Well, it's just about that time.

Well gang, I finally had to get a car without a CD player. So far I've just been streaming music from YouTube videos, but that doesn't seem sustainable for the long term. So what's the good music streaming service for cars?

The reading material my kids and I brought to my wife's choir event this morning.

I checked the big collection of Alison Bechdel's comic strip out of the library, so real question - I don't really feel like it's my place to say the name of that strip. What should *I* call it?

Working on my Dr. Demento costume

The Enterprise would be nice to have, but really I just want all these.

Learning that Cheney was only five years older than George W Bush shook me. In high school, I assumed he was 25 years older.

Roz pointed out that Tom from this season of Bake Off looks like Nigel Thornberry, and now I can't think about anything else.

My daughter and her friends are furiously trading Halloween candy in the basement, and it's so reassuring to know that some things never change.

My daughter (11) told me today that she has "no interest at all" in Zootopia 2, which is a first for a Disney or Pixar movie.

Adventures in school library: one of my 4th graders brought in an assortment of random DC and Marvel issues he owns to show me. He thought I'd like to see them, and he was extremely correct.

I picked up this 3-pack of The Things at a thrift store, so now I'm watching The Thing From Another World for the first time

'Tis the season!

Rory thinks that he was her Dean first, but Rory doesn't own him. You can't own Dean.

I posted last week that I've seen all of John Carpenter's (theatrical) movies, so it's finally time to rank them!

This is my pledge that I'll never look at my phone while driving again.

Okay, school's over, so I'm gonna watch There Will Be Blood

There's still these Perds, these Perds, these Perds

Starfleet Academy TV show looks exactly like a CW show. Take that as a positive or negative as you see fit.

Diane Keaton is not the 79-year-old whose obituary I hoped I would read today

My wife went to see Mumford & Sons on Thursday with our niece, and I'm delighted that they had a great time, but now she's been playing Mumford & Sons music all day and none of it sounds like anything. Simply impossible to remember any of these songs while they're happening, let alone later.

I just found out that Louis Sachar released a novel for adults this year! I can't even imagine what that's like! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773581...

I'm bouncing around through time reading every Wonder Woman comic published since 1986, and right now I'm reading the Wonder Woman '77 comic. It's a real stark reminder that no one actually cares about that TV show very much.

I can't believe it took me 13 years to think of this.

*clears throat* Don't Trust the Bee Movie TV Juniors in Apartment 23-Movie TV Juniors Thank you for your time.

Well, as of ten minutes ago, I've seen all 34 classic Universal Monster movies. Ask me anything!

I'm going to finish John Carpenter’s filmography this month by watching the two I haven't seen on Criterion Channel, and I'm also going to read the Dark Star novelization by Alan Dean Foster.

I think this is a good idea, Mychal's an excellent choice to host, and I'm glad they're doing it. But I hope they remember that Reading Rainbow wasn't just about books - it was about discovering joy in the world around you.

Fake vintage TV Guide cover by Michael Bastraw

I've reached 700 DC issues for the year. Which means I gotta pick up the pace a little bit, but I'm feeling pretty good about my chances of hitting 1000. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Every Dropout clip I see is 90% the host laughing way too loudly. Is it all like that? Is that what laugh tracks are now? Just some guy with a beard and glasses pretending everything is hilarious?

My kids and their cousins are watching Despicable Me 3 on Nick at Nite. We used to be a country.

It was Gonzo

“E.T. Parody” See if you can guess which Muppet plays E.T. (Note: your first guess is correct)

I was 40 minutes into Goodrich before I realized that it's basically Old Man Mr. Mom

I just found out that Matt Reeves directed this random David Schwimmer/Gwyneth Paltrow movie twelve years before Cloverfield, which I always assumed was his debut. I’m shook.

My comics goal for 2026 is to read at least 500 issues of Marvel comics. So far in 2025, I've read 62 Marvel issues and 658 DC issues, which is reflective of my history with the two companies. So what are the fun or weird or offbeat Marvel runs I should absolutely read?

I've realized that Bluesky is depressing me in exactly the same way Twitter used to.

Jeopardy on Hulu is such a gift. I haven’t watched new episodes regularly as long as I've lived in Minnesota (nine years) because it's on at 4:30 in the afternoon

I'm at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival for the first time in eight years, and it just makes me so happy

I just finished the original UK version of Ghosts. I'm gonna miss those silly guys very much!

So how are all my former gifted and talented kids who used to read several books a day and now rot their faculties doomscrolling while ignoring a TV show doing tonight

I only like shows that have 12 episodes or 1000 episodes.

Huge, a tremendously heartfelt and sensitive teen drama set at a fat camp that ran for 10 episodes in 2010. I think about it all the time.

This is *so often* true in negative criticism. If you think Napoleon Dynamite is a good movie, Jared Hess is celebrating a lovable oddball. If you think it's a bad movie, Jared Hess is mocking him for being an off-putting freak.

I'm just so excited to watch Benoit Blanc look skeptical again

Fall is here, and Roz drew this picture of Greg on our monthly planner to mark the occasion

My kid sent this to me and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to unhear it.

Okay, let's see what 100-year-old literature is like these days.