In a world where carpenters get resurrected, anything is possible. (Eleanor, from James Goldman’s The Lion in Winter)

@noelmu.bsky.social @donnadb.bsky.social I forgot my license expired this year, and while I successfully renewed it today, I had one fear.

@thefienprint.bsky.social I just got all up in my feelings about the United States and realized I need to reread The Westing Game and knew you would appreciate it.

“It does not matter,” said Hercule Poirot. “I shall find out.”

The Fall Guy is one of the most moviesest of movies that ever was. It is so good.

One extremely funny thing about my dog is how he is out here prowling for scents like a wolf one moment and then he is on his back like the sunshine is giving his belly a hard time.

@sarahdbunting.bsky.social I am sitting outside and reading Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express, as it happens), and I turn around and see this ridiculous person committing various crimes. (It’s Sunday, I just read one of your Best Evidence pieces, thought you’d be amused by Hamlet!)

@patrickzircher.bsky.social Apropos of nothing other than me running across my Tintin collection as I sort my books, what do you think about Hergé?

@briancgrubb.bsky.social Do you ever think about how there should be multiple sequels to The Fall Guy, a movie I am about to rewatch?

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social Hey, Merlin, want to see a chihuahua in what looks like leg warmers? Please meet Athletic Hamlet.

Because I am some kind of nerd, here is the first CD I ever bought. classical.music.apple.com/us/album/501...

@tvmojoe.bsky.social Joe! Are the audiences still watching Best Medicine? (It truly is my comfort show nowadays. Extremely utterly pleasant and well-made. And I am not a phlebotomist!)

@edsbs.bsky.social I was talking to a friend about that bit about how Bam should not have broken records and I suddenly realized that here is a gif(t). God bless It’s A Wonderful Life.

@goldwagnathan.bsky.social Nathan, have you ever read Thomas Borstelmann’s The Cold War and the Color Line? It’s probably considered ancient at this point (my Civil Rights Era class was over two decades ago), but there’s a lot in it that I think is telling about things today.

@patrickzircher.bsky.social I just read a couple of comics collections by different sets of people (no names, not here to badmouth anyone), and it is remarkable to me what a clean set of pencil and ink (and colors) means to actually telling one’s story. One I found confusing, the other not!

Just ate a hot dog. Number one food, no notes.

Hamlet, snoozing over his domain. (I have a new camera app and so Hamlet shall appear. Like a GHOST.)

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social Merlin, have you looked at mood.camera at all? I know next to nothing about photography, but it’s fun. (Which I think photography should often be!)

Yay, Hamlet! (And his best girl Trudy!)

Darn right.

Very few lines go quite as hard as the second Mrs. de Winter’s “I am Mrs. de Winter now” in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca.

personally if I were sitting behind a man proclaiming that my entire job was meaningless and my power was as dust in his eyes I would not smile and clap and nod and stand but that is one of many ways Mike Johnson and I are different

Everyone did the whole movie within a movie thing the other day but I remain surprised that no one mentioned the most obvious one to my mind: Preston Sturges’s Sullivan’s Travels, “Playful Pluto,” and throw in the Coens’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? for good measure.

wrote about Michael J. Fox's appearance on Shrinking, which was cool for a lot of reasons, some of them pretty important to me type-click-type.ghost.io/tell-em-mich...

My main issue with “Für Elise” is that I always want to pull a Lucy and ask, “Why don’t you play ‘Jingle Bells’?” Sigh.

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social Do you ever wake up with “Hello Goodbye” stuck in your head and wonder how on earth that bass line is so good?

@lukeepplin.bsky.social Hooray! All the way from the Astoria Bookshop to Mississippi!

Just now realizing that the events of Simon & Garfunkel’s “I Am a Rock” could only have taken place within a specific 11-day period that includes Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Eve. Hmmmm.

I was missing at least one Agatha Christie Poirot novel from my collection and bought a new version of it and it’s not a mass market paperback and I am weirdly sorta disappointed about it. I LIKE my mass market paperbacks. Could fit ‘em in my back pocket. I suppose jeans were more forgiving then.

@jfruh.bsky.social Man, everybody out here wanting to be the Kwisatz Haderach these days smh

@lukeepplin.bsky.social So even if I have a signed copy of Moses and the Doctor coming to me from Astoria Bookshop, can I still request a signed bookplate from you? (I want to feel as special as possible.)

“I’d pay the devil to replace her” is such a good line.

@bencollins.bsky.social Oh, heck yes.

@patrickzircher.bsky.social Speaking of composition, my good fellow lost in a sea of prints amuses me no end. Dogs, what can you do.

@tvmojoe.bsky.social You know what’s nice? My mom and dad and me enjoying Best Medicine.

@patrickzircher.bsky.social Thought you’d be amused by a framed Blonde on Blonde alongside some Alex Toth Zorro! (I am moving things around.)

Nix v. Hedden is probably the silliest U.S. Supreme Court case ever. I love it so.

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social I swear that the idea of “fresh starts and modest changes” is probably the most helpful idea to actual personal change for the better that I’ve ever come across.

One thing I like about Hastings in Agatha Christie’s books is how dense Hastings is. Like sooooo dense.

@jfruh.bsky.social The Josh Fruhlinger Story?

I am extremely proud that Minnesota has a memorial in Mississippi.

Agatha Christie’s The Big Four is silly as all hell, but it’s a lot of fun.

“Think of everything, don’t you?” “Most things,” said Poirot complacently.

@thefienprint.bsky.social I am sure I have said this to you before, but gosh dang it if Quiz Show isn’t just an incredible (and incredibly underrated) movie.

Heck, yeah, it’s Saturday afternoon and we’re eating popcorn and watching Quiz Show.

@ghardison.bsky.social Hey, it’s unclear.

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social Apropos of various things, have you ever listened to the Billy Taylor Trio’s My Fair Lady Loves Jazz? If not, could be up your alley.

That Thing You Do! is a perfect movie. It does everything it sets out to do. I always forget how hard Tom Everett Scott goes at the drums. Of course he uses traditional grip!

Oh, my gosh #Poirot