andor series finally answers the question of why Diego Luna's character in Rogue One doesn't want to socialize or learn the names and backstories of any of his overly cheerful teammates.

The decline in material conditions and lack of lifestyle affordability is most notable in that the last cinematic status symbol adopted by young men to look cool was from the movie 'Drive' and it wasn't even a car--it was a jacket worn by the guy who drives cars. Podcasts are free.

Andor continues in the Star Wars tradition of a single-biome planet. Tatooine the all-desert planet. Hoth the all-ice planet. Ghorman the all-France planet.

The 101st Airborne are going to suffer more casualties defending Wal-Mart from tariff rioters than they suffered defending Bastogne.

I wonder if the folks running the Walt Disney corporation stay up at night asking themselves when their core revenue source switched from middle class couples splurging on their children to childless adult shut-ins who scream at them when the cartoons have "forced diversity".

The process of selecting a new Pope.

Haley Joel Almost

Movie Recommendation of the Week: LOVE LIES BLEEDING (2024). In the last days of Wokeness we got a lesbian James Ellroy-style crime thriller. Weird, moody, downbeat and filled with an assortment of lonely scumbag characters. All that was missing was the "An Orion Pictures Release" logo.

Everyone celebrates the showboaty and glamorous martyrs resisting fascism but for me nothing beats the stories of meek, everyday people taking a baseline moral stance in peril of their careers and livelihoods. Greg Pearre, witness him.

As the empire foundered the Tsar increasingly consulted with a mystic rumored to possess hypnotic control over the imperial court.

Bar of bath soap, marketed for women: Soft, smooth, color of aged silk, lavender scented. Bar of bath soap, marketed for men: A square rock studded with road gravel, brown as shit, allegedly scented like bourbon and adrenaline.