"The garbage will do." *Falcon revealed, John Williams cranks it UP* And the audience ERUPTED.

Following the lead of @infinata.bsky.social, one of my favorite meta TFA things was a "prediction" of Episode VIII heavily featuring Unkar Plutt. Super aggressive that since he was played by Simon Pegg & connected to Rey's parents, that he would be hugely important. "We will see him again."

I still remember reading a review for The Fast and the Furious, pretty sure from The Charlotte Observer... but it might have been a more local paper, which complained that NYC doesn't have the room for street racers and that makes the movie ridiculous. That person got paid for that.

james cameron every couple of years for some reason:

Welp... I hate to say that stories shouldn't be retold, but Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein is the perfect cinematic adaptation of Mary Shelly's masterpiece. Every attempt from here forward will be judged against this triumph. Only cool adaptations with a twist from this point forward.

Breaking out your stringed instrument that you haven't played in years is a comedy of errors. Shoulder rest rubber grips? Solidified and brittle. Bridge? Foot disintegrated during tuning causing strings to snap down. Sound Post? Knocked loose from string snap. Time to take it to the pros.

John Goodman playing Frank King in Trumbo is *chef's kiss*. Just a show stoppingly hilarious scene where he chews up the scenery, literally smashing it with a bat, while chewing out an MPA stooge. Trumbo was a little cutty, but overall nicely made. Cranston deserved the Oscar nod.

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

Now they're shrink-flating tofu?!? Ugh! I already thought it was crazy that Simple Truth Organic was cheaper than House Foods, but now it's a little bit smaller as well?

the third time you eat leftovers it’s a rightover

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

I never realized how much Shaggy sounds like Zoidberg...

I don't know why I expect it to be different. Every year NBC/Peacock says the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will be streaming starting at 8:30 in all time zones. They have yet to do that. Completely botched. I miss LoCast so much.

William Shatner as Captain Kirk in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1968.

Laura is doing the gods' work.

Sunshine

Just watched Damien Chazelle's Babylon. There's an easy 30-45 minutes you can cut out. Fantastic performances all around. Insane design choices. Incredibly expensive with the amount of background talent. But the tone varies so widely, some of which works well, but feels messy by the end.

More Horatio Hornblower movies with Ioan Gruffudd.

If Star Wars rumors and speculation had been real. Star Killer Base blows up Coruscant instead of Hosnian Prime. A BOLD move. Probably would have been interpreted as some kind of middle finger to the PT. But it would have had way more emotional heft, on a meta level, with the audience.

Started reading The Will of the Many. I put it on my libby list so long ago that I didn't remember what it was... So far I'm enjoying the world building, but I am finding "Most Special Boy" protagonists rather tired these days. When he's already great at most things how is he supposed to grow?

When it comes to life, fungi and crabs are just putting us all to shame.

I've always loved the ST, and have been waiting for the day when the tides of opinion turned. There is a new Poe Dameron comic coming that I eagerly await.

11/24/1988

I prefer to tier rank SW. Here's Canon Movies/TV: S: ANH, ESB, TLJ, Andor, TA A: RotJ, TFA, Rebels, TCW, SC, TBB, Mando, TotJ B: TRoS, Solo, R1, Ahsoka, Kenobi, TotE, TotU, BoBF C: Resisitance, AotC D: TPM, RotS Shout out YJA, it's for younglings, so it's in a protective bubble. For Light and Life

Putting TRoS at the bottom is just so silly. For all its choices, it's still a better executed movie than any of the PT. Same goes for AotC's positioning. It's wonky as hell, but at least it tried something different. But, Pritzker & me both fall under the adage: there's no accounting for taste.

40 years ago today EWOKS THE BATTLE FOR ENDOR premiered on ABC as the ABC Sunday Night Movie.

Some of Schrödinger's friends had to be giggling at his funeral, right?

We've had a decade of incredible and seemingly unending Star Wars comics. And while I know there will be more, the current slate looks so thin... I can't help but feel that we've come to an end of an era.

It rained so hard and so consistently this week in LA that, now that it stopped, my tinnitus is out of control! What the french toast!?!

Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton 1932

The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it

Just make it exist, you can make it good later #pixelart

every time a community tests ubi or free housing for the homeless the result is always "holy fuck this works incredibly well and costs less than existing solutions!" and then every politician alive does this

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DANDY AS A DE ROLO!

What is your Star Trek project only you would love? An anthology series that follows an ever evolving cast of characters in a semi-connected web of adventures around the galaxy. (think MTV's Undressed where a background character becomes a guest star, then a lead, then out; as the cast rotates)

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

Fit check for my Jedi era #KpopDemonHunters #StarWars

"Oh boy... It was so... Fucking stupid. Almost everyone knew it was stupid. But enough people wanted to take advantage of that stupidity and convinced the folks that didn't know that it was stupid that it was actually great. And then they ruined everything for almost everyone for years."

COWORKER: do anything fun with the family this weekend? ME: yeah, went to an art museum. COWORKER: did you take any pictures? ME: no, we left them on the walls.

The Imperial Remnant/First Order supporters within The New Republic government definitely use the At Attin mint's heretofore unregistered, incredible volume of credits to fund their goals, right? No way all that cash doesn't get abused. Plus the laundering opportunities are massive.

Back in Star Wars Legends: The Emperor's body became a shriveled husk over time due to Dark Side corruption. I always preferred that to Lucas's Unmasking of the Monster. (Which is melodramatic AF and totally on brand.)

From the "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" crowd comes, "He didnt like to assault children, he liked to assault children who looked like younger children." And still not a Drag Queen.

While I enjoyed they hell out of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, treating every single fan servicey reference with almost holy reverence was a bit on the nose for me. Still fun though. Patrick, as usual, breaks things down with insight and thoughtfulness. Plus it's a Mindhunter, what's not to like?

Being in your 40s in 2025 means searching to see if graphic t-shirts from 20 years ago are still available. The only difference is that you hope they're printed on a much softer material. Also, they used to the $20...

"Following Her Arraignment" is hard as fuck.

Real dangers like tens of thousands of citizens losing their Healthcare? A danger like that, right? Right?

What's so funny to me is that I've been Vegan for 10 years, and I feel very confident a plant based dupe of the McRib would be indistinguishable from the animal version. No one would know.