One good thing about adding another cat to the house is the first cat spends a lot more time on my lap

Turns out łink and Sarah Kendzior were keeping the site from throwing errors

The thing about having somebody perform a task for you is you're not just paying for their labor, you're paying for their experience. I overwhelmingly go through clerk checkout rather than self-check because those checkout clerks are SO much better and efficient at it than me.

The only genuinely adult take on Batman was the 1966 tv show. Everything since on tv and the movies has been for 14-year-olds of all ages.

a writer who gets stuck because a character was killed off is the kind of writer who would ask ChatGPT how to transition from scene 5 to scene 6

In these times that try men's souls, I find myself immersed in thoughts like this:

And each force should have its own theme music

One important Armistice Day tradition is to read Kurt Vonnegut as presented by @doktorzoom.bsky.social

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

It's very simple. The next film should be about four Bonds: a cyborg one, a bloke in a suit of armour with a big hammer, a teenage one who's cloned from the DNA of Bond and Blofeld, and a fascist one that's secretly an artifact from Bond's homeworld. Then the real one should come back with a mullet.

Somehow, Bond returned

Listening to Al Stewart present history as a storyteller, interlacing real occurrences with emotional resonances, just strengthens my belief that We Didn't Start The Fire is low effort trash

All the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 posting today has me thinking about other songs in the disaster genre

I eat at this table. I’d rather Billy not sit on it. So we’ve reached a compromise: I’ll eat off a plate on my lap and he’ll sit wherever the fuck he wants. Cats always turn me into the Chuck Schumer of my own apartment.

Hang in there, OK?

we deserve cats

me watching several of my mutuals dunking on each other: none of you are free of sin

This tracks because ICHC is about ten years old and the Berlin Wall fell about twenty years ago

I’m only here still because Bluesky is the worst microblogging platform except for all of the others which have been tried

You reply to Benjamin Dreyer, you best not miss an apostrophe

Write that weird little book, make that weird little painting. It was given to you for a reason and someone else needs to see it and if you don’t do it no one will

there is a thick oaken rod at work with which my enemies routinely beat me about the head and groin. this stick is more dear to me than my very own children

The chatter and incomplete garbage takes on Let It Be give it the feel of a behind-the-scenes look, which I think was the intention; but that makes the album a documentary curiosity rather than a proper compilation of songs. It depends on what you’re looking for and I would prefer the latter

I don’t know, you naughty boy, I’ve never quisled!

Fast and Furious but Star Wars, and I'm serious

The Princess Bride: A Star Wars Story

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Which is a subset of “accepting that a lot of people will never like you (and will let you know about it).” It’s tempting to think “politician” would be a good career for a People Pleaser but it’s the opposite. There will be many people you will never please and that will be torment

"The Bechdel test" is to my mind very much like "Godwin's Law": these were general observations about pernicious habits in our society that people somehow interpreted as being moral laws that must be followed to the letter.

Sometimes a book is like a trust fall. Some people want to be carefully lowered to the ground. Some of us enjoy the thrill of a bit of free fall. Nobody likes being dropped.

Stands up Spartacus style, "i killed laura palmer!" Nobody gets it. Nobody spartacuses with me. I'm promptly arrested. You're all punks

Me failing to understand all the fuss about Sydney Sweeney

hello,

Buddy, you look like you could use a stiff drink [hands you an otter pop]

My kid, in their second year of college, is still trying to decide on a concentration, but at least they can beat General Yingzhao in 53 seconds

Especially with the increasing a tweaking going on, I’ve come to appreciate the Quiet Posters feed

i love making indian food and opening my container of asafoetida and remembering that all over the world wherever people have used it they've named it some version of "the devil's shit"

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

assault on precinct 14

I'm not sure there's a single John Carpenter feature that should have a sequel

In principle I think everybody who wants to make art should do it, and it's okay if it's not perfect or great. But 30,000 Leagues Under The Sea (2007, direct-to-video) is really testing my resolve

hey hold up, you have to see this

I say that once you're elected to the Presidency, you are permanently a ward of the state. Your food and shelter and transportation are comfortable and completely paid for by the public but you basically become a monk with a stipend and zero assets to your name

If Bethany Mandel says heartless shit after everybody has walked away, does it make a noise

I'm going to take "never been done in a film" to mean "was already done really well in the Animated Series"

MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES, NUMBNUTS

This one, this is setting up shop in my mind's eye