Episode 219: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 5 We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 5! Movies discussed: Luger Penance Road to Vendetta The Cramps: A Period Piece Bugonia Hide and Go Shriek Girls' Night Out (short) Animal Math (short) Shrine…

#fantasticfest Day 5 ice cream: caramel corn! It’s perfect for today! (Lick Ice Cream)

Episode 218: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 4 We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 4! Movies discussed: Marama Embalmer The Restoration of Grayson Manor Sisu: Road to Revenge Angel's Egg Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025 remake)

#fantasticfest Day 4 ice cream: dark chocolate, olive oil, and sea salt It’s so great when you remember something as being ridiculously good, but it’s even better than you remember l.

Happy Day 4, #fantasticfest! If you are feeling the heat today, please come find me! I still have a bunch of paper fans left, and you can have one!

Episode 217: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 3 We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 3! Movies discussed: The Forbidden City A Useful Ghost Beast of War Luger Haunted Heist Freaked Before the Fall Black Phone 2 Bulk

Strangers just showed up at #fantasticfest

#fantasticfest Day 3 ice cream: roasted beets and fresh mint. Delicately balanced and unexpectedly delicious! (Lick Ice Cream)

Good morning, #fantasticfest! If you are feeling the Texas heat today and would like a hand fan, find me! I have a bunch of paper fan, and I love giving them to folks who need them! I’m in a Hawaiian shirt with squid today:

Episode 216: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 2 We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 2! Movies discussed: Her Will Be Done The Ice Tower When We Were Live Reflection in a Dead Diamond Mother of Flies Sirat Vicious Silencio

#fantasticfest Day 2 ice cream: frommage & fig, which is absolutely amazing.

Episode 215: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 1 It's the most wonderful time of the year, dear listeners: we are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the opening day movies! Movies discussed: The Piano Accident Ikatan Darah

#fantasticfest Day 1 ice cream: fresh mint & chocolate ganache chunk (Lick Ice Cream)

Hey XCPD listeners! We've had one episode in the can for the last few months, but we just finished and dropped it TODAY! The further implication of this is that we cleared out the backlog so we can do our yearly Fantastic Fest deluge! Check back tomorrow! xanaducinema.com/2025/09/18/e...

#fantasticfest begins today! My first film will be the new Quentin Dupieux flick, which is akin to starting a marathon by snorting cocaine with Eugene Ionesco.

@fantasticfiends.bsky.social Do we know the badge pickup hours? I can’t find that info for the life of me.

WHOA! Maybe there is hope! www.axios.com/2025/09/11/b...

I am a sucker for old Dell paperbacks. The pulp art! The steamy-dangerous byline! THAT TITLE!

Folks who know me know I’m a sucker for great paperback cover art. This one is absolutely glorious.

Speaking of the USA having a gun problem…

Gov. Pritzker nails what the messaging should be on the Kirk shooting and recent gun violence in general.

Did DOGE also fire Trump’s personal security team, or are they out picking up litter with the National Guard? How was that restaurant not locked down? Anyway, apparently you can just walk up to the President’s dinner table now. Let’s get some of those new-fangled flying sandwiches.

I saw someone reference this today, and, scout’s honor, I thought it was a joke.

What is going down in Nepal right now is brutal on all sides, so I don’t want to joke about it. But I do hope authoritarian leaders worldwide get real nervous when they hear about this.

I ain’t got no truck with religion, but this statue is exactly what it wants to be, it works on many levels, and I hereby give it a Robert Redford nod of approval.

Dear politicians: Term limits for the Supreme Court. Run on it. Make it happen. (Pretty please?)

I know several folks on this list ( @crobertcargill.bsky.social @patguy.bsky.social @scalzi.com @gailsimone.bsky.social ) If you are an author, you might want to check. There’s a copyright settlement against Anthropic that’s going down. Go get what you’re owed: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

The best thing about my dog Fury is that she “asks” me to play with anything she’s not sure is a toy. If it’s something she shouldn’t have, I trade it for a treat or another toy. Today, I learned that a cardboard tube is a fair trade for a PIECE OF THE BASEMENT CEILING. Anyway, she’s happy now.

It’s 8:45pm on a Friday night, and I’m trying to explain the Gong Show to @fesworks.bsky.social . And I’m showing him an episode off YouTube. And I still don’t think he believes it’s real.

My hugsband made this post on Discord, then asked me to specifically send it to @crobertcargill.bsky.social :

Disneyworld could have the most amazing throwdown against this right now. Extra surcharge if you don't have an up-to-date vax card! Free vaccine shots at the door! Special collectibles for vaxxed folk only! Or they could become the a superspreader pressure cooker. Pirates of the Coronavirus!

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future.

I have never been so thrilled to have asthma.

I used to live four blocks from this school. It’s not a neighborhood where you’d expect this to happen. It never is. That’s because this thing shouldn’t happen anywhere. The fact that it keeps happening in this country - regularly, frequently - means there is something deeply broken here.

without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

Life with Fes, episode 5,976 Fes [in the middle of a pancake house]: There are ANTS starving on ANDROMEDA.

Life with Fes, episode 5,973: Fes [wine drunk, shirtless]: I HAVE BEEN IN THE NEWSPAPER THREE TIMES!

italian horror fans'll be like "you don't know Argento Fusilli? Oh, you must see "The Yellow Knife." It's shot all in green, except the blood. There's a 45 minute shot of a nun crucifying a clown with huge needles. A masterpiece"

Why is there so much Ohio

I’ve had 90 minutes of sleep and I just walked into a gas station in Indianapolis where I heard the opening riff of Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” and was happy for a moment until oh no it was actually some sort of anonymous Chris Young country song and now I am MAD.

To quote Road Manager Ian: Iron Sheik victorious at last.

I stumbled across this Easter egg on IMDB a few minutes ago. Respect to whoever put it together (including trivia). www.imdb.com/name/nm22138...

Theory: James Ellison and Will Arnett are the same person.

Miller’s just mad that Minneapolis has a bigger cock than he does.

Not really surprising, but I’m dying to know who the No Votes were. Who are the 11 people who didn’t vote? More importantly, who are the two Democrats who didn’t vote and thus lost the vote for everyone?

There’s an old raccoon trap design where you put a piece of tin foil in a hole that is big enough for the raccoon to reach in and grab the foil, but not big enough for the raccoon to remove its closed fist. So the raccoon just sits there, refusing to let go of the tin foil. Anyway, I have an idea.

I just grabbed a screenshot yesterday that applies here, too:

I’m gonna buy a voodoo doll of whoever invented variable bitrate video formats and use my dullest needles on it.