I massively agree with this thread. So much TV (and even a lot of film) no longer feels like a conversation. It feels like individual lines, said in isolation to no-one.

ATLANTA! Some of the fabulous folk from @vinsyn.bsky.social will be in town this weekend with screenings, pop-ups and opportunities to shop their selection of great Blu-rays. Find 'em from Oct 16-20 at @plazaatlanta.bsky.social and @videodrome.bsky.social !!

Queen Rosalba.

Lunch today at The Grill.

DJ Arponiance the Reticent about to drop the hottest dungeon synth set south of Osgiliath

ATHENS! Big news about FLUKE. The wonderful zine and small press show has a 2026 date and a brand new venue!

I’m rewatching The Swiss Conspiracy, with David Janssen and John Saxon, tonight. I always wish Janssen had lived a few years more. He really was such an entertaining actor.

My son got one of those Transformers that pairs with Soundwave and turns into a cassette tape, and was amused that the tech’s now obsolete. We think they should do a whole line of Obsoleteacons: 8-tracks, fax machines, Selectavision disks, dot matrix printers, that car from The Secret Service…

Early supper at Baldinos in Doraville. Best sandwiches anywhere!

ATLANTA! Oh, I forgot to share the lovely poster!! Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is TOMORROW at the @plazaatlanta.bsky.social !! Don’t miss a terrific time and a fun movie!

Someone said "All my friends are dead" in the movie I saw tonight. Hadn't thought of this record in years.

This week's Fake Criterion is for Irezumi, a terrific 1966 film by Yasuzō Masumura. I'm very happy with how well this turned out. Arrow released a really nice edition of this, which you should all check out!

ATLANTA! The great people at the Center for Puppetry Arts have the Jim Henson Company’s new Monster Cereal creations on display. (Insert rant that Boo Berry should be on every-fourth-year rotation with the other, superior, flavors, here.)

Huge fun news to report! Earlier this month, we met Joseph Veazey, who's been traveling, writing, and *painting* about #BBQ. His American Barbecue Map is the first ever visual representation of American BBQ culture in its entirety, and it's gorgeous. Y'all please check this out! AmericanBbqMap.com

'spensive, yes, but it looks *so good*. My DVDs of The New Avengers were so poor and I can't wait to replace them soon! youtu.be/ipyIa4QIB_k

Vegan supper of awase tibs and red lentils at Ghion, just above the recently-demolished North Dekalb Mall.

The kid’s camping in Tennessee, and Marie and I are in Atlanta to visit friends, rent movies, and eat at Mamak in Doraville. The basil chicken here is pretty good!

I’ve watched Giant and Johnny Guitar this week and honestly, Mercedes McCambridge was underrated as a movie villain. I’ve wanted to see her awful characters get thrown from horses every second she’s on screen.

I ordered some more 1960s Czechoslovakian films from the amazing people at @orbitdvd.bsky.social . I keep an Amazon wishlist for convenience’s sake and order from small businesses whenever I can. Each of these were $2 to $9 cheaper than Amazon, with free shipping. They’re the best!

They should make more Bond films set between Licence to Kill and Goldeneye with an incarnation of Bond that we previously didn't know about.

ATHENS! Holy crap! John T. Edge will be on campus tonight for a conversation / lecture / thingummy. He’s been a huge inspiration, and our food blog wouldn’t have existed without his work with the Southern Foodways Alliance. See you there! flagpole.com/arts-culture...

The world is terrible, but we’re getting a restored New Avengers on Blu-ray very soon. At least there’s that.

Cancelled Disney+. Reckon if there’s ever any more Doctor Who to watch, there will be Blu-rays somewhere in the world.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

ATHENS! Come out to the Fine Arts Bldg Friday evening 9/19 for a special screening of Powell & Pressburger's 1946 film A Matter of Life and Death. I missed all these screenings last year, but I intend to do better this go-round. history.uga.edu/events/conte...

A titan has left us. RIP Robert Redford, one of the greatest.

Wow! There’s a Jack Davis painting in a hallway near the gym at Clarke Central High! I’ve never seen this before.

We haven’t gone out for pizza in ages, but we had a delicious pie at Killer Crust today.

I feel like most people got to know Ed Wood's crummy movies via old UHF broadcasts, so for this week's Fake Criterion, I played with that idea. Tim Burton's biopic is so full of fun and silly moments, and it's definitely worth a look if you haven't seen it before.

😕 🇺🇸 if this worked we’d be the safest place on earth. Maybe it’s time to try other stuff? Like addressing the root causes, poverty, inequality etc? Or is that too crazy?

Trump’s Supreme Court just legalized racial profiling

There are 16 million vacant homes in the US & less than 1 million people without homes. Pundits keep saying we need to build more housing when what we need to do is confiscate homes & apartments kept vacant by landlords & mega-corporations for short-stay rentals & artificial price manipulation.

Hey @frakturedboy.bsky.social , I saw yer boys Pulp at the Tabernacle on the first stop of their US tour. Their first Atlanta concert in 31 years and it was completely amazing!

I just want a sci-fi show where every week, a dapper dressed witty couple wander into an apparently deserted idyllic country village, that soon starts to fill with eccentric character actors being hunted by robot postmen working for evil scientists in a secret enemy base under the local church.

This week's Fake Criterion is for a movie I haven't seen yet! Paul Verhoeven's Black Book is on our shelf; Marie says it's one of her favorite films by Verhoeven, so I need to get around to it sometime soon.

I’m having a boring looking salad for supper, so enjoy a couple of the awesome posters on the walls of DePalma’s.

Happy 50th Anniversary Truck Rascals! トラック野郎50周年おめでとうございます！

Steve Grady, one of North Carolina’s legendary pitmasters, passed away this week, aged 90. I visited Grady’s twice. The first time was pretty good, the second was absolutely sublime, one of the best barbecue meals ever. I sure am glad I had the chance to make those trips.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE it was fine until some dickweed decided to keep emailing me to evaluate every single interaction with your damn site

I do like it when WUOG plays something I heard them play new 35 years ago. Makes me feel a shade less old.

This week's Fake Criterion is for Weathering With You, which I enjoyed very much and I thought this cover worked pretty well, but my printed copy came out about as dark as mud. Perhaps worth coming back to for a second effort one day...?

I know that recovery is not a straight line, but I feel like I took three steps back today and slept for about four uncomfortable hours. Optimism’s high but spirit’s low.

Letterboxd likes to announce when a film reaches 1 million views. I'd like to brag I watched a Eurospy with *two* logged views, and mine's its first review. I'm sure the boutique labels are falling all over each other to license this sure-to-sell high-demand title. letterboxd.com/film/a-tango...

This week's Fake Criterion is for Scandal, which didn't require much work at all because, I mean, how do you improve on this iconic image? Very good movie, and the edition available from the BFI is one you should look into for yer own shelf! (It's even got the "Nothing Has Been Proved" video!)

I’m back home, very *sore*, ready for two weeks of sleeping, watching movies, and falling asleep watching movies. My family’s been so incredibly helpful getting me through this. Marie’s taking the next week off as well. Kid got to see Shin Godzilla, but sadly it’s back to school tomorrow for him.

Getting discharged today. Kid wants Willy’s for lunch. I might be able to eat half a taco. It’ll be the best half a taco anybody’s eaten, anywhere.

Baby Harry Morgan in 1949’s Holiday Affair. Never seen him so young.

Hey friends and readers, got kind of a big life update to share. I’m at St Mary’s Hospital in Athens for a few days, details on Marie’s FB page: www.facebook.com/share/p/19B6...