And now it’s time for the awards… the Actor Awards!

I’m Worried That Hogan’s Heroes Will Be Replaced Permanently On METV Since “The Golden Girls” Is Coming March 16th.

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social from the City Paper in Philadelphia.

It remains wild that this is how Michael Mann chooses to frame a man on the phone.

“Signal 30” — an amazing episode of MAD MEN in which Pete Campbell is emasculated about five times.

"I have resisting watching M*A*S*H because it looks like one of those shows that gestures at martini-swilling doctors during the Korean War while actually teaching its audience the difference between a chicken and baby."

CLOCKWORK ORANGE, LOVE LIZA, and (very recently) IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU.

Now showing at the Passyunk Ave Acme.

Superlative commitment to the bit.

Fascinating that U2's new surprise protest EP has been thus far been ignored on my timeline. Very different from the response to Springsteen's Minneapolis song. Bono et al really have kind of torched their rep in the last 15 years.

One of my favorite movie quotes: “And I can't fix a car like this, because I don't have the tools! And even if I did have the tools I don't know if I could fix a car like this!”

My back to the wall A victim of laughing chance This is for me The essence of true romance Sharing the things we know and love with those of my kind Libations, sensations That stagger the mind

I actually remember watching this on Prism in the early ‘80s. As a young, Star Wars-obsessed lad, I think I could just barely perceive that something was… off about this one.

Roses are red/ I promise to be brief/ I know your name/

The 2026 Phillies becoming Mutter Museum weirdos could be their ticket to the World Series - my column

09 Feb 2026

She and Walz are making four new episodes of MST3K.

I’m glad James Wong Howe, Jack Cardiff, and Robby Müller aren’t around to shoot a movie that leads to an interview with Chotiner.

RIP Catherine O’Hara, an extremely strong candidate for Funniest Person Ever.

One great writer's obituary for another. Brian Howard on Dan McQuade. "Nobody understood Philadelphia, and Philadelphians, like Dan." www.phillymag.com/news/2026/01...

Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

With all that's going on, with regards to our country's lawless, murderous government, it feels a bit tacky to put out a call for job opportunities. Nevertheless, I am looking for any and all open positions in communications, marketing, and/or web content.

Appointment viewing for me circa 1983 on New Jersey PBS. RIP.

19 Jan 2026

Root Beer Friday

Saw a woman at the Pennsport Acme with Buzz Osborne of the Melvins hair.

Life is unkind We fall, but we keep gettin' up Over and over and over and over and over And over and over and over and over

I will miss Ranger, I am glad he got paid, I am glad he’s in the American League and I can’t wait to hear people in Boston say his name

13 Jan 2026

What a piece of work is a man, what a fuckin piece of work. Get a load of his reason. Check out his fuckin faculty. Jesus christ, look at this form and moving. What a character.

Sean Penn at the Golden Globes

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's breakfast nook

What was your #childhoodcinema? The movie theater inside the Village Mall in Horsham, where I saw THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN, STAR TREK III AND IV, SCROOGED, SPACEBALLS, and much more. Later on, it became a $3 second-run theater; I saw the first AUSTIN POWERS and second JURASSIC PARK that way.

excellent nyt piece on tom verlaine's archives. he was such a great guy i miss him still. no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...

At the center of it all, and at the end. "Blackstar": bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/b...

Fuck this government. Fuck feckless cowardly Democrats.

I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is

Actual good news!

First single from a new @joepernice.bsky.social album!

Hell yeah. We got a punk rock pediatrician on the PBS News Hour tonight.

This week’s root beer.

01 Jan 2026

I’m sorry, who?!

All the stars are here.