I hate saying this. America, you can keep the Shitty Six on the Supreme Court… …or you can keep your democracy. You can no longer keep both.

Waiting for Eleanor the Great, a film about a 94 year old woman, to begin, I realize for the first time in quite a spell, I’m the youngest person in the audience.

Whoops. I have theater tickets to FOUR different movies today. *buckles belt*

Today is indeed a momentous day of astounding firsts. I just ate a saucy Chinese dinner wearing a white button up, and I did not spill a drop on my shirt. I guess I do believe in miracles.

2001: A Space Odyssey On the big screen… I waited decades. It was the first DVD I bought. It was the first Blu-ray I bought. It starts in ten minutes. 😁

I’ve watched over fifty 2025 films so far. If you want to see the worst of the batch, hey! M3GAN 2.0 is streaming on Peacock!

I hate saying this, but JD Vance has likely ruined full beards for a generation.

Nope. I refuse to call this fall until we get our ass out of the 90s…

I’m scanning the reviews for One Battle After Another and can’t recall so many thumbs high in the air since Pulp Fiction thirty years ago.

I am taking a happy day off work tomorrow, so there likely will not be a new poem until Monday. Rejoice!

“I once Was jealous How my friend was carelessly carefree, And after several years, I saw the greenest strings…” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/skip... #poet #poetry

I went on a brew cruise. I bought several pricey bags of coffee beans to try. Yay! I wasn’t a big fan of any of them. Boo! But I couldn’t toss expensive coffee! Tomorrow, I finally get to return to my standard, and I am now far more buzzed with excitement than that coffee will make me…

O, dating profiles. 🤔

“You serve your country, Serve the company. They serve a pink slip, So let's get this over with. You'd better look at that note.” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/305.... #poet #poetry

Seeing as the rapture’s today, make sure your plane pilot is a Satanist.

“..,A fuzzy sky-blue turtleneck, A grey and black knit sweater Tight about a long and skinny torso, A professor after school more adolescent boy Than educated woman. I gave my everything to most of them. I never see them anymore.” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/pudd... #poet #poetry

My least favorite shot of the last two years is the bird’s-eye follow of the CGI vehicle.

Disney… Just admit you made a mistake. You panicked. You caved. Don’t try to sound like you spoke wisdom to Jimmy, like you helped him see the light about his comments. This doesn’t cut it. We are still not okay.

Just wait until SCOTUS overturns this on the emergency docket. (I kid, I kid, sort of)

“She has the pinkest parasol She opens As we stroll together round the garden. Showers in the weather threaten. She is careful, But she always gets so wet.” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... #poet #poetry

Somebody should check which ads appear under which stories.

My neighbor two doors down has a Cava sack outside his door, and now I can’t help but wonder if it is a bagful of cash.

I don’t know why. It defeats all cliches. However, I’ve tested it, and I know for a fact… …if I undo my shirt one more button after work, far more younger women hit on me.

ICE is a deeply evil organization. Do you have a friend who works for ICE? No, you don’t.

Fun fact: Homer Simpson has his voice because Tracey Ullman cried.

“…The hours climbing through translated books Or staring down an ancient foreign film Besieged by words Of faded yellow-white As brief as camera flashes.” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/saha... #poet #poetry

“Who knows what time the sun will set? The golden hour never ending, Washing down your thirst With water from the hose.” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/your... #poet #poetry

Don’t forget… ABC is Disney. Mickey Mouse and Captain America have joined the new Nazis. The Skywalkers are informing on the Rebel forces.

“I knew you took a step You'd never keep, Too far, Too steep. But for a second…” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/lift... #poet #poetry

Windows 11 sucks in sooooo many ways.

An attractive stranger just introduced herself because she sees me in the morning and thinks I, “have the best energy.” And I usually don’t like Tuesdays…

“I strive to steady, Locked down constantly away, But every afternoon, The strangest gravity.” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/pull... #poet #poetry

Who would have predicted Hillbilly Elegy as the Mein Kampf of our century?

“I saw her first Beneath the greens Now thirty years ago, The blush of bloom Within her blossomed cheeks So round. We stole away enjoying Dirty rapping through a shared earbud.” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/by-d... #poet #poetry

I’ve never read the manga or watched the series, but I’m about to see my third Demon Slayer film in the theater. Two and a half hour anime? Let’s go!

The trailer for the new Bruce Springsteen movie (Deliver Me from Nowhere) has the worst pretentious dialogue. You can hire anybody to write and to direct your autobiographical film, and you entrust it to… Scott Cooper? This is going to be one disaster of a movie.

So I bit down yesterday and splurged for an annual ticket at my local university. Football? Lord, no. Drama and dance performances.

Updated Best 2025 Films 10) The Long Walk *** 9) Sinners *** 8) Bring Her Back *** 7) Ne Zha 2 *** 6) Caught Stealing *** 1/2 5) F1: The Movie *** 1/2 4) The Ugly Stepsister *** 1/2 3) Materialists *** 1/2 2) Weapons *** 1/2 1) She Rides Shotgun ****

I had a jam packed dream last night, but the part I remember most vividly was enjoying a lunch of fried chicken. I stopped eating chicken decades ago.

“You then transfigured Words into your flesh. You flowed of milk and honey. Bowing, I partook, imbibed The body and the wine. You swore low and sure, ‘I will come again.’” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/apos... #poet #poetry

I love the New York Times just explained to its readers what LMAO means.

Kash Patel is a clown.

On my dating profile, I mention I don’t date women with breast tattoos. I’m always tempted to change it to, “No tit tats, please!” but that somehow seems wrong…

“You do not have to die Beneath this.” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/anni... #poet #poetry

Reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk go a long way revealing those on the left who really do not believe in free speech.

“You are on my tongue And in my lungs, Your heavy fragrance anchors me Down in this ignorant and vulgar city Where they can't see that more is often less. I guess they never visit Dallas.” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/gree... #poet #poetry

Here is every Republican who voted to block the Epstein Files Transparency Act on Tuesday. Virginia Foxx (NC) Michelle Fischbach (MN) Ralph Norman (SC) Chip Roy (TX) Nicholas Langworthy (NY) Austin Scott (GA) H. Morgan Griffith (VA) Brian Jack (GA) America, take notice.

Was that the lamest iPhone reveal ever?

“I pour my memories, My days of bliss and years of painful aching, A yellow cupcake batter Carefully cascading Yet forever over the liner's rim.” thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/09/vale... #poet #poetry

We all watched how Trump’s supporters, including evangelicals, squirmed and limboed to be okay with him being a rapist. Now we may get to see how they justify supporting a child rapist.