Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great. #FilmSky I love Southland Tales. I love the idea, the execution, everything. Richard Kelly pulled off the most ambitious, spectacular career suicide, with banger music and SNL actors breaking type. It’s so weird and so fucking fun.

Back on that Machi typa grind. 街 〜運命の交差点〜 (“City: Crossroads of Fate”) is a visual novel by Spike Chunsoft from 1998. The game consists of eight interconnected stories in Shibuya. It’s a spiritual prequel to 428: Shibuya Scramble and a never-translated “genre-less” PSP game called Time Travelers.

Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great. #FilmSky Sam Raimi directed this comic book style western with a lot of fancy camera work. Sharon Stone insisted that Russell Crowe play her romantic lead in his first US film and paid Leo DiCaprio’s salary personally. Not bad!

What do you mean you can tell I have OCD?

Mamie Van Doren is still alive at 95, Ray Anthony is still alive at 104, and they divorced 65 years ago. Imagine having to wait this long for your ex-spouse to die.

The wildest thing about watching old movies is you’ll see one of the hottest women ever, and you Wikipedia her and her birth name is like, “Francine Ethylene Flump.”

Carmen Sandiego (2025) goes hard depicting Pride Month in a way that I think is pretty cool. I’m not a fan of any brands doing Pride, but this game includes a lot of historical/geographical information and is openly defiant of that “go woke go broke” mentality. More than a perfunctory statement.

I still remember to this day the massive outpouring of grief when Michael Landon died. I’ve heard he had a lot of flaws but it’s pretty admirable how he gets remembered decades later for how good he was with kids. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Wanna learn a Japanese proverb? 「下戸の建てたる倉もなし」 “There are no warehouses built by teetotalers.” It means you can save money by not drinking alcohol, but you won’t save enough to get rich. I mean, I don’t drink and I’m always broke.

Every once in a while, I encounter kanji from Hell. What on earth is this symbol? Pretty sure it’s 柵, but the right-hand side at that resolution looks like a rolling tool chest.

Back in the day, a man could stab you while pissing and shidding his own pants.

I like how Watson & Holmes (and Poirot & Hastings) form this duo of the pleb narrator and the clued-in author surrogate. I’d love to read mystery novels narrated by the neurodivergent detective who constantly complains about the normie sidekick. “The little shit is trying to think again….”

How to use Shōtō Park: First Date Edition First, introduce the park to the girl → Go around the pond once, holding hands → Stare at the water wheels and ducks from the rest stop → Feed them → Move to an interior bench → Talk for a while → Put an arm around her at a break in conversation → …

*to the tune of “Gemini Dream” by The Moody Blues* There’s a paw, a skibbity pap There’s no escaping from the kitty cat slap So come with me Tonight, today There’s no escaping You know there’s no escaping from the skibbity pap

The older I get, the more I understand why the middle of the night is called “the wee hours.”

Probably an unpopular opinion within the X-fandom but I like Maggott. Unironically, even. X-Men have often been created by mixing & matching a nationality, a personality, and a superpower, but a South African mutant whose life Magneto saved could make for cool stories exploring intersectionality.

Alan Greenspan? More like Endin’ Lifespan.

I love this Syrian-Scottish character but this line made me wince.

Facebook just floated me sending a friend request to Sherilyn Finn because we have one mutual. Nice try, Facebook. I already tried and failed with Wallace “Tit-Hound” Shawn.

Why is it called “hentai” and not “gooney toons?”

New Radicals was a band formed in 1997 by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois.

I have a theory that the guy who started LEGO did so out of revenge after his parents were murdered by a foot.

“The website says I’m failing your college math class because of all my missing assignments! Please fix right away!” If only there was a skill you could learn to check your own grade…

I can’t believe we’ve made a planet in which everyone else is suffering because the dictator, the trillionaire, and the nootropic podcast grifter all had shitty fathers.

After spending two hours watching The Thursday Murder Club, I really want Netflix to just mark the Content made for multitaskers.

NOT WHILE YOU’RE DRIVING, YOU DINGUS.

I would love to see a movie about pairs of actors of the same “type” and whatever relationship comes from always seeing each other in audition waiting rooms: Ben Kingsley and Erick Avari; Jeff Garlin and George Wendt; Mike Starr and Michael G. Hagerty; David Patrick Kelly and Brad Dourif.

Watching The Thursday Murder Club, in which Ben Kingsley’s character is Arab-coded. But Ben Kingsley is half-Gujarati, so the casting doesn’t reek of cultural appropriation as much as if a whiter actor played that character.

Sorry, allistics, but pronouncing “probably” as “pry” is a beige flag.

Carlos Mencia might be a plagiarist, a tax cheat, and a bigot, but the worst thing is he accidentally started Joe Rogan’s second career.

Working on my own remake of Cape Fear called Fake Pier.

Pool Bearer

This Paul-Bearer-looking motherfucker?

The original idea for Full House was just a house full of stand-up comedians. I want that Full House, but instead of kids, taking into account that stand-up comedians are infamously the most mentally-ill, neurotic, captious hot messes this side of pro wrestling.

Fuck you, techbroes. The modern toilet is already the way it should be. You’ll pry my toilet from my cold dead ass.

Weirdly reassured by the lower stars, which tell me I’m at least somewhat touching grass.

You know what doesn’t exist, Jerry Seinfeld? “Mature for her age.”

Being a Palestinian-American, I see what happens to Kat Abu as what could happen to me. The regime desperately wants her in jail. No matter what they say, it’s because of her race. The Republican Party wants to make race a crime. youtu.be/fJaHM6XxfJo?...

Always ask on the first date, “How much time a day do you spend jazzing?”

Oh my GOD, I’m finally done. I know I sound like a cat saying the lobster is too buttery, but this game is so damn long. This is the biggest visual novel I’ve ever seen. It’s absolutely Brobdingnagian. I liked it but it felt good to finally uninstall it.

If you “need” to pass my class, then why in all the seven hells did you leave two-thirds of the exam blank?

Your daily reminder that Star Trek depicts the UFOP as the perfect model we should all aspire to. Then they do what the Global North did to the Global South in real life.

Just learned that one Japanese girls’ name is homophonous with a Japanese word for poop.

I can’t overstate how frustrating it’s been all my life to be the only one acknowledging that the entire Republican Party wants my race deported or dead (because U.S. Islamophobia is anti-Arab racism, and you know it). Even many Arabs and Muslims refuse to see the truth in plain sight.

Can’t believe I survived a childhood of narcissistic abuse only to spend my adulthood in this country that complies in advance.

common sense goes out the window at that level:

Pulp Fiction was filmed around the end of Julia Sweeney’s marriage to Stephen Hibbert. I wish I could’ve seen those three converse. Julia: “Who am I playing?” Quentin: “Harvey Keitel’s girlfriend!” Stephen: “Who am I playing?” Quentin: “… Well, what’s important is everyone has fun.”

I haven’t watched Doctor Who in almost twenty years, and I haven’t watched any current Star Trek. But this feels like the first time in a long time when real life was bleak and we didn’t get our optimism from fiction. That’s what really scares me: a populace that doesn’t want to see a better way.

I hate social media censorship so much that I actually re-Google the post and take my own pic of it rather than share a censored version. I just did that here.