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I want to tell you guys something, there's a reason M&Ms have hung around for as long as they have.

The next two books to be covered for my Reading Project will be... billryan64.substack.com/p/its-book-t...

Just now it the grocery store, it being Valentine's Day and all, we got four different flavors of diet Dr. Pepper.

The next two books to be covered for my Reading Project will be... billryan64.substack.com/p/its-book-t...

I’m not going to say that only Bill Ryan could manage to slip a Would I Lie To You? reference into a review of a Don DeLillo book, because honestly anyone could do that if they wanted to. But just maybe what I’m saying is that Bill is the only person who does want to do that?

me when Criterion announces a title I already have a pretty good Twilight Time blu-ray of

My new FREE TO ALL Reading Project post is up. In this one, Don DeLillo's THE NAMES turns me into a conspiracy theorist, and David Demchuk's THE BONE MOTHER redefines folk horror! billryan64.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

I want to stress to anyone who has read this essay, I am NOT crazy. It's just that reading DeLillo can make you feel that way.

This reminds me that I still haven’t read The Names, even though it’s long been on my list (had to do a re-read of Libra first). Thanks, Bill!

Bill is great. His writing is great. But he sucks, too, because he makes me want to buy more books. I have so many books. Thanks(?), Bill.

My new FREE TO ALL Reading Project post is up. In this one, Don DeLillo's THE NAMES turns me into a conspiracy theorist, and David Demchuk's THE BONE MOTHER redefines folk horror! billryan64.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

I won't get into it because the person apologized, but there are few things sweeter on social media than when someone replies to something you've posted with an "actually you're wrong" comment, and they could not possibly be any more immediately and provably mistaken. It's like God smiling on you.

Get yourself some gjetost, the world's finest cheese.

RIP Bud Cort, star of one of the strangest American films of the 1970s. And I'm not talking about HAROLD AND MAUDE.

Reading this off and on over the last couple of days. It's a bittersweet experience for any number of reasons at this point, but it's full of "showbiz sure is weird" details, such as the fact that Reiner was in an improv group with Dr. Johnnie Fever and a co-screenwriter of JAWS.

It is an extremely long dissection of everything that the victims have ever said or did, while not actually letting anything the victims claim have any credibility When the evidence is as compelling as “this lady is friends with Michael stipe of REM”, I have a sneaky suspicion it’s baseless

Me and two of my brothers once found four beers hidden under a bush by the creek, so we shook up the cans and then beat them with sticks until they exploded.

All the clips they play to prove how unfunny THE JERK is are really, really funny.

Okay, folks, as promised... My top 10 favorite short stories by this random guy named Harlan Ellison. sublimeterror.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/m...

Siskel on Roger Moore: "He's stiff, he's boring. I don't like to see him." All right first of all, dial it back a notch.

Ebert: "IN PRAISE OF OLDER WOMEN should have been called IN FAINT PRAISE OF WOMEN IN THEIR MID-THIRTIES."

Has anyone read that online post that "supposedly exonerates" Gaiman that he's been promoting? I dismiss it sight unseen, but I confess I'm morbidly curious.

Laura Dern and David Lynch on the set of TWIN PEAKS Dern was BOTD in 1967

I watched their review of ALIEN, and Ebert called it a "space opera." ALIEN?? I thought Ebert was a secret nerd.

I'm watching old Siskels & Ebert. The movie clips they used to show in the early days were long as s hit.

this is an odd description because anyone who's ever read THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY knows it comes pre-mixed with alcohol

"Myers joins the list of kickers who've made four field goals in the Super Bowl." Pulling out the red hot stats for this game.

does kid rock's thing have this many butts in it

1. Max Cherry 2. Jules 3. Shosanna 4. Archie Hickox 5. Cliff Booth/Budd not really ranked tbh

Considering it's Fincher, I naturally assumed that movie would never get made.

I'm not complaining, but apart from "aliens" and "conspiracy," I'm having a hard time getting a lock on what I might reasonably expect from DISCLOSURE DAY. It's giving off a wide variety of vibes.

this national anthem is going to last eight minutes isn't it

how much do you think it would cost to get them to just start the game now

I'm reminded, with a certain bleak humour in the aptness, that the heroine of Tavernier's Death Watch made her living having her computer write romance novels.

The look young Peggy gives him when she sees the $50 note (or maybe it’s a $100, icr), if that was me I’d be so ashamed I would go into the hills and stay there until god talked to me. And his awful Christmas outfit lol

The little moments of guilt -- or more accurately, shame -- that come through in Pesci's performance...

If the Oscar for casting existed in 2019 then Ellen Lewis should have won for these two alone.

I also love how Peggy, the character Anna Paquin played as an adult and Scorsese got yelled at for not giving more lines to, is so much the moral center of this film that even Russell Bufalino, one of the worst people in the movie, knows it. "It's okay, she said thank you once, that's enough."

"I feel like she doesn't like me, like I feel like she's scared of me." "Oh, it ain't that, she's scared of *me* sometimes." Like who could even imagine something so silly!

Can't sleep, sour mood, might as well watch THE IRISHMAN again. I've had a hard time locking into movies, any movie, lately, but I fell right into this one again. The part of this that's about two old men on a long road trip to kill a guy is so good. The tone of it is beautifully judged.

Listened to a lot of Stones today while we were out and about. It's somehow easy to forget, given how cartoonist the band has become, how truly great a lot of those songs are great as *songs*, with some incredible lyrics, not simply "cool rock tunes" as the kids say.

One thing that used to be enjoyable about watching movies and reading books, good or bad, was talking about them with others who'd read/seen the same ones. But now that's almost the last thing I want to do because people are so pathetically stupid about art. Also, I ate my burrito too fast.