I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey”

My partner’s brother died suddenly yesterday and his children are doing a fundraiser for the funeral expenses. Please consider donating if you are both willing and able, with my sincere gratitude ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...

Night out!

This Week’s Movies Jawbreaker Buddha’s Palm The Scarlet Hour The Inheritance

You non-sports fans have to understand that for people who are really into pro football, today is basically their Super Bowl

Ehh screw it, read it right now. www.fieldgulls.com/seattle-seah...

I asked Seahawks assistant head coach Leslie Frazier about whether part of the issue with the lack of black head coaches in the NFL is also the current lack of black offensive coordinators, particularly as teams tend to hire more offensive-minded HCs than coaches from defensive backgrounds.

Recruiter asked me about the gap in my resume since November and it took every ounce of willpower in my body not to say "are you fucking kidding me?"

Loot that drops after defeating me: - Scarecrow Video membership card - a jump rope - dog treats - 1/2 bottle Basil Hayden - randomized PRIDE DVD

A human writer uses a dash to set off a relatively abrupt jump in thought. But the machines are constantly calculating the most predictable next thing to say, plodding around the same area. So the machine dash looks like it's gesturing toward something new, only to always land on something obvious.

This Week’s Movies: Vengeance The Admirable Crichton The Beyond Drifting Clouds

Gonna be a featured entry in the Tacoma Tattoo Expo tomorrow!

I never met Dan, but when BE was struggling to go independent he reached out to me totally unasked and offered whatever help he could. Sad to hear of the passing for someone who was clearly a very good dude.

Such a killer shelf! Incidentally, I picked up my copy of The Big Fix novel in a shop in Bainbridge during a Seattle visit.

This Week’s Movies: Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart Heart and Souls The Secret

Got my own shelf at @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social!

If only I could get one to Seattle. Would love to own my own little video kiosk.

Still chuckling about @zanesimon.bsky.social and Phil being unaware of JOIs as @kingtypo.bsky.social explains it to them. The MMA Depressed-us: 2025's Worst (part 2) open.substack.com/pub/themmadr...

This Week’s Movies He Died with a Falafel in His Hand The Last Blood Le Pont du Nord Mademoiselle

Literally everyone in Seattle needs to see this though.

My video store membership now allows me to rent 2 for 1 on Sundays, which means after years of going to the video store every Wednesday, that is no longer my thing. Kinda fucking up my whole identity.

my sort of underbaked take is i liked the dilbert comic strip as a kid because its depiction of a banal and arbitrary work environment where nonsensical top-down policies dictated my life resonated much more with my experience of school than my life later in the work force

This Week’s Movies Killer Klowns from Outer Space Death and the Compass Uptown Girls The Watchmaker of St. Paul

One of the most beautiful songs ever sung and it pretty much boils down to “I showed u my dick, pls respond.”

Honestly one of my favorite things about the Depressed Us is when @zanesimon.bsky.social, @kingtypo.bsky.social and Phil just talk about MMA at large when ignoring the bad fight they've asked to watch alomg with. substack.com/@mmadraw/not...

This Week’s Movies: Burn Witch Burn The Detective’s Story Ruthless People The Squeeze

Found a company that will ship anywhere in the world. Antarctica, North Korea... anywhere. But not the US. I honestly respect it.

I did try the watch along, but when @zanesimon.bsky.social suggested to Phil that he should just watch MacGruber, I decided to watch MacGruber. The MMA Depressed-us: Randy Couture X-mas open.substack.com/pub/themmadr...

not a comment on Stranger Things in particular but this idea of feeling nostalgic not for an imagined past, but a nostalgic longing *for a time you could feel nostalgia for an imagined past* is a surprisingly apt summary of Gen X and millennial fascist aesthetics and messaging

My man looks like he puts rohypnol in cotton candy

This Week’s Movies Waiting for Guffman The House that Screamed The Man Who Haunted Himself Cry of the City

Put together some thoughts about Mike F and his greatest posts for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/in-post-memo...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Still time for a Patrick Swayze Christmas.

Just heard the line, “people who are willing to give advice should also be willing to give some help.” And goddamn if that isn’t a great life lesson.

Terrific film. Especially if you hate the holidays.

This Week’s Movies: Last Holiday Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby Raiders of Atlantis Seduced and Abandoned

Ever notice how every single orange cat has impeccable comic timing

Has to be said as well, if you’re a good reader, you should know fairly fast when something really won’t help. That and the fact that even tangential material can add a lot of important context and the answer is pretty much always going to be “do the reading.”

For the last few years I’ve been collecting discreet nerd shirts. Here’s the collection so far.

Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner

My dad’s a lifelong artist who now has bad arthritis that prevents him from doing a lot of complex work… so for Christmas I got him a Rothko paint by numbers.

This Week’s Movies Strictly Ballroom Apache Drums Shogun Assassin Identikit

Last year the Seahawks were “bad actually” with a decent record. This year they’re “good actually” and the record will be better but the results could feel just the same.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised given how often Star Trek rehashes character arcs from old shows for new shows, but I didn’t appreciate how much Lower Decks is really just picking up scraps from TNG & DS9 until i rewatched both shows. All the parts are there.

This Week’s Movies Silent Movie The Pope of Greenwich Village Riff-Raff Green Snake

The problem with any political cinema right now is people get mad when it doesn't treat each individual in the audience as the center of the universe and directly prioritize their primary political focus, and critical analysis stops there.

It’s done.

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.