I will be online a lot less over the next three months. Going to take some time to rebalance my relationship with computers, smart phones, and social technology. I will still check DMs every now and then, but otherwise see you in 2026!

"Fisk" (ABC Australia) is very very good.

Movies! Some absolute bangers that I’ve seen recently: One Battle After Another, Wake Up Dead Man, Sentimental Value, Sirât, The World of Love, and Left Handed Girl. I recommend all in theaters if/when they are available near you!

My friends made a game to play with friends!

This is one thing giant movie studios can still do--the crazy big swing that costs a lot of money and is not tied to an algorithm or concern about "viewer retention rate at minute three"--that no other entity can. It is one reason the film ecosystem still needs them.

A few months ago I had a chicken poutine dish at Ma Poule Mouilée in Montreal, and I have thought about it almost every day since then. One of the most delicious things I’ve ever eaten in my life. If you’re ever in Montreal, I highly recommend stopping by.

Should I be concerned that I’m a 45-year-old white man and I don’t have a podcast?

I’m hearing from high up confidential sources that the rapture DID actually occur today, but the big G decided to leave all of us grimy worms to our squirming wriggly mortal lives.

I have been following the pace of development of video AI products, and I think we are a couple years away from blockbuster quality VFX trailer shots being cheaper and easier to do than a close up of a good actor doing good acting.

PREDATORS is coming out in a limited release this weekend! A smart, powerful, and unsettling documentary.

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

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Alien Earth is so fucking good.

Mine was Blindspotting.

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

I loved the new Knives Out! Rian dunnit again!

TIL there was a film that premiered at the Venice film festival over a decade ago that hasn’t ever been reviewed or released because its standing ovation is still going.

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

well at least the trains will run on crime

I remember thinking masked police officers was a big pill to swallow when this came out. Guess I was wrong.

It was nice to read this. Despair is easy and we all know hope is hard as fuck to come by right now. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And may we all continue winding the clock for another tomorrow.

In my experience, those born between 1970 and 1985 don’t particularly give a shit what generation they are because the concept of “generations” wasn’t as aggressively force-fed down their throats by marketers as people who were born after 1985.

I’m so sick of Sonos being broken. Yes, it’s less broken now, but it’s still more broken than a couple years ago.

I think my biggest short-term concern about AI generated content is that there’s already so much low-quality content that it’s hard to find the good things. A giant flood of even more low-quality content will just make it even harder for people to find the things they actually want to see/hear/read.

Every now and then I remember the most unpleasant restaurant experience I’ve had in LA, sitting at a table next to Andy Milonakis and a bunch of people trying to impress Andy Milonakis. A distinctly mid-2000s LA unpleasantness.

Hack. The. Planet.

I wonder if it’s possible to buy social media ads that are targeted only to myself so I don’t have to see any other ads. I could just see some photos that I like.

Every AI filmmaking pitch: “What if you could make an entire movie that looked like the visuals from a karaoke video and featured the acting ability of a melting candle?”

Is this a “growth problem?” I actually think what’s happening is that Bluesky is a less addictive social media network, and is helping people who use it find a healthier relationship with social media. It’s like thinking methadone is a failure because people end up consuming less drugs.

Paramount have an incredible documentary called PREDATORS that they picked up at Sundance, all about the complicated legacy of To Catch A Predator. I hope it doesn’t get somehow lost or forgotten in the Skydance merger.

Wanting a “Joe Rogan of the left” is some real monkey’s paw wishery

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about why I’m excited about the new approach to DC that is shown in Superman, and I think it’s that it feels like a place now to make IP-based movies that can balance populist studio-agenda choices with artistic voice and a biggish dose of against-the-grain funk.

Watched the first season of The Terror, and it’s exceptional. Much much better than I expected. I feel bad for waiting so long to watch it!

I would pay extra for a deluxe edition of the new Clipse album if it removed the “this is culturally inappropriate” voice from all the tracks.

In the next US Presidential election there will be voters who have only ever know a world with the Minions.

My pals at @vidiots.bsky.social created an interactive experience during the film breaking fakeout scene in their screening of Gremlins 2: The New Batch last weekend. It's even better than what I had hoped to do in 1990! 😁

This is exactly my complaint about excessively data-driven product development. When you're hyper-focused on optimizing individual metrics in isolation, it's can blind you to bigger picture, qualitative issues. You see the trees but not the forest.

You, a fool, put plums in the ice-box. Me, a big-brain, eats the plums. There is only the present! Guess you’re plum out of luck.

I was walking the floor of the MacWorld Expo in the late 90s and I made some joke about a bad demo that someone was doing at one of the booths, and the guy next to me goes "that's funny, you're funny" and it was Sinbad.

sending love and defiance to all my friends at @colbertlateshow.bsky.social — working there for a couple years at the start was an honor, and it’s beyond fucked it’s going away. fwiw i don’t buy the conspiracy angle. if this was political silencing why give this man nine months with nothing to lose?

Tommy Wisseau’s THE DUNE

I loved the new Superman!

The switch of parking meters from coin-operated to credit-card readers also threw away almost everything that was good in their visual design and user interface. Why did we have to entirely throw away legibility (from both close and distant) when adding credit card functionality?

Rucking Fotten just launched a special collection of YOU’RE NEXT and THE GUEST shirts, and pre-orders are open for the next two days. I’m so happy with how these turned out! https://ruckingfotten.com/

actually the plural is secsunit (shout out to murderbot, a great tv show and a great series of books)

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There’s an ad for AI that I must have seen a dozen times on this trip to the UK. A guy messes up his pasta sauce recipe and asks AI for help. AI gives him a cookie recipe. This is supposed to be a good thing. Who the fuck wants this? I’m trying to eat a pasta dinner, not a pile of cookies.

You need to read this, if you’ve seen 28 YEARS LATER. Not kidding.

I went into 28 YEARS LATER as unspoiled as possible, and I absolutely loved it. One of my fav films of the year, and I already know I’ll be revisiting it multiple times.

I miss when nostalgia was good.